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The Hidden World of Ixalan

The Lost Caverns of Ixalan is a Magic: The Gathering set exploring the hollow interior of the plane of Ixalan, where expeditions uncover ancient secrets and a hidden civilization at the world’s core. The plane features lush surface jungles inhabited by dinosaurs alongside the rival groups of the Sun Empire’s humans, the River Heralds’ merfolk, the Brazen Coalition’s pirates, and the Legion of Dusk’s vampires. Beneath the surface lies an immense network of caverns that leads to Ixalan’s Core, an inverted sphere illuminated by Chimil, the Riven Star, and home to the Oltec, an advanced civilization that long predates the surface cultures and draws power from the mineral cosmium.

The Race for Cosmium

A year after the Phyrexian invasion that shook the Multiverse, the disappearance of the Immortal Sun has once again set the factions of Ixalan in motion. In The Lost Caverns of Ixalan, surface expeditions plunge into the depths in search of cosmium, the valuable resource seeded throughout the caverns and concentrated in the Core. These journeys reveal that Ixalan is a hollow world, prompting clashes between the established groups and the Oltec inhabitants as each faction seeks to claim or control the newly accessible power source amid ancient ruins and unfamiliar dangers.

Flavor and Mechanical Identity

The Lost Caverns of Ixalan in Magic: The Gathering captures the flavor of underground adventure and exploration, emphasizing descent into uncharted caves, discovery of lost wonders, and the crafting of new tools from cavern finds. Its mechanics reinforce this identity through abilities that reward placing permanents into the graveyard to represent descent, exiling cards from the library to discover castable spells, transforming artifacts by sacrificing materials, and using map tokens to enable further exploration. Together these elements evoke the perilous journey through Ixalan’s caverns without relying on strict faction typal divisions.