BOOM! Studios has announced the first issue in a new series that will bring together the legendary Planeswalkers of Magic: The Gathering for unexpected and exciting team-ups. Magic Planeswalkers: Noble will feature a fan-favorite couple from the popular TCG game, Vraska the Gorgon and Jace Beleren, the powerful mind mage.

Magic Planeswalkers: Noble comes from a star-studded creative team that includes writers Stephanie Williams (Nubia: Queen of the Amazons), Daniel Warren and Dave Rapoza (Steve Lichman), artists Alberto Locatelli (Where Starships Go To Die) and Lea Caballero (The Approach), and colorists Arianna Consonni (Magic) and Raúl Angulo (Go Go Power Rangers). This 40-pages one-shot comic will contain several stories of team-ups between Planeswalkers, but fans are probably most excited to see unfold on the pages the romance between Jace and Vraska, for what could be the very last time.

New Magic Series Puts The Spotlight On Jace And Vraska

Main cover for Magic Planeswalkers Noble from Boom Studios

Jace first met Vraska on her native plane of Ravnica, when the then-assassin tried to ensnare him into her service. After that plan failed, the two met again on the plane of Ixalan, where Jace was an amnesiac castaway and Vraska was secretly working for Magic's top villain Nicol Bolas. These bizarre circumstances led to the blossoming of an unexpected romance between the two, which endured even after Jace recovered his memories. After Vraska became the Guildmaster of the Golgari on Ravnica, she reunited with Jace for the final stand against Bolas, who was finally defeated by the allied forces of the good Planeswalkers.

Sadly, Jace and Vraska's romance came to an abrupt end in the storyline for the recent Magic: the Gathering expansion set, Phyrexia: All Will Be One, which saw Vraska and Jace forces with other Planeswalkers for a desperate assault against Ral Zarek and the golem Karn, who is one of the oldest and most iconic characters in Magic lore.

Variant cover for Magic Planeswalkers Noble from BOOM! Studios

Editor Kathleen Wisneski said of the new series: "The Magic multiverse is endless, but it’s hard to resist coming back to the Planeswalkers, who each have such rich stories and personalities." Characters such as Jace, Chandra, Nissa, or Liliana have certainly become some of the most popular in the entire history of Magic: the Gathering, but the romance between Jace and Vraska remains a fan-favorite, so it's good to see BOOM! Studios' new series put the spotlight on this couple before tragedy tears them apart.

Magic Planeswalkers: Noble will be available in comic shops and digitally starting from June 14, 2023.

Source: BOOM! Studios.