Pre-History
−100,000
The Equilorians begin their search for enlightenment.
Mythohistory (-20,000 AR to -15,000 AR)
The Time of Dragons
−20,000
The Ur-Dragon spawns the first dragons on Dominaria. They collectively become known as the Elder Dragons.
Between -20,000 and -17,000
Around this time the Elder Dragons, who had ruled Dominaria for ages, were engaged in the Elder Dragon War. The victors of that war were Nicol Bolas (who ascended), his siblings Ugin, Arcades Sabboth, Palladia-Mors and Chromium, and his cousin Vaevictis Asmadi. Those who lost the war were beaten to the ground, stripped of their title, never to fly again, becoming Wurms.
Belzenlok is sealed away during the War in the Abyss.
−17,000
On Dominaria, the Primeval Dragons are defeated by the Numena, who take their powers.
−16,000
On Dominaria, the Numena rule for 1,000 years before their fall.
−15,000
Nicol Bolas battles a demonic leviathan in a planeswalker duel to take place on Dominaria. The fight reduced Madara to a third of its former size and created the first rift on the world. What remained of the leviathan came to be known as the Talon Gates after Nicol Bolas devoured its remains.
-10,500
The last dragon egg on Ravnica hatches.
~-5,515
The Guildpact is created on the plane of Ravnica after a long war led by the opposing Cisarzim and Razia. Ravnican guilds divide duties across nine guilds for the betterment of the plane as a whole. Ravnica begins its long evolution into a predominantly urban plane.
Time of the Thran (Up to -5,000 AR)
For more detail, see The Thran timeline.
Yawgmoth comes to power among the Thran. With the help of Dyfed, he claims control of a decaying plane that he reshapes into Phyrexia, and wages war against the greater Thran Alliance.
Dyfed transports many of Yawgmoth's political enemies to Mercadia, leaving them stranded.
The Thran Empire is destroyed.
The Null Moon is launched.
Yawgmoth is trapped on Phyrexia by the closure of the planar portal in the Caves of Koilos.
-Time of Legends -
Between -5,000 AR and -440
Sivitri Scarzam conquered south-eastern Corondor with the help of her dragons, until they were destroyed with a special potion. Sivitri flees Dominaria on her last remaining dragon.
The kingdom of Zhalfir takes shape on Jamuraa.
Between -2,500 and -440
Dakkon forges the Blackblade for Geyadrone Dihada, who in exchange triggers his spark. Geyadrone Dihada conquers the south of Corondor and turns the nature spirit of Khone into Sol'Kanar the Swamp King. Dihada tricks a young boy from the destroyed village Carth into summoning Dakkon Blackblade and binding them to each other. Dihada and Dakkon fight. Dakkon slays Dihada's minion, the Elder Piru, but Dihada absorbs her power. Dakkon is marked by Dihada as one of her champions but gets back his shadow. The boy from Carth and Dakkon travel to Terisiare. The boy starts the lineage of the Carthalions.
Xarl turns the Serra Angel Trine into a Fallen Angel using the Horned Halo and conquers the north of Corondor, ruling for three centuries.
Not long after, the adopted son of the magician Xarl, Eskil, summons the angel Rahel to subdue Trine. Eskil is blinded in the final conflict but ascends as a planeswalker.
Left by his mistress, Sol'Kanar seeks to restore his power and fight the Fallen Angel in the north. He and two women try to summon the Scarzam Dragons. They succeed, but Sivitri Scarzam also appears and turns against Sol'Kanar. In the aftermath, the city of Khone is destroyed.
Between -2,420 and 0
The Battle of Mors Ridge takes place. Chromium Rhuell battles and defeats Vaevictis Asmadi and Palladia-Mors.
~-2,440 or earlier
Sorin Markov is born on the plane of Innistrad. Edgar Markov creates the curse of vampirism on Innistrad with the assistance of the demon Shilgengar while Sorin is a young man.
~-1,830 or earlier
Tev Loneglade is born.
From -1,440 to -1,400
Sorin, Ugin, and Nahiri meet on an unknown plane destroyed by the Eldrazi. They hatch a plan to imprison the Eldrazi.
~-1,400 or earlier
The Eldrazi are imprisoned by Sorin, Ugin, and the Lithomancer, Nahiri.
−912
Penregon founded.
~-300
The Panther Warriors of Lord Windgrace's tribe rule Urborg until the Brothers' War.[20]
Antiquities War (0 AR to 63 AR)
0
Urza and Mishra are born on the first and last day of the year, respectively.
20 to 63
The Brothers' War
(For more detail, see The Brothers' War timeline.)
Urza, Mishra, and Tocasia discover the Caves of Koilos, in which the portal to Phyrexia is enclosed. The brothers split the powerstone by accident. The conflict between the brothers rises, with Tocasia caught in between. She dies when hit by energy beams from the stones. Mishra flees into the desert and is enslaved by Fallaji nomads. Urza becomes an apprentice clockmaker in Kroog.
Urza and Mishra become leaders of their respective sides, and old conflicts draw them into opposition.
Gix enters Dominaria and uses the Brotherhood of Gix to infiltrate both sides.
The city of Sumifa, capital of Almaaz, is buried by tons of sand by the wizard Porros.
The final battle of the Brothers' War takes place on the island of Argoth. Gix makes all the artifact creatures in both armies go berserk. Mishra is revealed to have been altered by Phyrexian constructs.
Urza activates the Golgothian Sylex.
The Sylex Blast obliterates Argoth, turns Urborg into a swamp, and sends all of Dominaria into an Ice Age. Urza ascends. The Shard of the Twelve Worlds begins to form. Gix and his minions retreat to Phyrexia.
The Dark Age begins.
Ice Age (64 AR to 2943 AR)
The Refraction of Rabiah
Before 600 AR
Not long after the Sylex Blast on Dominaria, Taysir is born on the plane of Rabiah. During his infancy, an unknown event causes Rabiah to be copied 1000 times. So are all the people, places and objects of the original Rabiah, with few exceptions — only five incarnations of Taysir among them.
