MagicCon: Atlanta has kicked off with The Preview Panel, which usually shows off cards from future sets. While Nauctis: The Sunken Realm did feature during the panel, Wizards of the Coast then gave the Atlanta crowd more information on Planeswalker, the upcoming animated series set in the Magic multiverse, which is coming to Netflix in 2027.
The two-minute teaser highlighted the animation team at Hungary-based Digic Pictures, along with showrunner Terry Matalas, Magic head of story Roy Graham, and more. A few brief moments of Chandra and Ajani were mixed in with the behind-the-scenes footage, offering a first look at the upcoming show’s animation style.
Planeswalker’s official description reveals that the show will follow Chandra, MTG’s pyromancer planeswalker. She and other planeswalkers like Ajani must “harness their extraordinary abilities, navigate treacherous alliances, and battle their own inner demons to prevent a cataclysmic war that threatens to consume their very existence,” according to the Netflix Tudum blog post.
A TV series for Magic: The Gathering is a long time coming, as the card game and its story have been going for over 30 years. There’s a lot of fertile ground within the Magic multiverse, and as Chandra has been a key part of that story for nearly half that time, we’re curious how many of Magic’s worlds will be featured in Planeswalker.
The Preview Panel at MagicCon: Atlanta also revealed multiple cards from Nauctis: The Sunken Realm, as well as the next Untold Stories series from comic publisher Dark Horse–which will also follow Chandra–and a new novel set in the cyberpunk world of Kamigawa.
Planeswalker is set to launch on Netflix in 2027, though no specific dates have been revealed as of this writing.
