This category will try to bring you new content as it pertains to the card game of Magic: the Gathering. Decklists will be provided for various formats such as EDH, Standard and Legacy.
Kayou Limited announced six English Edition starter decks for My Little Pony TCG: Friendships Begin, which will hit retailers on May 1, 2026.
The starter decks allow players to choose their favorite Pony, and go head-to-head in a game where they will try to complete their Pony’s story before their opponent. The starters to choose from are as follows: Twilight Sparkle, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, Rarity, Applejack, and Fluttershy. Each comes ready-to-play and consists of 70 cards. The decks also include three 5-card booster packs.
Each deck will retail for $19.99.
Kayou Limited recently released Fantasy Wonderland, a booster set for My Little Pony CG, into retail on April 18, 2026 (see ” ‘My Little Pony CG’ Booster Set“).
Hasbro’s Q1 results were delayed due to the hack discovered last month and reported on April 1 (see “Hasbro Gets Hacked“), the company announced. The Q1 results will be reported on May 20, roughly a month later than they reported Q1 results last year (see “Blowout First Quarter“).
Hasbro outlined more impacts from the hack, which took place on March 28. Most importantly, the unauthorized access has been contained and the company is bringing systems that had been taken offline back up sequentially.
The company’s most important products shipped as expected. Shipments of Magic: The Gathering, including of Secrets of Strixhaven, are being made as planned, but shipments in Hasbro’s Consumer Products segment, which includes toys and non-WotC games, will be impacted in Q2 due to order processing, shipping, and invoicing delays, the company said. The delays will affect Q2 sales and profits, Hasbro said, although the company hopes to pick up the majority of those sales in later quarters.
Hasbro revealed ranges for a few Q1 numbers: $970-985 million in revenue, which is 9-11% over last year, and operating profit of $235-$245 million, up 38-44% over Q1 2025. The company expects no impact to its full year guidance.
Wizards of the Coast will launch a new TCG, Mood Swings, designed by Magic: The Gathering Lead Designer Mark Rosewater. The new game will be launched via a direct-to-consumer Secret Lair drop on June 1. Mood Swings is configured in randomized decks rather than booster packs and designed to offer a simpler experience than Magic: The Gathering.
“Mood Swings has all the things I love about trading card games—fun card interactions, adaptability, collecting, and trading—but in the style of a traditional card game, something you could buy off the shelf and play immediately,” Rosewater said in a post announcing the drop. “I think it will excite longtime fans of trading card game and gamers who might have been too intimidated to play a traditional trading card game.”
The Secret Lair drop will offer 45-card decks, each of which will include 23 common, 14 uncommon, 6 rare, and 2 mythic rare cards, drawn from a 133-card set that includes 48 commons, 40 uncommons, 30 rares, and 15 mythic rares. Cards are in the five Magic: The Gathering colors and each represents an emotion or mood. Card art is drawn from sketches for published Magic art.
Mood Swings is a light strategy game for two to four players; the two-player version plays in five to ten minutes. Every player plays a card each round; cards can have effects when played, and some cards can alter the rules. Scores are totaled after the round and the highest score wins the round; three rounds wins the game. The winner of each round plays first the next round, and the losing player(s) draw a card. Cards stay in play unless another card removes it.
Wizards of the Coast unveiled product line details for Magic: The Gathering – Edge of Eternities, a new Standard-legal booster set, which will hit retail on July 25, 2025.
Edge of Eternities is a new set that has a bit of Magic: The Gathering meets Spelljammer flair to it (see ” ‘D&D Spelljammer: Adventures in Space'”). The backdrop of this set takes places on the very edge of the Multiverse, the Sothera system, where mages wage war with magic against alien factions. Being a space-inspired set, popular Galaxy Foils will make their return (see “‘Unfinity’ Product Line Deets”), and the set will feature some brand-new characters as well as returning ones from other planes.
The product line for this set is as follows:
Edge of Eternities Collector Booster Packs and Displays. The Edge of Eternities Collector Booster Boxes come with 12 packs, each of which has 15 Magic: The Gathering cards. The cards included will be a combination of 5 cards of rarity Rare or higher, 4 uncommons, 5 commons, and a land card. Collector Packs can have 0-3 Galaxy Foils in them and 10–13 traditional foil cards and can contain the following cards with these collector numbers: EOE 1–266, 277–392; EOC 1–4, 2–44; EOS 1–180; SPG 119–128.
Edge of Eternities Play Booster Packs and Displays. Edge of Eternities Play Boosters include 14 Magic: The Gathering cards and come 30 packs to a display. Each pack comes with 1-4 cards of rarity Rare or higher, 3-5 uncommons, 6-9 commons, and a land card. One card in the pack will be a traditional foil, and packs can contain the following cards with these collector numbers: EOE 1–316; EOS 1–45; SPG 119–128.
Edge of Eternities Bundle. This bundle contains 9 Edge of Eternities Play Boosters, 15 traditional foil basic lands, 15 non-foil basic lands, a bundle-exclusive foil alt-art card, a storage box, a Spindown life counter, and 2 reference cards. These bundles will ship in cases of 6.
