Alara

Five-shard plane — Bant, Esper, Grixis, Jund, and Naya, each a three-color slice.

Mechanical themes

Anchor sets

Magic expansions whose cards are canonically from Alara, listed in release order.

Signature cards

A sample of cards anchored to Alara, ordered by rarity then most-recent printing. The card pool is 524 cards in total.

Lord of Extinction

Progenitus

Ethersworn Adjudicator

Maelstrom Archangel

Maelstrom Nexus

Hellkite Overlord

Sedris, the Traitor King

Uril, the Miststalker

Jenara, Asura of War

Kresh the Bloodbraided

Karrthus, Tyrant of Jund

Sen Triplets

Banlist

17 cards banned on Alara. Bans include the universal baseline (Power Nine, Sol Ring, etc.) plus any plane-specific additions.