Time Spiral Online

So, Time Spiral online... unfortunately we're now in a period when even the Wayback Machine can't make every page visible (or legible), so it's possible I'm missing some stuff here. Most notably I couldn't access the Time Spiral mini-site. Luckily I don't think there were any unique stories on there, just some general introductions to the world and the old characters that finally got cards in this set.

Oh, and, eh... the Antiquities War & Urza-Mishra War comics, from 1996. What an utterly bizarre thing to include! I guess the Ice Age comics that were put online for Coldsnap were very well received and thus they wanted to include something similar. And yeah, off all the Armada comics these are the closest related to the Time Spiral story since the Sylex Blast created one of the rifts, but... a) these comics have long been chucked out of continuity by The Brothers War, and b) the comics are unfinished as the Armada line was cancelled before the final miniseries in the trilogy could be released! Which means that the Sylex Blast isn't in these issues. I can only imagine how bizarre this must've read to people unfamiliar with the history of the comics...

The actual last panel of the comic.

Well, with that out of the way, let's take a look at the pages we can still access.

Time Spiral

 

Writer - Scott McGough

Cover Artist - Scott M. Fisher

First Published - September 2006

SUMMARY

Teferi and Jhoira are living in a bubble outside of the timestream since Invasion. Shiv begins returning, but it wont fit (metaphysically, somehow) in the gap where it used to be, and the resulting crash could destroy Dominaria and with it the entire Multiverse. So the two of them return to the regular world to smooth out the landing. To figure out how to do that, they go to visit Freyalise in Skyshroud, as Teferi is very impressed by her putting that forest in Keld during the Rathi overlay and wants to learn how she did it to apply that knowledge to Shiv. They take along two viashino and two Ghitu as a retinue. Unfortunately there are time rifts everywhere, through which Dominaria's mana is being drained, and time is already so out of wonk that they appear on Dominaria 300 years after they left, even though our Master of Time thought it was only 100.