Everything You Need to Know About the Infinity Stones in MTG

Last updated on June 10, 2026

The Soul Stone | Illustration by Leinil Francis Yu & Sunny Gho

Marvel and Magic fully crossed over in Marvel’s Spider-Man, a set that introduced a pair of artifact subtypes that have far reaching implications. That’s right, the Infinity Stones joined Magic! Unlike the Crystals in Final Fantasy, this card cycle spans multiple sets.

But where can you get your hands on your own infinity stone cards, and what can we expect from future infinity stones? Let’s ponder that, shall we?

What Are the Infinity Stones?

The Soul Stone | Illustration by Volkan Baga

Infinity Stones are legendary artifacts in Magic that represent the Infinity Gems/Infinity Stones from Marvel comics and the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The first Infinity Stone released in Magic is The Soul Stone.

How Many Infinity Stones Are There?

In Marvel Comics, there are six Infinity Stones: the Mind Stone, Power Stone, Reality Stone, Soul Stone, Space Stone, and Time Stone. In Magic, only The Mind Stone and The Soul Stone have been revealed

We now have a line to draw and can expect the rest of the mythic cycle to be 2-mana indestructible mana rocks with a large cost to harness, and a great ability that is well-known among its color.

What Does Harnessing Mean?

You harness The Soul Stone as part of an activated ability. Once you harness it, you can use its infinity ability (∞), which is a triggered ability.

It’s unclear at this time whether all infinity stones are harnessed through an activated ability, and whether infinity abilities are all triggered abilities.

Is Infinity Stone One or Two Card Types?

“Infinity stone” are two card types; artifact subtypes, to be specific. This is different from Doctor Who’s “time lord”, which is the only two-word creature subtype. Head designer Mark Rosewater believes that two-word subtypes were a mistake and should not be repeated.

How Can You Get Infinity Stones?

You can find regular prints of Infinity Stones in Play boosters from Marvel Super Heroes and Marvel’s Spider-Man. For your extended art and textless versions look into a collector booster like a Marvel Super Heroes.

What Are the Alternate Versions of the Infinity Stones?

The Soul Stone in Marvel’s Spider-Man and The Mind Stone from Marvel Super Heroes have two alternate printings. There’s a textless version available in a cosmic foil treatment that’s exclusive to Collector boosters, and a borderless treatment that shows Thanos as he wields the Soul Stone in the Infinity Gauntlet.

The Best Infinity Stones

#2. The Mind Stone

An indestructible Marble Diamond that you can upgrade into Conjurer's Closet is incredibly powerful. The Mind Stone does great ramp along the way and plays on white's love for small permanents. If a player does manage to get your Mind Stone in the graveyard, Shepherd of the Clouds, Court of Ardenvale, or Sevinne's Reclamation can easily bring it back.

#1. The Soul Stone

An indestructible Charcoal Diamond that you can upgrade into an auto-reanimator is incredibly powerful. You don’t feed most aristocrats when you exile a creature to pay the cost to harness The Soul Stone, but the automatic reanimation helps to trigger your “leaves the graveyard” and “enters the battlefield” abilities.

Infinity Stone Speculation

It would be so neat and tidy for the six Infinity Stones to become six mana rocks, wouldn’t it? One for each color and a colorless one. That’s all well and good, but for some reason, I keep coming up with very controlling, blue infinity abilities. So be it; speculation is all about being incredibly wrong.

The fact that “infinity” and “stone” are two different types opens up some really cool design lanes. You can make the Infinity Gauntlet into a “Legendary Artifact – Infinity Equipment”, and you can design Thanos cards that can fetch the Infinity Gauntlet and that get more powerful depending on the number of “Infinity Artifacts” you control. Perhaps saboteur abilities that hit your opponent harder, or more powerful activated abilities.

But that’s where the harness ability kicks in. The Soul Stone suggests that you are the one who harnesses these stones, so we could have an entire suite of noncreature spells that fetch them or that provide us other perks for having them on the battlefield.

The Time Stone screams extra turns, maybe as an activated ability that also asks you to exert or exhaust The Time Stone so that we don’t chain infinite turns in Limited. R&D could also design a Time Stone that grants every spell you cast flash.

I first thought of The Power Stone as a legendary equipment that gives one of your creatures a massive buff, but if we try to keep in line with effects that tie to you, the player as the one that harnesses them, I think a super-charged anthem effect makes sense. It could also be a damage doubler or tripler.

The Reality Stone is hard to peg down. Since The Soul Stone is an upkeep trigger that lets you reanimate anything, perhaps The Reality Stone has a similar trigger that tutors cards from your deck? Or if you want to get silly, cards from outside the game? I don’t expect Magic’s designers to go that far outside the box; I’m just spitballing.

The Space Stone is hard to figure, too because The Mind Stone takes up the blink into exile idea. It’s got that “I am everywhere, all the time” energy that makes me think of unblockable creatures and uncounterable spells. You could also go in a land interaction direction, perhaps one that lets you steal or borrow from your opponent’s mana base.

There’s lots of other possible designs: You could have an infinity stone that taxes your opponents’ spells, one that gets around the legend rule, one that’s a color-fixer…. There are truly infinite possibilities.

Wrap Up

The Mind Stone | Illustration by Madeline Boni

And that’s all I have on the infinity stone artifact subtype in Magic. Some of the most powerful items in Marvel comics are equally powerful Magic cards, and I can’t wait to see what future infinity stones look like and the sets in which they appear.

What are your thoughts on these legendary artifacts? What would you like to see from other Magic Infinity Stones? Let me know in the comments or over on the Draftsim Discord.

Until next time, wield your power responsibly!

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