Magic: The Gathering's Aetherdrift Set Is A Mess, & That's Okay
The first new set for 2025,, releases on February 14th, and the cards that have been revealed for the set paint an interesting overall picture. The new set takes place on three of Planes, with new and old characters racing against each other to win a powerful, life-changing artifact.
As a result of Wacky Races story across multiple planes, the set feels like a thematic mess — mixing up planes with their distinct themes and notable characters and shoving them onto cars, motorbikes, and ships. Unlike previous sets that have focused too heavily on themes and not enough on characters and settings, makes sense thanks to its high-stakes prize and the development of the inter-planar travel system in the multiverse.
The Phyrexian invasion across the multiverse that took place during the and sets changed interplanar travel in the universe forever. Originally unique to Kaldheim's World Tree, Omenpaths let anyone travel from one plane to the next, but the Phyrexian Invasion Tree created them across the Multiverse. These new Omenpaths were a key part of Kellan's adventures between and .
The upcoming Magic: The Gathering sets for 2025 releases have been teased, confirming exciting launches that include anticipated collab sets.
The Phyrexian Invasion also caused The Desparkening, where many of the multiverse's Planeswalkers like Nissa Revane and Vraska lost their sparks. These desparked Planeswalkers now rely on the Omenpaths to travel to different planes. It was only a matter of time until these Omenpaths were used by powerful figures for their benefit. Niv-Mizzet and Ral Zarek from Ravnica were quick to use them for interplanar communication, and now the Avishkari have standardized the Omenpath system.
Loot, the Fomori child rescued by Jace and Vraska in, can see the endpoint of every Omenpath and new planes coming to life in real-time, which is why he appears in so much of flavor-text.
Now the Avishkar Assembly is using its knowledge of where the stable Omenpaths reside to
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