Magic The Gathering Confirms Release Dates For Streets Of New Capenna And Commander Legends: Battle For Baldur's Gate
Wizards of the Coast has announced the release dates for the next two Magic The Gathering sets, and it's experimenting with simultaneous digital and tabletop releases.
The next Standard set, the art deco Mafia-themed Streets of New Capenna, will be launching on April 29. The set after that, Commander Legends: Baldur's Gate, will be launching less than two months later, on June 10.
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In the blog post announcing the dates, Wizards also revealed it is trying out a new release schedule for Streets of New Capenna. Up to now, sets have traditionally released digitally a week before the tabletop launch. With New Capenna, the tabletop prerelease will instead be happening on April 22, a full six days before its digital launch on Magic Arena and Magic Online.
This is big for a number of reasons. First, many players have felt disenfranchised by Wizards' push into digital, and have been concerned about the impact releasing a set on Arena first might have on local game stores and their prerelease events.
Secondly, any set released digitally first tends to be 'solved' much faster, as people can play more games in a shorter amount of time. This has been an ongoing problem right the way through the pandemic, as people have identified the most powerful cards and those not worth even touching before people got a chance to open a single physical booster pack.
Streets of New Capenna is following hot on the heels of the excellent Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty in pushing the limits on what a Magic The Gathering setting can look like. The set will play up crime movie tropes and mafia aesthetics, being set in an art deco city built by angels, but run by five three-colour demon crime families. We
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