Magic Story

Magic Story is a weekly column on Magicthegathering.com. For several years it served as the primary source for in-depth story information. In that role, it replaced and was thought to have a much wider audience than the earlier print novels. However, print novels were reintroduced in 2019, seemingly shifting the focus off of Magic Story to secondary plot lines again.

Magic Story was previously titled Uncharted Realms, and was briefly known as Official Magic Fiction in the interim. The name was changed in 2016 to help readers distinguish the column from the other, non-fiction articles on the official website. A similar column, Savor the Flavor, ran until 2012, when the resources behind it were devoted to other tasks, including the then-new Uncharted Realms.

Some of the story arcs were published as e-books containing the Collected Stories of the respective set. Magic Story was terminated when Wizards of the Coast announced in July, 2019, that going forward, the Magic story would be told through e-books rather than weekly episodic stories.

After controversy around the quality of the released paper and e-books, Magic Story was reinstated for Zendikar Rising.