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Let’s Talk about Amonkhet

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🏜️🧟 Wizards of the Coast tapped into our Egyptomania
for the Amonkhet block in Magic: the Gathering…
Amonkhet…
I lived, once. 
He could never truly kill me. I abhor death. 
Those that die will always return. That is the Curse of Wandering. My gift. 
Their dead were sent here for me to keep them safe from rot... 
This once was my most treasured place. 
I protected the vessels to keep their souls alive and he took... them... 
He took them—! 
Please, he took them all, corrupted them all, end my guilt, I could not protect them—! 
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Desert Power

Here, we must scrabble for desert power.
This is your inheritance, Paul.

Duke Atreides, Dune.
Land – Desert
Until Amonkhet, there was one Desert…
Cradle of the Accursed
Grasping Dunes
Painted Bluffs
Sunscorched Desert
Dunes of the Dead
Endless Sands
Hostile Desert
Scavenger Grounds
Shefet Dunes
Ipnu Rivulet
Hashep Oasis
Ifnir Deadlands
Ramunap Ruins
Mana flows, with great difficulty, in the deserts of Amonkhet…
…but if we follow the meandering river Luxa, towards the centre of this plane, where the leylines converge…
…we’ve reached the city of Naktamun!
Bounty of the Luxa
Cascading Cataracts
…protected by the blessings of the God-Pharaoh’s Hekma.
Every oasis & rivulet in the desert accumulates into the River Luxa, the lifeblood of Naktamun…
Luxa River Shrine
Oracle’s Vault
Edifice of Authority
Sunset Pyramid
Pyramid of the Pantheon
The citizens of Naktamun built the city, brick by brick.
Oketra’s Monument
Kefnet’s Monument
Rhonas’s Monument
Bontu’s Monument
Hazoret’s Monument
They gladly build monuments to the gods…
Oketra the True
Kefnet the Mindful
Rhonas the Indomitable
Bontu the Glorified
Hazoret the Fervent
For these gods walk amongst men.
The Five Trials of the Gods,
at the Amonkhet pre-release.
The gods, along with the viziers,
facilitated the Five Trials of the Gods,
to determine who were worthy of an afterlife…
Vizier of Deferment
Vizier of Remedies
Vizier of the True
Vizier of the Anointed
Vizier of Tumbling Sands
Pitiless Vizier
Vizier of the Menagerie
Hapatra, Vizier of Poisons
Shadowstorm Vizier
This Trial tests your ability to work with others. It involves recovering Oketra’s arrow as a team, fighting through her angels, mummies, horned beasts, and viziers.
This Trial tests your mental capacity. It involves figuring out one’s way out of a labyrinth of water and illusion, catered to the initiates’ basic fears, without being drowned. Magic dampens instincts and emotions.
This Trial tests your physical capacity. It involves climbing through a wall full of poisonous thorns, whose toxins prevent spellcasting, then fighting through hordes of wild beasts and recovering the antidote on a basilisk’s scale, then keep traveling the jungle.
This Trial tests your willingness to do what must be done. It involves moving through several dark chambers full of traps and monsters, encouraging crop members to sacrifice each other until they arrive at a clear water body full of poisonous snakes, whose only means of crossing involve sacrificing the heart of a fellow crop member.
This final Trial is a fight to the death. The initiates fight whatever Hazoret deems worthy. During the last Trial before the Hour of Devastation, the Worthy had to face dissenters and heretics to prove their faith.
Cartouche of Solidarity
Cartouche of Knowledge
Cartouche of Strength
Cartouche of Ambition
Cartouche of Zeal
These cartouches may help those going through the trials…

Even in death, I still serve.

