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Today, Wizards of the Coast has announced that it's shifting the release date of Magic: The Gathering's Jumpstart product to July 17 because of the manufacturing delays due to COVID-19. Originally announced last February, Jumpstart was set to release in July 3 with prerelease events scheduled on June 20-21.

Wizards noted that this shift will not affect the release of Core Set 2021, which is set to release in June 25 on digital, and July 3 on tabletop.

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Wizards also said that Jumpstart will release on Magic: The Gathering Arena on July 16, and on Magic Online on June 25 through Treasure Chests only.

WotC describes Jumpstart as a "new kind of play experience inside a new kind of booster."

Here are key descriptions of Jumpstart:

You can check out all the themes for Jumpstart they announced so far here.

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