Magic’s 2026 Product Lineup Gets Bigger, More Expensive, Loses Some Content
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At MagiCon Atlanta, Wizards of the Coast has reiterated on the card game’s existing monetary success course of cooperating with other IP’s. Aside of that, several own-IP products will rise in prices in 2026 however, while loosing some benefits.
At Magic: The Gathering’s (MTG) recent preview panels during MagiCon Atlanta this weekend, publisher Wizards of the Coast has revealed the trading card game’s release plan for the coming year. Coming 2026, MTG will feature seven different sets in a year, as opposed to six like 2025. From those sets, four will be cooperations with other franchises, the so-called Universes Beyond sets, specifically with Marvel, The Hobbit, Star Trek and one as of yet unknown property. These sets, introduced as regular playsets for the Standard format in 2025, have seen a significantly higher price than in-universe sets for the different products, assumingly to offset license costs and to profit from the enhanced popularity of the sets. For 2026 however, several of the remaining in-universe set products will see cost rises as well, as Wizards revealed by showing the U.S. dollar MSRP during the panels and on preorders shortly after. While play booster prices will remain the same, the cost for collector boosters, more expensive variants with significantly higher chance for rare cards and special card versions, will rise in price about two dollars, from 24.99 to 26.99 dollar MSRP. Bundles, a kind of starter pack with a set amount of play boosters and some additional merchandise, will rise from 53.99 to 57.99 dollar MSRP. Even more significant are the MSRP increases for Commander decks, ready-to-play 100 card decks for MTG’s most popular multiplayer format. These rise from 44.99 to 49.99 dollars, while loosing content: The sample collector booster, a small pack with two collector cards that can include some of the higher-priced collector cards, will no longer be part of Commander products, as the official product description on store pages revealed.
Wizards has also announced the return of some products, like 60-card Standard decks as well a selection of new Final Fantasy collector items that will release around the holiday.
Wizards’ mother company Hasbro has posted ever-rising shareholder value this last year, not least in part to its trading card division, with Universes Beyond strongly driving profits.
While price increases in MSRP are a point of contempt for players, the trading card game has long had a tendency to sell for much higher prices than MSRP anyway, fueled by serialized collector items, supply shortages as well as scalpers on the secondary market.
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