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With half of 2023 behind us, Wizards Of The Coast took the chance to announce the way forward for Magic: The Gathering at its Gen Con 2023 panel. Nevertheless, not solely did the corporate reveal their plans by 2026, nevertheless it additionally confirmed three large names in gaming for its ever-growing Universes Past portfolio: Murderer’s Creed, Ultimate Fantasy, and Fallout.

Fallout will obtain the MTG remedy first, and it will likely be represented by a set of Commander decks set to launch in March 2024. Following names like Warhammer 40K and Physician Who, the Fallout Commander decks will function a combination of brand-new and reprinted playing cards, all that includes characters, enemies, factions, and areas from Bethesda’s post-apocalyptic saga.

Murderer’s Creed will come subsequent, as a full booster set spanning all the AC universe will launch in July 2024. The set will embrace each new and reprinted playing cards, all that includes new Murderer’s Creed-themed paintings, and the brand new playing cards might be “mechanically distinctive” in response to WOTC. Murderer’s Creed would be the second non-WOTC IP to obtain a full booster set, and it follows the additionally just lately launched The Lord Of The Rings: Tales Of Center-earth.

The final of the three video-game-centric bulletins, Sq. Enix’s large RPG franchise Ultimate Fantasy will obtain a full booster set growth in 2025, with playing cards that may span the whole thing of the mainline FF franchise–from the unique sport to the just lately launched Ultimate Fantasy XVI. The set may even be out there for digital MTG gamers by way of Magic: The Gathering Area.

One different exterior franchise was confirmed for upcoming Magic: The Gathering product, as a subset of playing cards themed round Jurassic World–which can be celebrating its thirtieth anniversary this year–will be included within the Misplaced Caverns Of Ixalan growth, which launches later this 12 months.

The remainder of the Magic: The Gathering Gen Con 2023 bulletins are beneath:

• Trendy Horizons 3 (2024)
  • The reprint set Trendy Horizons will return, and it’ll deliver alongside some double-faced playing cards and some Planeswalkers.
• Ravnica Remastered (Q1 2024)
  • Ravnica Remastered would be the first of a number of merchandise which can return to Ravnica, a airplane which was launched in 2005. This reprint growth will function playing cards from every Ravnica block, and it’ll have a powerful emphasis on the guilds of that world.
• Murders at Karlov Manor (Q1 2024)
  • A whodunit homicide thriller in Magic: The Gathering type, Murders At Karlov Manor will deliver detective work to the buying and selling card sport by clues, secret identities, and extra.
• Ravnica: Clue Edition (Q1 2024)
  • Ravnica: Clue Version is a standalone, self-contained expertise which mixes the basic board sport Clue with MTG.
• Outlaws of Thunder Junction (Q2 2024)
  • Magic takes on the Wild West on this growth, which can function each a brand new world within the MTG universe in addition to a number of the lore’s most infamous villains.
• Bloomburrow (Q3 2024)
  • This growth may even current a brand new world within the MTG universe within the titular Bloomburrow, a novel airplane whose inhabitants usually are not people, however as an alternative anthropomorphic beasts together with frogs, squirrels, rabbits, and rats.
• Duskmourn: Home of Horror (This fall 2024)
  • Simply in time for Halloween, Duskmourn: Home of Horror is a set framed inside a haunted mansion. Characters and playing cards will draw inspiration from Eighties-era horror films, video games, and extra.
• Innistrad Remastered (launch date: 2025)
  • Like Ravnica Remastered, Innistrad Remastered will function playing cards from each earlier Innistrad growth in a single curated set.
• Codename: Tennis (launch date: Q1 2025)
  • A set exploring a style unusual to Magic, Tennis might be “Magic’s first multiplanar demise race throughout three totally different worlds.”
• Codename: Final (launch date: 2025)
  • Final will return to the airplane of Tarkir for a full growth for the primary time since 2015.
• Codename: Volleyball (launch date: 2025)
  • All that was talked about about this set was that it’s set in a “science fiction area opera.”
• Codename: Wrestling (launch date: 2025)
  • This set will return to Lorwyn and options races equivalent to goblins, kithkin, faeries, and elves.
• Codename: Yachting (launch date: 2026)
  • Yachting will return to the educational airplane of Strixhaven, which was launched in 2021.
• Codename: Ziplining (launch date: 2026)
  • The ultimate growth introduced throughout Gen Con, this may mark the top of the overarching story which can start with Wilds Of Eldraine on September 8.

The newest Magic: The Gathering growth, Commander Masters, is out there now at retailers and native sport shops after launching August 4. In the meantime, all the Gen Con MTG panel can now be discovered on the official Magic: The Gathering YouTube channel.