MTG: Here’s A Look At Magic In 2022
Come and take a look at 2022 laid out before your eyes in eye-popping 2-D. With sets from Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty to a return to the Brothers’ War.
2022 is going to be a big year for Magic. As we ’round the corner to ’round the corner to next year, which is still four months and also somehow four years away (not really but boy time feels real weird this year doesn’t it?), we have a look at the coming core sets and the overarcing story that will unfold in Magic: the Gathering. So let’s topdeck a land for the fourth turn in a row, bemoan the lack of anything we can actually play and take a look at what’s next for Magic.
You can see the four core sets outlined in the chart above. First up is a return to Kamigawa for the magic and cyberpunk drenched neon streets of Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty, which promises cybernetic planeswalkers, special covert operatives and a war between megacorporations that I can all but guarantee has Nicol Bolas somewhere in there as a CEO.
If ever there was a dragon born to the boardroom, it’s Dunkelzahn first, Nicol CEOlas second.
Following hot on the heels of that, though, is my favorite new setting out of the core sets, New Capenna. Hold on, you might wanna slip on a little 1920s jazz for this next part.
New Capenna is a city of angels, now run by demons. And, it’s absolutely my jam. Because New Capenna takes its inspiration not just from the angels and demons of the set, with a nod to Elspeth (New Capenna has “special significance” to the planeswalker), but also from detective noir and mafia stories.
As you can see from the picture above, this is a world of pinstripe suits, certain threatening implications, and probably some kind of Magic-ified tommy gun. It’s art deco, it’s gangsters, and probably a whole lotta sin in a city that knows how to keep it’s secrets.
But let’s not get too futuristic. Especially when the third Core Set for the year promises to take folks into Dominaria, once more. Dominaria, the Plane that started it all. Where the original grizzly bears are from, where nobody had yet heard of Eldrazi or Guilds or Gates to Crash or Weatherlights. Just a Plane full of high-fantasy magic BS.
Which is also the theme of the final core set of 2022: The Brothers’ War. This is a detailed backstory of the different flavor texts from the original game. When the wizards Urza and Mishra had a war whose effects are still being felt to this day.
This one promises “a plane-spanning conflict” that escalates with all sorts of artifacts and giant mechs.
All this plus the new Jumpstart, Universes Beyond, and Secret Lairs and Commander drops await you in 2022.
It’s a good year to be playing Magic
