What is the current MTG release schedule? This guide tracks all of the upcoming MTG releases in 2026, including release dates, mechanics, and story details. This year, we're revisiting a fan-favorite plane of Celtic lore, stepping off campus in a magical school, and - love 'em or hate 'em - there are a lot of Universes Beyond crossovers coming out too.
While you're filling in 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 the best MTG Arena decks.
Below we've collected all the available Magic: The Gathering release dates and windows for 2026 - starting with the upcoming releases, then moving onto the most recent.
Here's the Magic: The Gathering 2026 release schedule:
- Lorwyn Eclipsed - January 23, 2026
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - March 6, 2026
- Secrets of Strixhaven - April 24, 2026
- Marvel Superheroes - June 26, 2026
- The Hobbit - August 14, 2026
- Reality Fracture - October 2, 2026
- Star Trek - November 11, 2026
Upcoming set release dates
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - March 6, 2026
Revealed slightly later than the rest of the 2026 calendar, the second release of the year is MTG Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Featuring all your favorite heroes and villains, from Krang to April O'Neil, there's some fun stuff in here - including art from the original comic books and lands based on pizza toppings.
The TMNT set also has a five-color Commander precon, and a new 'Turtle Team Up' product that provides a cooperative way to play Magic: The Gathering.
Secrets of Strixhaven - April 24, 2026
Secrets of Strixhaven is a return to an existing world: our second look at this magical school. This set introduces some new characters enrolling in the academy, and follows up on the 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 26, 2026
Marvel Superheroes launches as Summer kicks into gear. Presumably the largest of the planned Magic: The Gathering Marvel sets, it seems Wizards of the Coast is really bringing in as many characters as they can, from the Avengers to The Fantastic Four (who get their own EDH deck) to Daredevil. And of course, Squirrel Girl is making an appearance for the squirrel tribal lovers.
We've already seen a fair few spoilers for this set, and there's so much covered here we have to wonder what's been left on the table. We were guessing X-Men would be coming in 2027, but this set seems to feature both Wolverine and Quicksilver.
The Hobbit - August 14, 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? Maybe even Orcish Bowmasters? We're less pumped for the nearly identical dwarf characters to get legendary creature cards, though.
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 2, 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, and a few recent clues, 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 20, 2026
There are seven Standard-legal sets this 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 we expect to see phasers that dish out stun counters, please and thank you.
Magic has already proven it can jump genres and tackle sci-fi settings, but the whole ethos of Star Trek seems kind of antithetical to a combat-based TCG. Not to mention those planeswalkers are violating the Prime Directive all the time.
Latest releases in 2026
Lorwyn Eclipsed - January 23, 2026
Lorwyn Eclipsed was 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.
While Lorwyn is a land of eternal day and flower-filled meadows, Shadowmoor is one of endless night. This set showed off the setting in its new, combined state: part-spooky, part-nice, with its denizens shifting between two forms as the borders of the two worlds constantly move. To show that duality, Lorwyn Eclipsed is full of double-faced cards that you can pay mana to transform.
This release maintained a lot of what fans love about this MTG plane, namely the non-human races of the kithkin, faeries, elves, and merfolk. There are even a few Kindred spells!
Interestingly, this set also introduced us to the new first-year characters from Strixhaven. Are they this phase's protagonists?
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.