Nissa and Chandra: MTG famous LGTBQIA+ couple are canon now!

The March of the Machine stories, nine in total, have provided some very interesting developments to Magic’s lore, including the much awaited finale to the Phyrexian saga. More exciting, perhaps, is that Nissa and Chandra have finally locked lips, canonically, as they finally reunited after everything was over and done.

Though these two iconic characters from MTG have long since been “shipped” together by the community as the story hinted at or implied more feelings between them in a slow burn scenario throughout the years, this pair was once a relationship “Wizards didn’t plan to pursue” back when the 2019 War of the Spark novel came out, according to later reports.

Hopes for the pairing then were squashed after this now controversial line came out:

“Chandra had never been into girls. Her crushes — and she’d had her fair share — were mostly the brawny (and decidedly male) types like Gids”.

The silly wording of this sentence quickly sparked a flame in the community as fans and players went on to comment on the seemingly “queer erasure” of the pairing, transforming the whole description into a meme.

However, it’s 2023 and the story has changed. In the latest March of the Machine stories, Chandra and Nissa reunite, with Chandra desperately trying to shake Nissa off her brainwashed/compleated state. She catches her after Nissa falls down, knocked out, and clears strands of hair from her face.

Once Nissa wakes up, Chandra “presses her lips onto Nissa’s”, and says “I’m right here, and I’m not going anywhere.”

Check out the March of the Machine complete schedule here.