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Magic: The Gathering sets

Order these Magic: The Gathering sets by their release date. You place all 40 cards on one timeline, one at a time. Three wrong guesses ends the run.

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How the Magic: The Gathering sets timeline works

Every card is a Magic: The Gathering expansion or core release, and you order them by the date each set came out. Nothing else is printed, just the set name. You start with one set on the timeline, its release date showing. Each new card goes into the gap you choose. Choose well and the date is revealed; choose badly and the set still moves to where it belongs, but you're down one of three lives.

The list runs from the very first printing through the early expansions and into the modern rhythm of several sets a year, including crossovers with outside franchises. Return trips to familiar planes are the classic trap, because a revisited world can sit a long way from its original visit. Recent sets come tightly packed, so knowing the storyline order really pays off. Players who drafted through a given era will find that stretch far easier than the rest.

Want a longer game? On the deck tree you can tick this deck alongside any other one measured in exact air dates, and they shuffle into a single timeline together.

What's in the deck

Here are 28 of the 40 cards you might be dealt, with 12 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.

  • Limited Edition (Alpha)
  • Arabian Nights
  • Antiquities
  • Fallen Empires
  • Ice Age
  • Alliances
  • Mirage
  • Urza's Saga
  • Mercadian Masques
  • Invasion
  • Onslaught
  • Mirrodin
  • Ravnica: City of Guilds
  • Time Spiral
  • Shadowmoor
  • Zendikar
  • Scars of Mirrodin
  • Return to Ravnica
  • Theros
  • Battle for Zendikar
  • Kaladesh
  • War of the Spark
  • Throne of Eldraine
  • Zendikar Rising
  • Streets of New Capenna
  • The Brothers’ War
  • The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth
  • Murders at Karlov Manor

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