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Let’s Talk about Innistrad

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I am Avacyn. I am to protect.

Avacyn
Anguished Unmaking
We’ve been to the plane of Innistrad a total of seven times: Innistrad block (2011), Shadows over Innistrad block (2016), Midnight Hunt (2021), and Crimson Vow (2021)… they’ve even released a special set of draft boosters featuring cards from the latter two sets…
🎃🦇🧛‍♀️🧛‍♂️🧟👻 Werewolves, Vampires, Zombies, and Ghosts… Innistrad is arguably the perfect plane of gothic horror goodness, with horror monsters from classic horror films are menacing humanity and who is going to protect them?

Created by Sorin Markov, Avacyn was tasked with protecting Innistrad, becoming the central figure of the Church of Avacyn, who gave the humanity of that plane the faith to fight for survival. After the events of the Shadows over Innistrad, Avacyn was unmade by Sorin…

Sorin had created Avacyn, so it was a cruelty beyond imagining, a pain beyond description, that it fell upon him to end her forever.

Anguished Unmaking

Now, without Avacyn’s protection, the humans have to turn to older, and perhaps darker forms of magic to stave off the onslaught of the different monsters of Innistrad.

Basic Lands in Midnight Hunt.
Basic Lands in Crimson Vow.
Normally, we would see 4 different artwork for the Basic Lands in a set, but Wizards took advantage of the fact that these two sets were released back-to-back to eventually arrive at 4... in their fourth Innistrad-centric set.
Moorland Haunt
Vault of the Archangel
Nephalia Drownyard
Desolate Lighthouse
Stensia Bloodhall
Grim Backwoods
Kessig Wolf Run
Slayers’ Stronghold
Gavony Township
Alchemist’s Refuge
Secret Lair Super Drop: 10 classic Innistrad utility lands in the eerie Eternal Night style. Winters remind you that the only thing to fear is fear itself—and these lands! 
Innistrad: Double Feature combines select cards from both Innistrad: Midnight Hunt and Innistrad: Crimson Vow—into one unique draft experience featuring special art treatment on every card (greyscale.) The copywriting references ol’ horror movies…
Warlocks, Werewolves, and Vampires
The storyline of Midnight Hunt was concluded in Crimson Vow…
Warlocks & Werewolves for Midnight Hunt
Vampires for Crimson Vow
…got the Showcase Treatment Frames respectively. 
In this pulp novel inspired set of Magic cards, that promise a thrilling tale, you’ll find ACTION, ADVENTURE, SCARES and MORE! We’ve got a bone-chilling quadruple feature: WATCH in terror as man becomes monster, COWER in fear at the unspeakable terror, RECOIL in horror at a doctor’s madness, and FLEE the terrors. Get your tickets soon—when these shows leave the theatre, they’re not coming back. 
Gravecrawler
Liliana, Death’s Majesty
Rise of the Dark Realms
Thrilling Tales of the Undead
Dismember
Blasphemous Act
Beast Within
Grafdigger’s Cage
Monster Movie Marathon
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Let’s Talk about Stranger Things in Magic: the Gathering
In-franchise Universes Within (SLX) versions of the Stranger Things Secret Lair Super Drop have recently been revealed to be set on the plane of Innistrad.
Should the above #MoodBoard inspire Dungeon Masters to attempt to host a D&D campaign on Innistrad...

Plane Shift

Planar Magic, is an official game variant that supplements/augments other formats, with oversized plane cards that tap into the game’s overarching lore of the players being Planeswalkers traversing the multiverse (achieved by rolling a d6 planar dice.)
Gavony — Innistrad
Kessig — Innistrad
Nephalia — Innistrad
Stensia — Innistrad
Planechase across the Multiverse, to Innistrad.
Plane Shift: Innistrad (.PDF)

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

Plane Shift

By the time Plane Shift: Zendikar saw the light of day, the game and story of Magic: the Gathering had moved on from Zendikar and started the tale of Shadows over Innistrad. James Wyatt had finished writing The Art of Magic: The Gathering-Innistrad, the starting point for this document: designed to help you turn the book’s adventure hooks and story seeds into a resource for your campaign with a minimum of changes to the fifth edition D&D rules.

This document also contains guidelines for adapting the Curse of Strahd adventure to set it in Innistrad. With a bit of creative improvisation, these tips should get you on your way

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Let’s Play Commander: #MtGMidnight Hunt
We played a multiplayer game with fellow South-East Asians, with the Midnight Hunt Commander pre-constructed decks.
Let’s Play Commander: #MtGCrimson Vow
We played a multiplayer game with fellow South-East Asians, with the Crimson Vow Commander pre-constructed decks.

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