Mark Rosewater Confirms New Set Announcement For Tonight at New York Comic Con

Last updated on October 9, 2026

Multiversal Incursion | Illustration by Lordigan

We know half of 2027’s set lineup thanks to a preview panel from MagicCon Amsterdam in July, and Mark Rosewater confirmed yesterday on Tumblr that one of the upcoming Magic sets will be announced tonight at a panel in New York Comic Con:

Source: tumblr

Players have speculated that the panel would include a Universes Beyond set announcement since the panel—which starts at 7:45pm—was announced in September, but this is the first official confirmation from Wizards that a new set will be announced.

A Marvel Set Is Most Likely

Captain America, Team Leader | Illustration by Mark Spears

There hasn’t been a whiff of what the set announced will be. Assuming it’s a Universes Beyond set makes the most sense—all the in-universe sets for 2027 have been announced, and Wizards promised information about the UB sets around events more relevant to their properties. Also, the panel description literally uses the words “universe” and “beyond.”

Another Marvel set makes sense given the setting of the panel. It’s Comic Con, and much Marvel stuff (including the Marvel Magic sets thus far) are set in New York. With no confirmation makes a declarative statement impossible, but I’m about 95% certain it’ll be Marvel.

X-Men Versus Marvel Magic

Wolverine, Claws Out | Illustration by Ryan Pancoast

As far what slice of the Marvel pie comes to Magic, there are two prominent possibilities: the X-Men or the magic/cosmic side of the Marvel universe depicted with characters like Doctor Strange and Thor.

While Marvel Super Heroes covered a wide swath of heroes and villains from Marvel, there was a noticable lack of X-Men. Sure, marque characters like Storm and Wolverine got cards, but no Professor X, no Magneto, etc. This feels similar to Spider-Man’s role: A couple cards, but nothing major since the web-slinger got his own set. Many players, including myself, have speculated that this indicates a dedicated X-Men set ala Marvel’s Spider-Man. MSH even included random mutant payoffs like Wolverine, Claws Out.

The only wrinkle comes from the Hasbro CEO Chris Cocks; in Hasbro’s Q2 earnings call, Cocks mentioned that the upcoming year’s UB sets would be “more fantasy-adjacent,” and I’ve always found the X-Men more science-fiction than fantasy. Of course, this doesn’t mean that every UB set needs to be fantasy or that the big shots at Wizards agree with my categorization of the X-Men. But it leaves the door open to the more arcane side of Marvel, with characters like The Scarlet Witch, Doctor Strange, and Magik being central to whatever Wizards dreams up. Nobody can say for certain until the panel, so I guess we’ll have to wait a few hours to find out.