Get ready to bring balance to your event calendar with Magic: The Gathering | Avatar: The Last Airbender! This set brings elemental excitement to your store—from themed Prerelease Packs and themed extra-large collectible pouches to casual league play and learn-to-play events. Below you'll find essential dates and details to help you plan an unforgettable season.

Magic: The Gathering | Avatar: The Last Airbender Key Dates

Scheduled Events

Prerelease: November 14–20

• Unlimited scheduling within the one-week Prerelease window
• Repeat-play reward: extra-large collectible pouch

Commander Box League: November 14–20

• Unlimited scheduling within the one-week Prerelease window
• Commander promo: Gran-Gran

Two-Headed Giant Commander Night: November 21, 2025–January 15, 2026

• One event monthly
• Commander promo: Gran-Gran

Commander Party: December 5–11, 2025 and January 9–15, 2026

• One event per period, two events per season
• Commander promo: Gran-Gran

Season-Long Events

Magic Presents: Master the Four Elements: November 21, 2025–January 15, 2026

• Unlimited scheduling during the period; allow for pick-up games and track those ad-hoc games by scheduling as they occur.
• Reward: foil art print, plus any additional prizes at the store's discretion

Magic Academy: Learn to Play and Deck Building: November 21, 2025–January 15, 2026

• Unlimited scheduling. We recommend prescheduling one Magic Academy: Learn to Play and Deck Building event. Schedule and report ad-hoc day-of events whenever the Beginner Box or Welcome Decks are used to teach a new player.
• No new promo card. Use remaining Magic Academy gift-with-purchase promos from past sets.

Standard Showdown: November 21, 2025–January 15, 2026

• One event per week
• Promo card: Unlucky Cabbage Merchant

Friday Night Magic: November 21, 2025–January 9, 2026

• Unlimited scheduling, Fridays only
• Continue to use Promo Packs from Edge of Eternities

Marketing Kit

Marketing kits are set to start arriving on November 7, which will include the extra-large collectible pouches for Prerelease repeat-play rewards, promo cards, Commander Party play aids, play-space signage, advertising poster, merchandising header card, and more.

See everything that's included in the Magic: The Gathering | Avatar: The Last Airbender Marketing Kit and Promotional Resources article.

Buy-a-Box Promo

Players who purchase a Magic: The Gathering | Avatar: The Last Airbender Play Booster box or Collector Booster box from WPN member stores are eligible to receive the Buy-a-Box promo card Firebending Student while supplies last.

Events and Promo Usage

Continue to Use Edge of Eternities Promo Packs 

For Magic: The Gathering | Avatar: The Last Airbender, please continue to use the increased quantity of Edge of Eternities Promo Packs supplied with that set. Exciting new Promo Packs will arrive with the Lorwyn Eclipsed marketing kit in January 2026.

Prerelease

Scheduling: unlimited during Prerelease week, November 14–20

Prerelease is your community's first opportunity to play with the new set in a casual, fun environment. Players open factionalized Prerelease Packs, build decks from the five Play Boosters, one thematic seeded booster, and the included promo, and then play.

Players who participate in two or more Prerelease events for Magic: The Gathering | Avatar: The Last Airbender and register with their Wizards account are eligible to receive the extra-large themed collectible pouch repeat-play reward, too, while supplies last. 

The Prerelease period is also your opportunity to kick off sales early. WPN stores can begin selling all products from the new set during the Prerelease week, giving you a jump on sales before the wider market release. Check out the Prerelease Early Sales Policy for complete details.

Commander Events

All three Commander events below use the Commander promo, Gran-Gran. WPN Premium member stores will receive foil promos and non-Premium members will receive non-foil promos.

Commander Box League

Scheduling: unlimited during Prerelease week, November 14–20
Promo reward: one Commander promo and one Buy-a-Box promo per participant, while supplies last

Commander Box League events run alongside Prerelease. Players open a Play Booster box and build a 60-card Commander deck to play throughout the period.

Two-Headed Giant Commander Night

Scheduling: one event monthly, November 21, 2025–January 15, 2026
Promo reward: one Commander promo per participant, while supplies last

Two-Headed Giant (2HG) Commander Night invites players to partner up for casual two-on-two Commander games—an ideal way to help new players or at-home Commander players feel comfortable stepping into store play with a friend.

Commander Party

Scheduling: one event per period, December 5–11, 2025 and January 9–15, 2026
Promo reward: one Commander promo per participant, while supplies last

Commander Party weaves together gameplay and story in an exciting Commander event. There are two event windows for Commander Party—schedule one event in each window so players have a couple opportunities to enjoy the event.

Magic Presents: Master the Four Elements

Scheduling: Unlimited scheduling, November 21, 2025–January 15, 2026; allow for pick-up games and track those ad-hoc games by scheduling as they occur.
Reward: foil art print, plus any additional prizes at the store's discretion

Magic Presents: Master the Four Elements is a Sealed, league-style program that invites players to return week after week to evolve their decks, try new strategies, acquire emblems, and earn a foil art print reward.

