History MagicTheGathering / Planes

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* {{LighterAndSofter}}: Than Esper, where technology replaces emotion and makes a cold and apathetic world. On Kaladesh, technology and emotion are combined into a living work of art, and it's people are brilliant and passionate inventors.

Lorwyn is an idyllic, Mythology/CelticMythology inspired plane full of friendly inhabitants (though oddly, no humans) that is mysteriously transformed into a MindScrew filled hellscape called Shadowmoor by a phenomenon called the Great Aurora.

A plane that is home to at least two major continents, Ixalan houses vast swaths of unexplored wilderness, lost ruins and, unlike Zendikar, very much alive empires eager to reclaim them. Complicating matters somewhat, events on the continent of Torrezon have driven pirates and raiders to Ixalans's shores, with vampiric zealots in hot pursuit. All eyes are on a single prize: Orazca, the city of gold, which is said to house an artifact of unimaginable power.

* AscendedExtra: Originally created for the ''MicroProse'' ''Magic: The Gathering'' computer game, Shandalar made it to physical cards decades later and even had some lore articles specifically written for it.

A dying plane inspired by AncientEgypt. Once home to a thriving civilization, the plane's gradual decay left only a single bastion of society left in the harsh, monster-infested deserts: the city of Naktamun. Nicol Bolas subjugated the plane just before the Mending and brainwashed the gods of the plane, along with its humanoid population, declaring himself [[God-Pharaoh and turning Naktamun into a factory that does almost nothing but pump out the corpses of great warriors and mages.

A mechanical plane created by Karn. It was originally supposed to be inhabited by only constructs, but the plane's caretaker had other plans. Read more about it [[Characters/MagicTheGatheringFactions here]].

%%* DeathWorld: Oh ''Gods'' yes.%%ZCE It actually wasn't like this before, as before Bolas showed up there was a whole civilization out in the rest of the desert. Bolas invading the plane destroyed every other city and formed the enormous desert, with only Naktamun surviving.

%%* DeathWorld: Oh ''Gods'' yes.%%ZCE

* WhenDimensionsCollide: the Conflux saw the five Shards, each originally a self-contained world in its own right, fuse once more with each other. This was disastrous for many of the Shards' inhabitants, both due to the new kinds of mana and associated ideas often shaking each Shard's highly specialized society to the core and to the physical disruptions caused by large tracts of land from other shards appearing in their landscapes, often alongside natives eager to invade.

* JidaiGeki: Inspired by it, full stop.

* DeathWorld: Oh ''Gods'' yes.

* OneMillionBC: Has this aesthetic.

* StarfishAlien: Its inhabitants seem to be almost entirely these.

An [[TimeAbyss impossibly ancient]] plane thats inhabitants have long since AscendedToAHigherPlaneOfExistence.

* OurGiantsAreDifferent: Home to the horned and incredibly violent Fomori.

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The plane most people think of when they hear "Magic The Gathering setting", Dominaria has been the focus of more sets than any other plane in the Multiverse, largely dominating the story before a massive creative overhaul shifted focus to a wider variety of planes. As a result, Dominaria is a [[FantasyKitchenSink lot of things]]. The elements of [[StandardFantasySetting Standard]] MedievalEuropeanFantasy with perhaps a couple of [[FantasyCounterpartCulture FantasyCounterpartCultures]] are less prominent as the story goes on, replaced with AfterTheEnd landscapes dominated by barbarian warlords and [[LostTechnology Phyrexian and Thran Technology]]. All things considered, Dominaria likely is the most diverse and complex plane in Magic.

The plane most people think of when they hear "Magic The Gathering setting", Dominaria has been the focus of more sets than any other plane in the Multiverse, largely dominating the story before a massive creative overhaul shifted focus to a wider variety of planes. As a result, Dominaria is a [[FantasyKitchenSink lot of things]]. The elements of [[StandardFantasySetting Standard]] MedievalEuropeanFantasy with perhaps a couple of FantasyCounterpartCultures are less prominent as the story goes on, replaced with AfterTheEnd landscapes dominated by barbarian warlords and [[LostTechnology Phyrexian and Thran Technology]]. All things considered, Dominaria likely is the most diverse and complex plane in Magic.

The original [[{{Uberwald}} horror plane]], Ulgrotha is a backwater plane with low levels of mana and a populace largely dominated bythe cruel Sengir family of vampires. Salvation is only found in the form of angels donated by the planeswalker Serra due to her connection with the plane.

An idyllic plane created by the planeswalker Serra, it unfortunately began to fall to fall to paranoia and corruption after its creator's demise, before finally collapsing as part of one of Urza's plans to destroy Phyrexia

The [[UrbanFantasy city plane]] of Ravnica is one of the busiest, most exciting planes in the multiverse, as ten guilds continually struggle for doninance of the plane, in the courtroom and on the battlefield. Once dominated by a powerful spell that kept the guilds ambitions in check and prevented planeswalker interference, the breaking of this ward has only made the plane more chaotic.

