[ Magic: The Gathering — Novels & Fiction ]
edited 2026-06-19A complete reading order for the Magic: The Gathering prose canon — every tie-in novel, novella, and anthology from Harper Prism (1994) through the modern set novels (2026). Covers the Artifacts Cycle, the Weatherlight Saga, the Ice Age and Legends cycles, and the post-Mending era, in both publication order and the contested in-universe chronological order.
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01NOVEL
1994The first Magic: The Gathering novel, published by Harper Prism in October 1994 and written by William R. Forstchen. On the plane of Dominar…
298 pp›02NOVEL
1994A Harper Prism novel by Clayton Emery, published in November 1994 and the first book of the Greensleeves/Garth cycle. On Dominaria, the youn…
304 pp›03NOVEL
1995A Harper Prism novel by Clayton Emery, published in May 1995, concluding the Greensleeves/Garth cycle. Gull and Greensleeves reach the clima…
304 pp›04NOVEL
1995A Harper Prism novel by Clayton Emery, published in March 1995, continuing the Greensleeves/Garth cycle begun in Whispering Woods. Gull and…
320 pp›05NOVEL
1995A Harper Prism standalone novel by Teri McLaren, published in September 1995 and inspired by the Fourth Edition card set. Set on the land of…
304 pp›06NOVEL
1995A Harper Prism standalone novel by Mark Sumner, published in October 1995 and tied to the Fourth Edition set. Set on Dominaria, it follows t…
304 pp›07NOVEL
1996A Harper Prism standalone novel by Sonia Orin Lyris, published in May 1996 and inspired by the Fallen Empires set. Set on Dominaria, it dram…
304 pp›08NOVEL
1996A Harper Prism standalone novel by Hanovi Braddock, published in January 1996 and tied to the Fourth Edition set. Set on Dominaria, the stor…
304 pp›09NOVEL
1996A Harper Prism standalone novel by Robert E. Vardeman, published in November 1996 and inspired by The Dark set. Set on Dominaria during a da…
304 pp›10NOVEL
1996A Harper Prism standalone novel by Teri McLaren, published in June 1996 and tied to the Antiquities set. Set on Dominaria, it follows the ar…
304 pp›11NOVEL
1998The second book of the Artifacts Cycle, written by Lynn Abbey and published in September 1998. After the Sylex Blast, Urza ascends to become…
320 pp›12NOVEL
1998The first book of the Artifacts Cycle, written by Jeff Grubb and published in May 1998 by Wizards of the Coast. On the continent of Terisiar…
409 pp›13NOVEL
1999The fourth and final book of the Artifacts Cycle, written by Loren L. Coleman and published in August 1999. Urza pursues a eugenics program…
352 pp›14NOVEL
1999The first book of the Masquerade Cycle, written by Francis Lebaron and published in September 1999. After the events captured in Rath and St…
405 pp›15NOVEL
1999The first book of the Ice Age Cycle, written by Jeff Grubb and published in June 1999, set in the dark age that follows the Brothers' War. A…
320 pp›16NOVEL
1999A prequel novel by J. Robert King, published in December 1999, set roughly 5,000 years before the Brothers' War. On Dominaria, the physician…
311 pp›17NOVEL
1999The third book of the Artifacts Cycle, written by J. Robert King and published in May 1999. Urza establishes the Tolarian Academy and, with…
400 pp›18NOVEL
2000The first book of the Invasion Cycle, written by J. Robert King and published in October 2000. Yawgmoth's Phyrexian forces finally invade Do…
310 pp›19NOVEL
2000The second book of the Masquerade Cycle, written by Paul B. Thompson and published in February 2000. On the artificial plane of Rath, the Ph…
310 pp›20NOVEL
2000The third book of the Masquerade Cycle, written by Vance Moore and published in July 2000. On Dominaria, the wizard Barrin and others defend…
310 pp›21NOVEL
2000The second book of the Ice Age Cycle, written by Jeff Grubb and published in May 2000. Dominaria is gripped by a millennia-long ice age as t…
320 pp›22NOVEL
2000The third book of the Ice Age Cycle, written by Jeff Grubb and published in December 2000, depicting the end of the Ice Age. The thawing of…
