ThoughMagic: The Gathering’s2024 lineup has been the star of its 30th anniversary Gen Con panel, Wizards of the Coast did also unveil where we’ll be heading the year after, with an early tease of its 2025 sets.
While 2024 is full of new planes, 2025 is heading back to two of the most heavily-requested settings in the game’s history. It’s also off into space, and hitting the track for a death race across the multiverse.
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Keep in mind that every name here is an in-development codename, and we likely won’t hear any more of these for at least a year, if not more.
Following 2021’s Time Spiral Remastered, 2023’s Dominaria Remastered and 2024’s Ravnica Remastered, 2025 is carrying on the revamped classics train with a trip back to the Gothic Horror reaches of Innistrad.
If it’s anything like the other Remastered sets, Innistrad Remastered will combine cards from the original Innistrad black, Shadows Over Innistrad, and Innistrad: Midnight Hunt and Crimson Vow in one, curated, draftable environment. This is what we wanted from 2022’s Innistrad: Double Feature, so let’s hope the second time’s the charm.
Universes Beyond: Final Fantasy
Already revealed in the panel, 2025 is giving us a full-scale set based onSquare Enix’s Final Fantasy. Spanning every mainline game in the series, up to and including Final Fantasy 16, this set is coming to both tabletop and digital clients, and should include Commander decks and Secret Lair drops to go along with it.
Codename: Tennis
Tennis is a vehicular death race across three different worlds. The concept art released for it is slightly more futuristic than we’ve seen before (bar Kamigawa), but it’s absolutely nothing compared to what is coming later in the year.
Codename: Ultimate
After almost 10 years away, we’re finally going back to the Asian-inspired world Tarkir. This is the first time we’ll be seeing the plane not just since the March of the Machine, but also since the plane’s history was rewritten to bring the dragons back to life. Tarkir is often remembered as one of the best limited environments of all time, and we can expect to see more of its five clans.
Codename: Volleyball
Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty may have been Magic’s first-ever sci-fi set, but compared to Volleyball it feels positively prehistoric. Volleyball is a Space Opera set, complete with aliens, terraformed worlds, and exosuit power loaders.
Codename: Wrestling
Is your heart still pumping from Tarkir coming back? You might want to take a moment, as 2025 is finishing up with a return to Lorwyn. A fantasy world heavily inspired by Celtic mythology, much like the original take on Kamigawa, it was a beloved set flavour-wise, but fell apart mechanically. With this new trip there, we might get to see this Human-less world full of Kithkin and Faeries finally get the outing it deserves. It should also fit nicely into Standard with the also Human-free fantasy world of Bloomburrow.
There is still a lot we don’t know about 2025. Based on recent years, we’re likely getting a second Universes Beyond crossover, and we’re still short one tentpole set. However, we’ll have to speculate on those for a very long time, as we’ve got a whole year of cowboys, animals, and tubular ‘80s horror to get through first.
