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This is a timeline of Magic: The Gathering sets and storyline sources. It is an unofficial document, but all information on it is taken from official statements or canon sources.

This is a timeline of Magic: The Gathering sets and storyline sources. It is an unofficial document, but all information on it is taken from official statements or canon sources. All stories that could be dated, or could not be dated but could be placed at some point in the timeline because of their connection to other stories, have been incorporated to the fullest possible extent. Note that this timeline is not perfectly accurate, and some events have an estimated date or a date range in which they could have occurred.

Timeline

Mythohistory (c. -25,000ARto c. -5000 AR)

c. -25,000 AR

Between c. -25,000 and c. -19,000

Between c. -25,000 and c. -17,000

Between c. -20,000 and c. -15,500

c. -17,000

Time of Legends (c. -5000 AR to 0 AR)

Before c. -5000

c. -5000

Between c. -5000 and c. -220

-2442 or earlier

A 40 year period from -1500

Between c. -1920 and c. -220

Between c. -1840 and c. -140

Before 20 AR

Brothers' War(0 AR to 64 AR)

c. 0-4000

0-64

0-85

10-64

28

44

63

63-69

After 63

Dark Age(64 AR to 450 AR)

65

c. 69

69

69-85

c. 69-c. 3254

73

c. 163

c. 170

c. 300

Between c. 417 and c. 429

c. 429

Ice Age(450 AR to 2934 AR)

c. 450-2934

c. 1800

c. 2434

c. 2500

2559 or earlier

c. 2843

2914 or earlier

Between 2929 and 2933

c. 2932 (115 Minorad Reckoning)

Before 2934

2934 (117 Minorad Reckoning)

Flood Ages(2934 AR to 3285 AR)

Between 2934 and 2949

Between 2934 and 2954

c. 2935 (118 Minorad Reckoning)

2946

2954

2954-2956

"Empty Quarter" (c. 3000 AR to c. 4000 AR)

After 3000

Between 3010 and 3064

Before 3200

c. 3200

3207-3227

After 3227

After 3247

3254

c. 3260

c. 3276

3279

c. 3282 or later

War With Phyrexia (3285 AR to 4206 AR)

3285

3297

  • Chronicle of Bolas (present portion)

Between 3301 and 3307

3306-3307

3307

Two generations after 3307

3317-c. 3346

3334

3336

After 3336

3346

c. 3346-3360

c. 3360-4179

c. 3360

Between 3360 and 3385

3385-3571

c. 3540-c. 3780

c. 3557

c. 3557-4558

c. 3562 or earlier

Between c. 3597 and c. 4518

Before c. 3606

3607

3655-3863

c. 3800-4130

Between c. 3850 and c. 3900

Between c. 3924 and 3979 (1248 Minorad Reckoning)

Between c. 3925 and 3980 (1249 Minorad Reckoning)

3980

c. 4000

Between c. 4000 and c. 4200

4013-4169

4069

4072

4073

4074

4077

c. 4000-4195

c. 4170

Between c. 4175 and 4205

4179

4180

c. 4185

c. 4187

4187

c. 4195

4195

4196

Between 4196 and 4205

Weatherlight Saga

c. 4200

4201

  • "Never to be Free - Born to Greatness: Part Three", The Duelist #34

4203

4204

4205

4205-4206

Between 4205 and 4305

Within a generation of 4205

Rift Era (4206 AR to 4500 AR)

4245 or later

Between c. 4257 and 4556

c. 4290

c. 4280 (1053 on Kamigawa)

  • 0801-1004 — Selected Field Reports on Kami

Mirari Saga

4305

4306

4360 or earlier

Between c. 4364 and c. 4464

4400

4426 AR (9943 ZC)

4440 AR (9957 ZC)

4448 AR (9965 ZC)

4482-4483 AR (9999-10,000 ZC)

c. 4492-4495 AR (c. 10,009-10,012 ZC)

4495 AR (10,012 ZC)

4497 AR (10,014 ZC)

MendingEra (4500 AR to Present)

4500

c. 4507

c. 4510

c. 4518

4520

c. 4530-c. 4537

c. 4538-c. 4558 AR (Ava. 699-719)

c. 4540 (c. 10,057 ZC)

Between 4540 and 4560

c. 4543-c. 4547

c. 4545 or earlier

c. 4545

c. 4547-c. 4549

c. 4548

c. 4549

c. 4549-4559

c. 4550

c. 4551-4561

c. 4551

c. 4552

c. 4553

GatewatchEra

4553-4556

4554

4556

After 4556

4556-4557

4557

Eldrazi Arc

4557

4558 or earlier

4558 AR (10,075 ZC)

Before 4559

4559 (10,076 ZC)

c. 4559

Before 4560

c. 4560

Bolas Arc

4560 AR (10,077 ZC)

Between 4560 and 4561

c. 4561

4561

Phyrexian Arc

4562

"Metronome"

Omenpath Arc

4562-4563

c. 4562

4563

c. 4564 (c. 10,080 ZC)

Dragonstorm Arc

c. 4564

c. 6500 or later

Undated

Alternate timeline

Notes

References