320 pp›23NOVEL
2001The third book of the Invasion Cycle and the climax of the Weatherlight Saga, written by J. Robert King and published in June 2001. Yawgmoth…
310 pp›24NOVEL
2001The second book of the Legends Cycle I, written by Clayton Emery and published in December 2001. The cat-warrior Jedit Ojanen and Hazezon Ta…
320 pp›25NOVEL
2001The first book of the Legends Cycle I, written by Clayton Emery and published in April 2001. On the continent of Jamuraa long before the Bro…
320 pp›26NOVEL
2001The first book of the Odyssey Cycle, written by Vance Moore and published in September 2001, set on the continent of Otaria a century after…
310 pp›27NOVEL
2001The second book of the Invasion Cycle, written by J. Robert King and published in February 2001. As the Phyrexian invasion devastates Domina…
310 pp›28NOVEL
2002The first book of the Legends Cycle II, written by Scott McGough and published in December 2002. On the eastern continents of Dominaria in t…
310 pp›29NOVEL
2002The second book of the Odyssey Cycle, written by Scott McGough and published in January 2002. The dementia-summoner Chainer descends into th…
310 pp›30NOVEL
2002The third book of the Legends Cycle I, written by Clayton Emery and published in August 2002. The warlord-mage Hazezon Tamar reaches the cul…
320 pp›31NOVEL
2002The third book of the Odyssey Cycle, written by Will McDermott and published in May 2002. Kamahl seeks to claim and destroy the Mirari as th…
310 pp›32NOVEL
2002The first book of the Onslaught Cycle, written by J. Robert King and published in September 2002. On Otaria, Kamahl and his sister Jeska are…
310 pp›33NOVEL
2003The third book of the Legends Cycle II, written by Scott McGough and published in November 2003. Tetsuo Umezawa's confrontation with Nicol B…
310 pp›34NOVEL
2003The second book of the Legends Cycle II, written by Scott McGough and published in March 2003. Tetsuo Umezawa rises in the Madaran empire wh…
310 pp›35NOVEL
2003The second book of the Onslaught Cycle, written by J. Robert King and published in January 2003. The transformed Phage and the warriors of O…
310 pp›36NOVEL
2003The third book of the Onslaught Cycle, written by J. Robert King and published in May 2003. The god-being Karona is born from the Mirari's p…
310 pp›37NOVEL
2003The first book of the Mirrodin Cycle, written by Will McDermott and published in September 2003. On the metal plane of Mirrodin, the elf Gli…
310 pp›38NOVEL
2004The first book of the Kamigawa Cycle, written by Scott McGough and published in September 2004. On the spirit-haunted, Japanese-inspired pla…
310 pp›39NOVEL
2004The second book of the Mirrodin Cycle, written by Jess Lebow and published in December 2003 (cover-dated 2004). Glissa, the goblin Slobad, a…
310 pp›40NOVEL
2004The third book of the Mirrodin Cycle, written by Cory J. Herndon and published in May 2004. Glissa and Slobad confront Memnarch as the truth…
310 pp›41NOVEL
2005The third book of the Kamigawa Cycle, written by Scott McGough and published in May 2005. The Kami War reaches its resolution as Toshiro Ume…
310 pp›42NOVEL
2005The second book of the Kamigawa Cycle, written by Scott McGough and published in January 2005. Toshiro Umezawa delves deeper into the causes…
310 pp›43NOVEL
2005The first book of the Ravnica Cycle, written by Cory J. Herndon and published in September 2005. On the worldwide city-plane of Ravnica, whe…
310 pp›44NOVEL
2006The third book of the Ravnica Cycle, written by Cory J. Herndon and published in May 2006. The guilds of Ravnica fracture into open conflict…
310 pp›45NOVEL
2006The second book of the Ravnica Cycle, written by Cory J. Herndon and published in January 2006. A decade after the events of Ravnica, the la…
310 pp›46NOVEL
2006The first book of the Time Spiral Cycle, written by Scott McGough and published in September 2006. On a Dominaria scarred by centuries of ma…
310 pp›47NOVEL
