Netflix to Release Animated Magic: The Gathering Series Planeswalker in 2027

Netflix will release an animated series called Planeswalker in 2027, based on the collectible card game Magic: The Gathering. The show was announced in a video posted a day earlier, in which Roy Graham, Head of Story at Magic: The Gathering, assured viewers that the project is genuinely happening.

That assurance reflects the project's troubled history. An animated series based on the game was first teased in 2019, with brothers Joe and Anthony Russo set to lead it, but those plans fell apart. In 2024, Netflix said it still intended to make a series based on the game, but would rework it from the ground up.

What is known about the show

The first look reveals that each plane in the game exists in its own pocket universe, so each will have a distinct design, animation and filmmaking style.

According to a synopsis shared with IGN, the series will centre on Chandra Nalaar, described as a "volatile pyromancer hunted for her gifts, and haunted by her past." Other story details remain vague. The synopsis says only that Chandra and other Planeswalkers will team up to confront an "insidious force" in order to prevent a cataclysmic war that threatens to consume their very existence.