Please note that the foil art prints may be late to arrive in some regions outside of North America. Stores can distribute the reward to players when they are available.

Magic Academy

Scheduling: unlimited, November 21, 2025–January 15, 2026
Promo reward: one promo (while supplies last) with purchase of starter product or six Play Boosters

Magic Academy is a two-part event series that introduces new players to Magic: The Gathering using instructional videos that guide players. Stores in North America can order additional teaching brochures and pocket reference cards via the WPN Marketing Portal.

• In Magic Academy: Learn to Play, players use the Magic: The Gathering | Avatar: The Last Airbender Beginner Box, Welcome Decks from past sets, or another starter product to learn the basics and play their first games.
• In Magic Academy: Deck Building, players use six Play Boosters to build a deck and experience Limited-format play.

Standard Showdown

Scheduling: one event per week, November 21, 2025–January 15, 2026
Promo reward: one promo card for the first-place winner of each event, while supplies last

Standard Showdown is a weekly event where players compete with Standard decks for a single weekly winner promo card prize. If your store receives more promo cards than there are weeks in the season, you may award them to event attendees at your discretion—just be sure to reserve one for each week's winner during the season.

Friday Night Magic

Scheduling: unlimited on Friday, November 21, 2025–January 9, 2026
Promo rewards: Promo Pack or additional rewards at store discretion

Friday Night Magic is the weekly heartbeat of in-store Magic play. You can schedule unlimited events every Friday in any format and supported by seasonal Promo Packs distributed at your discretion.

As noted previously, your Edge of Eternities marketing kit included a larger quantity of Promo Packs to last until the release of Lorwyn Eclipsed in January 2026—please plan your usage accordingly.

New and Notable for Magic: The Gathering | Avatar: The Last Airbender

Five Themed Prerelease Packs

Prerelease Packs for Magic: The Gathering | Avatar: The Last Airbender will feature one of five iconic characters: Aang, Katara, Azula, Zuko, or Toph, each with a seeded booster tailored to that character.

You have flexible options for distribution of Prerelease Packs: reward early preregistration with first pick or assign them randomly at the event—encouraging players to trade before opening. You might also elect to use both methods across multiple events, allowing players to choose for your earliest Prerelease events, while assigning them randomly for later events, utilizing remaining inventory. However you run your events, these themed Prerelease Packs make for a dynamic and memorable kickoff for the set.

Extra-Large, Set-Themed Collectible Pouch for Repeat Play

A new repeat-play reward is here: extra-large collectible pouches! These collectible pouches feature dye-sublimated printings of each of the five characters featured on the Prerelease Packs: Aang, Katara, Azula, Zuko, and Toph. Each is large enough to store a 60-card deck, plus tokens, counters, and more. The pouch is large enough to hold a 60-card deck, plus tokens and counters, so be sure to pass these out at the beginning of Prerelease to eligible players so they can use the pouch as they switch from match to match.

Players who participate in two or more in-store Prerelease events and register with their Wizards Account are eligible to receive one collectible pouch while supplies last. At-Home Prerelease participants are not eligible.

Magic Presents: Master the Four Elements Event

Magic Presents: Master the Four Elements is a casual Sealed league event designed to keep players engaged week after week. Starting November 21, players join by purchasing six Magic: The Gathering | Avatar: The Last Airbender Play Boosters and choosing an elemental emblem—Air, Water, Earth, or Fire—which grants special in-game benefits.

Each week, players return to expand their deck by purchasing an additional Play Booster and picking up a new emblem. The more they play, the more emblems they collect—and each match helps them work toward a special reward: a foil art print, earned by collecting all four emblems and gathering three signatures on each from match opponents. It’s a fun, flexible event that rewards consistent play and friendly competition.

Beginner Box for Magic Academy: Learn to Play Demos

WPN member stores in North America, LATAM, EMEA, and APAC regions will receive a Magic: The Gathering | Avatar: The Last Airbender Beginner Box product to use during Learn to Play demonstrations. The product offers a great learning experience that can excite new players about the set while teaching them how to play Magic. (Please note: stores in Japan will not receive the Beginner Box, as it is not available in Japanese; please continue to use Welcome Decks or other starter product for demos in those stores.)

Schedule and Promote Your Events

Magic: The Gathering | Avatar: The Last Airbender events are available to schedule now in Wizards EventLink. To help you build excitement, you can download the latest digital marketing assets and start promoting your events today.

WPN stores in the United States, Canada, Guam, and Puerto Rico can boost their store's visibility with customizable marketing materials—like tension fabric displays, sidewalk signs, and flyers—available to order through the WPN Marketing Portal for North America.

WPN stores across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) also now have access to their own WPN Marketing Portal for EMEA, featuring a wide range of official, customizable materials to enhance in-store promotions and events. ©2025 Viacom International Inc. TM & ©2025 Wizards.