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]
September 29 Release of Secret Lair Drop Series: Squishful Thinking, the Secret Lair drop for Extra Life 2025.
October 13 Release of Secret Lair Drop Series: Secret Scare Superdrop. Includes seven Universes Beyond drops across four different IPs:
October 27 Release of Secret Lair Drop Series: PlayStation Superdrop. Includes seven Universes Beyond drops, each a collaboration with a PlayStation game franchise:
October 28 The Arena Powered Cube is first run on Magic: The Gathering Arena with a special set of Arena Cube Prize Pack cards.
November 3 Release of Secret Lair: An Encyclopedia of Magic.
November 10 The interim banned and restricted list announcement for 2025.[19]
November 21 Release of Avatar: The Last Airbender. Includes the:
November 26 Wizards of the Coast announces the previously advertised Secret Lair Drop Series: Monster Hunter Superdrop will be cancelled, due to disappointed reactions to the reveal. The crossover superdrop will be reworked entirely with an expected new release date some time in 2026.[21]

After unexpectedly high pre-sales, it is announced that the release date for Strixhaven: Omens of Chaos has been moved from February 17, 2026 to April 7 to accommodate additional printing.[22][23]

December 5 Release of the Final Fantasy holiday releases.[24] The releases include:

Basic Boosters are introduced in Japan with the Final Fantasy Basic Booster.[25]

December 5-7 World Championship 31 held at Bellevue, Washington, USA.[26]
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.[27]

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, Jadine Klomparens, Eric Engelhard, Gavin Verhey & Daniel Xu (November 10, 2025). "Banned and Restricted Announcement - November 10, 2025". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
  20. ↑ Gavin Verhey (November 10, 2025). "Explanation of the Pauper High Tide Ban for November 10, 2025". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
  21. ↑ Wizards of the Coast (November 26, 2025). "Back to the Drawing Board with Secret Lair x Monster Hunter™". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
  22. ↑ Strixhaven: Omens of Chaos (Magic: The Gathering). Penguin Random House. Retrieved on November 27, 2025.
  23. ↑ Seanan McGuire (November 27, 2025). "So a lot of us woke up this morning to an email informing us that OMENS OF CHAOS...". Bluesky.
  24. ↑ Wizards of the Coast (September 26, 2025). "Everything Announced for Magic: The Gathering in 2026". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
  25. ↑ Wizards of the Coast (September 24, 2025). "より気軽な開封体験を！12月5日、『マジック：ザ・ギャザリング——FINAL FANTASY』ベーシック・ブースター発売". mtg-jp.com.
  26. ↑ Play Magic (March 10, 2025). "#MTGWorlds 31 will be in Bellevue, WA on December 5-7, 2025.". Bluesky.
  27. ↑ 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.
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