Welcome back to the past! The Brother's War expansion features the events on Dominaria that led up to the main Magic story, from Urza and Mishra's past to how our modern planeswalkers are meddling with time to learn the answers to stopping Phyrexia, again.
Story of the set, The Brother's War
Main Story (of the past): 22AR - 69 AR. For those that don't know, AR stands for Argivian Reckoning, measuring the start of the 'modern' era of time with the year of Urza's birth. Urza was therefore born in year 0, and Mishra in year 1. Urza and Mishra's final confrontation and the Sylex blast was in 63 AR. Current magic story is in the year 4562 AR.
Much of this story shows the aftermath of the Brother's War, and stories to the side or around the Novel, The Brother's War by Jeff Grubb.
1. The End 69 AR
2. The Beginning 69 AR - 85 AR
3. Sword One 28 AR
4. The Ink of Empires 44 AR
5. As Cruel As Necessary 22 AR | 44 AR | 63 AR | 69 AR | 4562 AR
Side Stories
The side stories are set in present day, 4562 AR, with Teferi and the other modern walkers building the plan to determine how the Golgothian Sylex is used to explode. Teferi uses a device invented by Saheeli to visit the past times as a ghost.
1. Stronghold
2. Antiquities
3. Nemesis
4. The Dark
5. Exodus
Synopsis
Teferi, Kaya, and Saheeli have worked with Jodah to take up residence in Urza's Tower to build a time machine, to send Teferi's spirit back in time, using Kaya's ghostform ability, the Moonsilver Key, schematics from the Tolarian Academy, and Saheeli's artifice. The side stories cover their other friends' efforts to protect the tower from Phyrexian attack while they go back in time to learn how Urza activated the Golgothian Sylex to blow up Terisiare, so they can use it on New Phyrexia.
The main story tells the sides stories and aftermath of the novel: The Brother's War by Jeff Grubb. Kayla bin Kroog's leading and migration away from the cold. The rise of the church of Tal. Stories 3 and 4 tell of tales of battle and soldiers within the Brother's War itself.
Meanwhile, we learn of Tezzeret's motivations of helping New Phyrexia, to acquire a new Darksteel body, and delivers Karn to Elesh Norn. He learns they have no intention of actually fulfilling their bargin, but that it was also Tezzeret sending information to Jace about Urabrask and Koth's rebellion, connecting Vivien to Urabrask on New Capenna, hiring Kaya to hunt Vorinclex, while still 'serving' Norn. The Phyrexian attack on the tower requires Elspeth and Jodah to use most of their magic, and Chandra, Nissa, and Wrenn and Seven barely hold off the attack. They find that the time machine is damaged however, and Teferi's spirit is lost in time. All their other planeswalker allies arrive, for their strike attack on New Phyrexia, coordinating with others to protect their homeplanes from the Realmbreaker invasion (The world tree seed/material was stolen by Vorinclex). Teferi had sent himself back to 63 AR, right at the moment of the Sylex blast, and spoke to Urza as he was forming into his planeswalker form after the blast. Teferi learned what was needed, but the damaged time machine still left him lost on a beach, in unknown shores.
Videos and Art
Art imgur compilation: from the world building video. https://imgur.com/a/euqEBo4
Cinematic first look (Nissa and... Ajani?) The Dawn of the Multiversal Phyrexian Invasion!
World building video:
In Tokyo - There was a pop-up set up for a Cafe for Brother's War! Players could try out the game and experience the set!
