Seeking the latest MTG release schedule? Our guide has everything you want to know about the upcoming sets. From deadly high-speed races to space travel, there’s a lot to look forward to next year. We’ll be revisiting a fan-favorite setting for the first time, and love ’em or hate ’em, there are a lot of Universes Beyond crossovers coming out too.
Below we’ve collected the available Magic: The Gathering release dates and windows for 2025. You’ll find the full rundown for the year below, with a quick overview of every new MTG set. Once you know what’s coming up in Magic, you can check out some of our other top TCG guides. For instance, we can help digital card-slingers find MTG Arena codes and the best MTG Arena decks.
Here’s the Magic: The Gathering 2025 release schedule:
Upcoming MTG set release dates
Magic: The Gathering Foundations – November 15, 2024
| Key events | Dates |
| Pre-release | November 8–14 |
| Full release | November 15 |
We’d better get you to the end of this year before we start on the next. Magic: The Gathering Foundations is the final set of 2024. A big jumble of four different products intended to teach fans how to play Magic: The Gathering, Wizards hopes to keep this whopper of a set in Standard for as long as possible, and at least until 2029.
Foundations has a 50/50 mix of classic reprints and brand new cards, powerful cards but relatively simple, giving it a timeless, classic feel. Trying to give something for everyone. Most popular creature types: cats, angels, vampires, dragons. Cool combos, over the top cards like Darksteel Colossus.
With starter boxes designed to get you learning the rules and building your first decks, new Jumpstart cards, and a full set of Standard legal cards, there’s quite a lot coming. Foundations also features some of the blingiest card treatments we’ve ever seen.
Latest MTG Foundations news
Aetherdrift – February 14, 2025
Start your engines! The first premier Magic: The Gathering set of 2025 is Aetherdrift, a racing themed set that takes place on three different planes. There’s Kaladesh, Amonkhet, and a jungle-smothered world that we’re struggling to place: is that Shandalar?
We’re expecting this set to have something of a wacky races feel, as the contest has ten different teams, each with its own distinct vibe. There’s one for every color pair, and each hails from a different plane. So far we’ve seen a swarm of bugs, a team of reckless tinkerer goblins, and a gang of Mad Max biker punks who are surely gonna be red/black.
Fire mage MTG planeswalker Chandra is competing in the race too, because the prize, the Aetherspark, sounds like it could give her partner Nissa her spark back.
Tarkir: Dragonstorm – April 11, 2025
On April 11, 2025 we’re going back to Tarkir for the first time in a decade with Tarkir: Dragonstorm. This central and east Asian inspired plane has dense, imaginative lore, so there’s bound to be plenty of ground to cover in the revisit.
This particular sojourn will attempt to resolve the tension between the two different versions of this plane seen in previous releases. People are rebelling against the dragons and rediscovering the clans of old, so the set will feature both giant dragons and the different cultures of the three-color clans.
This set also marks the conclusion of the ‘Dragonstorm’ storyline – which we still don’t know all that much about, despite the fact we’re apparently halfway through it!
Final Fantasy – June 13, 2025
The next big Universes Beyond release is Final Fantasy. Following the worlds and stories put out by Square Enix across 16 mainline games, Wizards is describing this as a tentpole booster release like the MTG Lord of the Rings set before it. That means we’re going to be getting more than just Commander decks; this will be a full, draftable set of cards.
That means there’ll be plenty of room for pretty much every famous Final Fantasy character and creature you could care to name. From Sephiroth to Cloud, Chocobos to Behemoths, you can expect to see it all. If it’s anything like the Lord of the Rings, we can anticipate multiple versions of some of the main characters too.
And if you hadn’t heard, the big news is that Wizards is making this set (and all other Universes Beyond sets from now on) legal in Standard.
Edge of Eternities – August 1, 2025
The third (and final) Magic universe set of the year is Edge of Eternities, dropping on August 1, 2025. This is Magic’s take on space fantasy, featuring aliens, planets, spaceships and more. Based on the name, we’re guessing this has something to do with ‘The Blind Eternities’, the gaps between planes where the Eldrazi come from.
Though the space whales immediately put us in mind of Spelljammer, D&D’s space fantasy setting, Edge of Eternities has proper sci-fi style ships. This set is not hard sci-fi however – Wizards assures us that magic is still a part of the setting.
The main villain for this release is a familiar one: everyone’s favorite evil metal man, Tezzeret.
Marvel Spiderman
Wizards of the Coast also has a big Marvel crossover releasing in 2025. The company has a multi-year deal with Marvel, so it’s working on more than one Marvel set. The first will be Spiderman themed, so we can expect all different versions of the webcrawler, plus his extensive rogue’s gallery, to arrive on cards at some point next year.
If the pattern of one set every two months holds, it seems likely this set will come out in October. We wonder what other Marvel products are coming out – perhaps a 2026 set themed around the X-men or Avengers?
Unknown Universes Beyond set
Finally, there is another UB crossover set on the way as the final big release of 2025. This is an unprecedented move: Wizards is now making three sets in its own worlds and three exploring other franchises.
We don’t know anything about what this UB set will be, but it’s odd that in 2023, we were told that Lorwyn would be the final set of 2025, and now it seems to have evaporated. It seems like this new focus on crossovers may have bumped the Lorwyn revisit into another year.
If you’re into more than just trading card games, then we can tell you what other products Wizards of the Coast is releasing this year. Head to our DnD release schedule guide for the latest on the world’s biggest tabletop RPG.
Source: Wargamer
