Magic: The Gathering's March Of The Machine Sees Heroes Team Up To Fight The Phyrexians

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After a year of setting up a battle through the multiverse, Wizards Of The Coast dropped the first details on the next Magic: The Gathering set, March Of The Machine, at MagicCon Philadelphia this past weekend.

March Of The Machine will mark the finale of the battle between the machine-being Phyrexians--who are attempting to take over the multiverse--and the heroes attempting to end their terror once and for all. Multiple preview cards were shown to the MagicCon crowd, including old favorites and new «team-up» cards with two characters together on one card.

The set will feature the Multiverse Legends «set within a set,» which will show off heroes in the «Booster Fun» variants of their home world's featured sets, as well as five new commander decks that reintroduce Planechase, a mechanic not seen since the mid-2000s.

The panel also revealed March Of The Machine: Aftermath, a small 50-card mini expansion that will focus primarily on the end of the Phyrexian saga, specifically «which characters live, which ones get a happily ever after, and which ones don't live to see the aftermath themselves.» Aftermath will be legal in Standard formats and sold physically in five-card packs.

Wizards Of The Coast also revealed the full schedule of events leading up to and immediately following the March Of The Machine set, which includes story reveals, prerelease events, more info on March Of The Machines: Aftermath. That schedule is as follows:

To learn more about what went into making the set, we sat down with senior worldbuilding designer Emily Teng, lead game designer Dave Humphreys, and story lead Roy Graham after the MagicCon panel. We spoke about the creation of the team-up cards, including the process of representing both heroes