New set announced for Magic: The Gathering

20 million players can't be wrong. Magic: The Gathering is still going strong, and now it seems a new set will help it stay that way for some time.

Wizards of the Coast has today announced Magic Origins, a new Magic: The Gathering set releasing this July. This pivotal new set reveals the origin stories of five of Magic's Planeswalker characters.

"Magic Origins is a different kind of core set than we've ever done before, one with ambitious story goals and deep creative impact," says Doug Beyer, Magic's senior creative designer.

In the Magic: The Gathering Multiverse, some mages are born with a rare gift, simply known as "the spark." When such mages face a great ordeal, their spark's potential is unleashed, elevating them to become Planeswalkers and travel between the planes of the Multiverse. Magic Origins will reveal for the first time these pivotal moments for five Planeswalkers: Gideon Jura, Jace Beleren, Liliana Vess, Chandra Nalaar, and Nissa Revane.

The new set will see release on July 17.