Storytime

Storytime is the 1st expansion in the Pipsqueakverse. It was released on January 19th, 2019, and was added to MSEM on the 1st of the following month.

Set Details
Storytime is a nontraditional set, based partially on the structure of Carpe Arcanum and Memorium Arcanum, featuring 4 mythics and 97 rares. The rares act as stories within a story, while the mythics take place outside the frame narrative. It does not have a limited. The set received a minor mechanical rework in June 2020 which replaced several cards.

It contains the following mechanics:
 * Storied (Enchantments and legendary permanents are storied)
 * Conjure (originally named Make, changed after the introduction of Conjure to canon magic in mid 2021).

Storyline
After a series of travels, Azamir ends up on a plane controlled by The God Emperor Tzhai, where Tzhai himself is visiting as a matter of happenstance. Through an unfortunate series of accidents, Azamir ends up breaking several laws and personally offending Tzhai. Tzhai has Azamir brought to his throneroom, in order to properly intimidate him before asking him to leave, but before Tzhai can do so, Azamir immediately starts to beg for his life. Tzhai, who wasn't planning on executing Azamir, is intrigued by Azamir's promise to tell him a story that will make him wish to spare Azamir, and allows him to do so.

What follows is a series of interconnecting stories, many of which describing people and places that haven't been created or born yet, weaved together in order to try and sway the Emperor's heart. Azamir's skill as a storyteller, and nature as a titan, makes it unclear if these stories yet to come are predictions, fictions, or immutable truths of reality as a result of him telling these stories. A multitude of stories are featured in the set (78 cards have FT, and the majority of stories only get a single card), each with their own morals and goals behind them. Azamir tries to war Tzhai that all empires fall, that the powerful often create their own undoings, and that there is value in compassion for lesser beings.

After Azamir finishes all of the stories, weeks later, Tzhai informs him that he is not going to be executed. However, the emperor offers, he may choose to stay with Tzhai for as long as he wishes. Azamir agrees, and the story ends with him joining Tzhai for as long as both still live.

Notable Cards

 * Villainy
 * Jara Champion and Arpechian Champion (starting a megacycle based on Almgrove Champion from Carpe Arcanum).
 * Leyline Alignment Field and Embrace Madness (both banned in MSEM)

Featured Planeswalkers

 * Tzhai
 * Azamir