One might also expect for the TV series to be engineered to introduce new characters and character types that will inevitably get brought into the card game’s future expansions.
While the actual plotline for the TV show isn’t being promoted in full, the announcement teases that Magic: The Gathering will introduce an all new storyline that expands the story of the Planeswalkers, which are the power-wielding wizards that are contending “with stakes larger than any one world can hold.”