Dreadnought
Binding Mummy
Fan Bearer
Sparring Mummy
Disposal Mummy
Mummy Paramount
Those who pass away without passing the trials will be embalmed and mummified as the Anointed. These white-mana based zombies serve the city of Naktamun with manual labour, menial tasks, etc. … basically robots.
Those Who Serve & Dutiful Servants
Anointer Priest
Trueheart Duelist
Unwavering Initiate
Labyrinth Guardian
Tah-Crop Skirmisher
Angel of Sanctions
Oketra’s Attendant
Aven Initiate
Glyph Keeper
Aven Wind Guide
Temmet, Vizier of Naktamun
Vizier of Many Faces
Sacred Cat
Heart-Piercer Manticore
Honoured Hydra
Arrange the order of the Five Trials of the Gods’ mana colours on the traditional Magic colour wheel, and notice the way they connect; they look like…
The God-Pharoah’s Horn Monument

When the Second Sun rests
between the horns on the horizon,
so begins the Hour of Revelation.
Then the Hour of Glory,
the Hour of Promise, and finally
the Hour of Eternity.

The Accounting of Hours
The Five Hours, at the Hour of Devastation pre-release.
Nicol Bolas, God-Pharaoh
The God-Pharoah has once again changed the flow of mana through Amonkhet…

All questions will be answered during the Hour of Revelation.

The Accounting of Hours

In the Hour of Glory, the gods and the untested will prove their worth before the God-Pharaoh.

The Accounting of Hours

When the Hour of Promise arrives, the God-Pharaoh will tear down the Hekma, for its protection will be needed no longer.

The Accounting of Hours

When all doubts have melted away, the worthy will meet the Hour of Eternity and earn a place at the God-Pharaoh’s side.

The Accounting of Hours
…and the Hour of Devastation!
Hour of Revelation
In the first moments, the gate to the afterlife opened, and the people were prostrate in the light of the God-Pharaoh.
Hour of Glory
The gods of the trials also faced the opportunity to prove themselves worthy.
Hour of Promise
With the Hekma breached and its protection removed, the deserts swept in.
Hour of Eternity
To serve as an Eternal is the afterlife granted to the worthy.
Hour of Devastation
…even the interlopers could not stop the God-Pharoah.
The Scorpion God
The Locust God
The Scarab God
Torment of Venom
Torment of Scarabs
Torment of Hailfire
Three forgotten gods were unleashed to foment the Cycle of Torment.
Pantheon of Amonkhet
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Amonkhet Invocations
Behold the Eternal Dreadhorde

Hello Planeswalker

⚠️ SPOILERS for Amonkhet
Gideon of the Trials
Liliana, Death’s Majesty
Nissa, Steward of Elements
Jace, Unraveler of Secrets
Chandra, Torch of Defiance
The Gatewatch.
Gideon’s Defeat
Liliana’s Defeat
Nissa’s Defeat
Jace’s Defeat
Chandra’s Defeat
“Everything here exists or perishes at my whim. Including you, Gatewatch.”
—Nicol Bolas
Desert of the True
Desert of the Glorified
Desert of the Indomitable
Desert of the Mindful
Desert of the Fervent
Naktamun lies in ruins, and Nicol Bolas has abandoned Amonkhet…
Resolute Survivors
Survivors’ Encampment
Grisly Survivor
Amonkhet survives…
Should the above #MoodBoard inspire Dungeon Masters to attempt to host a D&D campaign on Amonkhet...

Plane Shift

Plane Shift: Zendikar (.PDF)

Dungeons & Dragons and Magic: The Gathering are two different games, but that doesn’t mean their Multiverses can’t meet.

Plane Shift

Five deadly Trials await every initiate on the plane of Amonkhet.

Can you enter the Trials and prove yourself worthy of a place in the God-Pharaoh’s afterlife? Perhaps you will take on the role of a vizier, serving the gods and maintaining the social order of Naktamun. Or will you become a dissenter, turning against the city, the gods, and the will of the God-Pharaoh?

If The Art of Magic: The Gathering—Amonkhet sparked your interest in the wasted desert and thriving city of this plane, you could experience it yourself on these pages. Author James Wyatt leads the way through the Trials of the five gods with a set of rules to bring your D&D adventures to life in Amonkhet, including new races, new monsters, new backgrounds, and cleric domains for each of the five gods.

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