Headliner

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Headliner
Card Treatment
Introduced Innistrad Remastered
Last used Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

The Headliner program is a series of Magic: The Gathering cards that was introduced for Innistrad Remastered in 2025.[1] Each set features a unique headliner, that is essentially a chase card.[2]

Description

The design team picks one card for a specific set and "cranks all the exciting knobs for awesome collectability", making a card feel super special by producing dedicated illustrations, treatments and foilings. Serialization will show up regularly.[3] Serialized versions can appear in Collector Boosters of any language, but the cards will always be in English. They are mechanically identical to their non-serialized counterparts.

In rare exceptions, multiple cards may be classes as headliners but this is limited to specific circumstances where a property has a small number of highly recognizable elements.[4]

The Headliner-program was inspired by the commercial success of The One Ring and its many variants (cards) from The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth.[5]

List of headliners

Set Date Headliner card Serialized Treatment Additional treatments
Innistrad Remastered 2025-01[6] Edgar Markov 1-500 Horror movie poster
Aetherdrift 2025-02[7] The Aetherspark 1-500 Double rainbow foil
Tarkir: Dragonstorm 2025-04[8] Mox Jasper 1-500 Retro frame double rainbow foil[9]
Final Fantasy 2025-06 Traveling Chocobo 1-77 Textless gold foil[10]
Edge of Eternities 2025-08 Sothera, the Supervoid No Textless singularity foil[11]
Marvel's Spider-Man 2025-09 The Soul Stone No Cosmic foil[12]
Avatar: The Last Airbender 2025-11 Avatar Aang // Aang, Master of Elements TBA Raised foil[13] TBA
Lorwyn Eclipsed 2026-02 Bitterbloom Bearer 1 - 500 Double rainbow foil[14]
  • Default frame
  • Fable frame
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2026-03 Leonardo, Sewer Samurai No Borderless artwork by Kevin Eastman with a gold-foil artist's signature.[4]
  • Default frame

Gallery

Headliner treatments for Edgar Markov (Innistrad Remastered)

References

  1. ↑ Adam Styborski & Jubilee Finnegan (October 25, 2024). "The Foundations of Magic's Next Era". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
  2. ↑ Wizards of the Coast (February 21, 2025). "The Preview Panel - MagicCon: Chicago 2025 (Video)". Magic: The Gathering. YouTube.
  3. ↑ Magic: The Gathering (October 25, 2024). "Innistrad Remastered will be the first set for the Headliner program.". Twitter.
  4. ↑ a b Athena Froehlich and Jubilee Finnegan (October 10, 2025). "Collecting Magic: The Gathering® — Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: A First Look". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
  5. ↑ Blake Rasmussen, Athena Froehlich (December 2, 2024). "Innistrad Remastered Previews". Twitch.
  6. ↑ Jubilee Finnegan & Athena Froehlich (December 3, 2024). "Collecting Innistrad Remastered: The Four Most Important Things to Know". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
  7. ↑ Jubilee Finnegan & Max McCall (January 21, 2025). "Collecting Aetherdrift: The Four Most Important Things to Know". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
  8. ↑ Wizards of the Coast (February 21, 2025). "Of course, with it being the Headliner of the set it gets a few special treatments and a serialized version!". Bluesky.
  9. ↑ Athena Froehlich & Jubilee Finnegan (February 21, 2025). "Collecting Tarkir: Dragonstorm – A First Look". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
  10. ↑ Zakeel Gordon & Jubilee Finnegan (May 10, 2025). "Collecting Magic: The Gathering®—FINAL FANTASY™: The Four Most Important Things to Know". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
  11. ↑ Magic: The Gathering (June 20, 2025). "Now a look at the different treatments of Sothera in #MTGEternities.". Twitter.
  12. ↑ Magic: The Gathering (August 1, 2025). "Revealed earlier today by Marvel as part of #SpiderManDay:". Bluesky.
  13. ↑ Wizards of the Coast (June 10, 2025). "Magic: The Gathering® - Avatar: The Last Airbender™ Arrives This November". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
  14. ↑ Mike Turian and Jubilee Finnegan (September 26, 2025). "Collecting Lorwyn Eclipsed: A First Look". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
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