Set Guide

Magic: The Gathering Sets

Upcoming releases with mechanics and spoilers, what's currently on shelves, and past sets worth knowing, all in one place.

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Preview coverage for sets that haven't released, updated as spoilers drop.

The Hobbit
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The Hobbit

Magic's second trip to Middle-earth, with Bilbo, Thorin's Company, and Smaug. It is the first Tolkien set legal in Standard. Fully spoiled: new mechanics (Recruit, Storied, hone counters), all five draft archetypes, commanders, and the card gallery.

Reality Fracture
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Reality Fracture

Jace Beleren rebuilds the multiverse as the Echoverse: the Echo Variant mechanic, Hexhaven draft archetypes, and which Planeswalkers get recolored.

Mystery Booster: Commander Edition
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Mystery Booster: Commander Edition

The surprise convention set that prints official exceptions to color identity. All eight Rulebreaker commanders, the first sorcery allowed in the command zone, how Commander Draft works, and where to get a box.

Star Trek
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Star Trek

2026's final set, and the one where the Borg get a mechanic of their own. Assimilate, Federation and Face a Dilemma, the four Commander precons and their face commanders, the Welcome Decks, and every legend revealed so far.

MTG 2027 Sets: Full Release Schedule
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MTG 2027 Sets: Full Release Schedule

Every set releasing in 2027 with its date: Nauctis, Marvel: Darkhold Destiny, Kamigawa: Titanbreach and Zhalfir, plus the two Universes Beyond sets still to be named (Aug 6 and Nov 19).

Nauctis: The Sunken Realm
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Nauctis: The Sunken Realm

Magic's first fully underwater plane, and the set replacing flying with a brand-new evasion mechanic. Release date, setting, creature types, and what's still unannounced.

Kamigawa: Titanbreach
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Kamigawa: Titanbreach

An Omenpath drops Ikoria's kaiju onto Kamigawa in Magic's first mechs-versus-monsters set. Release date, premise, and what's confirmed so far.

Zhalfir
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Zhalfir

Teferi's homeland explored as its own plane for the first time, an Afrofantasy world of five suns and a spirit realm. Release date, setting, and Teferi Akosa's return.

Current

In Standard right now

Every set we cover that is currently Standard-legal. There is no rotation in 2026, and the format still reaches back to Wilds of Eldraine (September 2023), which is why two 2023 sets are here and three are not. The next rotation moves to February 2027, when 2025–2027 sets will be the legal pool: everything below from 2023 and 2024 rotates out then, while Foundations stays until at least 2029.

Rotated Out

Left Standard, still legal elsewhere

Sets that have left Standard, or came out before it existed, going back to Alpha in 1993. The 2021 to 2023 sets here went out at three you may remember: Dominaria United in September 2022, Bloomburrow in August 2024 and Edge of Eternities in July 2025. Which rotation took a given set matters less than what is still true of it: a rotation only ever removes cards from Standard, so everything below is still playable in Legacy, Vintage and Commander. Pioneer only reaches back to Return to Ravnica (October 2012) and Modern to Eighth Edition (2003), so the older sets here kept fewer formats, and each guide says which.

Modern & Eternal

Legal, but never in Standard

Sets that skipped Standard by design rather than rotating out of it. Some went straight to Modern, most were eternal-only from the start, and none of them ever had a Standard legality to lose. Two are further out than that: Unsanctioned is silver-bordered and legal in no sanctioned format at all, and Unfinity shipped a legal half where the stamp on each card decides.

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