What is the current MTG release schedule? This guide tracks all of the upcoming MTG releases in 2025 and 2026, including release dates, mechanics, and story details. Next year, we’re revisiting a fan-favorite plane, something weird is happening to the multiverse, and – love ’em or hate ’em – there are a lot of Universes Beyond crossovers coming out too.
While you’re filling your calendar, our complete history of all MTG sets in order of release might come in useful too. Digital-first cardslingers should also check out our updated lists of all current MTG Arena codes and the best MTG Arena decks.
Below we’ve collected all the available Magic: The Gathering release dates and windows for 2025 and 2026 – starting with the upcoming sets and then reviewing the latest releases.
Here’s the Magic: The Gathering 2025-2026 release schedule:
Upcoming set release dates
There are two upcoming sets scheduled for 2025 – both of them Universes Beyond sets featuring crossovers with other beloved settings – and the first two in-universe sets of 2026 have been named! Read on for details on all four, followed by a run down of the five 2025 sets that have already dropped.
Avatar: The Last Airbender – November 21, 2025
There is another UB crossover set on the way as the final big release of 2025. And it’s going to be a crowd-pleaser: it’s Avatar: The Last Airbender.
This set is purely based on the original series, with no Legend of Korra characters muddling things up. A Katara, The Fearless promo card revealed the return of Allies in this set, a creature type that hasn’t been a part of Magic for many years. Another returning theme that may delight the old-timers is shrines!
There’s also four new keywords based around the four main types of bending. Earthbenders can animate lands, Airbenders temporarily remove permanents, Firebenders create red mana when they attack and Waterbenders have abilities that get cheaper when you tap creatures.
A few Lessons are also sprinkled into this set, but there are no cards with the Learn keyword. Perhaps more of those will be returning in another upcoming set, though…
Read our complete MTG Avatar The Last Airbender guide for the latest news and updates.
Lorwyn Eclipsed – January 23, 2026
Lorwyn Eclipsed is the first set of 2026, a long-awaited return to this Celtic-folklore inspired world that’s every bit as beloved as Kamigawa or Tarkir. That title is a reference to the new identity of the plane. While the twin realities of Lorwyn and Shadowmoor used to alternate every 300 years, they’ve now fused together.
This set shows off the setting in its new, combined state, part-spooky, part-nice, with its denizens shifting between two forms, depending on which region they inhabit. To show that duality, Lorwyn Eclipsed is full of double-faced cards that you can pay mana to transform.
Wizards promises that this release will maintain what fans loved about this MTG plane, namely the diverse non-human races of the kithkin, faeries, elves, and merfolk. There are even a few Kindred spells!
Mystery Universes Beyond set – March 2026
While we know every other set coming out in 2026, the very first one has not yet been announced. We’ll know its identity pretty soon though: the reveal is coming at New York Comicon on October 10. Here’s why we’re convinced it’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Secrets of Strixhaven – April 2026
Secrets of Strixhaven is another return to an existing world, and our second look at this magical school. This set introduces some new characters enrolling in the academy, and follows up on fan-favorites who’ve just graduated.
We’ll step outside the walls of Strihaven for the first time, therefore. But instead of moving back home to save on rent or cramming like sardines into a shared apartment, the new graduates will be using their arcane skills to explore the wider world of Arcavios or broker magical peace treaties.
Secrets of Strixhaven also launches alongside a YA novel by Seanan Mcguire – the first Magic book in a long while!
Marvel Superheroes – June 2026
Marvel Superheroes launches as Summer kicks into gear. Presumably the largest of the planned Marvel Magic: The Gathering sets, from the Avengers to The Fantastic Four, to Daredevil, it seems Wizards of the Coast is really bringing in as many characters as they can. And of course, Squirrel Girl is making an appearance for the squirrel tribal lovers.
However, the lack of X-Men other than Wolverine makes us quietly confident that that will be the third (and last?) Marvel set come 2027.
The Hobbit – August 2026
There wasn’t enough content in The Hobbit for a satisfying film trilogy, but there’s probably enough to make a strong card set. We’re excited to see Smaug and perhaps a One Ring reprint? I wonder how the 12 interchangeable dwarves plus Thorin though, hopefully not as separate legendary creatures.
Given how successful the Lord of the Rings set was, I’m sure WotC has high hopes for the sales of this release.
Reality Fracture – October 2026
The most mysterious set of 2026, Reality Fracture is where the current Magic plotline comes to a head. We’ve been following Jace’s disastrous scheme to revert the multiverse to its pre-Phyrexian Invasion form, and we know it’s gone wrong, but what exactly that means for Reality Fracture is anyone’s guess.
From the title, fans are guessing that this is some kind of ‘Magic: The Gathering What If?’ set, with alternate versions of the planes and characters. But the only art from the set we’ve been shown seems to encapsulate the life of Chandra.
WotC is keeping its cards close to its chest on this one. An incredible villain, much-requested theme, and interesting setting has been promised, but we don’t know anything about them. Mark Rosewater is calling it “revolutionary”, “innovative” and says “we didn’t know if we could physically do it”. Place your bets now, people!
