Planechase Unknown/2025 list of event cards

Planechase Unknown

 

2024 list of event cards

 

2025 list of event cards

 

Description

The event cards are specially printed planar cards. The front face is a plain white card with the plane's name, type, subtype, and rules text. It is surrounded by a black and gold border. The back face is black with the MagicCon logo and a gold border. Being playtest cards, there is no art, artist credits, or collector number.

Chicago 2025 cards

A total of nine new cards were designed for this event. A further three cards were reprinted from the previous year's MagicCon Chicago event with functional errata.

Location	Plane	Plane text	Notes
The Bean	Chicago	When you planeswalk here, each player chooses a creature they control and creates a token that's a copy of it, except it's a Reflection in addition to its other types. All Reflections have shadow. (They can block or be blocked only by creatures with shadow.) Whenever chaos ensues, create a token that's a copy of a creature you control, except it's a Reflection in addition to its other types.	Reprint from MagicCon Chicago 2024 with the plane type errata'd to Chicago. The card also received major functional errata, replacing the original design's inverted power and toughness for shadow.
City Hall	Chicago	When you planeswalk here, you become the monarch. Whenever Chaos ensues, each player may create two tapped Treasure tokens. Each player who does can't attack you during their next turn.	Reprint from the Chicago 2024 event, with the plane type errata'd to Chicago and a minor errata to change "can't attack you on their next turn." to "can't attack you during their next turn."
The Command Zone	MagicCon	When you planeswalk here, each player who controls their commander draws a card. Other players may put their commander from the command zone onto the battlefield. If an ability of your commander would trigger during your turn, that ability triggers an additional time. Whenever chaos ensues, the number of times each commander has been cast from the command zone becomes 0. (This resets commander tax.)	Represents The Command Zone.
Game Knights Live	—	Whenever a player casts their commander or attacks with their commander, they may say "Only one may stand." If they do, that commander becomes a Knight in addition to its other types until a player planeswalks away from Game Knights Live. Knights you control have double strike and trample. Whenever chaos ensues, commanders you control can’t be blocked this turn and gain "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, draw a card" until end of turn.	Represents the Commander game event of the same name, run by The Command Zone at MagicCons. As printed, this card is missing its type line.
Ghirapur Grand Prix	Avishkar	When you planeswalk here, all players start their engines! (If you have no speed, it starts at 1. It increases once on each of your turns when an opponent loses life. Max speed is 4.) At the beginning of your end step, put X +1/+1 counters on target creature you control, where X is your speed. When you planeswalk away from Ghirapur Grand Prix, each player with the highest speed among players creates three Treasure tokens.	Allows players to participate in the Ghirapur Grand Prix.
New Player's Journey	Foundations	When you planeswalk here, each player may search their library for a basic land card, put it into their hand, then shuffle. Whenever you play a card from Foundations or a core set (including Alpha!), draw a card. Whenever chaos ensues, you gain life equal to the number of years you’ve played Magic, rounded up. Then planeswalk.
The Pro Tour	MagicCon	Draft — When you planeswalk here, each player opens a booster pack, drafts a card, and exiles it face down. Each player may play the card they drafted for as long as it remains exiled. Players may spend any type of mana to cast spells this way. Standard — Whenever chaos ensues, each player draws cards equal to the number of differently named Standard-legal cards they control. (Basic lands count. Tokens don’t.)	Represents the Magic: The Gathering Pro Tour, and Pro Tour Aetherdrift, which took place concurrently with MagicCon Chicago. The plane's two abilities represent the two halves of the tournament.
Sorin's Remastered Manor	Innistrad	When you planeswalk here and at the beginning your upkeep, put a spooky counter on target creature you control. Spooky creatures you control have +1/+1 and menace. (A creature is spooky if it has a spooky counter or it could be a horror movie monster.) A Murder at Markov Manor — Whenever chaos ensues, target spooky creature you control bites target opponent or creature an opponent controls. (The creature deals damage equal to its power to the creature your opponent controls. You gain that much life.)	References Innistrad Remastered and the common confusion with the name of the set Murders at Karlov Manor.
That's Enough Slices	Phenome-nom	When you encounter this phenome-nom, each player creates a Pizza token. If that player has the least life or is tied for the least life, they create two Pizza tokens instead. Then planeswalk away from this phenome-nom. (A Pizza token is a Food artifact with “{o2}, {oT}, Sacrifice this token: You gain 6 life.”)	References Chicago-style pizza
The Windy City	Chicago	When you planeswalk here and at the beginning of your upkeep, put a flying counter on target nontoken creature you control without flying. Whenever chaos ensues, exile target creature with flying. For as long as it remains exiled, its owner may cast it by paying {o2} rather than paying its mana cost. When you planeswalk away from The Windy City, remove all flying counters from all creatures.	Reprint from the Chicago 2024 event, with the plane type errata'd to Chicago. The card also received major functional errata, restricting the original design's flying counters to just the initial planeswalk to The Windy City and the beginning of the player's upkeep. It can no longer target token creatures and planeswalking away no longer exiles all creatures with flying.
Year-End Review	Phenomenon	Each player may choose a nontoken creature they own on the battlefield, reveal a creature card from their hand, or choose a creature card in their graveyard. Those cards become promoted to commander. Each player may put their new commander into the command zone. Then planeswalk away from this phenomenon. (All original commanders are still commanders.)

