MTG Edge of Eternities release date, Commander decks, and latest news
What is the MTG Edge of Eternities release date? The fourth major Magic: The Gathering release of 2025 takes us to a whole new setting: space! That’s right, it’s a Magic space opera, featuring high-tech ships, fascinating planets, and graceful space beasts. You can see all the latest spoilers and news for this space fantasy release down below.
To see where Edge of Eternities fits in the overall calendar, you should check out the MTG release schedule. If you hadn’t heard, 2025’s final mystery Universes Beyond set is confirmed as MTG Avatar The Last Airbender – click that link for all the latest info.
MTG Edge of Eternities release date
MTG Edge of Eternities releases on August 1, 2025. That’s the global release date, when it’ll be on the shelves available to buy at all retailers, but the truly keen will be able to get their hands on the cards a little earlier.
That’s because Local Game Stores run prerelease events the week before a new MTG set releases. So the first day that Edge of Eternities cards will actually be purchasable is July 25.
While the first few card spoilers are already here, the full fleet of them will arrive as spoiler season opens on July 8. Watch the skies, as they’ll all have flown by come July 18.
MTG Edge of Eternities spoilers and mechanics
Here are the hottest new Edge of Eternities spoilers, as well as the new mechanics and themes they reveal for the set.
First up, we have Tezzeret, Cruel Captain, now apparently living his best ‘true neutral’ life as a colorless MTG planeswalker. This card, as we’ve already commented, has the potential to be incredibly strong in the right deck or format.
In a space fantasy setting like this one, characters tend to hop from planet to planet like nobody’s business, and to portray all these planetary plains and stellar swamps, Edge of Eternities has a ‘lands’ theme. That comes in the form of a bonus sheet, the ‘Stellar Sights’ collection, which contains famous MTG land cards from across the game’s history.
It also factors into some notable reprints featured in the set: Edge of Eternities is bringing back the much loved shocklands. Funnily enough, this is the second set of space-themed shocklands we’ve had, as they also appeared in Unfinity!
We also have some neat new mechanics to examine. The first of these is Spacecraft. These feel a bit like vehicles, but rather than crewing them each turn to activate them and turn them into creatures, you can tap your dudes for charge counters to eventually power them up permanently.
The first of these shown is The Seriema, a legendary creature tutor that can then protect whatever it fetches up. You can thank Wizards of the Coast for the bizarre sideways preview style, by the way – please never do that again, guys.
Finally, we have one of the flagship cards of the set (that isn’t actually a spacecraft). Sothera is the black hole around which the setting revolves. In-game, it’s a legendary enchantment that slurps up enemy creatures, and when they’re all gone, shoots one out on your side with extra +1/+1 counters.
Edge of Eternities Commander decks
MTG Edge of Eternities will release with two Commander decks, titled World Shaper and Counter Intelligence. Their MTG color combinations are Black/Red/Green (World Shaper) and Blue/Red/White (Counter Intelligence).
Here’s what we know about the Edge of Eternities Commander decks:
The lead commander for World Shaper is Szarel, Genesis Shepherd. This looks like classic Jund sacrifice shenanigans, with the extra wrinkle that you’ll be killing off your own lands and then replaying them from the grave.
Counter Intelligence, meanwhile, contains Kilo, which proliferates when its tapped. That’ll work well alongside the new Spacecraft mechanic, and we can assume the deck will be stuffed with +1/+1 counters.
| Deck name | Color combination | Strategy summary |
| World Shaper | Black/Red/Green | Sacrifice Lands; grow back stronger |
| Counter Intelligence | Blue/Red/White | Boost attacks; proliferate counters |
Back in February, Wizards dropped the tantalizing hint that this set will contain “spacecraft Commanders”. And now that we know that vehicles and spacecraft can be your MTG commander, it looks like that will literally be a rocket ship leading the deck.
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