Video Development Diary Teases Netflix’s ‘Magic The Gathering’ Series ‘Planeswalker,’ Coming In 2027

Netflix has released a first look at Planeswalker, its animated adaptation of the iconic Magic: The Gathering trading card game, which will hit the streamer in 2027. Patrick Osborne, who won an Oscar for directing Disney’s Feast, is the supervising director and executive producer, while Digic is handling animation.

It’s a match made in heaven for any TCG/animation nerds, this writer included.

Netflix’s official synopsis for the show reads:

Planeswalker 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.

In the show, as in the game, each plane has its own culture, architecture, and design language, and the artists responsible for building them are varying their approach to how scenes are staged and shot depending on where the story takes place.

Coming from the world of live-action TV, Terry Matalas (VisionQuest, Star Trek: Picard) will serve as showrunner, with fellow Picard veteran Cindy Appel serving as co-showrunner.

“We have the ability to bring these characters to life in ways that the audience hasn’t seen before,” said Matalas in a Tudum post. “It’s really exciting.”

Planeswalker is a Netflix original, produced in partnership with Hasbro Entertainment and Wizards of the Coast. The streamer has yet to announce a specific premiere date.