This book will appeal to new readers, as well as die-hard fans. The perfect entry point for new readers, this book focuses on a fierce competition for one of the most powerful artifacts ever to exist in the Magic: The Gathering game and novels. Major changes are occurring in the Magic universe-changes that devoted fans will be eager to find out about.

Something horrible lurks in Cabal City. In the pit-fighting arenas, a Cabal dementia caster enters a trance. Deep in the recesses of his mind skulk horrors and unimaginable nightmares, and no longer do those monstrosities wait until dark to come out.

The time has come. Every powerful wizard and fighter on the continent of Otaria wants one thing: power. One artifact can give them—undeniably—that which they seek, and nothing will stop any of them from possessing it. But in the end, only one can have it, and his actions will determine the fate of the world. The day of judgment has arrived.