Magic: the Gathering Holiday Gift Guide
Posted by Magic Madhouse on 21st Nov 2025
With Christmas just a month away, it can sometimes be tricky to know what to get for the card gamers in your life. Magic: The Gathering releases thousands of new cards every year, all sorted into different sets that take place across a huge variety of worlds. Here are some suggestions from us to help you sift through the noise, and pick out the perfect purchase for your friends, and loved ones, who like to planeswalk across the MTG Multiverse.
With Christmas just a month away, it can sometimes be tricky to know what to get for the card gamers in your life. Magic: the Gathering releases thousands of new cards every year, all sorted into different sets that take place across a huge variety of worlds. Here are some suggestions from us to help you sift through the noise, and pick out the perfect purchase for your friends, and loved ones, who like to planeswalk across the MTG Multiverse.
One of the best options, if you’re looking for a quick present for roughly five pounds, is a booster pack. Boosters contain a selection of cards from a particular Magic: the Gathering set. There’s a huge range of different spells, creatures, and lands that could be in any given booster, and they are all guaranteed to contain at least one rare card.
If you know that you’re buying packs for someone who is just as into superheroes as they are into trading cards then you can’t go wrong with some Spider-Man booster packs. These bring the web-slinging superhero, and his rogues’ gallery of adversaries, into the world of Magic: the Gathering.
Of course, Spider-Man is far from the only option when it comes to Magic: the Gathering boosters. You can voyage across the Edge of Eternities, Magic’s Sci-Fi setting, experience the intense action of Final Fantasy, or fill the sky with fire by buying a Tarkir: Dragonstorm pack.
Spider-Man isn’t the only crossover character coming to MTG this year. The upcoming Avatar: the Last Airbender set will contain cards featuring Aang, Zuko, and the rest of the colourful cast of the iconic Nickelodeon show.
The Beginner Box is an intro product designed to teach Magic: the Gathering to new players, while also focusing on the rivalry between Aang and Zuko. The box contains 10 half decks that can be used to learn the game and combined in a variety of different combinations to try out novel strategies. It also includes two spindown dice for tracking your life, two guidebooks that explain the rules, and two playmats that provide a surface for casting your cards.
If you’re curious to try Magic: the Gathering out, and you’ve been looking for a way to get into the game, this beginner box is the perfect starting point, since it gives you everything you need to get going.
Let’s move from the beginner box to a booster box. This big box of elemental energy contains 30 Avatar: the Last Airbender booster packs. Whether you’re looking for flying yaks, or fire lords, there are all kinds of characters that can turn up inside an Avatar booster box.
Not only can the packs in the box be opened up to collect the cards inside, but you can also use them to run a “draft”. This is a special way of playing the game, where everyone shares out the cards in their packs and builds decks together. When buying a booster box, you’re not just getting cards, you’re getting the opportunity to run an afternoon of card cracking chaos.
Alternatively, if you’re looking for a deluxe experience, collector booster boxes offer cards with unique illustrations. Some are drawn with neon ink, some of them come bursting out of the confines of their frames, and many of them are shiny “foil cards” that gleam when they catch the light.
Swinging back over to the world of comics, you can pick up this Spider-Man Gift Bundle. It contains an exclusive alternative art version of Gwen Stacey infused with the Venom Symbiote that can’t be opened anywhere else.
The box mimics the front cover of a Spider-Man comic and contains multitudes of arachnid themed cards that will set your spider-senses tingling. Inside you'll find nine Spider-Man booster packs, each of which stores 14 cards, one special 15 card Collector Booster filled with shiny foil cards, and thirty land cards that are needed for deckbuilding. There’s also a Spider-Man life tracking die.
Once it has been opened, the gift bundle remains a great cache for any Magic: the Gathering collector, since it's got plenty of room to store cards of all kinds.
One of the most fun ways that you can learn to pick up and play Magic: the Gathering is the Jumpstart format. Every Jumpstart booster contains 20 cards based around a theme. That theme could be anything from music to swords to cabbages. Then you slam two of these differently themed packs together, and you’ve got a fully playable deck, ready to battle it out with an opponent using an equally unlikely combination of cards.
Avatar: Jumpstart Boosters combine the delightful chaos of the Jumpstart format with the elemental antics of Avatar: the Last Airbender. You’ll be combining earth, water, fire, and air, in all sorts of unusual arrangements. If you’re looking for a way to jump into some spectacularly strange games, there’s nothing better than Jumpstart.
Ask any Magic player, and they’ll tell you that they can have too many card sleeves. The cardboard rectangles that we spend so much time shuffling together can be surprisingly fragile. Sleeves are essential, since they keep cards safe. Brands, like Dragon Shield, not only safeguard cards, but they also provide a smooth-feeling shuffle that glides across your hands.
Similarly, a good deck box is both a storage solution that keeps cards together and a stylish statement that shows off some awesome artwork.
Then there are playmats that provide a smooth fabric surface to play cards onto, and also show off some spectacular card art. Since Magic: the Gathering has crossed so many genres and worlds in its time, there’s a huge variety of options out there, from grinning gorgons, to sinister squirrels, to viral vocaloids.
If you feel a bit uncertain about which specific cards to buy for your MTG playing loved one, getting them some accessories is always a heartful gesture, that will help them bling out their collection.
Gathering up the Christmas Joy
This has been our selection of Magic: the Gathering Christmas gifts, which will put some spells into your stocking.
We also have a Pokémon Christmas gift guide, and a Board Game gift guide avalible for you to browse.