Magic: The Gathering’s Planeswalker Series Will Debut on Netflix in 2027

Netflix’s animated Magic: The Gathering series, Planeswalker, will debut in 2027. Its first teaser is mostly concept and previsualization footage, including early-development art and brief glimpses of Chandra and Ajani, though a few seconds appear close to finished animation.

Chandra, a volatile pyromancer, is hunted for her gifts and haunted by her past. An insidious force draws her and other powerful Planeswalkers into dangerous alliances and a fight to prevent a cataclysmic war threatening thousands of worlds.

The teaser also outlines one way the series will distinguish its settings. Executive producer and supervising director Patrick Osborne says each plane has its own culture, design language, and architecture, and that the filmmaking style will vary to match. That approach could give each world a visual identity beyond a change of scenery.

Animation studio Digic Pictures is creating the series. Its game work includes cutscenes for Assassin’s Creed Shadows and Call of Duty: Vanguard, and it led several episodes of Amazon’s Secret Level.

Terry Matalas, whose credits include VisionQuest, seasons 2 and 3 of Star Trek: Picard, and 12 Monkeys, will be Planeswalker‘s showrunner. Cindy Appel, who wrote episodes of VisionQuest and Star Trek: Picard, is co-showrunner. Patrick Osborne is supervising director and executive producer.

Netflix first announced a Magic: The Gathering adaptation in 2019 with the Russo brothers attached. The project resurfaced five years later with Matalas leading it. Netflix’s official series description centers on Chandra and other Planeswalkers trying to stop a war from consuming thousands of worlds.

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