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Magic: The Gathering release schedule 2025

Keep up to date with next year's Magic: The Gathering release dates - our guide has everything you need on all upcoming MTG sets in 2025.

MTG release schedule 2025 - Wizards of the Coast card art image for Tarkir Dragonstorm's Smile at Death card, showing a massive lightning woman in the sky

What is the current MTG release schedule? This guide tracks all of the upcoming MTG sets in 2025, including release dates, mechanics, and story details. From space travel to Spiderman, there’s a lot to look forward to this year. We’re revisiting a fan favorite plane, exploring a new one for the first time, 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 – starting with the upcoming sets and then reviewing the latest releases.

Here’s the Magic: The Gathering 2025 release schedule:

Upcoming MTG set release dates

There are five upcoming MTG sets scheduled for 2025, including two in-universe sets themed around original Magic lore, and three Universes Beyond sets, featuring crossovers with other beloved fantasy settings. Read on for details on all five, followed by a run down of the two new 2025 Magic sets that have already dropped.

MTG art showing a ritual to summon the spirits of dragons on Tarkir

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!

Read our full MTG Tarkir Dragonstorm guide for more info.

MTG art showing final fantasy characters smooching.

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.

Read our full MTG Final Fantasy guide for more details.

MTG art showing a giant space whale

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.

Read our full MTG Edge of Eternities guide for the whole story.

Spiderman swinging through New York City

Marvel Spiderman – September 26, 2025

Wizards of the Coast also has a big Marvel crossover releasing on September 26, 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.

We wonder what other Marvel products are coming out – perhaps a 2026 set themed around the X-men or Avengers?

Read our full MTG Spiderman guide for more info.

Aang from Avatar the Last airbender entering the avatar state.

Avatar: The Last Airbender – November 21, 2025

Finally, there is another UB crossover set on the way as the final big release of 2025. And it’s likely to be a crowd-pleaser: it’s Avatar: The Last Airbender.

As it’s still many months away, we don’t have many details to share about this release. We do know it’s purely based on the original series, however, with no Legend of Korra characters muddling things up.

While the fantasy world of Avatar seems like a brilliant fit for Magic, it’s notable that this is the first full UB set based on a cartoon. It’ll be super interesting to see how Wizards chooses to apply Magic’s art style to this property!

That’s all the upcoming Magic: The Gathering sets we know about, though the game’s head designer Mark Rosewater has confirmed that the return to the Celtic folklore inspired plane Lorwyn will be the first in-universe Magic set of 2026.

Read our complete MTG Avatar The Last Airbender guide for the latest news and updates.

MTG art showing Liliana raising zombies in a gothic horror setting.

Latest MTG sets released 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.

MTG release schedule: a Mad Max style biker jumping through an explosion

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.

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.