2007The third book of the Time Spiral Cycle, written by Scott McGough and John Delaney and published in April 2007. The surviving planeswalkers…
310 pp›48NOVEL
2007The first book of the Lorwyn Cycle, written by Cory J. Herndon and Scott McGough and published in August 2007. On the perpetually sunlit, fa…
310 pp›49NOVEL
2007The second book of the Time Spiral Cycle, written by Scott McGough and Timothy Sanders and published in January 2007. As the time rifts wide…
310 pp›50NOVEL
2008The second book of the Shadowmoor Cycle, written by Cory J. Herndon and Scott McGough and published in June 2008. Ashling, Rhys, and the inh…
310 pp›51NOVEL
2008The second book of the Lorwyn Cycle, written by Cory J. Herndon and Scott McGough and published in January 2008. As omens gather, Rhys and t…
310 pp›52NOVEL
2008The first book of the Shadowmoor Cycle, written by Cory J. Herndon, Scott McGough and others and published in April 2008. The Aurora has tra…
310 pp›53NOVEL
2009A standalone Planeswalker novel by Ari Marmell, published in January 2009 and tied to the Magic 2010 era. The mind-mage Jace Beleren works f…
384 pp›54NOVEL
2009A block novel by Doug Beyer, published in May 2009, covering the Shards of Alara storyline. The plane of Alara, long sundered into five mono…
320 pp›55NOVEL
2009A standalone Planeswalker novel by Laura Resnick, published in July 2009 and tied to the Magic 2010 era. The fire-mage Chandra Nalaar flees…
352 pp›56NOVEL
2010A standalone Planeswalker novel by Matthew Stover, published in October 2010 and tied to the Magic 2010 era. The artificer-planeswalker Tezz…
320 pp›57NOVEL
2010A block novel by Robert B. Wintermute, published in April 2010, covering the Zendikar storyline. On the hostile, adventure-filled plane of Z…
320 pp›58NOVEL
2011A block novel by Robert B. Wintermute, published in April 2011, covering the Scars of Mirrodin storyline. The planeswalker Koth enlists Elsp…
320 pp›59NOVELLA
2012The first part of The Secretist, an ebook serial by Doug Beyer published in November 2012 alongside the Return to Ravnica set. The planeswal…
120 pp›60NOVELLA
2013The third part of The Secretist, an ebook serial by Doug Beyer published in May 2013 alongside the Dragon's Maze set. Jace solves the Implic…
120 pp›61NOVELLA
2013The second part of The Secretist, an ebook serial by Doug Beyer published in February 2013 alongside the Gatecrash set. Jace Beleren digs de…
120 pp›62NOVELLA
2014The first part of Godsend, an ebook serial by Jenna Helland published in April 2014 alongside the Theros set. On the Greek-myth-inspired pla…
120 pp›63NOVELLA
2014The second part of Godsend, an ebook serial by Jenna Helland published in May 2014 alongside the Journey into Nyx set. Elspeth confronts the…
120 pp›64NOVEL
2018A free novella-length ebook by Brandon Sanderson, released in December 2018 as a War of the Spark prologue. On the plane of Innistrad, a you…
240 pp›65NOVEL
2019A War of the Spark prologue by Django Wexler, serialized in 2019 across the Guilds of Ravnica and Ravnica Allegiance era. On Ravnica, the go…
200 pp›66NOVEL
2019An ebook novel by Kate Elliott, published in September 2019 alongside the Throne of Eldraine set. On the fairy-tale plane of Eldraine, the t…
224 pp›67NOVEL
2019A print novel by Greg Weisman, published in November 2019 as the direct sequel to War of the Spark: Ravnica. In the aftermath of Bolas's def…
384 pp›68NOVEL
2019A print novel by Greg Weisman, published in April 2019 alongside the War of the Spark set. The Gatewatch and dozens of planeswalkers converg…
384 pp›69NOVEL
2020An ebook novel by Django Wexler, published in April 2020 alongside the Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths set. On the monster-ruled plane of Ikoria,…
224 pp›70NOVEL
2026A print novel by Seanan McGuire, published by Random House Worlds on April 7, 2026. Set at Strixhaven, the great magical university on the p…
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