Thanks to being announced, delayed, canceled, and then revived again, the MTG Netflix show has always been a bit of a mystery. For the longest time, Wizards has been keeping so tight-lipped about it that we weren’t sure if it even existed.
Making things even more confusing, the more recently announced MTG movie made it feel like this series had been forgotten about. Today, however, Wizards of the Coast proved that’s not the case by officially revealing the Netflix show.
Titled “Planeswalker,” information about this show is still rather limited, but we do know it’s coming in 2027. While this isn’t much to go off, it’s more than enough to have the hype train barreling out of the station already.
Planeswalker MTG Series Officially Announced
During Planeswalker, or season one, at least, the series is set to follow Chandra, in what appears to be a time before her spark. From the newly revealed sneak peek, we can see that Ajani is along for much of the ride too, along with plenty of other familiar faces.
According to Netflix, the series’ story sounds all very dramatic, with “inner demons” and “a cataclysmic war that threatens to consume their very existence.” For better or worse, it all sounds very Arcane, the League of Legends Netflix show, but that’s not at all a bad thing.
Beyond just sounding like Arcane, the Planeswalker show also seems to borrow quite heavily from its visual identity, too. Again, this is very good news, as the painted style of animation there looks fantastic, and it’s a great fit for MTG.
Notably, while Arcane was animated by Fortiche Productions, the new Planeswalker show is by DIGIC Pictures. While this animation company predominantly makes CGI trailers for video games, they worked on Secret Level, too, making several fantastic episodes.
From an animation point of view, it looks like Planeswalker is in good hands, and there’s a strong creative team behind it, too. Cindy Appel, who wrote Picard (boo) and VisionQuest (yay), is co-showrunner, while Patrick Osborne, who won an Oscar for Feast, is the supervising director and executive producer.
Coming Soon… Ish
Hopefully, with this team’s impressive resume, Planeswalker will actually be a fantastic show when it launches. Speaking of which, we currently don’t have anything more than a vague “2027” release date to look forward to.
Sadly, given how little footage we have from the show right now, we can only assume it’ll arrive fairly late in 2027. For now, though, we’ll just have to see what gets revealed, potentially during the many MagicCons throughout 2027.
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