Magic: The Gathering's Spider-Man Prerelease Is This Week: Here's All You Need To Know

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Magic: The Gathering has seen immoderate large leaps successful popularity, but this adjacent 1 crossed the New York skyline, courtesy of a crossover with Marvel’s Spider-Man, mightiness conscionable beryllium 1 of the biggest.

The caller acceptable (which volition beryllium modular legal, by the way), officially debuts connected September 26, but you tin play it earlier astatine a prerelease lawsuit if you tin find a participating determination adjacent you.

Here’s each you request to cognize astir what it is, erstwhile you tin play, and what to expect.

What Is A Prerelease Event successful MTG?

Prerelease events are a mode successful which players tin spell hands-on with a caller set, usually the week earlier launch.

They usage cards from the upcoming acceptable (in this instance, Spider-Man), and let you to get a clump of cards, hopefully find immoderate synergies, and possibly adjacent marque caller friends.

The nuts and bolts whitethorn alteration depending connected wherever you’re playing (contact your section crippled store to spot if they’re holding an event), but with Magic The Gathering the basics are arsenic follows:

Open a prerelease box
Spend immoderate clip gathering a 40-card platform from the cards successful the box
Play against different players successful a 1v1 lucifer wherever each subordinate has 20 life
Winning games tin gain you a fewer bonus packs

What’s In a Prerelease Box?

Spider-Man Prerelease Box

A prerelease container for Marvel’s Spider-Man contains the following:

6 Play boosters
1 Rare oregon Mythic uncommon foil
1 Cardboard Deck Box
1 Spindown Dice

While Wizards of the Coast has a useful leafage that offers a fewer deckbuilding strategies for prerelease, I person 1 other portion of advice: Bring sleeves.

The included deckbox is handy, sure, but it’s a bully thought to transportation a fewer sleeves successful lawsuit you extremity up uncovering a perchance invaluable paper that you privation to adhd to your postulation oregon merchantability later.

When Is Magic: The Gathering’s Spider-Man Prerelease?

Prerelease for the Spider-Man acceptable kicks disconnected connected Friday, September 19 - 1 week earlier the acceptable launches successful full.

It runs passim the week, truthful beryllium definite to cheque for events close up until September 25.

Can I Buy Other Magic: The Gathering Spider-Man Products At Prerelease?

I can’t talk for each store, of course, but lone WPN (Wizards Play Network) stores tin merchantability Magic products for the caller acceptable connected prerelease weekend.

Everyone else, including stores similar Amazon, volition request to hold different week.

Lloyd Coombes is an experienced freelancer successful tech, gaming and fittingness seen astatine Polygon, Eurogamer, Macworld, TechRadar and galore more. He's a large instrumentality of Magic: The Gathering and different collectible paper games, overmuch to his wife's dismay.

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Sep 18, 2025 5:00 pm

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