Magic: The Gathering 30th Anniversary Panel at GenCon – MTG Arena Announcements

A lot of exciting new cards are making its way on MTG Arena! At the largest and longest-running tabletop gaming convention in North America, Gen Con, Wizards of the Coast have revealed more about the rest of their 2023 line-up and even shared sneak peeks into 2024, 2025, and beyond at their Magic at 30 panel! Check out all the details below. This is a developing story and will be updated.

2023

Some new features are coming to MTG Arena, including:

• September is MTG Arena’s 5th anniversary, and there will be an event to celebrate.
• An updated Duplicate Protection system – no more 13th copy of Duress!
• New achievement system will be implemented “to help provide rewards that go beyond wins and losses”.
• Before the end of the year Khans of Tarkir (the set, not the whole block) will be released as a full set, not a remastered version so there will not be any omitted cards.
• No MTG Arena remastered sets for a while after this.

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2024

More unified ecosystem with tabletop Magic, FNM games rewarding Mastery Pass experience.

Standard sets:

Murders at Karlov Manor

Outlaws of Thunder Junction

Bloomburrow

Duskmourn

Upcoming supplementary sets also include:

• Pioneers Masters to MTG Arena at the end of the year, promising all tournament viable cards, and will also be a draft format.
• Modern Horizons 3 as a draftable format in MTG Arena. Cards will be legal for Historic.

• Universes Beyond: Fallout cosmetics only, no cards.

• Undecided on Universes Beyond: Assassins Creed.

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2025

The development team is brainstorming about four-player modes and what to offer beyond PvP content.

Standard sets:

{Tennis}

Mark Rosewater describes it as another set which leans on the existence of Omenpaths to make a “death race” across three different planes! Mark teases that two are ones which have had sets, and one has never been visited in a premier set before.

{Ultimate}

Following that is codename [Ultimate] (as in Ultimate frisbee) which returns to a world we haven’t visited in over a decade! We are returning to Tarkir! Mark is avoiding details, but the set takes the best of Khans and Dragons of Tarkir and smushing them together.

{Voleyball}

Mark Rosewater is extremely excited as he describes the pushing boundaries for Magic, as this set takes place in OUTER SPACE!

{Wrestling}

The most requested planes we return to ever: IT’S LORWYN!

Upcoming supplementary sets also include:

• Final Fantasy set release similar to Lord of the Rings, so draftable and legal in Alchemy and Historic (no rebalances).

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2026

Standard sets:

• {Yachting}: Return to Arcavios, the world of Strixhaven
• {Ziplining}: Culmination of this story arc, similar to War of the Spark and March of the Machine.

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