User:BDD/List of Magic: The Gathering characters

This is a list of major characters from Magic: The Gathering storylines. Magic stories have been variously developed in novels, comics, video games, and the cards' own flavor text and illustrations. There is no single overarching storyline to the game as a whole, though all storylines take place in the Multiverse, a shared fictional universe. A game of Magic represents a duel between two or more "planeswalkers" powerful wizards with the ability to travel between the various planes of the Multiverse. Typically, a block of Magic expansions will focus on a single plane, though planeswalker characters can effectively function as recurring characters by appearing on various planes.

Broadly speaking, there have been four eras representing different approaches to story in Magic. In the beginning, cards alluded to proper nouns, like characters and settings, without much development on a unifying story. In the second era, beginning with the Weatherlight expansion (1997), a character-driven, overarching storyline began which ran mostly uninterrupted through Apocalypse (2001). The third, from Odyssey (2001) to Alara Reborn (2009) variously focused on individual planes, with occasional recurring characters. The fourth and current era, beginning with Zendikar (2009), continues to focus on different planes in different blocks, but with a stable of recurring planeswalkers, five of whom (one for each color of Magic) form a team known as the Gatewatch. Gatewatch members are expected to function as recurring protagonists, interacting with various planes of the Multiverse.

This article focuses on characters who have appeared in multiple Magic sets or who have functioned as high-level protagonists or antagonists.