The set's story sees the planeswalker Kaya visiting the plane as the gods of Kaldheim's realms travel between them to battle for control and influence.

Already, she is clad in stylish Norse armor that looks light but tough (perfect for an assassin), and she has traded her trademark violet ghost knives for a pair of one-handed battle-axes".

He is appearing on Kaldheim disguised as Valki, God of lies, with a new dastardly scheme designed to cause chaos [4] This set also introduces two new planeswalkers Niko Aris and Tyvar Kell.

[6][7] Game designer Chris Mooney said, "when we were developing Niko's origin, we wanted to tell a story that could express the shared experience of non-binary people without focusing on their gender identity.

[5] "Tyvar Kell is elf-King Harald’s younger brother and is a very Kaldheim elf—a little hot headed and boastful";[8] this planeswalker seeks "to unite the feuding Elves of his home plane"[3] in a set with "tribal synergies throughout".

[11] CBR highlighted that the Foretell mechanic "seeps into every color of mana, and on Kaldheim, the immediate future is just as much of a battlefield as the present.

[15] Charlie Hall, for Polygon, highlighted that "one of Magic: The Gathering’s most popular formats, Standard play, is also among the most challenging to collect.

[...] That churn is what makes the cards fun to collect, but for Magic newcomers or lapsed players, it can also present a huge impediment.

Over the last few years, pre-constructed Magic: The Gathering decks have traditionally centered around a given planeswalker, a powerful character from the fiction of that universe.