Magic The Gathering Who Is Dakkon Blackblade

Magic: The Gathering – Who Is Dakkon Blackblade?

M:TG Modern Horizons 2 features Dakkon Blackblade as one of its marquee planeswalkers. Let’s breakdown his original appearance in a 1996 Magic comic.

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Magic The Gathering Who Is Dakkon Blackblade

Magic: The Gathering’s most important main characters are its planeswalkers, powerful warriors and wizards with the ability to travel between the various planes of its multiverse. But prior to the introduction of the planeswalker card type in Lorwyn, planeswalkers were depicted on creature cards. One of these older characters was Dakkon Blackblade, a smith, warrior and the creator of the eponymous Blackblade, a weapon of great power. Dakkon is the marquee character for the upcoming Modern Horizons 2 set, so let’s break down his backstory and original depiction.

First appearing in Legends, Dakkon was one of the game’s first legendary creatures. For two generic, one white, two blue and one black mana, Dakkon was a creature with power and toughness equal to the number of lands on his controller’s side of the battlefield. This is an unusual effect for an Esper creature, and part of Magic’s early-installment weirdness. Dakkon is from a time before the game had figured out exactly which mechanical effects should be available to each color, and as such bears text that would likely be printed on a green legendary creature today.

Magic The Gathering Who Is Dakkon Blackblade

Dakkon would also be one of the few legendary creatures from Legends to receive his own story soon thereafter, with Dakkon Blackblade: A Magic Legend releasing in June 1996. Written by Jerry Prosser with art by Rags Morales and Barbara Kaalberg, the comic gave a brief account of Dakkon’s fight with the demon planeswalker Geyadrone Dihada. Dakkon is summoned by a young boy from the Dominarian town of Carth to fight Dihada, bound to the plane and unable to planeswalk away until he does so.

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But Dakkon is more than happy to fight Dihada, as even though she commissioned the Blackblade from him in the first place. Dakkon briefly duels Dihada, and kills the Elder Dragon Piru with the Blackblade. Dihada escapes, and the comic ends with Dakkon and his unnamed companion going off into the east, with Dakkon’s shadow and sword returned to him.

After his comic, Dakkon vanished from Magic’s story entirely. His companion would become known as Carth the Lion and would go on to start the Carthalion family line which would later produce Jared Carthalion, a key figure in a different Magic storyline. But there’s no other information on Dakkon himself, only what became of his blade after the warrior’s presumptive death. An undead warrior known as Korlash wields the blade in his Future Sight card, although it’s unclear at what point in time he did so, given the set’s name. But the blade itself would pass years later into the hands of Belzenlok, the demonic overlord of the cult known as the Cabal on Dominaria.

Gideon Jura freed the blade from Belzenlok during the events of Dominaria, Magic’s 2018 return to its original plane. This then leads directly into the events of War of the Spark, the dramatic final confrontation which brought the events of Magic’s Gatewatch saga to an end. He takes up the sword on the card Gideon Blackblade, and attempts to plunge it into the heart of the wicked Elder Dragon Nicol Bolas. But the blade shattered when brought against Bolas, as the Elder Dragon had heard of Dakkon’s battle with Piru, and enchanted the blade so that it would break if brought against another Elder Dragon.

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All of this accumulated lore now leads up to Dakkon’s appearance in Modern Horizons 2 with his own planeswalker card, Dakkon, Shadow Slayer. Dakkon, Shadow Slayer enters the battlefield with a number of loyalty counters equal to the number of lands on his controller’s side of the battlefield, as a callback to his original card in Legends. His -3 ability reflects his fearsome prowess in battle, while his -6 ultimate allows him to call the Blackblade to the battlefield. It’s also likely other cards in the set will continue to reference his story, as head designer Mark Rosewater mentioned in his weekly column that Modern Horizons 2 would contain a couple more Dakkon Blackblade-related cards.

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