The Sorceress Queen Nailah seduces the black magic copy of Taysir and tells him that he will become a planeswalker if he unites himself with the other four copies.
The Black Taysir absorbs the Green Taysir with force, but feels enormous guilt over this and turns against Nailah.
The Red Taysir and the White Taysir unite out of their free will and later unite with the Blue Taysir as well. Then Taysir challenges Nailah. The white-blue-red Taysir finally unites with the green-black one to create a single Taysir. The ascended Taysir leaves Rabiah about three decades after its Refraction, never to return to his homeplane again. As he leaves, Nailah casts a ban on the planes of Rabiah and locks Taysir and other planeswalkers out of the 1001 worlds.
The Dark Age
73
Loran dies of an illness. Feldon tries to resurrect her with different types of magic.
???
Jarsyl discovers a spell to open a gateway to Phyrexia. He disappears shortly after this.
~170
Under Reod Dai's guidance, the goblin and orc tribes of Sarpadia unite. Reod Dai's magic inadvertently cause Havenwood's Thallids to gain sentience. Reod Dai incites Thrulls' rebellion against their Ebon Hand masters.
Driven by colder winters, the goblin and orc tribes of Sarpadia migrate out of their mountains, invading and overthrowing the Dwarven Empire.
Tymolin Loneglade is murdered by Oliver Farrel. Her brother, the planeswalker Tev Loneglade goes insane, assumes the identity of Tevesh Szat, the Doom of Fools, and urges the goblins and orcs to attack Icatia.
Fleeing from the Homarids that are attacking Vodalia, Empress Galina is accidentally transported over 3000 years into the future. Vodalia falls. Etlan Shiis becomes the new center of Merfolk culture.
The Thrulls destroy the Ebon Hand. The Havenwood elves are overrun by the Thallids. Icatia is overrun by the goblin and orc hordes. The Thrulls conquest all of Sarpadia; only some orc tribes (at least until the Phyrexian Invasion) and the Thallids survive.
300
Nevinyrral activates his disk on Urborg, ending the war between Urborg and Bogardan, but destroying Urborg's capitol.
413
Jodah born.
418
Lord Ith is imprisoned.
430
Jodah gains near-immortality after hiding from Goblins in a Fountain of Youth.
Jodah receives his mirror from Voska.
Jodah frees Lord Ith, and Ith destroys the Conclave of Mages.
Jodah journeys to the City of Shadows where he eventually becomes the Archmage Eternal.
Rasputin Dreamweaver and Tivadar lead a crusade against the goblins.
???
Almaaz falls to the Rigida Ice-monsters.
???
Events from "Dark Legacy" take place.
Time of Ice
450
The beginning of the full Ice Age of Dominaria.
???
Sima dies. The grief of this event is the latest in a long line of emotional strains for Jodah, who begins to descend into madness. He saves himself by using his mirror to save his memories, wipe his mind clean and use the memories in the mirror to regain himself, without the emotional attachment. Jodah will repeat this roughly once a century for 2500 years.
???
Taysir comes to Dominaria and falls in love with Kristina of the Woods. They are both trapped when the Shard closes not much later.
~600
The Shard of the Twelve Worlds is fully formed, trapping all planeswalkers in a section of the multiverse include Dominaria and eleven other planes.
???
On an unspecified plane within the Shard, Ravidel is apprenticed to Faralyn. Ravidel befriends Chromium Rhuell.
1300
On Dominaria, the city of Sumifa is rebuilt near its old site.
~1800
Urza Planeswalker meets the defective Phyrexian newt Xantcha. He thinks she's a human turned Phyrexian and takes her along with him in his crusade against Yawgmoth.
Urza launches an attack on Phyrexia but is defeated. Yawgmoth corrupts Urza, causing him to degenerate into madness.
???
A mercantile affiliation between several trading fleets establishes the Sheoltun Empire on Aerona.
~2434
Thanks to the meddling of Tevesh Szat, the kingdom Storgard falls. Freyalise ascends. Jason Carthalion and Oriel Kjeldos head southward with their followers and found Kjeldor.
Marit Lage is imprisoned by unknown means under the Ronom Glacier.
~2500
Urza and Xantcha are brought to Serra's Realm. Serra heals Urza, but his mind has still not fully recovered. Phyrexians eventually follow the two to the Realm and invade it, prompting Serra to flee and Radiant to rise to power.
~2600
The first Ojanen stands up to his creator, Terrent Amese, who in response creates Ur-Drago to exact his revenge. Scarwood is lost to the cat tribes.
Centuries later, the elves of Scarwood are driven away by giant apes, who relocates in the hidden city.
2655-2863
Keld is founded by Kradak.
~2815
Barrin is born.
~2834
Barrins learn the Blare of Doom.
Arcades Sabboth is forcibly summoned by Leshrac in a duel with Kristina of the Wood. Kristina is forced to kill Arcades.
2934
Jodah and Jaya Ballard rescue King Darien from the Knights of Stromgald. Jodah unites Kjeldor and Balduvia against Lim-Dûl. Lim-Dûl is defeated and Leshrac takes the necromancer with him when he departs Dominaria.
The summit of the Null Moon takes place. Chromium Rhuell is killed, and Ravidel ascends. Leshrac, Lim-Dûl and Faralyn flee to Shandalar.
Jaeuhl Carthalion defeats Tevesh Szat. Szat flees to Shandalar.
Freyalise completes the World Spell and enchants Jodah's mirror.
The Shard is destroyed. The Ice Age comes to an end. The Flood Ages begin.
Faralyn is killed on Shandalar. Lim-Dûl, Leshrac and Tevesh-Szat start a war on Shandalar.
Lim-Dûl and Szat are eventually defeated by Kenan Sahrmal. Lim-Dûl is left behind. Sharmal's powers are severely drained.
Flood Ages (2934 AR to 3285 AR)
The Flood Age
???
Kristina leaves Taysir. Ravidel is apprenticed to Taysir. Taysir craves to return home but can't return to Rabiah because of Nailah's spell. Ravidel pushes Taysir to kill planeswalkers and use their energy to pierce the spell, just like Faralyn did to the Shard during the Summit. Taysir hunts down Leshrac but cannot bring himself to kill in cold blood, so he imprisons him in Phyrexia. Ravidel leaves Taysir for an unspecified amount of time.
