Magic: The Gathering's Full Release Schedule for 2026 Confirmed

Magic: The Gathering had immoderate large sets successful 2025, but it besides showed Wizards of the Coast possibly straying a small excessively acold from what makes the long-running paper crippled special.

That’s not to accidental Universes Beyond was a full bust. Final Fantasy brought successful record-breaking numbers of players, and Avatar: The Last Airbender was a instrumentality to immoderate semblance of signifier aft the disappointment of Spider-Man.

Still, cardboard waits for nary Planeswalker, and determination are much sets successful 2026 - seven, successful total. That’s earlier we adjacent get into the myriad of Secret Lair drops, and possibly astir worryingly, 4 of those sets are Universes Beyond.

Will they extremity up being person to Final Fantasy oregon Spider-Man? And volition the in-universe sets unrecorded up to the precocious barroom acceptable by Tarkir: Dragonstorm oregon Edge of Eternities? Here’s everything coming to Magic: The Gathering successful 2026.

Lorwyn Eclipsed - January 23, 2026

If you’ve been yearning for a instrumentality to Lorwyn, the archetypal acceptable of 2026 is present to get things started. The acceptable is simply a Universes Within to footwear disconnected the year, and marks the debut of the Draft Night Box.

You tin preorder it now, and it’ll spot the instrumentality of Commander Decks for the archetypal clip since 2025’s Edge of Eternities with 2 options: A five-color, oregon a Jund option.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - March 6, 2026

Wizards of the Coast revealed Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles astatine Comic-Con New York, with Universes Beyond going backmost to The Big Apple for the 2nd clip successful a fewer months.

Still, expect colorful caller creation of the Heroes successful a Half Shell, their assorted rogues gallery, and the debut of a Turtle Team Up co-op crippled mode.

We've got a afloat rundown of the merchandise lineup, truthful beryllium definite to cheque retired the preorder guide, including a five-color Commander platform that stars each 4 Turtles.

Secrets of Strixhaven - April 2026

We inactive don’t cognize a large woody astir our instrumentality to Strixhaven, but it is getting its ain tie-in novel.

This Plane has been fertile crushed for amusive paper designs and characters successful the past, truthful here’s hoping for thing bully erstwhile it arrives successful April.

Marvel Superheroes - June 2026

Spider-Man arrived successful 2025, and present much Marvel heroes are coming to MTG, too.

We’ve already seen cards for Iron Man, Black Panther, Fantastic Four, and more, and the acceptable volition thin connected comic publication versions of the Marvel universe’s characters. Will it beryllium amended than the underwhelming Spider-Man set, though? We’re astatine slightest hoping the accrued roster of heroes and (hopefully) villains volition marque this much exciting.

We’re expecting a Mentor/Sidekick theme, and for this 1 to beryllium a fashionable introduction constituent for caller players. It mightiness adjacent beryllium a bully prime for a Beginner Box.

The Hobbit - August 2026

We’re going backmost to Middle-earth! Universes Beyond: Lord of the Rings was a colossal triumph for Magic: The Gathering, and the information its phantasy theming acceptable truthful good with the paper crippled means it feels a batch little jarring than different crossovers.

The lone accusation we person truthful acold is the following:

“Join Bilbo’s escapade of a beingness with Dwarves to befriend, Trolls to trick, Elves to outwit, and songs to sing. There's golden oregon dragon’s occurrence astatine the end, truthful bask the journey!”

Give america immoderate Five Armies Commander Decks, please, oregon astatine slightest a Smaug paper that isn’t conscionable a Token creature.

Reality Fracture - October 2026

The past in-universe acceptable of 2026 is Reality Fracture, and it’ll diagnostic callbacks to Tarkir: Dragonstorm and Outlaws of Thunder Junction.

The squad has suggested it has a taxable players person wanted for a agelong time, but that’s each we cognize truthful far.

Star Trek - November 2026

If you felt Wizards had got the sci-fi retired of their strategy with the (excellent) Edge of Eternities, deliberation again.

November 2026 volition spot the accomplishment of a Star Trek acceptable to observe that franchise’s 60th Anniversary, and it’ll incorporated everything from the archetypal bid to Strange New Worlds. It adjacent got a trailer.

Magic's 2025 Sets - At a Glance

It’s besides bully thought to instrumentality banal of 2025’s sets, due to the fact that it was decidedly a twelvemonth that divided opinion.

• Innistrad: Remastered - January 24
• Aetherdrift - February 14
• Tarkir: Dragonstorm - April 11
• Final Fantasy - June 13
• Edge of Eternities - August 1
• Marvel’s Spider-Man - September 16
• Avatar: The Last Airbender - November 21

That’s 7 sets successful total, with 3 of those being Universes Beyond collaborations with the likes of Square Enix, Marvel, and Nickelodeon. And, from looking astatine the 2026 schedule, it looks arsenic though Wizards is looking to instrumentality to that ratio.

Lloyd Coombes is an experienced freelancer successful tech, gaming and fittingness seen astatine Polygon, Eurogamer, Macworld, TechRadar and galore more. He's a large instrumentality of Magic: The Gathering and different collectible paper games, overmuch to his wife's dismay.