I've Found the Best Magic: The Gathering Gift Ideas That Aren’t Just Booster Packs

Magic: The Gathering (MTG), the world's premier trading paper game, is arsenic fashionable arsenic it's ever been. Aside from the cards themselves, longtime Magic players (like me!) cognize that determination are countless accessories and different goodies to heighten your experience.

With Father's Day coming up soon (June 15), I've compiled a database of large MTG gifts, from playmats and paper sleeves to dice and merch, for that peculiar Magic subordinate successful your life.

As a competitory subordinate of 10+ years, these are products I've had and would bargain for my idiosyncratic use, truthful remainder casual knowing that these suggestions aren't without extended proceedings and error.

TL;DR - Best Magic: The Gathering Gifts

Magic has been astir for implicit 30 years, but acknowledgment to the caller crossover sets with different IPs, what Wizards of the Coast (WoTC) has dubbed Universes Beyond, its assemblage has grown monumentally.

Properties similar The Lord of the Rings, Fallout, Assassin's Creed, and much person each received the MTG treatment, with Final Fantasy being the adjacent crossover successful June.

There's adjacent a afloat Spider-Man acceptable coming aboriginal this year. So there's plentifulness of large sets to take from now, and incoming successful the adjacent aboriginal arsenic well.

Sealed Product

Magic: The Gathering sets are released each fewer months, and with them travel assorted sealed products to assistance supplement your collection.

You person booster boxes, collector boosters, starter kits, commandant decks, the database goes on. I urge starting with bundles of the astir precocious released sets, oregon looking up to expansions similar Edge of Eternities.

They marque large gifts, arsenic they see 9 booster packs, an alternate-art promotional card, other onshore cards, a spindown beingness counter, and the container itself is simply a large retention solution for other cards.

Card Sleeves

You person each these fancy caller cards, what are you expected to enactment them in? Card sleeves are the cleanable solution not lone for extortion but for easy shuffling.

Ultimate Guard and Ultra PRO are immoderate of the champion MTG accessories brands around, but Dragon Shield sleeves are my go-to proposal arsenic a acquisition for dad.

The Ultimate Guard Katana sleeves are great, too. The matte sleeves are crisp and consciousness large successful your hands. No substance what you pick, marque definite you get modular size sleeves, not Japanese paper size -- Yu-Gi-Oh! cards are overmuch smaller than Magic cards!

Deck Boxes

Your cards are present sleeved up and acceptable for battle. Now you request a reliable platform box. Here, you can't spell incorrect with Ultimate Guard's sturdy options.

I'm a large instrumentality of the Flip 'n' Tray myself, arsenic it tin clasp a afloat sleeved deck, sideboard, and tokens, on with a built-in dice compartment.

For larger retention solutions, determination are monolithic boxes that tin clasp up to 500 escaped cards. All Ultimate Guard options travel successful a fistful of antithetic colors, and the Ultra PRO boxes athletics immoderate large authoritative MTG art.

Playmats

Playmats are a must-have for immoderate Magic player, since playing without 1 tin marque it hard to prime your cards up disconnected the room table.

Usually made of the aforesaid worldly arsenic a modular mousepad, galore radical (myself included) similar to usage mats featuring creation of their favourite cards oregon of their proudest Magic accomplishments.

You tin adjacent bargain blank achromatic playmats if you find yourself astatine a Magic Con and privation to committee your favourite creator to marque it look snazzy!

Dice and Counters

Keeping way of Planeswalker loyalty, +1/+1 counters, oregon Finality counters are a monolithic headache without an businesslike mode of doing so. Luckily, a acceptable of D6 volition acceptable you right.

Some much unsocial cards, similar Qarsi Revenant, springiness different creatures quality counters that are hard to support way of, truthful I highly urge a acceptable of quality counters to spell on with your accessories arsenal.

Binders

If you person uncommon oregon invaluable cards you don't privation to store successful a bulk retention box, binders are the mode to spell to support them bully and pristine.

You tin get assorted sizes and colors from some Ultimate Guard and Ultra PRO, but the Zipfolio from Ultimate Guard is my go-to for costly singles. These acceptable large successful your backpack for erstwhile you're heading retired to your section Friday Night Magic

Other Accessories

These suggestions are conscionable scratching the aboveground of what these accessory makers person to offer. There are countless different sleeves, boxes, and mats to prime from, truthful prime your favourite Magic player's favourite for a large gift.

Other accessories I urge are lifepads; immoderate Magic subordinate similar to constitute their beingness totals down and instrumentality notes alternatively of utilizing the MTG Companion app oregon a spindown counter.

Dry erase tokens are large for cards with transcript abilities. A playmat conduit is simply a large retention solution to support your mats adust and safe, and the Ultra PRO onshore presumption is simply a bully mode to benignant your basal lands oregon person lands acceptable for your booster draught night.

Merch

Did you cognize that the IGN store has immoderate awesome Magic: The Gathering merch? We person a fistful of t-shirts, a crewneck sweater, and adjacent a 17oz stainless alloy h2o vessel for sale.

These marque large gifts if you aren't rather definite what cards, sets, oregon formats your favourite Magic subordinate enjoys!

Myles Obenza is simply a freelance writer for IGN. Follow him connected Bluesky @mylesobenza.bsky.social.