The Art of Magic: The Gathering - Ravnica

As usual, this art book is so amazing! They chose some gorgeous art to feature and the blurbs are a delight to read.My favorite part is definitely the story summary with the planeswalkers, since we have been starved for main plot content and this is all we have until the first Ravnica book comes out in April (or if they didn't lie about having a lite version online!). I won't spoil anything, but there's a some assumptions that we all made that were not correct.

Fantastic quality, I didn't expect it to be as big as it is (admittedly, I didn't read the description thoroughly). Great binding, fit & finish, a book to be on my bookshelf for the rest of my life

I love the lore and the art. great book to have

My son-in-law requested this on his Christmas wish list. He loves it!

Love this book. So much lore!

Art is beautiful. Plus lots of background information.

How about we talk about the currently latest in the The Art of Magic: The Gathering.. RavnicaAs with all the other's in this series of looks into the multiverse of M:TG, Ravinca is an excellent book of art put together from across the main two sets of the current story arc in the card game. As with the rest of the books the artwork is the best feature as well as the accompanying world building lore that you get only the briefest scraps of in the cards themselves. The most of the chapters focus on each of the ten Guilds of the Cityscape plane of Ravinica. After the usual M:TG explanations of the colors of Magic, Planeswalkers etc come the brief overview chapter of the world of Ravnica at large. The the meat of the book begins with each of the Guild focused chapters.The Azorius Senate. the Blue/White Lawmakers of the Plane.The Orzhov Syndicate, a White/Black "church" front led by the greedy spirits of the long dead preying on the living followersHouse Dmir, The Black/Blue spymasters guild. spies, informants, assassins and others that the other guilds hire to get the dirt on each other, all the while keeping enough for themselves to make their own power plays.The Izzet League, a group of Blue/Red research magicians and artificers making what they can because "FOR SCIENCE!" led by an ancient dragon.The Cult of Rakdos, Black/Red demon worshiping sadists who praise their master by offering up the most entertaining show they can.The Golgari Swarm, Black/Green denizens of the deep city, sewers, and decayed areas. Life and Death are the cycle they believe in.The Gruul Clans, Wild groups of Green/Red savage tribes who detest the city and destroy all vestments of civilization they come across.The Boros Legion, White/Red Army and righteous law enforcement of the Plane. Led by Angels into glorius battle against the forces that would threaten the peace of the plane.The Selesnya Conclave, Green/White the ones at peace with Nature who wish to return the city to a more beautiful natural state led by a trio of dryads who interpret the voice of the World Tree.And then the Simic Combine the Green/Blue biomancer opposites of the Izzet league. Willing to experiment on themselves with combining each other with other lifeforms to improve themselves.The next chapter then go into some of the backstory of the underlying plot the game at large has told with the chapter "Claws of the Mastermind". Diving into the plot and machinations of Nicol Bolas as they come together on Ravnica leading into the next "War of the Sparks" set.Lastly we end at a short look at how each of the Guilds have changed over the last 14 years in the three major visits to Ravnica we have seen.And that's kind of the issue I have with the Artbooks on returning worlds. It makes sense for the books to primarily focus on the newer sets to promote them, but for worlds like Dominaria and Ravnica with so much previous to draw from it would be great alone to draw more from the older sets as well to see how much things have changed. But overall the book is another great look at the art and lore of the current world the game is set in now.

I love everything about this book, art, feel, and the lore however, having bought this brand new as i was going through looking at the different sections when i got to the end and turned the last page, the binding and paper tore. The only thing holding the back of the book is holding onto thin construction like paper. Luckily its covered up by the book sleeve but this is honestly unacceptable.

Partner loved the book.

O livro é simplesmente INCRÍVEL! Eu sou apaixonado demais por Ravnica e todas as guildas, e o livro é simplesmente tudo que promete. Irei comprar mais artbooks da loja!

Beautifui artbook

Contiene sufficienti artwork con didascalie legate alla lore del mondo di Ravnica.La selezione di immagini manca di sketch e bozzetti del design di personaggi e ambienti di gioco e lo sviluppo di essi.È una galleria di immagini delle carte fatte e finite.

"The Art of Magic The Gathering - Ravnica" ist ein Muss für jeden, der mehr über Ravnica und ihre Gilden erfahren möchte. Das Buch beinhaltet zum Einen sehr schön groß und scharf gedruckte Artworks aus den Sets Gildensturm, Ravnica Allegiance, Return to Ravnica, Guilds of Ravnica und Dissention und zum anderen zahlreiche Hintergrundinformationen zur Geschichte, Geografie und Politik der Plane. Jede Gilde bekommt ein etwa zehnseitiges Kapitel, in welchem ihre Philosophie, Ziele, Mitglieder und Rassen sowie Einstellungen zu den anderen Gilden vorgestellt werden. Ein weiteres Kapitel befasst sich mit den Geschehnissen, die zum Krieg der Funken führten und das letzte mit den Concept Arts (letzteres ist allerdings sehr kurz gehalten).Alles in allem hat mich das Buch vor allem durch die wunderschönen, teils doppelseitig gedruckten Artworks und die vielen Hintergrundinformationen überzeugt. Man kann super zwischendurch einfach ein wenig darin blättern, auch ohne das Ziel, es von vorne bis hinten durchzulesen. Daher würde ich es auch jüngeren Lesern, die vielleicht ein wenig Englisch üben wollen, auf jeden Fall empfehlen.