Las Vegas 2025 cards

A total of TBA new cards were designed for this event, with TBA cards were reprinted from the previous MagicCon events. This event saw the first You Make the Card design, Bagel Valley from the Chicago panel, be printed for use by players.

Location	Plane	Plane text	Notes
Alesha's Arena	Tarkir	When you planeswalk here and at the beginning of your upkeep, You may mill three cards. Whenever you attack, return target creature card with power 2 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped and attacking. Whenever chaos ensues, put three +1/+1 counters on target creature you control. It gains first strike until end of turn.	The plane gives you the combined abilities of Alesha, Who Smiles at Death and Alesha, Who Laughs at Fate.
Artist Alley	MagicCon	Whenever you planeswalk here and at the beginning of your upkeep, exile the top card of your library. You may play that card this turn. Whenever chaos ensues, exile the top six cards of your library. An opponent or player outside the game chooses the nonland card from among them with their favorite art. You may cast that card without paying its mana cost.	Reprint. The card's chaos ensues ability has been re-worded without changing its overall function.
Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar's Kitchen	Hell	When you planeswalk here and whenever a nontoken creature you control enters, create a Food token. Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life. Whenever chaos ensues, you may sacrifice any number of artifacts and/or creatures. You draw that many cards and lose that much life.	Reprint. The card has received a functional errata change to its first ability. It now only triggers of nontoken creatures entering, instead of all creatures. This is likely to prevent players with mobilize cards from generating large numbers of Food.
Black Lotus Lounge	MagicCon	When you planeswalk here and at the beginning of your upkeep, create a Black Lotus token. Whenever chaos ensues, each player draws a card for each artifact token they control.	Reprint.
Demo Tables	MagicCon	Play the Game, See the World — When you planeswalk here, each player may search their library for a basic land card, put it into their hand, then shuffle. Here I Rule — Whenever you play a basic land card or a card with a Foundations or core set expansion symbol (Alpha counts!), draw a card. Ignite Your Spark — Whenever chaos ensues, you gain life equal to the number of years you've played Magic. Then planeswalk.	References slogans of Magic: The Gathering.
Elvish Impersonation Contest	Phenomenon	When you encounter this phenomenon, each player creates an Elvish Impersonators token. You become the monarch. (It's a green Elf creature with "As this creature enters, roll a six-sided die twice. Its base power becomes the first result and its base toughness becomes the second result." and flavor text "Uh-hunh.") (Then planeswalk away from this phenomenon.)	References the association between Elvis Presley impersonators and the city of Las Vegas. By extension, it also references the Cosplay Contest held at the convention. As a silver-bordered card, Elvish Impersonators has the creature type "Elves", not "Elf" as the reminder text implies. While this card shares the same name as the card issued at MagicCon Las Vegas 2024, it is essentially a totally new card.
Jalira's Showroom	Las Vegas	Whenever you cast a creature spell, draw a card, then discard a card. Whenever chaos ensues, destroy up to one target creature. Its controller reveals cards from the top of their library until they reveal a creature card. That player puts that card onto the battlefield, then puts the rest on the bottom of their library in a random order.	Update of Jalira's Show from the 2024 Planechase Unknown event.
Omenpath Instability	Phenomenon	When you encounter this phenomenon, each player creates an Omenpath enchantment token with "Sacrifice this enchantment: Choose one — Planeswalk; or chaos ensues. Activate only as a sorcery." (Then planeswalk away from this phenomenon.)	Reprint. The phenomenon has been re-worked to get rid of the Entropy token and combine both abilities onto the Omenpath token.
Pin Collector's Booth	MagicCon	Whenever you attack, create a Pin Aura enchantment token attached to target attacking creature you control. It has enchant creature and "Enchanted creature gets +1/+1." Whenever chaos ensues, each opponent loses X life, where X is the total number of Pins attached to you, your nearby belongings (such as a playmat or backpack), and creatures you control.	Reprint. The chaos ensues ability has been errata to now include your nearby belongings, beyond just your backpack.
Samut's Training Grounds	Amonkhet	Creature spells cost {o1} less to cast. Creatures you control have haste. Whenever chaos ensues, until end of turn, creatures you control can't be blocked except by creatures with haste.	References Samut.
Sorin's Remastered Manor	Innistrad	When you planeswalk here and at the beginning your upkeep, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control. It becomes spooky until end of turn. (A creature is spooky if it has a spooky counter or it could be a horror movie monster.) Spooky creatures you control have menace. A Murder at Markov Manor — Whenever chaos ensues, target spooky creature you control bites target opponent or creature an opponent controls. (It deals damage equal to its power to the target and you gain that much life.)	Reprint. The card received several errata so only one creature is spooky at a time and the additional +1/+1 is a permanent buff, via counters, rather than as long as the plane is active. The changes to the card mean the reminder text for its first ability no longer makes sense.
The Merch Booth	MagicCon	When you planeswalk here, at the beginning of your upkeep, and whenever you roll the planar die, you get ❖. Spend ❖ only during your turn. ❖ — Create a Food token. ❖ ❖ — Create a 1/1 colorless Toy artifact creature token named Fblthp. ❖ ❖ ❖ ❖ — Draw two cards.	References the convention's official merchandise stand. The plane introduces a new resource (❖) that can be spent in a manner similar to the Bloomburrow pawprint mechanic. Unlike pawprints, this resource stays with the player.
Royal Booster	Phenomenon	When you encounter this phenomenon, open a sealed Magic booster pack and shuffle it without looking at its contents. Those cards become the booster deck. You become the monarch. For the rest of the game, at the beginning of the monarch's end step, that player also draws a card from the booster deck. They may spend mana of any type to cast those cards. (Then planeswalk away from this phenomenon.)	Reprint. The card has received errata to ensure the booster used is sealed before opening and that the monarch now gets two cards during their end step, one from the monarch trigger and one from the booster deck.
The Sphere	Las Vegas	When you planeswalk here, each player chooses a creature they control and sacrifices the rest. Each player amasses Fans X, where X is the total power of creatures they sacrificed this way. Whenever chaos ensues, amass Fans 5. Then Fans and Armies you control gain trample and haste until end of turn. (Put five +1/+1 counters on an Army you control. It's also a Fan. If you don't control an army, create a 0/0 black Fan Army creature token first.)	Reprint. The plane has had a number of errata changes, with the plane's first ability being totally re-worked to create a Fan Army for each player. Notably, unlike the card issued at MagicCon Las Vegas 2024, the Fan Army is back to being black.
Ureni's Lair	Tarkir	Whenever one or more creatures you control enter during your turn, put a flying counter on one of them. It becomes a Spirit Dragon with base power and toughness 5/5 in addition to its other types. This ability triggers only once each turn. Whenever chaos ensues, Dragons you control gain menace and haste until end of turn.	References the Spirit Dragon Ureni of the Temur Frontier.
Welcome to Valley	Bloomburrow	Whenever you cast an animal spell, draw a card. (Animals are any non-human creature types that are animals in real life.) Whenever chaos ensues, create a token that's a copy of target creature you control, except it's a 1/1 (and adorable).	Reprint.
You Encounter a Beholder!	Phenomenon	When you encounter this phenomenon, starting with you, each player rolls a d20. Players who control their commander roll with advantage. (They roll 2d20 and ignore the lower roll.) 1-9 | Create a Treasure token. 10-19 | Draw a card. 20 | Create a Treasure token, draw a card, then you may cast a spell from your hand without paying its mana cost. (Then planeswalk away from this phenomenon.)	References the addition of Dungeons & Dragons to the MagicCon line-up.

Ranks

In addition to the planar cards, five Rank cards were designed and given out to players at a party held at Area 15 on the Thursday night before the MagicCon. All listed have the card type "Rank" and no subtypes. Each card has a static ability and an activated ability, known as a "rank ability", that can only be activated once per game. Each rank references an associated rank from the Star Trek franchise.

