Terry Matalas Will Reshuffle Netflix’s Magic: The Gathering Show

In 2019, quality broke that the Russo brothers were looking to accommodate Wizards of the Coast’s Magic: The Gathering card crippled into an animated bid for Netflix. A fewer years later, a caller originative squad featuring Jeff Kline replaced the Russos, Brandon Routh was formed arsenic large quality Gideon Jura, and then….nothing. Making TV shows takes time, but you wouldn’t beryllium incorrect successful wondering wherever it’s been.

Good news: it inactive exists, and successful information Netflix re-announced the bid during its Geeked Week event. Instead of the Russos, the precise engaged Terry Matalas (of Star Trek: Picard and Vision Quest fame) is present taking the reigns arsenic showrunner and an enforcement shaper alongside co-EP Patrick Osborne (Feast). In a statement, Matalas called it “an implicit imagination collaboration with Netflix, Hasbro Entertainment, Wizards of the Coast, and the superb Patrick Osborne to bring the galore worlds of Magic to streaming.”

So Kline’s Routh-starring mentation is afloat done. Routh himself recently revealed this, overmuch to the panic of Magic fans who thought it’d been softly canceled. It’s chartless what this caller iteration of the bid volition beryllium about, but Matalas teased it would amusement newcomers “what millions of fans who play each time already know: Magic is helium eventual storytelling sandbox. […] It is besides a almighty reminder that nary substance what culture, country, oregon level of beingness you travel from, we tin each unite and go heroes together.”

The Magic series is presently successful production, and much accusation astir it volition beryllium revealed implicit time.