Edge of Eternities Commander Decks. The Edge of Eternities Commander Decks come with a 100-card ready-to-play deck featuring two traditional foil legendary cards and 98 non-foil cards. The contents of the box also include a two-card Collector Booster Sample Pack, 10 double-sided tokens, a strategy insert, a reference card, and a deck box.
Edge of Eternities Prerelease Pack. Edge of Eternities Prerelease Packs are specifically for use in prerelease events. These packs come with 6 Edge of Eternities Play Booster packs, a foil rare or mythic rare card with year stamp, a deck box, and a spindown die.
Upper Deck Entertainment will release Rush of Ikorr, a new TCG, into market on June 11, 2025. This TCG was previously mentioned as part of Upper Deck’s 2023 lawsuit against Ravensburger. The lawsuit claimed that Ryan Miller breached his work-for-hire agreement with Upper Deck, and Ravensburger used the materials from his work on Rush of Ikorr to help create Disney Lorcana TCG (see “Upper Deck Sues”). The game has more or less been a mystery until recently when new details emerged on Rush of Ikorr as it is now ready to head to stores.
Rush of Ikorr is an original fantasy IP that features a blend of ancient mythology themes rolled into a three-on-three team battle TCG. The big innovation in this TCG is the use of Upper Deck’s Infusion Cards, which are clear overlay cards that allow players to customize the Champion cards in the game by adding new abilities and traits.
“One of the biggest draws in TCGs is deck building, which can sometimes be as engaging as the gameplay with players seeking the best possible combinations,” said Bubby Johanson, Senior Director of Game Development at Upper Deck. “Our infusion customization system enhances this experience significantly, creating a refreshing and more immersive experience.”
The first set, Act1: Shattered Chaos, comes to market in the form of booster boxes and four different starter decks. Booster displays come with 24 packs; each pack contains 9 cards and there is a foil in every pack. Starter decks come with 54 cards, a booster pack, and a rulebook; each starter has an exclusive foil variant card.
Wizards of the Coast announced Magic Presents: Pride, a new FLGS event that celebrates the LGBTQ+ community.
Magic Presents: Pride events will occur during Pride Month, between the dates of June 27, 2025 and June 29, 2025. It is a Commander format event with special rules: player Commanders will all gain the Partner mechanic, which allows them to essentially play with two Commanders in a single deck. The event will allow players to explore entirely new deck strategies for the event. Stores will receive a Chromatic Lantern promo to give out during this event.
These events can be scheduled starting April 4, 2025.
Wizards of the Coast announced that the Secret X SpongeBob SquarePants drop sets for Magic: The Gathering will be available for preorder on March 24, 2025 at 9 a.m.
These three new Secret Lair drop sets will feature several fan favorite characters from Bikini Bottom, including SpongeBob, Patrick, Squidward, and the cult icon, Gary. The first of three sets, Secret Lair × SpongeBob SquarePants: Legends of Bikini Bottom, offers players core characters as Legendary creatures (so they can use them in Commander). The second set, Secret Lair × SpongeBob SquarePants: Internet Sensation, is inspired by the iconic meme-worthy moments in the series. The third set, Secret Lair × SpongeBob SquarePants: Lands Under the Sea, offers players basic lands showcasing the Bikini Bottom landscape.
The regular sets will be available for $29.99 and foil editions will cost $39.99.
Arcane Tinmen will release Dragon Shield: Samurai Art Sleeves into retail on April 25, 2025. The new Matte Dual Art Sleeves feature artwork by Yumeko, who produced artwork for the upcoming Final Fantasy Magic: The Gathering set (see “‘Universes Beyond’ to Be Legal”). The artwork transforms voice actress Mana Hatanaka into a samurai warrior on the back of these sleeves. These sleeves are limited edition and come in 100-count in a deck box.
Dragon Shield: Samurai Art Sleeves will retail for $24.95.
One for Each Color of the Mana Wheel; Contents of Decks Revealed
Wizards of the Coast previewed the new Welcome Decks, for Magic: The Gathering, which will be headed to WPN retailers soon.
WotC announced the return of these giveaway learn-to-play decks over the course of the summer (see “A Welcome Return“). Each deck comes with 30 cards of a single color, and there are five decks available (one for each color). Players can take two of these decks and combine them to make a playable two-color 60-card deck. The cards in the decks are reprints from past releases and have a Planeswalker stamp on them to set them apart from other printings of these cards.
New company Lazarus Rising Games has announced plans to revive the 90s TCG OverPower, and has acquired Top Cow and Edgar Rice Burroughs licenses as its initial IPs.
LRG has acquired the rights to the OverPower Card Game, originally published by Fleer and eventually taken over by Fleer parent company Marvel (see “Marvel Returns to CCGs”), and plans to produce a new game with characters from the Top Cow and ERB licenses. Those characters include Tarzan of the Apes and John Carter of Mars from Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., and Witchblade, The Darkness, and Cyberforce from Top Cow Productions, Inc. Top Cow characters were included in an Image Comics OverPower set produced in the 90s; the ERB characters will be new to the game.
The game rules for the new version are “…an inclusive, creative set of rules for smooth, exciting gameplay,” the company said in its announcement.
Among the artists creating cards for OverPower are Philip Tan, Jim Chung, and David Nakayama.
Cartamundi will print the game for LRG, with the first core set rolling out in early 2025, and expansions planned for Q4 2025.
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