As revealed at Las Vegas MagicCon 2025, Edge of Eternities is set to be one of the largest expansions to date once it comes out Aug. 1.
Not large in terms of, say, card count, but in that the plane itself is the edge of space, with several planets forming a plane rather than a single land.
During the MagicCon press conference for the set, those behind it expressed excitement about having a set in outer space, with some on the team having waited years for the right time to do it. It's also a vast setting, that is very land dependent. The art itself largely uses small spaceships to show just how vast some of these areas really are, with lands being borderless yet again to help show it off.
"You can think of the Edge of Eternities as an orange where the edge is the peel of the orange and everything within the multiverse is being surrounded," explains MTG executive producer, Mike Turian.
At the center of all of the action is a literal black hole by the name of Sothera, the Supervoid. It's a legendary enchantment that causes opponents' creatures to become exiled. Then, at the beginning of its controller's end step, if a player controls no creatures, it's sacrificed and all of those creatures come into play under your control with +1/+1 counters on them.
"The action of this mighty interstellar conflict is really all centered around Sothera," Turian says.
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The set's designers and developers also looked for some "stellar" cards to reprint into the set. Most notable of the bunch, arguably, are the shock lands.
The developers admitted that they didn't want them to be a mostly Ravnica thing to do, and had been waiting for the right time to bring them on - a space themed expansion was just about the right time to do it.
Same could be said with the galaxy foil card treatment, which made its debut in the set Unfinity a couple of years back.
"They look so good, and so we brought back the galaxy foil treatment and applied it to a lot of the lands in the set," says Turian.
The developers also noted how large the story itself would be. There will be a book-like 11 chapters, plus 5 shorter stories and a planeswalker guide. The main characters were also revealed - Sani and Tunnuk, a human and alien respectively. And....their spaceship.
That led to probably the biggest surprise of EOE - that spaceships themselves can now be a commander. And that was followed up by the second biggest surprise - the return of a long-not-seen character - Tezzeret.
Tezzeret's new card is a planeswalker card costing only three generic mana to cast and has abilities that (unsurprisingly) care about artifacts.
"Since we showed off Tezzeret, of course everyone's focusing on fetching out an artifact," comments Turian. "It really depends on what your format of choice is to tap into."
And that also led into the multitude of cards revealed at at the MagicCon Las Vegas 2025 including The Seriema, a legendary artifact spaceship.
Spaceships are similar to vehicles as they enter the battlefield as a artifact and have to be turned on, as it were, in order to use as a creature. This is done through the card's "station" ability, which lets you essentially charge up the spaceship until it is ready for use by tapping creatures you control with power equal or greater than the ship's specified station value. Unlike vehicles, though, once a spacecraft is online, it's online for the rest of the game.
"Unless, of course, something could remove their charge counters, but (with that exception) normally they'll be on until some creature removal comes along," says Turian.
With a release date of August 1st, and MagicCon Atlanta ushering in the new set formally in September, Edge of Eternities will be the last in-universe Magic expansion until January when Lorwyn Eclipsed comes out.