Rank	Type	Rank text	Notes
Captain	Rank	The Big Chair — You choose the starting player. You start the game with a Treasure token. Command Codes — : Gain control of target creature until end of turn. Untap that creature. Until end of turn, it gains haste and can't attack its owner. Activate only once.
Chief Engineer	Rank	Watchful Eye — At the beginning of combat on your turn, target creature you control gains vigilance until end of turn. Miracle Worker — : Reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a nonland card. You may cast that card without paying its mana cost. Activate only once.	References Chief Engineer Scotty, who was referred to as "miracle worker."
Chief Medical Officer	Rank	Bio-Filtration System — You start at 50 life. Resuscitation Pack — : Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery and only once.
First Officer	Rank	Executive Authority — Your starting maximum hand size is eight. Second in Command — : You may activate another player's rank ability this turn (even if they already have). Activate only once.
Head of Security	Rank	Weapons Hot — Attacking nontoken creatures you control get +1/+0. Confine to Quarters — : Remove all attacking creatures from combat. Activate only once.

Atlanta 2025 cards

A total of TBA new cards were designed for this event, with TBA cards were reprinted from the previous MagicCon events.

Location	Plane	Plane text	Notes
Artist Alley	MagicCon	Whenever you planeswalk here and at the beginning of your upkeep, exile the top card of your library. You may play that card this turn. Whenever chaos ensues, exile the top six cards of your library. An opponent or player outside the game chooses the nonland card from among them with their favorite art. You may cast that card without paying its mana cost.	Reprint.
The Big Aquarium	Atlanta	Marine animals can't block or be blocked by non-marine animals. (Marine animals live in the ocean or other salt-water environments.) Whenever you attack, for each player you're attacking, create a 1/1 blue Fish creature token that's tapped and attacking that player. If chaos ensues this turn, instead create a 5/5 blue Whale Shark creature token that's tapped and attacking that player.	References the Georgia Aquarium and its whale shark exhibit.
Black Lotus Lounge	MagicCon	When you planeswalk here and at the beginning of your upkeep, create a Black Lotus artifact token. Whenever chaos ensues, each player draws a card for each artifact token they control.	Reprint. The card's first ability now defines the Black Lotus token as an "artifact token".
Cola Bottling Plant	Atlanta	When you planeswalk here and whenever a land you control enters, bottle the top card of your library (Exile it. You may play it this turn.) Whenever chaos ensues and when you planeswalk away from here, each player puts each bottled card they own into their graveyard and creates that many 1/1 green Plant creature tokens.	Atlanta is home to The Coca-Cola Company's headquarters. The mechanics are a pun on "bottling" and the bottling of Coca-Cola.
The Command Zone	MagicCon	When you planeswalk here, each player who controls their commander draws a card. Other players may put their commander from the command zone onto the battlefield. If an ability of your commander would trigger during your turn, that ability triggers an additional time. Whenever chaos ensues, the number of times each commander has been cast from the command zone becomes 0. (This resets commander tax.)	Reprint.
Demo Tables	MagicCon	Play the Game, See the World — When you planeswalk here, each player may search their library for a basic land card, put it into their hand, then shuffle. Here I Rule — Whenever you play a basic land card or a card with a Foundations or core set expansion symbol (Alpha counts!), draw a card. Ignite Your Spark — Whenever chaos ensues, you gain life equal to the number of years you've played Magic. Then planeswalk.	Reprint. The product names and reminder text that weren't previously italicized have now been italicized.
Georgia echnical Ins i u e	A lan a	Spells with the letter T in their names cost less to cast. Creatures with the letter T in their names have trample. Whenever chaos ensues, this plane deals X damage to up to one target creature and you gain X life, where X is the number of Ts among names of permanents you control.	The card is a reference to the Georgia Institute of Technology and its tradition of students stealing the "T" from the top of Tech Tower.