2934-3000
Flooding caused by the World Spell drowns Fyndhorn. Jaeuhl Carthalion and Kaysa lead the Fyndhorn survivors to Yavimaya and makes peace with Multani and the intelligent gorillas.
Kelsinko is lost to the sea and repopulated by Viscerids. Terisiare is scattered into six isles.
2946
Lim-Dûl returns with an army of undead. Azar, Sharmal's apprentice defeats him but gets trapped with him in one body. Sharmal hides the body, for its energies keep 'walkers from entering Shandalar.
2954
Jodah unites Kjeldor and Balduvia into New Argive.
Mairsil, possessing Jaya Ballard destroys Soldev and the School of the Unseen, using Phyrexian Warbeasts and Soldevi Steambeasts. Jodah destroys Mairsil. Jaya Ballard ascends. Jaya defeats the War- and Steambeasts.
2956
The Rimewind mage Heidar rises to power to try and reinstate the Ice Age with the help of Garza Zol. He kills Lovisa Coldeyes in his plans before being eliminated by his former ally.
???
Ravidel, wishing revenge on Leshrac, Tevesh Szat, Kristina, and all other people that once betrayed him, starts a long-term plan on Corondor.
Ravidel battles Ash Warlord Embereck over the Golgothian Sylex. A bargain is struck and Ravidel gains control of the sylex.
The "Empty Quarter"
3000
The Gathering of the sages of Minorad. These sages, Kristina of the Woods, Ash Warlord Embereck, Grenfell Mor of Golthonor, Altair of Coloni, and Liana of Minorad, are visited by Ravidel who threatens them with the Golgothian Sylex. Embereck leaves the council. The others agree to Ravidel's demands: his plans will be left alone, whatever they are.
Ravidel banishes Kristina from the White Woods. Grenfell is locked in the sand seas of Golthonor. Altair wanders Corondor for ages. Liana is left under the mind control of Ravidel's own spell squire the Scarlet Vizier. The Vizier talks his way into House Carthalion, hoping that one day a child with the planeswalker's spark will be born in this family of powerful mages and the child will overthrow Ravidel.
???
Lim-Dûl defeats Azar and returns but finds that Shandalar has powerful defenders now. He starts the Wizard's War but loses. Sharmal removes Lim-Dûl from Azar's body and puts him in an artifact that is used to keep the Planar Ban around Shandalar intact.
Arzakon discovers Shandalar but is thwarted by Sharmal.
???
The guild-lords Alsadim K'mer, Starcryst, Lichlord, Kzzy'n and the Great Druid rise up against the Guardian, believing they can cast a spell to gain dominion over all of Shandalar. They have been deceived however, for this spell in truth gives Arzakon access to Shandalar. The artifact that holds Lim-Dûl is shattered and Arzakon arrives, but he is defeated by the second apprentice of Kenan Sharmal.
3071
First Festival of Estark, Kuthuman becomes Grandmaster of the Arena.
~3100
Johan is reported to be Emperor of Tirras.
~3179
Ugin and Azor meet to discuss a plan to trap and destroy Nicol Bolas.
3200 AR
The Tolgath and the Ancients wage war on Ulgrotha. Ravi ends this war by ringing the Apocalypse Chime, which destroys the leylines of Ulgrotha, kills nearly everything on the plane, and weakens the planar barriers between Dominaria and Kamigawa.
Between 3200 AR and 3306 AR
On the night of his daughter's birth, Konda uses Hisoka's research and the soratami's aid to take Kyodai from the spirit realm and lock her into the form of a stone disc that makes Konda immortal. This enrages O-Kagachi, mightiest of kami, and starts the Kami War.
Between 3210 AR and 3316 AR
Toshi meets Hidetsugu. They form the Hyozan Reckoners.
3210 AR
Urza and Xantcha arrive on Equilor, hoping to learn the origins of the Phyrexians. Urza learns that Dominaria is shielded from the other planes by the Shard, and thinks his crusade has ended. He plans to create an artifact-based paradise on Equilor before the inhabitants ask him to leave.
Between 3215 AR and 3321 AR
Kobo is apprenticed to Hidestugu.
Between 3220 AR and 3326 AR
Michiko Konda sets out to discover her involvement at the beginning of the Kami War. Toshiro Umezawa gets involved in Mochi's plans. Michiko, Toshi, and their companions are captured by the Orochi of the Myojin of Life's Web, who want to kill Michiko to end the war. They escape and Toshi allies himself with the Myojin of Night's Reach to defeat Life's Web.
Enraged over the death of his apprentice Kobo at the hands of Choryu, who was taking orders from the wizards of Minamo and the Moonfolk, Hidestugu launches an attack on Minamo Academy and the moonfolk capitol Oboro.
O-Kagachi finally manifests in the physical world and demolishes Eiganjo. Toshi brings That Which Was Taken to Minamo to set *O-Kagachi against Mochi. The fallen samurai rise as spirits and Konda leads them to reclaim That Which Was Taken.
Hidetsugu is sent to the lair of the Oni of All-Consuming Chaos and merges with it. Toshi takes That Which Was Taken from Mochi again and brings it to Michiko, who frees Kyodai from it. The two of them defeat O-Kagachi, Konda, and Mochi, and leave to form the new O-Kagachi.
Toshi is taken to Dominaria and blinded by the Myojin of Night's Reach as punishment for indirectly recreating the planar barriers around Kamigawa, denying the Myojin her planeswalking abilities. Toshi survives and starts the Umezawa lineage.
Orcs and goblins that survived the ringing of the Apocalypse Chime form a kingdom in the Koskun Mountains.
~3234
The Sheoltun Empire invades Terisiare.
From 3254 to 3255
Xantcha meets Ratepe and has him pose as Mishra.
Jodah visits Urza and brings him to his senses.
Urza kills all Sleeper Agents on Dominaria.
