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Originally Posted by noix
A new novel is written for each set in the series of Magic. They're a little tricky to find individually and are usually only bundled in the Fat Pack.
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Actually, these days they just include an except from the novel in the fat pack. You have to buy the novel on its own, but I warn you, the quality of the books has dropped a lot.
Quest For Karn is a particularly egregious example.
Rather than focusing on the escalating war and drawing the reader in with compelling characters on both sides, the book chooses to follow the planeswalkers as they stumble around aimlessly for about 275 pages, culminating in them getting what they needed done in the last chapter or two. Clearly this was intended to be a much shorter story padded out to fill 300 pages.
What frustrates me is that there is a good story on the cards and in the style guide, but all that is ignored to shine the spotlight on a small group of poorly-fleshed out stock characters. The book could have worked so much better as an anthology outlining the slow corruption of the plane, the infighting amongst the Mirrans that cost them time and resources, the political jockeying of the Phyrexian Praetors, and any number of characters they hint at or feature in the game.
Anyway, I'm done ranting. Here, have a pic of Glissa.