Star Trek – November 2026
There are eight sets next year, good grief! There have been rumors of a Star Trek set swirling around for years, and it looks like WotC has finally decided to make it so.
2026 marks Star Trek’s 60th anniversary, and this release will explore the entire history of the show, in its every iteration. It’ll be a good time for the Spacecraft mechanic from EOE to return, and I expect to see phasers that dish out stun counters, please and thank you.
Latest releases in 2025
Innistrad Remastered – January 24, 2025
It’s becoming something of a tradition for Magic: The Gathering to drop a remastered set at the start of each year, and in 2025 that set was Innistrad Remastered. Containing reprints of cards from all seven sets taking place on the Gothic Horror plane of Innistrad, this set had all your favorite vampires, zombies, ghosts, and werewolves in one place, doing the Monster Mash.
Innistrad Remastered also brought some some much-needed reprints for cards like Edgar Markov and Emrakul, The Promised End. The collector Boosters feature sweet movie poster art – always a good style on a Magic card.
Aetherdrift – February 14, 2025
Start your engines! The first premier Magic: The Gathering set of 2025 was Aetherdrift, a racing-themed set that takes place on three different planes. There’s Kaladesh, Amonkhet, and the never-before-seen land of Muraganda.
This set, the latest to be released from Wizards has 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. Competitors include a crew of fish people pirates, a team of reckless tinkerer goblins, and a gang of Mad Max biker punks.
Fire mage MTG planeswalker Chandra was competing in the Aetherdrift death race too, because the prize, the Aetherspark, could give her partner Nissa her planeswalking mojo back again. It’s also an absolutely absurd planeswalker card in its own right.
Aetherdrift is filled with Vehicles, with race-based mechanics like Start Your Engines and Exhaust. But the set’s Commander precon decks strike a different tone, one focused on Amonkhet’s zombies, the other on Avishkar’s energy.
Read our full MTG Aetherdrift guide for more info.
Tarkir: Dragonstorm – April 11, 2025
On April 11, 2025 we returned to Tarkir for the first time in a decade with Tarkir: Dragonstorm. This particular sojourn attempted to resolve the tension between the two different versions of this plane seen in previous releases. People were rebelling against the dragons and rediscovering the clans of old, so the set featured both giant dragons and the different cultures of the three-color clans.
As was fitting for a set about massive dragons, the new cards were pretty beefy. Call the Spirit Dragons came with a spicy alternate win condition, while the iconic Craterhoof Behemoth was reprinted and brought back to Standard. Some delightfully busted planeswalkers and a standard-warping artifact were also introduced.
Read our full MTG Tarkir Dragonstorm guide for more info. Or check out our guides to Tarkir Dragonstorm drafts and Tarkir Dragonstorm commanders.
Final Fantasy – June 13, 2025
The latest MTG set and the latest Universes Beyond release is Final Fantasy and it’s really kicked up a storm. Even before release it was already Wizards’ best selling set.
With a massive collection of draftable cards, plus Commander decks, there’s room here for every famous Final Fantasy character and creature you could care to name.
Spoiler season hadn’t even ended before we started to see price spikes all over the place, thanks partly to the sheer number of infinite combos fans have spotted. There’s also some delightfully strange synergy between this release’s summons cards and Tom Bombadil of the Lord of the Rings set.
MTG x FF is a love letter to the Final Fantasy franchise, and obviously a massive seller, but it has one more historical mark to make on Magic. From this set onwards, Wizards is making all Universes Beyond sets legal in Standard.
Read our full MTG Final Fantasy guide for more details.
Edge of Eternities – August 1, 2025
The third (and final) Magic universe set of the year is Edge of Eternities, which dropped on August 1, 2025. This is Magic’s take on science fantasy, featuring alien races, planets, swirling nebulae and more. The set takes place in a science fiction universe within a solar system called Sothera, which orbits a black hole (or ‘super void’).
Though the space whales and dragons immediately put us in mind of Spelljammer, D&D’s space fantasy setting, Edge of Eternities has proper sci-fi ships too. In fact they’re such a big theme that the set made a change to the rules of EDH – it’s now possible to use a legendary Vehicle as your commander.
This set is not simply hard sci-fi however – magic is still very much a part of this Magic setting. The main villain for this release is a long absent baddie: everyone’s favorite evil metal man, Tezzeret. As he puts it, the Edge is “magically primitive but technologically advanced”.
Read our full MTG Edge of Eternities guide for the whole story.
Marvel Spiderman – September 26, 2025
Wizards of the Coast’s first Marvel set released on September 26, 2025 with Spiderman. The first set in a multi-year deal with Marvel.
Wow there were a lot of spider-people in this release, which dug deep into the Spiderman multiverse to flesh out the set. A new mechanic, ‘webslinging’ was also introduced, and a key card was The Soul Stone, a ridiculously good mana rock that appears to be part of a mega cycle across multiple sets.
Amusingly, some intricacies of the licensing arrangement prevented Wizards bringing these cards to MTG Arena, so instead we received Universes Within reskins of the cards on the digital platform. The result is a weird mish-mash, but many of the digital versions are surprisingly great.
Read our full MTG Spiderman guide for more info.
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
