Everything You Need to Know About the Infinity Stones in MTG

Last updated on November 22, 2025

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

Marvel and Magic finally cross over in Marvel’s Spider-Man, a set that introduces a pair of artifact subtypes that have far reaching implications. That’s right, the Infinity Stones are joining Magic! Unlike the Crystals in Final Fantasy, these look like they’ll form a cycle that 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 Magic Infinity Stone is The Soul Stone, revealed in anticipation of Marvel’s Spider-Man.

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. As of mid-August 2025, only The Soul Stone has been revealed ahead of Marvel’s Spider-Man.

Based on the trailer that revealed The Soul Stone, I expect that we’ll see them pop up in future Marvel MTG sets as Magic builds up to some massive crossover set in which our favorite heroes face off against Thanos.

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 that reanimates a creature at the beginning of your upkeep.

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 one 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 The Soul Stone in Play and Collector boosters from Marvel’s Spider-Man. You can find six Play boosters in a Spider-Man Prerelease kit, nine Play boosters in a Spider-Man bundle, and the Spider-Man Gift bundle contains one Collector booster and nine Play boosters.

What Are the Alternate Versions of the Infinity Stones?

The Soul Stone in Marvel’s Spider-Man has 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

#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 it, 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 The Time Stone so that we don’t chain infinite turns in Limited. You could also design a Time Stone that grants every spell you cast flash.

We may already have a Mind Stone, but The Mind Stone itself could become a Mindslaver effect. If you didn’t want to head in that direction, you could instead make an ability that allows you to look at your opponents’ hands and/or the top card of their library. I wanted to say their entire library, but that feels too powerful compared to The Soul Stone.

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. 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 Soul Stone | Illustration by Madeline Boni

And that’s all I have on the infinity stone artifact subtypes in Magic. Some of the most powerful items in Marvel comics promise to be powerful Magic cards in their own right, 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 The Soul Stone? What would you like to see from other Magic Infinity Stones? Let me know in the comments below or over on the Draftsim Discord.

Until next time, wield your power responsibly!

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