Lorwyn is an idylic, Mythology/CelticMythology inspired plane full of friendly inhabitants (though oddly, no humans) that is mysteriously transformed into a MindScrew filled hellscape called Shadowmoor by a phenomenon called the Great Aurora.

* CrapsackWorld: EverythingIsTryingToKillYou in Shadowmoor, and everything in Lorwyn becomes a twisted reflection of itself.

* OutsideContextProblem: Every shard found itself at a loss to deal with the foreign tactics and ideologies that began assaulting them from all sides during the Conflux. For instance, to the people of Bant, the idea that someone would use a dishonorable tactic like backstabbing in combat was so foreign, they didn't even wear proper armor to defend against it, while Grixis's necromances were at aloss to combat Esperite looters after realizing that their death magic was ineffective against the intruders mostly-mechanical bodies.

* HopeSpot: Avacyn and the other angels return gave the inhabitants of Innistrad hope that the dark days were over. Too bad that events on other planes led to things actually getting ''worse'' in Shadows Over Innistrad, as Avacyn is driven homicidaly insane, her church is radicalized and initiates an inquisition and the plane is ultimately invaded by an Eldrazi Titan.

* SaintlyChurch: The Church of Avacyn used to be this, until its patron went crazy.

* {{Tomorrowland}}: Kaladesh is one of, if not the most technologically advanced plane shown so far. Heck, its name even can be translated to English as "World of Tomorrow".
* WorldHalfFull: Kaladesh's other [[PlanetOfHats hat]], besides its advanced technology, is its unflinching idealism. It is a plane full of [[ScienceHero Science Heroes]] where the biggest antagonists, the Conulate, are almost entirely made up of [[WellIntentionedExtremist Well Intentioned Extremists]] ([[MyFriendsAndZoidberg and]] [[TheManBehindTheMan Tezzeret]]).

A volcanic plane that is home to both Keral Keep, the monastery of pyromancers that trained Chandra, and the Order of Heliud, the knightly order of LawfulStupid heiromancers that enforce tyranical order throughout the multiverse.

Jace's home plane. Vryn is a plane dominated by a network of {{Magitek}} structures called Mage Rings, which can be used to control and direct mind-boggling amounts of mana. The plane has been torn since time immemorial by awar for control over the mage rings, overseen by the enigmatic Arbiters. Given the number of conspirators and profiteers that see value in the war, it is unlikely to be stopping anytime soon.

Also notable about the plane is the Curse of Wandering, a phenomenon that permeates the the plane and causes all deceased creatures to rise as flesh-eating zombies. On the plus side, these zombies can be controlled and put to constructive use with the help of magic channeled through the mystical material known as Lazotep.

* FromBadToWorse: When we first see Amonkhet, it is a cult-like city state where only a select few spend their lives doing anything other than training for grueling, bloodsport-like competitions, believing that this would win them a place in the afterlife. Then Hour of Devastation happened.

* AscendedExtra: Originally created for the ''MicroProse'' ''Magic: The Gathering'' computer game, Shandalar made it to physical cards decades later, and even had some lore articles specifically written for it.

* StandardFantasySetting: So mmuch so that, when Wizards realized that Magic needed a lore-neutral setting for their core sets (for the purpose of reprinting cards), they settled on Shandalar. That said, the setting does have a few minor quirks of its own.

A plane based on renaissance Italy, Fiora is a world of intrigue and treachery, where everyone has an angle and there is no one ''not'' plotting to steal the crown at all times. Fiora is the setting for the Conspiracy sets.

* AncientGrome: With one or two exceptions, Theros remains pretty specifically Greek, rather than a CultureChopSuey.

! Tropes that apply to both timelines

! Tropes that apply to the Khans Timeline

! Tropes that apply to the Dragons Timeline

* HiveDrone: Slivers are present on Shandalar, though they behave differently from the ones previously seen on Rath and Dominaria (Shandalar Slivers only affect Slivers their controller controls, as opposed to the Rath Slivers that affected all Slivers), and their appearance is also very different (looking far more humanoid, being bipedal and having four limbs, as opposed to the older Rath Slivers, which were almost snakelike and had a single limb).
** Notably, because the Slivers seen on Rath would have been taken from another plane, and because they were genetically modified by Volrath, this may mean that Shandalar is where they originate, and that the Slivers seen here are their original form.

The city plane of Ravnica is one of the busiest, most exciting planes in the multiverse, as ten guilds continually struggle for doninance of the plane, in the courtroom and on the battlefield. Once dominated by a powerful spell that kept the guilds ambitions in check and prevented planeswalker interference, the breaking of this ward has only made the plane more chaotic.

* AncientGrome: With one or two exceptions, Theros remains pretty specifically Greek, rather than a CulturChopSuey.