Goldengrave	Tarkir	When you planeswalk here, each player secretly chooses a Tarkir clan. Reveal the choices, then each player joins the clan they chose for as long you are on this plane. Whenever you attack a player not in your clan, creatures attacking that player get +2/+0 until end of turn. Whenever chaos ensues, each player in your clan draws two cards and creates a Treasure token.	Brings the factional divisions of Tarkir to Planechase.
Gravitational Capture	Phenomenon	When you encounter this phenomenon, each player reveals cards from the top of their library until they reveal a nonland permanent card with mana value 5 or less. Each player puts that card onto the battlefield under the control of the player on their left and the other cards they revealed on the bottom of their library in a random order. (Then planeswalk away from this phenomenon).	Gravitational capture but for permanents.
Lorwyn Arena	Lorwyn	When you planeswalk here and at the beginning of your upkeep, clash with target opponent. (Each clashing player reveals the top card of their library, then puts that card on their choice of the top or bottom. A player wins if their card had a greater mana value.) Whenever you win a clash, draw a card. Then you may cast a spell from your hand without paying its mana cost. Whenever chaos ensues, clash with target opponent.	The clash mechanic debuted in Lorwyn.
The Merch Booth	MagicCon	When you planeswalk here, at the beginning of your upkeep, and whenever you roll the planar die, you get ❖. Spend ❖ only during your turn. ❖: Create a Food token. ❖ ❖: Create a 1/1 colorless Toy artifact creature token named Fblthp. ❖ ❖ ❖ ❖: Draw two cards.	Reprint. The card's em dashes ("—") have been replaced with colons, as per Magic's normal cost templating.
Mysterious Planet	Sothera System	Station (Tap another creature you control: Put charge counters equal to its power on this Planet. Station only as a sorcery.) 6+: Whenever you attack a player, create a Lander token. (It's an artifact with ", , Sacrifice this token: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.") Whenever chaos ensues, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control. Untap those creatures.	This plane may be a reference to one of the planets, likely Evendo, in the Sothera system or a reference to the Planet X theories.
Omenpath Instability	Phenomenon	When you encounter this phenomenon, each player creates an Omenpath enchantment token with "Sacrifice this enchantment: Choose one — Planeswalk; or chaos ensues. Activate only as a sorcery." (Then planeswalk away from this phenomenon.)	Reprint of the Las Vegas 2025 version.
Pin Collector's Booth	MagicCon	Whenever you attack, create a Pin Aura enchantment token attached to target attacking creature you control. It has enchant creature and "Enchanted creature gets +1/+1." Whenever chaos ensues, each opponent loses X life, where X is the total number of Pins attached to you, your nearby belongings (such as a playmat or backpack), and creatures you control.	Reprint.
The Pro Tour	MagicCon	Draft — When you planeswalk here, each player opens a booster pack, drafts a card, and exiles it face down. Each player may play the card they drafted for as long as it remains exiled. Players may spend any type of mana to cast spells this way. Standard — Whenever chaos ensues, each player draws cards equal to the number of differently named Standard-legal cards they control. (Basic lands count. Tokens don’t.)	Reprint.
Terminus, End of the Line	Atlanta	When you planeswalk here, each player puts all creatures they control on the bottom of thier deck in a random order. Each card in your hand has miracle. Its miracle cost is equal to its mana cost minus . (You may cast a card for its miracle cost when you draw it if it's the first card you drew this turn.)	"Terminus" was the very first, unofficial, name for the settlement surrounding the zero mile post that would come to be Atlanta, Georgia.
Through the Wormhole	Phenomenon	When you encounter this phenomenon, the player who is farthest from their home draws three cards. Each other player creates a Lander token. (It's an artifact with ", , Sacrifice this token: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle." (Then planeswalk away from this phenomenon).	References the use of wormholes in science fiction.
Waffle Hovel	Atlanta	Whenever you attack and whenever a creature you controls fights, create a Food token. : Target creature you control fights target creature an opponent controls. Whenever you planeswalk away from here, each player who controls the most Food tokens draws two cards.	The plane is a reference to the Waffle House restaurant chain and its supposed reputation for being a potentially dangerous place after several stories about brawls and violent altercations at locations went viral.

