2025

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The year 2025 is the thirty-third year of Magic: The Gathering.[1]

Events

Date Event
January 3–5 SCG CON Atlanta, featuring Magic Spotlight Series Foundations.
  • Won by USA flag Nicholas Odenheimer.
January 7-21 Draft boosters of Pioneer Masters switch to the Devotion bonus sheet.
January 14 Release of Chaos Vault: The Strange Sands.
January 24 Release of Innistrad Remastered.
February 2 The MTG Wiki migrates to an ad-free environment hosted by Scryfall.[2]
February 3 Release of Festival in a Box for MagicCon Chicago 2025.
February 10 Release of Secret Lair Drop Series: Winter Superdrop 2025.
February 11 Magic: The Gathering Arena introduces a player achievement system with[3]:
February 14 Release of Aetherdrift.
February 21-23 MagicCon Chicago, USA.[4]
March 4 Release of Alchemy: Aetherdrift.
March 14-16 Magic Spotlight Series Modern, Utrecht, Netherlands.[5]
  • Won by DEU flag Raul Porojan.
March 17 Release of Chaos Vault: Cats vs. Dogs. The better selling of the two drops would go on to receive a full superdrop themed around that creature type in 2026.[6]
March 24 Release of Secret Lair Drop Series: Our Boss is on Vacation.
March 26 Release of Chaos Vault: Oishii! Tokens.
April 1 Release of Secret Lair Drop Series: Marvel's Deadpool.
April 11 Release of Tarkir: Dragonstorm.
April 11-13 SCG CON Denver, featuring Magic Spotlight Series Dragons.[8]
April 21 Wizards of the Coast announces Through the Omenpaths, a unique Universes Within version of Universes Beyond sets that will be released on their digital platforms only.[9]
  • Through the Omenpaths cards will be mechanically identical to their Universe Beyond counterparts.
  • The cards will only be available on Magic Online and Magic: The Gathering Arena. They will not be available in paper at the time of their release.
  • Only sets that would otherwise not be able to be released on digital platforms will receive a Through the Omenpaths release.
April 22 Release of Chaos Vault: Adventures of the Little Witch.
April 25 Release of the Spring Flourishes D&D promos at local game stores.[10]
  • Can be obtained by participating in special draft events.
April 29 Release of Alchemy: Tarkir.
May 12 Release of Secret Lair Drop Series: The Ultimate Pencil Superdrop.
  • Features two drops in collaboration with Seattle radio station KEXP-FM.

Release of Secret Lair Commander Deck: Everyone's Invited!.

May 19 Release of Festival in a Box for MagicCon Las Vegas 2025.
May 30-June 1 SCG CON Indianapolis, featuring Magic Spotlight Series Secret Lair.[8]
June 9 Release of Secret Lair Drop Series: Summer Superdrop 2025.
June 13 Release of Universes Beyond: Final Fantasy
June 16 Release of Secret Lair Drop Series: Nuestra Magia.
June 20-22 MagicCon Las Vegas, USA.[4]
June 30 Annual Banned and restricted list announcement.[12]
July 14 Release of Secret Lair Drop Series: Sonic Superdrop.
July Bill Rose retires from Wizards of the Coast after 30 years.
  • Mark Rosewater considered him to have had one of the biggest influences on Magic by any single person.[13]
July 29 Standard Rotation: Dominaria United, The Brothers' War, Phyrexia: All Will Be One, March of the Machine and March of the Machine: The Aftermath leave the format.
  • This marks the final mid-year rotation of Standard and the last Standard rotation until 2027.[14]

Alchemy Rotation: Wilds of Eldraine, The Lost Caverns of Ixalan, Murders at Karlov Manor, Outlaws of Thunder Junction, The Big Score and the Alchemy 2024 sets leave the format.

July 31 - August 3 Gen Con, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
August 1 Release of Edge of Eternities.
August 19 Release of Alchemy: Edge of Eternities.
  • Includes a templating change for cards that conjure a duplicate card.

Release of Arena Anthology 1 and 2.

