2012

The year 2012 was the twentieth year of existence for Magic: The Gathering.

Events

Date	Event
January 7	Start of the 2012 Pro Tour Season with Grand Prix Austin, Texas, USA. A short, transitional season.
February 3	Release of Dark Ascension.
February 10–12	Pro Tour Dark Ascension at Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. Won by Brian Kibler. First Pro Tour named after the associated set.
March 30	Release of Duel Decks: Venser vs. Koth.
May 4	Release of Avacyn Restored. Mechanically and thematically a "reboot" of Innistrad block. Storywise, Avacyn returns and saves the day. For the Prerelease, stores featured a Helvault Prerelease Kit.
May 11–13	Pro Tour Avacyn Restored at Barcelona, Spain. Won by Alexander Hayne.
May 19	Start of the 2012–13 Pro Tour Season with the Grand Prix at Malmö, Sweden. Increase of large-scale tournaments.
June 1	Release of Planechase 2012.
July 13	Release of Magic 2013. Centered around Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker, which became the first multicolored card to be included in a Core Set. First Core Set to feature a synchronized Deck Builder's Toolkit.
August 16–19	2012 World Magic Cup at Gen Con in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States. Won by team China. First World Magic Cup, replacing the World Championships for teams.
August 29–31	2012 Players Championship at PAX in Seattle, Washington, United States. Won by Yuuya Watanabe. An exclusive sixteen-person tournament, presented as a restructured form of the World Championships. Also deciding Player of the Year.
August 31	Release of From the Vault: Realms.
September 7	Release of Duel Decks: Izzet vs. Golgari.
October 5	Release of Return to Ravnica. Featuring five guilds — the Azorius Senate, Golgari Swarm, Izzet League, Cult of Rakdos, and Selesnya Conclave.
October 17–19	Pro Tour Return to Ravnica at Seattle, Washington, United States. Won by Stanislav Cifka.
November 2	Release of Commander's Arsenal. Start of a new line of products conceived for the Commander format.
November 16	Release of the 2012 Holiday Gift Box.
	Player of the Year: Yuuya Watanabe.
	Rookie of the Year: Alexander Hayne.
	Hall of Fame inductees: Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa Kenji Tsumura Masashi Oiso Patrick Chapin

Publications

• Magic: The Gathering (comic) (July)
• Magic: The Gathering Coloring Book (October)
• Return to Ravnica: The Secretist, Part One (November)
• Magic: The Gathering - The Spell Thief (December)

First involved

R&D

• Ethan Fleischer
• Shawn Main
• Max McCall
• Billy Moreno
• Matt Sernett
• Sam Stoddard

Artists

Dark Ascension

• Adam Paquette

Avacyn Restored

• Sam Wolfe Connelly
• Wesley Burt

Duels of the Planeswalkers 2013 (promo)

• Chase Stone

Magic 2013

• Ioan Dumitrescu
• Jack Wang
• Marco Nelor
• Seb McKinnon
• Tyler Jacobson

Duel Decks: Izzet vs. Golgari

• Raoul Vitale

Return to Ravnica

• BD
• Christine Choi
• Eric Velhagen
• Mathias Kollros
• Noah Bradley
• Ryan Barger
• Willian Murai