Magic: The Gathering – Ravnica Allegiance

Description

Ravnica Allegiance is the 80th Magic: The Gathering expansion; while it is not part of a block, this set is functionally the second part of a Ravnica focused storyline set on the plane of Ravnica. This set focuses on the following Ravnica guilds: The Azorius Senate is ‘the law and government of Ravnica in a very similar way to real-world governments, in the form of three columns’. The guild ‘has a reputation for bureaucratic sluggishness, but its beat cops are the best of the best’. Cult of Rakdos was founded by the ‘megalomaniac’ demon lord Rakdos and members of this guild focus and revel in ‘the pleasure and carnage of the here and now’. The Gruul Clans are a collection of independent, feuding groups that live in the ‘small pockets of wilderness’ left on Ravnica and wish to restore the natural way by returning Ravnica to a more primitive time. The Simic Combine is a guild of ‘scientists and biomancers’ who value and revere ‘the sheer power of nature, but they believe that natural evolution is slow and difficult to control, so they augment it with blue mana to guide and accelerate the natural way’ The Orzhov Syndicate, also known as The Church of Deals, acts as both ‘the central religion and the central bank’.The guild is equal parts church and crime family whose members ‘rule what may be the most neatly organized meanest guild of all’. It was released on January 25, 2019.