CHARACTERS AND PLACES WE WANT TO SEE IN NETFLIX’S 'MAGIC: THE GATHERING SERIES'

1. Urza the Planeswalker

Urza’s storyline is one of the most interesting in the entirety of MTG lore and is a central piece of the entire MTG timeline. He is considered to be the most powerful planeswalker to ever live and, up to this day, still has no Planeswalker card to his name and we assume it’s because he’s too powerful to be represented in a single card. Sure, he made an appearance in the Unstable booster pack but that can’t be used for competitive play so we won’t consider it and his new card in Modern Horizons is a pre-spark legendary artficer. Urza was a huge part of the early days of MTG and we feel that an MTG series won’t be complete without him. You can even just bring back his severed head!

2. Eldrazi Titans

Nobody really knows exactly what the Eldrazi look like so we would love to see how the Russo brothers visualize them on screen. They live in a place called the Blind Eternities, a place where only the most powerful beings can enter and survive (think of it as the Quantum Realm  that separates the multiverses in the MCU). The Eldrazi consume mana and life energy of the worlds (or planes) until they are destroyed.

3. Raven Man

The Raven Man is the epitome of mystery. Nobody knows who he really is. Is he a planeswalker? Is he even real? Is he just a figment from Liliana Vess’ mind?  But after the downfall of Nicol Bolas, the MTG universe desperately needs a new villain. Could the Raven Man be it in the Netflix series? This could be the twist that blows everyone’s minds.

4. New Phyrexia

New Phyrexia is a plane in the MTG universe that has quite the interesting backstory. In a nutshell, a planeswalker golem called Karn created a world known as Argentum. He then created another golem called Memnarch and left him to guard Argentum. Memnarch went mad and transformed Argentum to Mirrodin. Then a fungus called mycosynth started to grow on Mirrodin, changing metal to organic material and causing organic material to be infused with metal. These metal creatures became ground zero for what was called a Phyrexian Corruption which ended up consuming Mirrodin and transforming it to New Phyrexia. It’s pretty deep if you want to really dive into the story but a world made out of metal complete with metallic golems, 5 suns, and an insane metal golem overlord? We definitely want to see that.

5. Changelings

Changelings are what they sound like: creatures that change their appearance to be that of another creature. In the card game, they are creatures that can be classified under all creature types. We think it that it’s an interesting mechanic from the card game that would be equally fascinating to explore on-screen. And besides, they're basically the cop-out option for Netflix to be able to include any cool creature they didn't originally write into the storyline (Sharktocrab, anyone?). We just don’t know yet how this could be incorporated in the series, but that’s for the Russo brothers to figure out.

Also Changlings originated in the plane of Lorwyn so maybe they can sneak in some scenes of Black Lotus and Ratchet Bombs being thrown away as depicted in the Duel Decks's Goblin Chalbercher card.

Us: What the hell is phyrexian corruption?

JL: Ah, for that we have to go back to the story of Yagmoth! *sends five wikipedia links and two documentaries*