The Magic: The Gathering Animated Series, Planeswalker, Is Finally Coming to Netflix in 2027
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There's been a Magic: The Gathering animated series cooking in the background since 2019, and now at MagicCon Atlanta, Wizards of the Coast has revealed that it's called Planeswalker, and it's coming sometime in 2027.
Rather than being some epic live-action fantasy show like Game of Thrones, Netflix is taking the same approach it did with Castlevania and making Planeswalker an animated series. But making a show in a universe as expansive as Magic: The Gathering is challenging, due to the nearly infinite worlds in that universe. It sounds like the show isn't shying away from that.
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The show will be centered on Planeswalker Chandra Nalaar. According to a synopsis shared with IGN, she's "a volatile pyromancer hunted for her gifts, and haunted by her past. Confronted by an insidious force, Chandra and some of the most legendary Planeswalkers 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. As the line between victory and annihilation grows thinner, a single spark determines the fate of thousands of worlds."
Chandra was also the character that appeared in the first teaser for the show years ago, so it looks like this is still the same thing. However, when Netflix first announced that it'd be working on a Magic: The Gathering show back in 2019, it had Avengers: Endgame directors Joe and Anthony Russo running the show. The Russo Brothers left the show back in 2021 and in the five years since then, ownership of the show has passed to Terry Matalas, who will be running it alongside Cindy Appel.
Matalas previously served as the showrunner for VisionQuest, which just ended, and was well received. In the IGN review, we gave the premiere a 7, and reviewer Jesse Schedeen said, "VisionQuest may struggle a bit to reestablish the titular hero in this post-WandaVision MCU, but at least the series has James Spader’s Ultron to fall back upon."
Magic: The Gathering has a ton of lore to build a show off of, and it's going to be interesting to see how it handles a multiverse that'd put Marvel to shame. At least we won't have to wait too long before it debuts in 2027. Let's just hope Netflix doesn't wait until November to put it out.