Anyone who cares about #mtg #vorthos concerns should read The Gathering Dark by Jeff Grubb
It's basically Color Pie 101, as well as the beginning of Jodah's origin story and some very important Dominarian history, dressed up as a moderately cliched coming-of-age story
The best part is that it explicitly ties casting spells to drawing mana from lands, and I want to see more of that sort of theory in Magic story