MtG LORE

What's the best way to go about collecting a physical collection of MtG Lore?

I know there's all anyone would ever need on the Wizards site or on YouTube, but I like owning shit physically.

The artbooks are probably the best bets these days. Obviously they comprehensively focus on their respective planes, but they also delve into previous sets like with Zendikar and Innistrad.

Yeah, I was gonna pick up Zendikar and Innistrad and move forward. I stopped playing the TCG, but I like reading the lore still.

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MtG lore isn't worth physically owning.

Thank you for your concern.

The Kamigawa lore is the only lore worth reading.

There's also novels you can buy, may be hard to track down all of them though

Heck, I might just do that

So the first thing you're going to look for is a book called The Thran.
Next you're going to look for Chainer's Torment. If I remember right, you could also get this from a fat pack of Torment, so that's an option available to you. Optional: also pick up Odyssey and Judgment, those two are all right. If you do, read in proper order, Odyssey, Torment, then Judgment.
Next, you're going to hunt down Test of Metal. Technically, this is the sequel to Agents of Artifice, so if you really want to read that, go for it, but it kind of sucks. You can skip straight to Test of Metal.

And then stop there because everything else is unrepentant garbage.

You should try these. I've never bought 'em, but I've seen 'em on Amazon

Note: you won't be able to get fatpacks of old sets without spending an arm and a leg anymore, so ignore his advice on that front.
Also, ignore his advice on Test of Metal if what you're looking for is Magic lore, considering it's what killed the books, and is the only one that can't have happened at all.

Any physical shit on the MtG Avengers?

>unironically posting a cringe meme on Veeky Forums
I could actually tell you exactly how, but I'm not going to. Don't post shit threads.

I don't think that's supposed to be Pepe.

Somewhat related, is there some sort of artbook anywhere that has for example, art of phyrexia cards? I love the aesthetics of those freaks.

I wish they'd do more shit instead of just current sets.

t. amerimutt

It is a /pol/ meme, that mocks the fact that USA is an increasingly mongrelized and nonwhite nation.
As an European I am quite amused by the amount of butthurt it causes in murrican /pol/acks. It is pretty funny meme to me.

Dunno why Op posted it here tho.

Oh, I'm OP. I had no idea it was a /pol/ meme. I honestly thought it was just a spooky creature.

It's actually an /int/ or /bant/ meme. The US is constantly raving about how Europe is being overrun by foreign hordes, but the actual population of the US is about 56% white. It really upsets the Americans, so people kept posting it.

Well, now you know.
It started with this thing.

The posters that visit /int/, /bant/ and /pol/ are largely one and the same.
I saw picture related months ago in /pol/. The popularity of this meme only soared very recently tho.

I'm personally loving every moment of its popularity. Not even shart in the mart upset Americans this much.

It is quite funny, though I wish murricans wouldn't take it so seriously and could actually handle the banter a bit. It's not like anyone on /pol/, /int/ or /bant/ is genuinely cheering for the mongrelization of USA.

Murricans should handle that meme like we Finns handled being called mongols, by owning it and making memes about it ourselves.

That would require the Eternal Mongrel to handle the bantz and not blame this meme on George Soros.

Indeed. It was pretty funny seeing those threads on /pol/ furiously trying to uncover who was behind this meme.

Anyways, this is off topic to the thread.

I just wanna learn about these damn Planeswalker Avengers and the big monsters they smash, dammit.

Perhaps because there's a large group of people that aren't in it for the banter and the laughs but are genuinely devoted to the supposed superiority of their nation and will do anything to ensure it.

>yfw we return to Kamigawa and the lore is irrevocably destroyed

> but are genuinely devoted to the supposed superiority of their nation and will do anything to ensure it.

I disagree. This sort of defensiveness isn't really a sign of actual devotion and conviction to your cause.
If a joke is enough to make you defensive of your ideological foundation, you have not really committed to that foundation in the first place. A mere joke shouldn't be enough to warrant such defensiveness, if you were actually convinced of your own position.

>yfw we will never return to Kamigawa
I don't know how to feel about that, honestly.

Don't believe that shit. There's no way we won't return and it's going to be absolutely terrible.

But Wizards love money and Kamigawa was unpopular.
We will have a Return to Return to Return to Ravnica before having another Kamigawa block.

>make everything about samurai and ninja
>add some broken shit
>add some super duper rare reprints
>???
>profit

I wouldn't mind some power creep'd ninjas, to be honest.

Me too, but not at the cost of everything else.

I'd accept that as long as they print an O-Kagachi that doesn't suck dick.
Seriously, Vengeful Kami is a disgrace to Kamigawa.

I think we need at least three transgender legendary creatures and at least five of the mystic slots taken up by Gatewatch planeswalkers.

Yes, yes you are 1/64th German

[big nose man with hands clasped]

True, I can't imagine any other way to get mountains of free publicity from /pol/acks.

Hot opinion, but nothing before Zendikar was worth keeping.

I own every "art of" book they printed, they're pretty but fair warning: they repeat their introduction and do not contain all the art commissioned for the set. Also, they hardly ever delve into concept art and draft imagery – the only one that actually lets you in on the behind-the-scenes creation is Kaladesh – I wish they did that for each of them.
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Zendikar has an awesome geography section, it's well worth it as a first pick. But no overworld map which is fucking dumb, but in cannon they explain that the world never has the same topology for more than a week.
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I also own the early ravnica & mirrodin books my fiance has the kamigawa cycle and brother's war cycle books and I'm jealous those are neat too. They're hard as shit to come across sometimes, but used book stores in their fantasy section usually carry one or two randos.

If you want some huge cred find a way to get yourself a copy of the Planeswalker's Guide to Alara (which is the only print copy of that series) or the Art of the Rath cycle, which is the poster child of what an art book should be. Full of concept art and explanations.

Tl;dr
The new artbooks are mostly story but are pretty to own and cheap to buy right now. The old paperbacks are hard to find, but are fun to keep an eye out for. The old artbooks are collectors items, and if you own them I'm very jealous

la abominación de la otra dimensión

Since this is a lore thread, I have to ask one thing.
Just what's the problem with these guys? Can't they just find something new to do like the Simic?

The gruul clans are at constant war with one another for dominance. Think of the conflict in the middle east, but replace the sides with viashino, giants, one cyclops, humans, goblins, and centaurs. They encroach on the bordering civilizations, Rhuric Thar is the leader of isis, and Skarrg is bacially the holy meca that no gruul will destroy, so it acts as a neutral off-limits meeting ground for the clans. They cant set aside their religious differences to get along. Especially when burning tree wants to burn people, and the scab clan wants to self mutilate, and the slitz kill babies

But he's dead. The only way to print him is in a supplemental set, and they blew it on that piece of shit.