With half of 2023 behind us, Wizards Of The Coast seized the day to announce the future of Magic: The Gathering at its Gen Con 2023 panel. Not just did the company reveal their strategies through 2026, however it likewise confirmed 3 huge names in gaming for its ever-growing Universes Beyond portfolio: Assassin’s Creed, Final Fantasy, and Fallout.
Fallout will receive the MTG treatment first, and it will be represented through a set of Commander decks set to release in March 2024. Following names like Warhammer 40K and Doctor Who, the Fallout Commander decks will include a mixture of brand-new and reprinted cards, all featuring characters, opponents, factions, and locations from Bethesda’s post-apocalyptic legend.
Magic: The Gathering X Assassin’s Creed teaser image
Magic: The Gathering X Assassin’s Creed teaser image
Assassin’s Creed will follow, as a complete booster set covering the whole air conditioner universe will release in July 2024. The set will include both brand-new and reprinted cards, all including brand-new Assassin’s Creed-themed art work, and the new cards will be “mechanically special” according to WOTC. Assassin’s Creed will be the second non-WOTC IP to receive a complete booster set, and it follows the also just recently launched The Lord Of The Rings: Tales Of Middle-earth.
The last of the three video-game-centric statements, Square Enix’s enormous RPG franchise Final Fantasy will get a complete booster set growth in 2025, with cards that will span the totality of the mainline FF franchise– from the original game to the recently introduced Final Fantasy XVI. The set will also be available for digital MTG gamers via Magic: The Gathering Arena.
One other outdoors franchise was verified for upcoming Magic: The Gathering product, as a subset of cards themed around Jurassic World– which is likewise celebrating its 30th anniversary this year– will be consisted of in the Lost Caverns Of Ixalan expansion, which launches later on this year.
The remainder of the Magic: The Gathering Gen Con 2023 statements are below:
Modern Horizons 3 (2024 )
The reprint set Modern Horizons will return, and it will bring along some double-faced cards and a few Planeswalkers.
Ravnica Remastered (Q1 2024).
Ravnica Remastered will be the very first of several products which will go back to Ravnica, a plane which was presented in 2005. This reprint growth will feature cards from each Ravnica block, and it will have a strong focus on the guilds of that world.
Murders at Karlov Manor (Q1 2024).
A whodunit murder secret in Magic: The Gathering form, Murders At Karlov Manor will bring investigator work to the trading card video game through hints, secret identities, and more.
Ravnica: Clue Edition (Q1 2024).
Ravnica: Clue Edition is a standalone, self-contained experience which integrates the timeless board game Clue with MTG.
Criminals of Thunder Junction (Q2 2024).
Magic handles the Wild West in this growth, which will feature both a brand-new world in the MTG universe in addition to a few of the lore’s most infamous bad guys.
Bloomburrow (Q3 2024).
This growth will also present a brand-new world in the MTG universe in the titular Bloomburrow, a distinct airplane whose residents are not human beings, but rather anthropomorphic beasts consisting of frogs, squirrels, bunnies, and rats.
Duskmourn: House of Horror (Q4 2024).
In the nick of time for Halloween, Duskmourn: House of Horror is a set framed within a haunted mansion. Characters and cards will draw inspiration from 1980s-era scary movies, games, and more.
Innistrad Remastered (release date: 2025).
Like Ravnica Remastered, Innistrad Remastered will include cards from every previous Innistrad expansion in one curated set.
Codename: Tennis (release date: Q1 2025).
A set exploring a category unusual to Magic, Tennis will be “Magic’s first multiplanar death race throughout three various worlds.”.
Codename: Ultimate (release date: 2025).
Ultimate will go back to the aircraft of Tarkir for a complete expansion for the very first time considering that 2015.
Codename: Volleyball (release date: 2025).
All that was pointed out about this set was that it is embeded in a “sci-fi space opera.”.
Codename: Wrestling (release date: 2025).
This set will return to Lorwyn and features races such as goblins, kithkin, faeries, and elves.
Codename: Yachting (release date: 2026).
Yacht will go back to the academic plane of Strixhaven, which was presented in 2021.
Codename: Ziplining (release date: 2026).
The last expansion announced during Gen Con, this will mark the end of the overarching story which will start with Wilds Of Eldraine on September 8.
The most recent Magic: The Gathering growth, Commander Masters, is readily available now at merchants and regional game shops after releasing August 4. The whole Gen Con MTG panel can now be discovered on the official Magic: The Gathering YouTube channel.