Urza fights Gix in the Caves of Koilos. Xantcha and Ratepe die.
~3274
The Sheoltun Empire begins to collapse after being routed from Terisiare by a flock of Serra Angels that block out the sun.
Modern History (3285 AR to 4205 AR)
3285
The Tolarian Academy is founded.
Sarkhan arrives in the past of Tarkir to influence the battle between Nicol Bolas and Ugin (date approximate).
Azor travels to Ixalan. He never receives the signal, from Ugin, to imprison Nicol Bolas using the Immortal Sun and is left stranded (date approximate).
3289
Jhoira is born.
3293
Teferi is born.
3307
Phyrexians overrun the Tolarian Academy and kill everyone. Karn is sent 24 hours back in time to stop this, but the academy is destroyed when Urza's time machine is overloaded. Urza, Barrin, Karn and several students escape the island. The sleeper agent Kerrick is locked in a fast-time bubble. Several survivors stay on the island.
Empress Galina emerges from the time stream, defeats the council of Etlan Shiis, and founds New Vodalia.
3317
Urza, Barrin and Karn return to Tolaria and are reunited with Jhoira, who is the last survivor on the island. They rebuild the academy. Jhoira falls into a coma.
3327
Jhoira emerges from her coma and saves Teferi from the slow-time bubble he had been caught in ever since the destruction of the academy.
~3334
Johan attempts to conquer the Jamuraan city-states of Bryce and Palmyra, but it is stopped by Hazezon Tamar, the Efravan Jaeger Ojanen, Adira Strongheart and her Robaran Mercenaries. However, Jaeger is eaten by a sand wurm.
Johan reaches Efrava where he finds Jedit, Jaeger's son. The sorcerer's plan to use Jedit to kill Hazezon and Adira backfire and Johan is forced to flee to Shauku's castle. Jedit and Adira's intervention causes the destruction of the castle: Johan escapes to Tirras.
Johan is preparing a fleet of airships to conquest Efrava. Jedit rediscovers Scarwood's secret and forges an alliance with the other cat tribes. In the Battle of Efrava, Johan is eaten by a sand wurm; however, Adira too is killed. Jedit becomes the commander of the Robaran Mercenaries and the cat warriors are free to roam Dominaria.
3346
Urza journeys to Shiv and discovers the Mana Rig. Urza starts creating the Legacy artifacts. Shortly afterward he also starts his Bloodline project.
3346-3360
Urza comes to Yavimaya to find allies against Phyrexia, but is imprisoned in an ancient tree for his crimes against Argoth. Multani discovers the Phyrexians are a threat that only Urza can deal with. He frees Urza and grants him the Weatherseed.
Kerrick's (now K'rrik) forces escape from a fast-time bubble but are defeated by Urza.
???
Nicol Bolas usurps Madara.
3360
Urza defeats Radiant in Serra's Realm. Serra's Realm collapses and its energy is trapped in the power matrix of Weatherlight. Serran refugees move to Dominaria.
Jhoira and Teferi move to Zhalfir.
3420
Serra arrives on Ulgrotha. She unites the nomad tribes into the city-state Aysen.
Some dwarves go through a portal and end up in Ulgrotha. They found the city New Freedom. Some of these dwarves set out across the ocean to explore this new world.
Two planeswalkers fight in Ulgrotha. Baron Sengir is left behind. Sengir overtakes New Freedom and turns its princess, Irini, into a vampire.
The Baron discovers Ravi locked in a vault on top of the Basalt Spire.
3385-3571
Urza reveals his Bloodline project and most of Tolaria is now working on it.
Croag, a Phyrexian Inner Circle member, is awakened by Yawgmoth to hunt down Urza. He starts sending Negators after Urza.
Davvol is taken to Rath to become its new steward.
Rofellos is brought to Yavimaya to help craft the forest's defenses against Phyrexia.
Karn's memory is capped at 20 years.
Gatha leaves Tolaria to start his own Bloodline project in Keld.
Nahiri awakens, fights the Eldrazi, and begins her search for Sorin as seen in Stirring from Slumber.
3560
Feroz arrives on Ulgrotha. He meets Sandruu, a minotaur whom he trains in the use of magic. He also meets Serra. Serra and Feroz fall in love. After meeting the two 'walkers, Baron Sengir decides to lie low for a while.
Avacyn declares one of the angelic sisters a heretic for dealing with a demonlord. Her entire flight is eradicated and her name stricken from every record.
3580
Sandruu ascends. During his travels he meets Kristina and they become romantically involved.
Feroz visits the Floating Isle and founds the Wizards' School there.
Ravidel shows Taysir the lovers Sandruu and Kristina. Taysir attacks Sandruu and follows him to Ulgrotha. Sandruu is banished to some faraway plane. Feroz kills Taysir, but saves his Centre of Consciousness to be cleansed by the Anaba spirit crafters.
Serra and Feroz erect Feroz's Ban around Ulgrotha.
~3600
Argenti and Kusho defect from the Madaran Empire. Ramses Overdark attempts to retake the islands, but is thwarted by Tetsuo Umezawa.
Marhault Elsdragon leads a major campaign against Argenti and Kusho. Both islands are crushed. Ramses has Elsdragon killed and rises to power.
Argenti and Kusho are liberated. Ramses Overdark's manor is destroyed by Kolo Meha. Tetsuo Umezawa slays Ramses Overdark and Nicol Bolas.
3760
Ihsan visits Baron Sengir. He wants to be turned into a vampire so he has the strength to kill the Baron, but Sengir is on to him and turns him into a Shade instead.
3620
Eron the Relentless steals a book of magic from Grandmother Sengir for Reveka. In exchange, Reveka casts an immortality spell on Eron.
3655-3863
Urza gets Clan Capashen involved in the Bloodline project.
Kreig becomes the ruler of Keld. Keld grows into a powerful nation and attracts Phyrexia's attention. Croag learns of the Bloodline project. Phyrexia begins its attacks on suspected Bloodline sites such as Keld, Benalia, and Yavimaya.
~3765
Torrezon splits into three kingdoms, beginning the Apostasine Wars.
