To those unfamiliar or unconcerned with the cards behind the prose, this is still a pretty good read. Guardian offers a good look into the new Magic: The Gathering setting and is likely to excite the fans without even trying. The conclusion - without giving anything anyway - satisfied bringing almost all of the previously unresolved issues to a satisfying resolution.Īs much as our anti-hero has struggled to avert the brewing war between the spirit realm and the mortal world it should come as no surprise that trouble does indeed arrive and he is right in the thick of things. The scene is set, the story builds to dramatic conclusions and the same epic action and fast-paced high fantasy remain. The over-long introduction of the first became mired in too many characters and excessive world building which made the trilogy seem a little over long.īut that is unfair to Guardian as it's own story. Indeed with the whole work taken into account I preferred the final two novels a great deal more. It does not suffer quite the horrendous editing of the first book and it continues with the tight focus and fast pace of the second novel. Guardian is certainly a worthwhile conclusion to the trilogy. He is also the author of Magic Legends Cycle Two. Scott McGough should be well known to Magic: The Gathering fans, he has written short stories for Myths of Magic, Dragons of Magic and Monsters of Magic. The trilogy was written in support of its Champions of Kamigawa expansion. Guardian by Scott McGough is the final novel from Wizards of the Coasts' Kamigawa Cycle for the Magic the Gathering novel line. Otherwise, the soratami would surely scour them away in a matter of weeks." If the snakes could harness the power of Jukai and make the land itself fight for them, they had a chance. He was no soldier and he had never gone to war, but even he knew you didn't defeat an army by killing half your own in the process.
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