Calling all Magic fans and Spider-Heroes alike—get ready, because Magic: The Gathering | Marvel’s Spider-Man is launching soon, and the prerelease is your first chance to play with the set before its wide release! It is one of the most exciting events in the MTG community, giving players their very first chance to open packs, build decks, and battle with the latest cards before the set officially hits shelves.

Join us at Pro Reis place here in Iloilo City for a weekend of web-slinging fun, epic card reveals, and community battles.

Key Dates & What to Expect

• Prerelease Weekend: September 19-25, 2025 (MAGIC: THE GATHERING)
• Official Set Release: September 26, 2025 (MAGIC: THE GATHERING)

During the prerelease, you’ll get your hands on a Prerelease Pack which includes:

• 6 Marvel’s Spider-Man Play Boosters (MAGIC: THE GATHERING)
• 1 traditional foil rare or mythic rare card with a year-stamp (MAGIC: THE GATHERING)
• A deck box (MAGIC: THE GATHERING)
• A spindown die (one of five color variations) (MAGIC: THE GATHERING)

The format will be Sealed, meaning you’ll build a 40-card deck from the contents of your pack + basic lands, then battle through matches. It’s casual, fun, and a great way to test out cards and strategies early. (MAGIC: THE GATHERING)

What’s New in the Spider-Man Set

This set introduces new mechanics and exciting themes that combine the storytelling of Spider-Man with classic MTG gameplay. Highlights include:

• Web-slinging, a new keyword that lets you cast spells or creatures for a reduced cost if you return a tapped creature you control to your hand. (MAGIC: THE GATHERING)
• Returning mechanics like Connive, and others that reward building your deck around villain characters, dynamic board interaction, and clever resource use. (Draftsim)
• A wide variety of Spider-Heroes and Villains, including alternate-universe versions, signature art treatments like Borderless or Scene cards, and thematic flavor that celebrates the Spider-Verse. (MAGIC: THE GATHERING)

Why You Should Attend

Be among the first to discover which cards truly shine in this set—those bombs, removal spells, or combo pieces that could define Standard, Draft, or Commander play. Meet local players, trade, and enjoy the community atmosphere. Prereleases are a perfect mix of casual and competitive fun.

Exclusive promos and giveaways—many stores, including ours, offer door prizes, booster rewards for match wins, and special bonus items for prerelease participants.

A Magic: The Gathering prerelease is a special event where players get a chance to play with new cards before they are officially released. It has changed somewhat for the recent sets, but the joy of playing the new cards first-hand remains. The Phyrexia All will be One Prerelease event is this weekend.

If you are planning to attend a Phyrexia All will be One prerelease, here are some tips to help you prepare:

Familiarize yourself with the set: Before the prerelease, try to learn as much as you can about the new set, including the mechanics, themes, and key cards. This will give you a better understanding of what to expect and help you make more informed deck-building decisions.

Build a preliminary decklist: Based on what you know about the new set, create a preliminary decklist of the cards you think you might want to play. This will give you a starting point for deck-building and help you focus on the cards you need to acquire for your prerelease pool. Also, some Youtube videos can help and serve as a guide in describing the deck archetypes in the sealed format of a certain set.

The building of your deck out of the prerelease kit would depend on the card pool you’ve opened, and you will be given time to deck build and make any necessary changes. Make sure you have all the basic lands brought to the event and enough copies to build a complete deck.

Practice playing: Play games with friends or against AI opponents to get a feel for how the new cards and mechanics work. This will give you a better understanding of the cards and help you make any necessary changes to your decklist before the prerelease. Some websites can go with generating a sealed card pool for every new Magic: the Gathering set.

Prepare a checklist of things to bring to the PR event: What I usually do is write down the list on a piece of paper. The usual stuff is a deck box, basic lands, dice, a notepad, bag for my stuff such as a water bottle, towel, and wallet.

Get plenty of rest: Prereleases can be long and tiring, so make sure you get plenty of rest the night before. This will help you stay focused and play your best throughout the day.

By following these tips, you’ll be well-prepared for a Magic: The Gathering prerelease and will be able to have a great time playing with the new cards and meeting other players. Good luck!

It was another Prerelease Saturday for the local MtG Iloilo community as it was scheduled for the Dragons of Tarkir set. It was an earlier date for the third set as the usual schedule was every April or May of the year. Anyhow, we started the reservation of the PR slots a month before as we expected a surge in the number of participants. By the time we were on the last week, around twenty people were listed.

Good thing is that the products arrived as scheduled (Thursday) unlike that of the Fate Reforged PR so TO Rei was able to sort out the number of PR kits to be used. As soon I confirmed with Rei that the products arrived, I immediately went to Lanai Sports Bar & Grill that night to ask permission to use the place on Saturday. Another good news is that they will be starting to serve lunch by Friday so it won’t be a task for their staff to accommodate us. That said, the Prerelease was good to go.

Come Saturday, I went to Rei’s place at around 11am to help him with the products to bring to Lanai. He brought around 30 PR kits just in case some players that weren’t preregistered will join. We started listing the names of the players present at the venue at 12 noon and had to wait for additional participants until 1pm.

The distribution of kits followed and I have chosen Atarka (Red Green) as my colors as suggested by PV’s Prerelease primer article at the CFB website. My seeded pack got me a foil Den Protector but the rest of them were just so-so. What was worse was that my other four DTK boosters didn’t provide me any Red or Green rare to utilize. My FRF also followed, giving me a Temporal Trespass which is very useless for my build. What was good though is that the RG commons can be sufficient enough to build a decent deck. Here was what I came up with:

Lands
8 Forest
9 Mountain

Creatures
1 Colossodon Yearling
1 Aerie Bowmasters
1 Stampeding Elk Herd
1 Salt Road Quartermasters
1 Dragon-Scarred Bear
1 Atarka Efreet
1 Ainok Artillerist
2 Hardened Berserker
2 Summit Prowler
1 Den Protector
1 Guardian Shield-Bearer
2 Sabertooth Outrider
1 Atarka Beastbreaker

Spells
2 Lose Calm
1 Dromoka’s Gift
1 Tail Slash
2 Press the Advantage
1 Temur Battle Rage
A quick recap of the matchups:

Round 1 versus Ericson (Green White) won 2-0

Round 2 versus Justin (Black Red) won 2-1

Round 3 versus John Paul (Blue Black w/ Red) won 2-1

Round 4 versus Speedy (Blue White) won 2-0

The highlight of the matches was Game 3 against JP wherein I was able to set up my creature into a 5/4 thanks to Salt Road Quartermasters and kill him with Double Strike. He was at ten life that time and he attacked with two big creatures. I was at five life and I chump-blocked the 5/5 and took 4 damage putting me down to 1 life. He didn’t have a follow up play and with one card in hand, I doubt that it was a removal since he should have already done that on his turn to kill off my 5/4. On my possible last turn of the game, I drew a land and attacked and as expected he took the damage. Before the damage step, I casted Temur Battle Rage for the Double Strike and got him from ten life to zero.

Overall, I had wished that my card pool cooperated more but I am happy with my 4-0 finish. Fellow player Eric Borromeo also went 4-0 with Atarka but his deck components were stronger and more decent. I think he had Yasova and the new Surrak.

I opened two Mythics (Deathmist Raptor and Dragonlord Dromoka) from my prize boosters and that somewhat gave me a little ROI for my registration fee.

That is a wrap for this Dragons of Tarkir Prerelease report, until the next post.

P.S. Here are the Prerelease event pics. Click here.