Editing Innistrad


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[[File:Innistrad.jpg|400px|thumb|right|All just sunshine and rainbows in Innistrad. Notice the mistulons haunting the fountain.]]
'''Innistrad''' is one of several [[Plane]]s in [[Magic: The Gathering]].  Its theme is gothic horror, and it draws from classic horror movies and novels.  It was most recently featured in the Innistrad release block, which was in turn composed of the Innistrad, Dark Ascension, and Avacyn Restored sets.

Innistrad used to be [[grimdark|a very dark and scary place]], where the [[human]]s of the realm were beset by [[demon]]s, [[vampire]]s, [[werewolf|werewolves]], [[spirit]]s, and a few other monsters.  [[Sorin Markov]] realized that this was not a sustainable ecosystem, as humans would be hunted to extinction, leaving the vampires of the plane without a food source, and so he used his power as a [[Planeswalker]] to create an edge for humanity: the archangel [[Avacyn]].  She would be humanity's champion, and lend her power to mortal warriors through a church founded in her name.  Her aid would bring balance to the world, and prevent humanity from going extinct (and thus leaving the remaining supernaturals with a suitable prey population).

With Avacyn's power, humanity drove back the darkness, but more powerful demons invaded the realm to fill the resulting power vacuum.  Before long, the demons were so powerful that even Avacyn could not destroy them, so she declared that "that which cannot destroyed must be bound," and so she enchanted a shard of Innistrad's moon to be a demon prison, the [[Helvault]].  Unfortunately, she bit off more than she could chew with the archdemon [[Griselbrand]], and although she could not be destroyed either, she could still be (and was) bound into the Helvault herself by Griselbrand's trick.

Fortunately, only the [[Mikaeus]], the Lunarch (read: Pope) saw her defeat, and so the Church of Avacyn was able to carry on business as usual, but without her being out and about, humanity's weapons became gradually less effective against the creatures of the night, and before long, they were in danger again, perhaps more than ever.

However, all was not lost!  Other Planeswalkers, namely [[Garruk Wildspeaker]] and [[Liliana Vess]], arrived on the plane and started making trouble -- Liliana because she had pledged her soul to Griselbrand and wanted out of the deal, and Garruk because Liliana had cursed him when they met on Shandalar, and he wanted her to cure him. [[Sorin Markov]] also returned to Innistrad, as its designated guardian, in search of Avacyn, who was meant to be its guardian in his stead. In order to get Griselbrand, Liliana had to trick [[Thalia]], Guardian of [[Thraben]] into opening the Helvault, and while all the demons were released, so was Avacyn (one might say she was ''Restored''). Seeing that the plane was in a sorry state, Avacyn got right to work fixing it, starting with the [[Cursemute]] Decree.

==Shadows Over Innistrad==

'''Sorin Markov''' comes home to Innistrad to discover that her precious little Angel-Wangel Avacyn has gone completely berserk and is slaughtering everyone with wild abandon.  Meanwhile another planeswalker, Nahiri, is throwing a hissy fit because she found out Zendikar's pretty much destroyed and is taking it out on Sorin for some reason.

Apparently [[Cthulhu Mythos|<s>Yog-Sothoth</s>]] [[Eldrazi|Emrakul]] has something to do with it. Hell the next set's card symbol is Emrakul. Unless everyone gets their shit together Innistrad's pretty [[Anal Circumference|fucked]].

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