

>List of story resources for MtG with a large number of quite old (we're talking pre-2000 here) and newer story articles or short pdfs archived that you may not find otherwise, though a few links are once again deadĪnd then obviously you can always go to if you want WotC's own compendium of their recent published stories/lore.

>Ebooks compiled by fans or WotC of articles/stories published for blocks (WotC seemingly stopped making these with Aether Revolt, and unfortunately the posts for some other blocks have been deleted along with the links)

Just dumping some more links I've found that either point to ebooks compiled from wizard's articles or list a lot of them out to make it easy for others to try compile them into books.

I particularly recommend the Shadowmoor book itself, which is a really cool collection of short stories to show off the plane after the Aurora, featuring occasional cameos from the main characters of the rest of the books in the cycle. Additionally, the Lorwyn/Shadowmoor books are quite fun, despite the ending of Eventide being lackluster. Book 1 is a big episode of CSI, book two brings in Teysa and turns it into Law & Order, and then Book 3 becomes a Lethal Weapon-style action movie as all of the plot threads coalesce into a big shitshow. That entire sequence, and pretty much anything with Hidetsugu in general, was beautifully evocative and memorable.īesides Kamigawa, my usual recommendations are the OG Ravnica books, which are basically a series of high fantasy police procedurals in a very interesting world with a lot of nuance. I still have the perfect image in my head of the scene where Hidetsugu fights Keiga the Tide Star in Minamo by riding its head down through the falls and slaughtering it before feeding it to the All Consuming Oni of Chaos. It's not a pinnacle of writing prowess, but the characters are great, the plots are fun, the setting is beautiful and fantastical and interesting, and there's a few moments that really, really stick with you. Seconding Kamigawa here, it's a fantastic story that remains one of my favorite fantasy trilogies.
