

The Interplanar Beacon was activated, and many Planeswalkers were brought to Ravnica. Through various machinations, Nicol Bolas manipulated five of the ten guilds to support his plans – the Izzet League, the Orzhov Syndicate, the Azorius Senate, the Golgari Swarm, and the Gruul Clans all had Planeswalkers under his influence installed as new guildmasters, whether as willing volunteers, coerced into the role, or as unknowing participants. There was an effort of cooperation between guilds, but failed as the War of the Spark began, and Nicol Bolas began invading. The Izzet Guildmaster Niv-Mizzet instructed Ral Zerek, a member of the Izzet League, to create the Interplanar Beacon, a device that could call other Planeswalkers to the Plane to assist in the fight with Bolas. He was manipulating the various members of other guilds for his own deeds, aiming to take control of the entire Multiverse. This was later revealed to be the Dragon Planeswalker Nicol Bolas.


There was an outside influence foreign to Ravnica that had begun sewing chaos into the Plane. Nicol Bolas, Dragon-God by Raymond Swanland With his words able to make any law legally binding, he formed a new contract between the guilds, returning the plane to peace once more for a while. Later, the Planeswalker Jace Beleren traveled to the Implicit Maze – a series of mana leylines running through Ravnica – where the power of the Guildpact was given to Jace, and he became the Living Guildpact. The guilds eventually managed to regain some semblance of order, with some changing their purpose in the transition, although this was without the magical Guildpact backing the system up. The original Guildpact did not stay in place forever, and it was eventually broken, causing the Plane to descend into chaos once again. Every year, Ravnica celebrates the day the Guildpact was signed in The Festival Of The Guildpact, where any and all fighting was put aside to celebrate the historic moment. There were occasions where a few guilds would fight and feud, but never enough to destroy the Guildpact. The Guildpact proved to be successful, and Ravnica entered a state of relative peace. The Guildpact prevented the guilds from trying to upset the balance of the other nine.