3780
Feroz dies in a lab accident. Serra leaves Ulgrotha and is killed on Dominaria by a 'walker who wants her ring. In her passing, she blesses the land of Sursi to create a sanctuary against the dark forces that assailed her followers.
Brother Angus starts building the Cathedral of Serra.
3795
Elenda of Garrano returns from Ixalan, ending the Apostasine Wars. The Church of Dusk unites power with Queen Miralda of Torrezon, forming the Legion of Dusk. With the sacrament of vampirism brought by Elenda, Torrezon becomes a powerful kingdom.
3800
Feroz's Ban collapses.
3863
Croag leads a major attack on Keld. Gatha and Kreig die. Croag is seriously injured. Phyrexia gains access to the ruins of Gatha's laboratory.
3964
Adam Carthalion, deceived by Ravidel, is on a quest to become a planeswalker. He wants to stop the new disaster that is about to happen on Dominaria according to the seers. On this quest, he even sacrifices his own wife. Ravidel says he will make Adam a planeswalker if Adam sacrifices his son Jared. Adam refuses. The Battle of Aster Fall takes place.
3972
Ravidel discovers Jared Carthalion lives as a street urchin in Arathoxia and begins to send creatures after him.
3980
Ravidel launches an attack on Arathoxia. The Scarlet Vizier is killed in the attack, and Liana of Minorad joins Jared's side in the battle. They attack Ravidel's castle and leave him for dead.
Jared is apprenticed to Kristina.
Kristina and Jared discover Ravidel is fighting Liana over the Moxen. Liana gives them to Jared and fights Ravidel in the Abyss. Liana is killed.
Jared and Kristina meet Grenfell Mor, who's been working on a spell to deactivate the Golgothian Sylex. Jared and Kristina become lovers.
The Nightmare Caliphear frees Altair. The two join Jared and Kristina, and they attack Ravidel. The sylex is destroyed, but Ravidel gets away with the Moxen. Altair is killed.
Ravidel erects the Mox Beacon, summoning the planeswalkers that once betrayed him to Corondor and stripping them of their powers.
The planeswalkers race over the continent to retrieve their powers, which are scattered over the land. A massive war follows that destroys most of Corondor. The outcome is unknown.
4013-4169
Rofellos fights Phyrexians in Yavimaya while Davvol overlaps it with Rath.
Urza meets Lyna of the Soltari.
Croag murders Davvol for his failures and his plans to kill Croag himself.
4044
Galin/Garth is born.
4049
The House of Oor-tael in Kush is destroyed during the Night of Fire. Kuthuman becomes a planeswalker.
4050
Virot Maglan founds the Otarian Cabal and becomes its patriarch.
4053
Gull is born.
4057
Greensleeves is born.
4062
Sparrow Hawk is born.
4069
Garth returns in Estark and starts the Time of Troubles. Death of Zarel and defeat of Kuthuman.
4073
Destruction of White Ridge. The wizard Towser intends to sacrifice Greensleeves to steal her power, but his plans are thwarted by Gull, Lily and Greensleeves herself. The three vow to form an army to fight evil wizards.
4074
Rakel is blackmailed by Benalia into killing Gull and Greensleeves, but the two save her. Garth swears to resume his family duty and stop planeswalking.
Chaney, before dying of old age, train Greensleeves in the ways of nature magic. Greensleeves becomes a druid.
Greensleeves activates the Stone Brain and starts subduing and "tagging" evil wizards in order to stop them from doing harm.
4077
Battle of Lat-Nam.
Greensleeves, Gull and Sparrowhawk are reunited.
Greensleeves becomes a planeswalker, but she sacrifices her spark to heal the poisoned and ill land of Lat-Nam island. She is declared High Wizard of the Domains.
4150
Teferi's island phases out. Mangara, Jolrael and Kaervek seek to unravel its secrets.
4150-4195
Mangara becomes one of the most powerful men in Zhalfir and even Jamuraa through politics. Mangara's Harmony begins. This golden age eventually ends with Mangara's imprisonment by Kaervek. So starts the Mirage War.
4161
Starke and Greven il-Vec are born.
4168
Crovax born.
4174
Vuel born.
4176
Sisay born.
4179
Gerrard born.
Later, Phyrexia invades Benalia. Karn rescues Gerrard and brings him to Sidar Kondo.
4180
Ertai born
4181
Hanna born. Orim born.
4185
Tahngarth born.
4188
Sisay becomes a cabin 'boy' aboard a pirate ship after being freed from a slaver's ship.
The War Years (4195 AR to 4205 AR)
The Planeswalker War devastates Corondor.
4196
The Mirage War ends. Asmira sacrifices herself to free Mangara. Teferi repairs the timeline. Several years later, Sisay meets Tahngarth.
4197
Squee born.
???
Vuel fails his rite of maturity because of Starke's meddling. He leaves the Kondo clan and, influenced by Starke, steals the Legacy from Gerrard. Karn is deactivated. Vuel wages war against his father and kills him. Phyrexia approaches Vuel. Vuel becomes the new Evincar of Rath: Volrath.
???
Rofellos is killed during a Phyrexian attack on Urborg. Gerrard, Crovax, and Mirri leave the crew.
4200
Astor becomes a Keldon Warlord.
4203
Astor battles Skouras the dragon.
4204
Volrath abducts Sisay. The Weatherlight crew picks up Gerrard, Ertai, Starke, Mirri and Crovax and planeshifts to Rath.
Keld invades Jamuraa in the Prophecy War.
The Weatherlight crew frees Sisay. Crovax kills Selenia, placing the curse of vampirism on himself. Crovax kills Mirri. Ertai and Crovax are left on Rath. Weatherlight leaves for Mercadia.
Phyrexian Invasion (4205 AR to 4306 Ar)
4205
The Weatherlight crew defeats the Phyrexians in Mercadia.
Volrath is killed. Ertai is corrupted by the Phyrexians. Crovax is named the new evincar of Rath.
Keld starts a war against Jamuraa. Jamuraa wins. Rayne is killed by Greel.
