Netflix Unveils First Look at Magic: The Gathering Animated Series Planeswalker, Coming in 2027
Ernie AI 
Credit : Netflix's X
LOS ANGELES, November 13 – Magic: The Gathering is finally coming to the screen. Netflix has revealed the first look at Planeswalker, its new animated series based on the hit fantasy card game, and confirmed that it will arrive in 2027.
The streamer shared a first image and a behind-the-scenes teaser on its official X account, writing: “Every great story begins with a spark. Here’s your first look at PLANESWALKER, a new animated series based on Magic: The Gathering. Coming to Netflix in 2027.” An exact premiere date has not been announced.
Chandra takes centre stage
The first image shows Chandra, the series’ fiery heroine, holding a flame in her palm under a starry night sky. According to the official synopsis, the show “chronicles the fierce clash between formidable mages known as Planeswalkers. At the center of this struggle for power and survival burns Chandra, a volatile pyromancer hunted for her gifts, and haunted by her past.”
The synopsis adds that Chandra and some of the most legendary Planeswalkers must face an insidious force, navigate treacherous alliances and battle their own inner demons to prevent a war that threatens thousands of worlds. In the Magic universe, a planeswalker is a powerful mage able to travel between different planes of the multiverse.
A seasoned creative team
Planeswalker is made in partnership with Hasbro Entertainment and Wizards of the Coast. Terry Matalas, known for Star Trek: Picard and VisionQuest, is the showrunner, with Cindy Appel as co-showrunner. Oscar winner Patrick Osborne, director of the animated short Feast, is supervising director and an executive producer, according to Netflix’s Tudum.
Gabriel Marano is executive producer and Lauren Chavez-Myers co-executive producer for Hasbro Entertainment, while Daisy West produces. The animation is by Digic, Wizards of the Coast said.
“We have the ability to bring these characters to life in ways that the audience hasn’t seen before,” Matalas told Netflix. “It’s really exciting.”
A long road to the screen
The series has been a long time coming. Deadline noted that Netflix first announced a Magic: The Gathering animated project in 2019 with Joe and Anthony Russo attached. The Russo brothers later left the project, Jeff Kline took over in 2021, and after a lengthy pause development restarted under Matalas.
The card game itself was created in 1993 by Richard Garfield and is published by Hasbro subsidiary Wizards of the Coast. According to Hasbro, as cited by Deadline, it has tens of millions of tabletop and digital players across more than 150 countries.
No episode count has been revealed yet. For long-time players and newcomers alike, though, the first spark has been lit, and 2027 cannot come soon enough.
Source: Netflix on X (x.com/netflix/status/2121317172379033635), with background from Netflix Tudum, Wizards of the Coast and Deadline.
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