Magic: The Gathering is celebrating its 30th anniversary next year, and the venerable card game is leading into the milestone with Dominaria United, the first set in a new story arc. It will see the game return to Dominaria, its original setting and one of the most storied planes in Magic history, where a cast of familiar races and characters will face a whole new assault from one of the great threats to the multiverse - the Phyrexians.
IGN has a brand new card to reveal for Dominaria United, and it very much ties into the 30-odd years of worldbuilding that makes Dominaria so special for Magic fans. Introducing, Serra Paragon:
This card references some key Dominarian history. “Serra was a powerful Planeswalker who came to Dominaria thousands of years before the events of Dominaria United,” explains Roy Graham, Game Designer: Story. “At the time, the power of Planeswalkers was almost unlimited so she was able to create a host of angels (ones similar to Serra Paragon!). While Serra then moved on from Dominaria, a church was created in her honour and she became revered.
“She ties in with the new story as her angels still populate the plane and she’s intrinsically linked with the Phyrexians: her own home plane was invaded by them years ago and was eventually collapsed to prevent a total Phyrexian takeover. So while Serra is now dead, there’s a definite Phyrexian vendetta in there!”
“The immediately obvious utility with Serra Paragon,” says Ethan Fleischer, Sr. Game Designer: Play & Design, in response to my question about which decks and strategies Serra Paragon might best be suited to, “would be to pair her with fetch lands: lands that sacrifice themselves to search your library for
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