For years, it was the adaptation that existed mostly as a promise. Magic: The Gathering has been circling a screen version for so long — first announced back in 2019, then retooled and quietly rebuilt behind the scenes as creative teams changed — that fans had started to treat a title, a teaser, or any proof of life as a planeswalk too far. That changed on Friday, when Netflix finally put a name and a face on the series.
The show is called Planeswalker. Netflix revealed the title in an announcement from Wizards of the Coast, alongside a teaser video built from concept artwork, character designs and animation tests, with the creative team talking through how a card game with thousands of worlds becomes a single animated saga. The project is a partnership between Netflix, Hasbro Entertainment and Wizards of the Coast.
The teaser makes the scale of the job plain. Showrunner Terry Matalas said the team has "the ability to bring these characters to life in ways that the audience hasn't seen before," while co-showrunner Cindy Appel pointed to the sheer size of the source material — thousands of cards to draw from. "Each one of these cards is a window into this incredible world," Matalas added. "It's not just world-building, it's worlds-building."
Watch the Planeswalker teaser here:
That plural is the design brief. Each plane in the series is getting its own visual identity, with the animation style shifting to match each world's culture, architecture and design as the story moves between them. The creative team steering it:
Showrunner: Terry Matalas
Co-showrunner: Cindy Appel
Supervising director and executive producer: Patrick Osborne
Executive producer: Gabriel Marano
Co-executive producer (Hasbro Entertainment): Lauren Chavez-Myers
Producer: Daisy May West
Animation: DIGIC Pictures
What is Netflix's Planeswalker about?
Wizards of the Coast describes the series as follows:
PLANESWALKER , an epic fantasy saga from the world of Magic: The Gathering , 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. Confronted by an insidious force, Chandra and some of the most legendary Planeswalkers must harness their extraordinary abilities, navigate treacherous alliances, and battle their own inner demons to prevent a cataclysmic war that threatens to consume their very existence. As the line between victory and annihilation grows thinner, a single spark determines the fate of thousands of worlds.
Planeswalker premieres on Netflix in 2027. No exact release date has been announced.
Source: Wizards of the Coast
