The heroes of Dominaria are already on the back foot after being taken by surprise and losing the planeswalker Ajani to Phyrexian 'compleation.' In a bid to gain the knowledge needed to defeat the Phyrexians again, the time-walking planeswalker Teferi - with help from fellow planeswalkers Saheeli and Kaya - casts himself back into Dominaria's history in order to observe Urza and his original battle with the Phyrexians in the hopes that he'll discover the information needed to repeat Urza's victory. The first chapter, the previous expansion called Dominaria United, revealed that the Phyrexians are making another play for Dominaria, this time infiltrating the plane through sleeper agents. The new The Brothers' War set is the second part of Magic: The Gathering's current ongoing story arc. It ended with Urza stopping their attempt at invasion at a cataclysmic cost. The Brothers' War saw Mishra corrupted by Phryexians, biomechanical beings connected to the ancient tech the brothers used to fuel their war. However, Magic's storytelling style was much different then, and the tale was mostly told through allusions and indirect mentions in flavor text (Jeff Grubb provided a fuller accounting in his 1998 The Brothers' War novel, which unfortunately will not be reprinted for this occasion, but is available digitally). Magic first chronicled the Brothers' War' story in Antiquities, the game's second-ever expansion from 1994. Urza and Mishra's names should be familiar to many Magic players thanks to the many cards named for them. Within the Magic: The Gathering story, The Brothers' War is the conflict that broke out in Dominaria, Magic's original setting, between the brothers Urza and Mishra, two artificers who had discovered tech from an ancient civilization, which they used to power their war machines. (Photo: Wizards of the Coast) The Brothers' War Story In a way, it seems like a gift to players with the longest histories in the game. That nostalgic vibe is present across the narrative and gameplay in The Brother's War.

The Brothers' War by Jeff Grubb