September 16 With the Through the Omenpaths pre-patch, the contents of Arena Anthology 3 and 4 are made available for players to craft using wildcards.
September 22 Release of Secret Lair Drop Series: Marvel's Spider-Man Superdrop.
September 23 Release of the first Through the Omenpaths set on Magic Online and Magic: The Gathering Arena.[9]

Release of Arena Anthology 3 and 4 for purchase.

September 26 Release of Marvel's Spider-Man, the first Universes Beyond: Marvel set.[18]
September 26–28 MagicCon Atlanta, USA.[4]
October 28 Release of Secret Lair Drop Series: Squishful Thinking, the Secret Lair drop for Extra Life 2025.
November 10 Interim Banned and restricted list announcement.
November 21 Release of Avatar: The Last Airbender. Includes the:

Release of Avatar: The Last Airbender Jumpstart.

December 5-7 World Championship 31 held at Bellevue, Washington, USA.[20]
TBA Booster packs for The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth are removed from the Magic: The Gathering Arena store. Players are still able to craft individual cards using wildcards.[21]

Publications

References

  1. Jess Lanzillo, Chris Kiritz, Athena Froehlich & Mark Rosewater (August 5, 2023). "Magic: The Gathering 30th Anniversary Panel at GenCon – A Recap of MTG's Past, Present & Future (Video)". Magic: The Gathering. YouTube.
  2. The MTG Wiki and Scryfall teams (February 2, 2025). "The MTG Wiki is now at mtg.wiki, hosted by Scryfall". Scryfall.
  3. Grant Reid (February 3, 2025). "Introducing Achievements on MTG Arena". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
  4. a b c Wizards of the Coast (October 16, 2024). "The 2025 MagicCon and Pro Tour Schedule". Magic.gg.
  5. Fanfinity (August 21, 2024). "Magic Players! We are incredibly excited to announce...". Twitter.
  6. Secret Lair (March 18, 2025). "Which are better, cats or dogs?". Bluesky.
  7. Wizards of the Coast. "Chaos Vault". Secret Lair. Archived from the original on March 18, 2025. Retrieved on March 17, 2025.
  8. a b StarCityGames (January 6, 2025). "We are thrilled to announce the next two Magic Spotlight Series events in the US!". Twitter.
  9. a b Blake Rasmussen (April 21, 2025). "Through the Omenpaths and Digital Universes Beyond Updates". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
  10. Wizards of the Coast (January 13, 2025). "Earn D&D-Themed Promo Cards with Magic Presents: Spring Flourishes". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
  11. Cosplay Contest - MagicCon: Las Vegas 2025 (Video). Magic: The Gathering. YouTube (June 25, 2025).
  12. Carmen Klomparens, Jadine Klomparens, Arya Karamchandani, Gavin Verhey & Dave Finseth (June 30, 2025). "Banned and Restricted Announcement – June 30, 2025". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
  13. Mark Rosewater (July 25, 2025). "Answer to yesterday’s #mtgtrivia question: Bill Rose.". Bluesky.
  14. Blake Rasmussen, Aaron Forsythe, Jackie Jones, Mark Heggen, Mark Rosewater (October 25, 2024). "The Foundations of Magic’s Next Era (Video)". Magic: The Gathering. YouTube.
  15. Igniting The Spark - The Story of Magic: The Gathering - Feature Film. Gen Con. Retrieved on July 18, 2025.
  16. Gavin Verhey (June 21, 2025). "Why Are We Changing the Rules of Commander with Edge of Eternities?? | Magic Vehicles & Spacecraft (Video)". Good Morning Magic. YouTube.
  17. Wizards of the Coast (July 8, 2025). "Renewal for MTG Arena's 2025 Standard Rotation". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
  18. Brian David-Marshall (October 18, 2024). "Finally, why wasn’t the most iconic New York superhero featured in one of the Superdrops?". Bluesky.
  19. Carmen Klomparens (September 9, 2025). "On Standard and Moving the Banned and Restricted Announcement to November 10". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
  20. Play Magic (March 10, 2025). "#MTGWorlds 31 will be in Bellevue, WA on December 5-7, 2025.". Bluesky.
  21. Wizards of the Coast (June 19, 2023). "MTG Arena Release Notes – The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth™". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.