The Phyrexian Invasion starts. Urza assembles the Nine Titans. Hanna is killed by a Phyrexian plague. Orim finds a cure for the plague.
Benalia is destroyed. Llanowar is severely damaged. Takara is killed. Barrin commits suicide by obliterating all of Tolaria. The Battle of Koilos takes place. The portal to Phyrexia is closed.
The Rathi Overlay begins.
Tevesh Szat betrays the Titans and kills Daria and Kristina. Szat gets Darigaaz to make the Primevals rise again. Karn talks sense into Darigaaz. Darigaaz dives into a volcano to break the link of the Primevals. Rith and Crosis are imprisoned again. Dromar and Treva are destroyed. Weatherlight is destroyed. Urza kills Szat and powers the soul bombs. Gerrard and Squee are captured by Ertai.
Urza joins Phyrexia and kills Taysir. Gerrard joins Phyrexia and battles Urza.
Gerrard decapitates Urza. Gerrard turns against Phyrexia again and is transported back to the Stronghold. Gerrard kills Crovax. Squee kills Ertai.
The remaining Titans activate the soul bombs. Phyrexia is almost completely destroyed.
Karn's memory cap is removed. He discovers a new way to read the Thran Tome. Weatherlight is reborn.
Multani transplants part of Yavimaya to the borders of Urborg. Dwarves make the volcano in which the Stronghold is now situated erupt.
Yawgmoth enters Dominaria as a death cloud. Eladamri, Lin Sivvi, Bo Levar and Commodore Guff die, along with what is surely billions of Dominarians.
The Legacy is completed. Yawgmoth is slain by the combined power of The Legacy. Karn ascends.
4206
Freyalise erects the Martyrs' Tomb.
Tanhgarth, Sisay, and Squee get a new ship. Orim marries Cho-Manno.
4305
Chainer discovers the Mirari. Kirtar and Aboshan try to use the Mirari, but are killed in the process.[58]
Chainer overthrows the Cabal Patriarch. Kamahl kills Chainer. Cabal City is destroyed.
Balthor defeats Burke, becoming a zombie in the process. Kamahl goes into the Krosan Forest to look for Thriss.
Jeska is brought to Seton after a Mirari-influenced Kamahl strikes her. Kamahl kills the zombie Balthor and Laquatus. Kamahl becomes a druid and leaves the Mirari in Krosa.
The Mirari's mutating waves spread across Otaria.
Braids kills Seton and brings Jeska to the Cabal Patriarch.
The Rift Era (4306 AR to 4500 AR)
???
Leshrac frees the Weaver King from the Stronghold.
4306, Karona's War
Thousands of Dominarians immigrate to Otaria.
Jeska becomes Phage and kills Nivea. Ixidor creates Akroma. Kamahl and Phage lead a war against Ixidor and Akroma. Phage creates the Deathwurms. Ixidor is devoured by a deathwurm. Kamahl goes into exile in Krosa.
Zagorka discovers the city of Averru. Kuberr is reborn out of the union between Phage and the Cabal Patriarch. Lowallyn is reincarnated in the form of Ixidor after he leaves the deathwurm.
Akroma and Phage finish their war in Averru. Kamahl slays Phage, Akroma, and Zagorka. Karona is born.
Karona leaves Dominaria, leaving it without mana. After a meeting with Karn, Karona returns to Dominaria, where she destroys Aphetto and the Grand Coliseum, kills Llowalyn and Kuberr, and trashes Averru. Sash and Waistcoat kill Karona.
Jeska ascends. Karn takes her to Argentum. Karn turns the Mirari into Memnarch. Phyrexian Oil pollutes Argentum.
4306-4400
Memnarch goes insane and renames Argentum as Mirrodin.
The Ur-Golems have a wondrous society on Mirrodin, until Memnarch destroys them.
Memnarch brings many living things to Mirrodin via the Soul Traps.
The Phyrexian oil creates the Mycosynth and makes sure the line between artificial and natural creatures starts to blur on Mirrodin.
Memnarch thinks Karn visits him regularly, but that's just delusions. He subconsciously excludes the real Karn from Mirrodin. Memnarch wants to become a planeswalker and starts to launch the Moons of Mirrodin: gigantic artificial mana batteries that will power Mirrodin after it is turned into a machine to transfer the planeswalker's spark of one of Mirrodin's inhabitants into Memnarch.
Glissa starts to uncover the mysteries of Mirrodin. The final moon of Mirrodin is launched. Yert dethrones Geth. The Mephidross expands rapidly. Glissa is caught in a temporal trap.
Taj-Nar is destroyed. Glissa emerges from the temporal trap. The Battle of Krark-home begins.
Memnarch transports Glissa's spark to his own body, but both die before the process is completed. All life on Mirrodin ends. Slobad gets the spark and ascends.
Karn returns to Mirrodin. Slobad gives up his spark to resurrect all people on Mirrodin and transport the original generations home. Karn turns Memnarch back into the Mirari.
Slobad, Glissa, and Geth's decapitated head are left on Mirrodin by Karn to guard the Mirari. Slobad is almost immediately killed by goblins. Glissa flees into the heart of Mirrodin, where she is captured by Phyrexians and is compleated. Geth flees to the Mephidross and begins his partnership with Phyrexia.
4446
Teysa Karlov is born. The magelord Zomaj Hauc detonates his new mana bomb above Utvara.
~4485
The Ravnican Decamillennial occurs. Szadek's machinations directly lead to the destruction of the Guildpact. A new, non-magical Guildpact is written. It is known that the new Guildpact was unsuccessful in maintaining the guilds' control.
Temporal crisis
4500
The collective impact of the Sylex Blast, the Shard, the Tolarian time travel experiments, the Rathi Overlay and Karona starts to be felt, as mana-sucking rifts begin to open all over Dominaria. Magic, time and reality becomes increasingly unstable, and it is more difficult to planeswalk on Dominaria.
Teferi, Jhoira and a pair of Viashino and Ghitus return from their self-imposed exile to find Dominaria in a state of decay. Teferi begins work to try to return Zhalfir and Shiv to Dominaria without further damaging the plane.
Nicol Bolas is revived.
