Magic: The Gathering will be visiting three planes in one set once the upcoming Death Race set comes out early next year, but what planes will they be?
Scheduled to be the storied CCG's first release for 2025 (due out February 7, 2025), the set is known simply as Death Race. Okay, so it's also known by the codename "Tennis," but for all intents and purposes, Death Race is the working title.
This one is unique as it will be set across three planes we haven't gotten a lot of time in, with a big race looping them all together. According to Mark Rosewater, it is an entirely new set, a "travelogue set." What is known that, through the Omenpaths, a race will take place that seems inspired by the likes of Wacky Races, Fast and the Furious, and other racing movies and TV shows.
It is also seemingly shying away from fantasy, much like most of the recent sets and expansions like Duskmourn and Thunder Junction.
Right now, the three planes are not yet identified. All three planes will be from Magic's past. Two of them are premier ones that haven't been revisited since. And the third is a place that has been mentioned but never gone to before. So...amidst all the speculation, where are we headed there?
Newer planes can definatley be ruled out, as fun as it would be to introduce cars to planes like Bloomburrow and Thunder Junction. Kaladesh, filled with machines rather than Magic, has come out as a front runner amongst speculators as it not only fits the hints (see the image above), but would make sense within the confines of the plane. Likewise, planes like Vryn, Amonkhet, Tarkir, and Shandalar are good possibilities. Even Xerex, one of the craziest planes introduced ever, could fill a role (though that one is currently a 9-out-of-10 on the Rabiah scale).
Luckilly, as soon as the Bloomburrow season hands off to Duskmourn at the end of the month, we are going to see a clearer picture. The three most common setting for race movies and shows are cities, deserts, and mountains, and that is likely what we'll be seeing. But, thankfully, spoilers have been few so far.
All in all, we honestly don't know too much aside from what you read above and the set being part of the current "Dragonstorm" story arc, but the vague hints we have gotten do point to Kaladesh being a likely plane.
So, hey, that's at least something with which you can start your engines.
