Ryan writes about the art, story & experience of Magic: The Gathering. When he isn't, he’s thinking & writing about nineteenth-century novels, spiritual poetry & why sitcoms don’t have annoying neighbors anymore. He is allergic to dairy.
Magic’s soon-releasing Reality Fracture has been on my mind a lot lately. With a relative drought of in-universe Magic sets to savor, my mind has been turning over Jace’s silly little change-history-as-you-know-it adventure. And the more I do, the more it unsettles me.
Ryan Carroll takes a look at how Magic's designers use game mechanics to convey the power of its villains.
Ryan Carroll details the unlikely birth of the modern return set and the expansion that sired it: Coldsnap
In an interview with former Magic Narrative Designer, Miguel Lopez, Ryan Carroll explores the remarkable amount of Magic worldbuilding material that never makes it to onto cards or into webfiction.