Summary:

Themes for the Future

  • Innovation for the Future and Honoring the Past
  • Creating Something for Everyone
  • Commitment to Magic Lore and Story

2023

Coming August 10th - Secret Lair Commander Deck: Angels

Wilds of Eldraine is the first set of the “Omenpath Arc”, the start of a 3-year storyline culminating in 2026.

Jurassic World UB coming with next Ixalan set, like Transformers with BRO.

Additional LTR holiday release coming in November

MTG Arena

  • Anniversary events upcoming in September
  • Better duplicate protection to be introduced in WOE
  • New achievement system to be added
  • SOI last remastered set “for a while”, but full Khans of Tarkir set to be added by the end of the year.

2024

Release schedule

Ravnica Remastered

  • Akin to Dominaria Remastered along with retro frames

Murders at Karlov Manor (Q1 standard set)

  • Top down murder mystery set based in Ravnica
  • Not a “normal” Ravnica set - not focused on guilds
  • Focused on solving mysteries
  • Comes with Ravnica: Clue Edition, a multiplayer Magic experience

Fallout UB Commander Decks

  • Themes set to represent factions from the world
  • Coming March 2024

Outlaws of Thunder Junction (Q2 standard set)

  • Brand new plane featuring multiple villains from across the multiverse

Modern Horizons III

  • Introducing double-face cards to MH in a complex drafting format
  • Coming to Arena, available to draft and play at launch.

Arena additions

  • Pioneer masters- Draftable set intended to make Arena “Tournament Pioneer” complete
  • Integration of local FNM play into Arena (stuff like XP on your account)

Assassin’s Creed UB

  • Introducing “Beyond Boosters” - a new kind of booster unique to the setting, featuring new cards and reprints

Bloomburrow (Q3 standard set)

  • Start of the “Dragon Storm” story arc
  • No humanoids. Only anthropomorphized animals (mice, rats, frogs, birds, etc) at their normal sizes - but with magic and weapons

Duskmourn: House of Horror (Q3(?) standard set)

  • Top down modern (70s/80s) horror set
  • Brand new world set inside one giant mansion

2025

(very loose info on sets in development)

Innistrad Remasterd

Codename Tennis

  • “Death Race” set taking place across three different worlds via the Omenpaths
  • Two worlds from premiere sets with no “return”. Third world seen on cards but never visited in a premiere set

Codename Ultimate

  • A return to Tarkir
  • A blending of Khans of Tarkir and Dragons of Tarkir

Final Fantasy UB

  • Tentpole release like LTR
  • Will encompass each main FF release all the way up to FFXVI
  • Will be available on Arena

General Arena plans

  • Better new player experience
  • Improving collectibility and personalization
  • Figuring out 3+ players on Arena

Codename Volleyball

  • Start of unnamed story arc (codenamed ‘Metronome’)
  • Set in outer space as a top down “Space Opera”

Codename Wrestling

  • A return to Lorwyn

2026

(extremely loose concepts. Still in vision design)

Codename Yachting

  • Return to Arcavios

Codename Zipline

  • “Capstone Event Set” for the previous arcs (like March of the Machine and War of the Spark)
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    1 year ago

    They used to call them “Standard Sets” but they stopped because I think they thought that sent the message they were only for standard players. I do agree “Standard legal sets” is more accurate, though it is a mouth full.