You Make the Card list

Inspired by the panels Gavin runs prior to the Unknown Event, cards in this list were created at a You Make the Card panel for Black Lotus VIPs. The card designed at a panel is usually issued to participants at the following MagicCon.

Card name	Plane	Plane text	Created at	Issued at	Notes
Bagel Valley	Lorwyn	When you planeswalk here and at the beginning of your upkeep, put an everything counter on target creature or land you control. (It has all creature types or all land types.) Whenever you attack, discover X, where X is number of everything counters among permanents. Whenever chaos ensues, for each permanent you control with an everything counter on it, create a token that's a copy of it. Designed by players at MagicCon Chicago 2025.	Chicago 2025	Las Vegas 2025; Atlanta 2025	Utilizes everything counters to reference everything bagels.
Secret Lair	Unknown	When you planeswalk here, each player searches their library for a shiny card, reveals it, puts it into their hand, then shuffles. (Foil cards and Secret Lair cards are shiny.) Shiny cards have protection from non-shiny cards. Whenever chaos ensues, reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a shiny nonland card. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. If you don't, put it into your hand. Put the other revealed cards on the bottom of your library in a random order. Created by Magic Con Las Vegas 2025 Black Lotus VIPs	Las Vegas 2025	Atlanta 2025	References premium cards and the Secret Lair product line.