Gerrard Capashen

Gerrard Capashen is a warrior who commands the crew of the flying ship Weatherlight in the fantasy collectible card game Magic: The Gathering. He was the main character of the Weatherlight saga, a storyline that connected expansions to the Magic card game for five years. Gerrard has appeared on a number of cards, both in the artwork and the flavor text, as well as in the various novels written in the Magic: The Gathering line.

Gerrard was first introduced in the June 1997 Weatherlight expansion (named after the ship). He continued to be an important character through the Tempest block, commanding the party attempting to rescue Captain Sisay from the plane Rath. Gerrard appeared only minorly in the Urza block following the Tempest block, though it did establish Gerrard's origin as a super-soldier specially engineered by the planeswalker Urza to fight the Phyrexians. Gerrard returned as the main character once again for the Mercadian Masques expansion, but he did not appear in the later expansions of Masques block (which took place elsewhere but at roughly the same time). Gerrard's final appearance was in Invasion block, where he was one of the major characters to fight off the Phyrexian invasion. In the last set of the block, Apocalypse, Gerrard was given his own card, the legend Gerrard Capashen. Gerrard perished in Apocalypse in a sacrifice to stop Yawgmoth, the antagonist of Invasion block.