Thus, you’ve got an ever-enlarging undead army". The first time you amass, you create the token and put +1/+1 counters on it, while the second time you just make it grow. If you don’t already have an 'army' creature, you create a 0/0 army creature token. Whenever you amass, you look at the playing field and see if you’ve already got an 'army' creature type. Sean Murray, for The Gamer, explained that "in game terms, amass is pretty simple. This mechanic represents the undead army Nicol Bolas assembled during the Amonkhet block it "gets bigger and bigger the more times you amass". War of the Spark introduced the Amass mechanic. He’s certainly the most pivotal death in the story". Gideon, we think, will have by far the biggest impact. Nic Kelman, the head of story and entertainment at Wizards of the Coast, said "People know that multiple characters are going to die. Gideon Jura, a Planeswalker introduced the 2010 Rise of the Eldrazi set, ultimately dies in the conflict. Struggling in the foreground is Gideon Jura, wielding the infamous Blackblade". ![]() At PAX East 2019, the story trailer debuted and highlighted Nicol Bolas as he "ravages the city with his army of undead" before Liliana Vess turns the "massive army against Bolas himself, perched atop the walls of Ravnica. The set introduces "36 unique planeswalker cards into Standard" and the storyline focuses on the battle between Planeswalkers. This was a pretty radical idea, (having a set where the importance of an event supersedes the importance of the world) so it took a while to get everyone on board with the plan, but we eventually did". ![]() Then, once we'd given the players their fill of guild-infused Ravnica, we could do our big event expansion set on Ravnica, but not specifically about Ravnica. So, we proposed that what we do is first return to Ravnica and give the players what they expect: two sets of guild play (it had to be two sets as ten guilds can't fit into one set). ![]() It became apparent pretty quickly that there was one obvious choice-Ravnica. ![]() We also knew that the location of the final event mattered as we wanted there to be some jeopardy we wanted the players to care that it was happening there. We knew that we wanted to end with a big dramatic event, one that had a lot riding on it. On the story design, Mark Rosewater wrote, "The Creative team had been mapping out the Bolas Arc. Over the course of previous sets, Bolas has been enacting parts of his plan: during the Kaladesh block, "he stole a planar portal that would allow him to transport non-natural materials between worlds" during the Amonkhet block, he "collected an army of zombified and embalmed warriors known as Eternals" during the Ixalan block, "he collected the Immortal Sun, a powerful tool that is designed to prevent Planeswalkers from travelling between worlds" and finally during the Dominaria set, he brought the Planeswalker and Gatewatch member Liliana Vess under his sway. The War of the Spark set features the culmination of Nicol Bolas' plan and the storyline focuses on the battle unfolding on Ravnica "between the evil Nicol Bolas, the youngest and most powerful of Magic’s seven Elder Dragons, and the Gatewatch, a loose alliance of Planeswalkers fighting on the side of good". It also became available in MTG Arena on April 25, 2019. War of the Spark is the 81st Magic: The Gathering expansion while it is not part of a block, this set is functionally the third part of a Ravnica focused storyline set on the plane of Ravnica. Magic: The Gathering expansion set War of the Spark Released
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