MTG Tarkir Dragonstorm release date, spoilers, and latest news

What is the MTG Tarkir Dragonstorm release date? In the second major set of 2025 we’re going back to Tarkir, a dragon-filled world with multiple diverse factions, each inspired by different Asian cultures. It’s going to be a high point for Magic fans – and we’ve got fresh news, commander decks, and card spoilers to share!

Below you’ll find the Tarkir Dragonstorm release date and all information revealed so far about this upcoming MTG set. If you want to see how it fits in with the rest of next year’s slate, check out our complete MTG release schedule.

MTG Tarkir Dragonstorm release date

MTG Tarkir Dragonstorm releases on April 11, 2025. That’s its global release date on paper, but you should expect the cards to arrive in your Local Game Store a little before this, with prerelease events likely to begin from April 4.

Preview season has begun, and Tarkir card spoilers will be showing up from March 18 to March 27.

MTG Tarkir Dragonstorm news and spoilers

The latest major card spoiler is Call the Spirit Dragons. This alternate wincon card is really powerful in dragon decks, giving all dragons indestructible, pouring +1/+1 counters onto them, and – as if that weren’t enough – instantly winning you the game.

Before that we saw Dracogenesis, an expensive enchantment that lets you play dragon cards for free, opening up all kinds of combo potential.

The biggest spoiler revealed on March 18 was Craterhoof Behemoth, an all-star green Commander card that’s getting its first Standard reprint in a decade.

We also saw both the set’s planeswalker cards, Ugin, Eye of the Storms and Elspeth, Storm Slayer. The former is an incredible source of repeatable removal that’s great in any colorless-themed deck. The latter goes absolutely ballistic in token strategies.

Wizards of the Coast revealed some major bits of Tarkir Dragonstorm news during its Magic Con Chicago live stream on Friday, February 21.

First, all five of the classic clans from Khans of Tarkir are returning in this set – Abzan, Jeskai, Mardu, Sultai, and Temur are all present and correct. Each clan also gets its own Commander deck – you can read full details on all five precon decks below.

Wizards’ February 21 stream revealed some big hitters – by far the most exciting of them a brand new Mox card, Mox Jasper.

The original ‘Moxes’ – a set of five wildly powerful artifact cards that generate mana without the one-per-turn limit of a Land – are quite rightly locked away in the MTG reserved list so they’ll never be reprinted, and they’re understandably a fixture in the Commander banlist too.

So it’s quite a shock to see a new Mox card join the game after so many years – even if Wizards has cut back its power level significantly versus the original mox jewels. The Mox Jasper still costs zero mana, and this time taps for one mana of any color – but you can only activate it if you control a Dragon.

We’ll have to wait for the full Tarkir Dragonstorm spoiler season next month to get a better measure of the set as a whole, and work out just how good the Mox Jasper will turn out to be.

But, given that it’s not only getting a regular Mythic Rare variant in this set, but a 500-card serialized printing too, it’s pretty obvious that Wizards expects it to be one of the biggest chase cards of the set.

And we finally get a closer look at the mono-red legendary creature version of Sarkhan we knew was coming: meet Sarkhan, Dragon Ascendant. A 2/2 for two mana, he gets a +1/+1 counter every time you put a Dragon into play, and becomes a Dragon with Flying himself until the end of the turn.

While Wizards’ latest info promises “cinematic martial arts action” and “dynamic clan gameplay”, we still don’t have many hard details about the spread of mechanics and card types that’ll take a lead in this set.

Sarkhan does spoil one brand new mechanic, however: Behold a Dragon. This gives you a reward in exchange for either nominating a Dragon card you control, or revealing one from your hand; Sarkhan does it as an ETB (enter the battlefield) effect, and gets a Treasure token for his trouble.

Other interesting spoilers include a mini Siege Rhino, in the form of Skirmish Rhino. A reference to one of the best midrange cards of all time, there’s understandably a lot of hype for this card (or it might be PTSD, we’re not sure).

There’s also a new Narset, Narset, Jeskai Waymaster. We already knew she was desparked thanks to Aftermath, but now she’s back on her home MTG plane, seemingly leading her clan. Her card, clearly made to be an MTG commander, encourages you to play lots of small spells, unloading your whole hand, before drawing back up at your end step.

Tarkir Dragonstorm story

Tarkir Dragonstorm’s plot follows from the events of Dragons of Tarkir where people were subjugated under the oppressive rule of the dragonlords.

Now the people have rebelled against the dragonlords, reforming the old clans. Their leaders performed a powerful ritual that bonded them to spirit dragons, helping them throw off the draconic yoke and find a new compromise that both species could survive under.

However, now dragonstorms, the cataclysmic events through which new MTG dragons are born, are getting stronger, becoming an existential threat.

In the set’s story so far, Narset and Elspeth are here, trying to find a way to stop the relentless dragonstorms. Sarkhan’s on the other side of this issue, because he’d gladly suffer the apocalypse if it meant more dragons (in fact he pretty much went down that road once already). He’s teamed up with a shady fella named Taigam to pull off some sort of ritual that’ll let him turn back into a dragon.

Ajani’s here too, living that cabin retreat lifestyle, and trying to deal with the trauma of getting corrupted by Phyrexia. He and/or Elspeth are likely to get MTG planeswalker cards in this set.

Tarkir is quite an unusual MTG plane in that it received an in-universe retcon, with time-wimey shenanigans replacing the three-color clan factions from Khans of Tarkir with two-color forces led by dragons. That was a pretty unpopular decision, so in Tarkir Dragonstorm, Wizards of the Coast is trying to bridge the gap between the two versions of this world.

That means Tarkir Dragonstorm will have plenty of dragons both old and new, but also sees return of the three color ‘wedge’ factions, in the form of the five clans. 

Tarkir Dragonstorm Commander Decks

Tarkir Dragonstorm will release with five new Commander precon decks – one for each clan: Abzan, Jeskai, Mardu, Sultai, and Temur. Wizards of the Coast revealed all five of the Tarkir Dragonstorm Commander precons during its Magic Con livestream on Friday, February 21.

Here are the five Tarkir Dragonstorm Commander decks:

And here’s every one of the decks’ Commanders and alt-Commanders:

These decks won’t cost $70, like the MTG Final Fantasy ones. Instead, the MSRP value is $45.

Wizards’ Magic Con Chicago stream also finally dropped the curtains on 2025’s mystery Universes Beyond release: MTG Avatar The Last Airbender is confirmed! We got details on the game’s upcoming sci-fi set, too – you can read more in our MTG Edge of Eternities guide.

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