Teferi gives up his spark in order to close the Shivan time rift. Freyalise dies closing the Skyshroud rift. Lord Windgrace imbues Urborg with his essence and dies closing the Urborg rift. Karn disappears after closing the Tolarian rift. Nicol Bolas destroys the Honden of Night's Reach and turns the Myojin's followers against her.
Jeska falls under the manipulation of Leshrac. She closes the rift over Zhalfir but ends up destroying Zhalfir in the process. She then closes the rift over Yavimaya, but damages the ecosystem and possibly destroys Multani. She attempts to close the rift over Madara, but Leshrac's plot is revealed. He attacks Nicol Bolas with an artifact given to him by the Myojin of Night's Reach. Bolas is able to beat Leshrac using the actual mask of Night's Reach. He uses an enthralled Leshrac to close the Madaran rift.
Jeska gives her life to close the final rift over Otaria.
The Mending Era (4500 AR to Present)
4500
The Great Mending takes place: all remaining fractures to heal, first in Dominaria then spreading throughout the Multiverse in a chain reaction. Mana again flows freely throughout Dominaria, returning life and hope to the dying world. Planeswalkers lose their immortality and godlike powers and much of their additional magic power. All existing means of traveling between planes without a spark cease to function.
Teferi sets out to become a mage of Suq'Ata. Jhoira meets with a man claiming to be Jodah. Radha unifies the Keldons and remaining Skyshroud Elves. Venser departs Dominaria to explore the planes.
On Kaladesh, Avaati Vya manages to successfully refine aether. An era of prosperity called the Great Aether Boom follows.
On Ravnica, Agyrem is split off from Ravnica.
On Amonkhet, Nicol Bolas arrives and destroys the civilization there to make way for his own plans.
~4510
The First Aetherborn appear on Kaladesh.
~4520
Oona's acts of interfering with Lorwyn's natural linear progression is ended by the rebellion put into motion by Colfenor. Oona's duplicate, Maralen, assumes control of the plane with the help of Colfenor's sapling and the elemental Ashling. Maralen restores the normal flow of day and night over the plane.
Nissa Revane journeys to Lorwyn before the great Aurora and studies black mana under the elves of the Gilt-Leaf.
~4537
Chandra Nalaar is born on Kaladesh.
~4545
Tezzeret seizes control of the Infinite Consortium from Nicol Bolas.
~4546
Angrath becomes trapped on Ixalan.
Tacenda Verlasen and her sister Willia are born in Kessig, Innistrad.
~4548
Baral torches Bunarat on Kaladesh to capture the young pyromancer Chandra Nalaar. She ignites in the moment of her execution.
~4554
Elspeth Tirel arrives on Bant and begins to train as a knight.
Sarkhan Vol arrives on Jund.
The events of the 'past' sections of Agents of Artifice occur.
Jace Beleren becomes an employee of the Infinite Consortium on Ravnica.
~4556
The Purifying Fire occurs.
Chandra Nalaar overthrows the Order of Heliud on the plane of Regatha.
The events of the 'present' sections of Agents of Artifice occur.
Jace defects and joins with Liliana Vess to dethrone Tezzeret as the Infinite Consortium's master. Tezzeret's inert form is picked up by Nicol Bolas.
The events of Alara Unbroken occur.
Sarkhan Vol becomes a vassal of Nicol Bolas shortly before the reunification of the shards of Alara upon Jund.
Bolas reaps the seeds of war as the fractured Shards of Alara reunite. The energy from the resulting Maelstrom is absorbed by Bolas, and returns some (perhaps all) of the power he lost in the Mending. Bolas fights Ajani Goldmane and is driven from the plane. The rest of the unified Alara is embroiled in a worldwide war between the former shards. Elspeth Tirel flees to Urborg after the Conflux.
~4557
Liliana Vess takes control of the Chain Veil. She uses its power to overthrow Kothophed, one of her demon masters. Sarkhan is sighted tracking Liliana.
Garruk Wildspeaker runs afoul of Liliana and becomes cursed. He turns to Jace to find Liliana, interrupting his research of the Dragon Scroll that Chandra had stolen from Kephalai.
The archangel Avacyn and the demon Griselbrand, to whom Liliana owes a portion of her soul, disappear from the plane of Innistrad.
Chandra surfaces on Zendikar looking for a ruin sage named Anowon, and with him, searches for the Eye of Ugin. They encounter Sarkhan once they reach the eye and he plans to sacrifice Chandra for unknown reasons. Jace appears and assists Chandra, striking an uneasy truce to defeat Sarkhan. Their actions trigger a reaction in the Hedrons surrounding the Eye. Chandra and Sarkhan leave the plane the same day, Jace leaves 2 weeks later.
Sarkhan returns to Bolas's Meditation Realm to inform the dragon of the events that transpired at the Eye. Bolas reveals Tezzeret's body, in the midst of being rebuilt, to Sarkhan.
Bolas finishes his efforts to restore Tezzeret's mind and body, giving him the task to find the secret of Etherium from Crucius the Mad. Ultimately successful, Bolas then sends Tezzeret to Mirrodin, having become aware of the Phyrexian taint spreading on that plane.
Koth encounters Elspeth and Venser on Urborg. He enlists their help in dealing with the phyrexian corruption taking place on Mirrodin. Ultimately, weeks (if not months) later, they succeed in freeing Karn at the cost of Venser's life.
~4558
The events of In the Teeth of Akoum occur.
Nissa Revane and her Tajuru allies are attacked by Eldrazi brood lineage. Sorin Markov shows up and deals with the remaining brood, recovering Anowon after 3 months of enslavement by the Eldrazi in the process. Nissa agrees to lead him to Akoum. Upon arrival, the elf and the vampire argue with each other, which results in Nissa breaking the central hedron in the Eye of Ugin. The Eldrazi Titans are freed.
Gideon Jura followed Chandra to Zendikar, but lost her track around the Eye of Ugin. He stayed at Fort Keff and defeated a handful of brood lineage that attacked the fort. Upon seeing Emrakul on the horizon, he fled, knowing he didn't stand a chance against the monstrosity. He leaves Zendikar for Ravnica to petition the help of an organization of planeswalkers. (Presumably, the Infinite Consortium).
