

In the following years, Urza and Mishra come into positions of substantial power in Yotia and among the Fallaji people respectively.

Īfterwards, the brothers separate and leave the excavation site. Attempting to end the duel, Tocasia puts herself into the middle, leading to her inadvertent death. Mutual desire for the other's piece of the powerstone eventually leads them to turn the power of their stones onto each other. There the brothers each find one half of a powerstone that sealed the gate to the plane of Phyrexia, which is also located in the caves. After several years at Tocasia's camp where the brothers made several inventions and discoveries, they explore the Caves of Koilos, a place filled with Thran artifacts. Ten years later, when their father falls ill, they are sent as apprentices to their father's friend, the artificer Tocasia. Urza is born on the first day of the year 0 AR and his brother, Mishra, on the final day of that year. The story of Antiquities takes place on the plane of Dominaria and centers on the two brothers Urza and Mishra.

The Thran are the civilization that created the powerstones that are the cause of the separation and ensuing conflict of Urza and Mishra.

It describes the events leading to the Thran-Phyrexian War and the conflict itself. It is given in full in the 1998 novel " The Brothers' War" written by Jeff Grubb. The storyline of Antiquities is originally told through the flavor text of the cards in the set. It is unique among all sets in that almost every card has the word "artifact" printed on it somewhere, either because it is an artifact or because it interacts with artifacts in some way. It was the first set to have a backstory unique to Magic that explores the mythos of the Magic universe. Skaff Elias, Jim Lin, Dave Petty, Joe Mick, and Chris Page Īntiquities is the second Magic: The Gathering expansion set.
