War of the Spark is the 81st expansion set for the collectible card game Magic: The Gathering, published by Wizards of the Coast and released on May 3, 2019. Although it does not belong to a formal block, the set forms the climactic third chapter of a Ravnica-focused storyline that had run across the preceding two expansions, resolving in an all-out battle on the plane of Ravnica between the villainous elder dragon planeswalker Nicol Bolas and the Gatewatch, an alliance of heroic planeswalkers. The set contains 264 cards and is notable within the game's design history for introducing 36 distinct Planeswalker cards into a single set, a far higher concentration of that powerful and normally rare card type than any prior Magic release, which significantly reshaped competitive deck-building in the game's Standard format after release. War of the Spark's story also closed out a multi-year narrative arc built around the Gatewatch characters that Wizards of the Coast had developed across several preceding blocks.
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released on May 3, 2019
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War of the Spark is the 81st Magic: The Gathering expansion set
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