Sorin returns to his homeplane of Innistrad after the fiasco on Zendikar to find it destroying itself.
Niv-Mizzet begins extensive research into the nature of the Implicit Maze, appointing Ral Zarek as the lead researcher.
Gideon Jura arrives on Ravnica to find tensions increasing amid the rise of the Gateless and the resurgence of the guilds. Knowing he has little choice, he places his search for allies on hold, having had little success anyways.
~4559
Garruk pursues Liliana to Innistrad, intent on having her remove his curse or killing her for inflicting it upon him. After a few months of searching, Liliana tracks Griselbrand's disappearance to the Helvault and manipulates Thalia into destroying it.
Jace finishes his own research concerning the Implicit Maze. Shocked by the answers he discovered, he erases his own memory, effectively losing 6 months of his life. However, the activities of House Dimir draw him back in. Niv-Mizzet orchestrates the running of the Implicit Maze. Jace becomes the Living Guildpact (10,075 Z.C.).
Elesh Norn seizes power over the red and black factions of New Phyrexia.
Koth attempts to assassinate the ascendant Elesh Norn with an incredibly powerful spellbomb, forcing Elspeth to leave New Phyrexia for Theros. Koth escaped alive into the bowels of the furnace layers. He hopes that the Mirran resistance can one day overthrow the Phyrexians.
Xenagos enacts his plans to manipulate the gods into confronting each other, forcing Kruphix to enact the Silence, removing them from Theros and leaving his path open to ascend to godhood. Following a battle in Akros, Xenagos ascends in the Great Revel, throwing off the balance of power in Theros. Alongside Ajani, Elspeth Tirel enters the realm of Nyx to topple the new god though it ultimately costs her life.
Sorin Markov arrives on Tarkir and releases Ugin from the hedron cocoon. Sorin tells Ugin about the release of the Eldrazi, and Ugin dismisses him and demands that he seek out Nahiri.
Sarkhan Vol returns to the present; Tarkir's clans are ruled by dragonlords. He seeks out Ugin and explains his own role in the release of the Eldrazi, and in saving Ugin's life. He leaves Ugin and meets with Narset, a planeswalker he had met in an alternate timeline.
These events happened in an alternate timeline Tarkir:
Sorin Markov arrives on Tarkir and seeks out Ugin. He discovers that Ugin is long dead, and despairs of saving the multiverse from the Eldrazi.
Sarkhan Vol, drawn by a voice in his mind, planeswalks to Tarkir and seeks Ugin. He is joined by Narset, who is merely a monk in this timeline. When they arrive at Ugin's tomb, Zurgo Helmsmasher attacks them and kills Narset. Sarkhan enters a time portal and arrives in Tarkir's past, around the year 3285, where he alters the plane's timeline by saving Ugin's life after a duel with Nicol Bolas.[46] The resulting temporal anomaly forcibly returns him to a modified present-day Tarkir.
In the Battle for Zendikar the Zendikar resistance army led by Gideon Jura, Nissa Revane and Kiora assaults and recaptures Sea Gate from the Ulamog brood.
Ob Nixilis destroys the hedron network meant to capture Ulamog. He regains his planeswalker's spark and is scared away by Chandra Nalaar.
Gideon Jura, Jace Beleren, Chandra Nalaar and Nissa Revane form the Gatewatch.
The Gatewatch defeats Kozilek and Ulamog. The two Eldrazi titans are incinerated and destroyed.
Davriel Cane arrives on Innistrad
~4560
Nahiri calls the third Eldrazi titan, Emrakul, forth to Innistrad to take a revenge on Sorin Markov for imprisoning her in the Helvault. Emrakul's corruption leads to the death of Avacyn and the creation of many mutated horrors.
Aided by Tamiyo and Liliana Vess, the Gatewatch fights Emrakul. Emrakul is sealed in Innistrad's moon. Liliana formally joins the Gatewatch.
Liliana investigates the presence of Tezzeret on Kaladesh. The Gatewatch aids the Renegades in their rebellion against the Consulate. They are joined by Ajani Goldmane, who becomes an official member. Tezzeret steals the Planar Bridge from the Inventors' Fair for his master Nicol Bolas.
On Amonkhet, the Gatewatch discovers that Bolas is creating an army of Eternals; highly trained fighting specialists which had been zombified while keeping their skills intact. Liliana Vess kills the demon Razaketh. The Hour of Devastation occurs. When the Gatewatch confronts the dragon, they are soundly defeated.
Seriously wounded, Jace flees to Ixalan, where he is trapped by the power of the Immortal Sun. He defeats Azor and becomes romantically involved with Vraska. Tezzeret steals the Immortal Sun from Orazca.
On Dominaria, the Gatewatch joins with the planeswalkers Jaya Ballard and Karn to fight Belzenlok's Cabal. Teferi regains his planeswalker's spark and formally joins, while Nissa leaves. Jhoira raises the Skyship Weatherlight and forms a new Weatherlight crew. Belzenlok is defeated with the help of the Blackblade. Nicol Bolas takes control of Liliana Vess.
On Ravnica, tensions between the guilds rise, as Nicol Bolas has been warping them to his needs. They also fight internally between the forces pulling them toward or away from Bolas's influence.
~4561
Tacenda Verlasen and Davriel Cane defeat Willia. Tacenda absorbs the Bog Entity, and ascends.[65]
War of the Spark
~4561
The War of the Spark takes place on Ravnica.
Gideon, Dack, and Domri die.
Nissa rejoins the Gatewatch, Kaya formally joins.
Niv-Mizzet becomes the new Living Guildpact.
Nicol Bolas is defeated, and Ugin imprisons him on the Meditation Plane.
After the War
~4561
Dovin Baan killed by Atkos Tarr.
~4562
War of the gods on Theros.
Resurrection of Elspeth Tirel.
Creation of Calix.
That is the current story of magic the Gathering. Look on the other pages for the Thran Legacy and The Brothers War pages.