Every Upcoming Magic: The Gathering Release

Magic: The Gathering is always changing. A new set, a new Commander deck, or even a new card can shake things up massively, and there’s always something else on the horizon.

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It can be tricky to keep tabs on what is coming to Magic: The Gathering. With products announced through to 2026, here’s everything currently revealed for the game.

Updated March 3, 2025 by Joe Parlock: We finally know what the final Universes Beyond set is for this year, and it's what we all suspected in Avatar: The Last Airbender. We've also had a better look at Final Fantasy, Tarkir Dragonstorm, and Spider-man, fleshing out this year's remaining releases.

Latest Release: Aetherdrift – February 14, 2025

The first of a whopping six Standard-legal sets in 2025, Aetherdrift is an Omenpath-fuelled death race across three planes. Each team of racers takes up one of the ten colour pairs, making this a faction set in disguise. As we whizz about Avishkar (the new name for Kaladesh), Amonkhet, and the main set debut of Muraganda, Aetherdrift features plenty of synergies for artifacts and, in particular, Vehicles.

It’s a nice change of pace after the enchantment-heavy Duskmourn, and seeing former planeswalker Daretti make a return after so long away is always appreciated. The set also introduced new mechanics like the one-off boost of Exhaust, and speed, which ramps up as you deal damage to your opponents each turn.

It also featured two excellent Commander decks, with the Avishkar-themed Living Energy giving you new ways to make Energy counters, and Eternal Might bringing back the many Zombies of Amonkhet with a new top-tier Zombie commander.

Tarkir: Dragonstorm – April 11, 2025

Tarkir has long been one of the settings players have most frequently asked for a return to, and it’s finally happening after a decade away in Tarkir: Dragonstorm.

This set is meant to combine the key things we loved about the last two major sets there. While the three-colour clans were erased from history in the original Tarkir block, they return in Dragonstorm, alongside the ferocious Dragons that made Dragons of Tarkir so good in its own way, too.

From the cards we've seen, it looks like Tarkir Dragonstorm does a great job of balancing the two while also keeping things new. One of those new things is the introduction of the Behold keyword, which has you reveal a card from your hand or have a certain type already on the battlefield for an extra effect when it triggers.

On top of the usual Play and Collector boosters, Dragonstorm really leans in to the clans of Tarkir with five Commander decks, based on the Abzani, Jeskai, Sultai, Mardu, and Temur clans. Even the prerelease kits are similarly clan-themed, letting you pick your group before opening the box.

Final Fantasy – June 13, 2025

Final Fantasy marks a major turning point for Magic: The Gathering. It’s the second full Universes Beyond crossover set following on from Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth, but it’s more important than that. With this set, Universes Beyond is becoming Standard legal, and by extension also legal in Modern and Pioneer.

Final Fantasy will feature cards based on every mainline numbered game, up to and including Final Fantasy 16. We’ll also be getting Commander decks, bundles, and Play and Collector boosters in what is described as the most pieces of Final Fantasy art ever released for a single game.

The Commander decks will be inspired by four of the most popular games in the series, with Final Fantasy 6, 7, 10, and 14 receiving their own, themed releases.

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Edge Of Eternities – August 1, 2025

Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty in 2022 showed us that Magic: The Gathering can do sci-fi, and Edge of Eternities is taking that a step further. We’re blasting off for a space-based set full of dogfighting ships, planets, and cyborgs.

We currently know very little of Edge of Eternities, other than that it will introduce Aliens to Standard for the first time and feature the return of Tezzeret. He was last seen working both for and against Phyrexia during its invasion of the multiverse, so he could be up to practically anything.

With this set, Standard will rotate again and we’ll say goodbye to Dominaria United, The Brothers’ War, Phyrexia: All Will Be One, March Of The Machine, and March Of The Machine: The Aftermath.

This will be the final rotation until early 2027, when it starts following calendar years instead of Autumn releases.

Spider-Man – September 26, 2025

The second of three Universes Beyond sets planned for 2025 is also the first major crossover with Marvel, which was announced almost two years earlier. Showcasing Spidey, his allies, and of course his villains, it’s interesting to see a whole set focused on just one part of the Marvel universe.

As with Final Fantasy, Spider-Man will be legal in Standard, Modern, and Pioneer. Unlike Final Fantasy, though, this set is making the bizarre decision toskip Commander decks. We'll instead get new Scene boxes, last seen in Lord of the Rings, and a series of Welcome decks to help introduce new players to Standard.

Avatar: The Last Airbender - November 21, 2025

Previously known as the secretive Unannounced Universes Beyond, Wizards of the Coast finally revealed that the last set of 2025 will be a crossover with Nickelodeon's animated epic, Avatar: The Last Airbender.

Only adapting the original series (so no Korra, Seven Havens, or the various live-action adaptations), this is a fully Standard-legal set like Final Fantasy and Spider-man before it. We know very little about what this will look like, but expect plenty of elemental bending and deep lore cuts for when it finally arrives in November.

“Return To Lorwyn” – Q1 2026

These images are from previous trips to Lorwyn (and its evil version, Shadowmoor), as nothing has been shown of this yet.

The first Standard set of 2026 takes us back to another heavily requested plane, with the Celtic fantasy of Lorwyn making a surprise return. Unfortunately, the announcement of the Unannounced Universes Beyond set at 2024's MagicCon: Vegas pushed back Lorwyn from late 2025 to early 2026.

Lorwyn wasn’t a popular set when it first launched, but its mix of Celtic imagery, the introduction of Kindred themes, and its Fairies, Elves, Kithkin, Goblins, and Merfolk made it one of its most unique. We’ve seen poorly received first outings come back as all-timers a lot lately, with both Kamigawa and Ixalan, so perhaps Lorwyn is next on that list?

Lorwyn should launch with Play and Collector boosters and a set of Commander decks, but with so long until its release, there is every chance the product lineup could change by then.

“Return To Arcavios” – Q2 2026

These images are from 2021's Strixhaven: School of Mages.

The farthest-away set we know about is a return to Arcavios, the plane where 2021’s Strixhaven: School of Mages is based. Though the name suggests we could see more of the wider plane, it will also include a return to the Strixhaven school and its five colleges.

Strixhaven has had a lasting impact on Magic, with many of its characters since popping up in other sets – Quintorius Kand in The Lost Caverns of Ixalan, and Zimone Wola in Duskmourn, for instance. We can probably expect another set focused on instants and sorceries, and probably also the return of well-received mechanics like magecraft.

This will likely be the third set to launch in 2026, after an unannounced one early in the year, and Lorwyn a few months after that. It should include Play and Collector boosters, and Commander decks, but with well over a year until we start seeing more of it, Magic could be very different by then.

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