It’s 2010. You know what that means, don’t you? It means a new year filled with a ton of exciting Magic: the Gathering sets, tournaments, and random adventures. Let’s see what’s in store.

First up, there’s Path of the Planeswalker. This is a solid 200+ page graphic novel featuring the webcomics that can be found on the Wizards of the Coast website as well as a new story only to be found in the book. For those who haven’t read any of the comics, each one focuses on two or three of the five main planeswalkers, Jace Beleren, Ajani Goldmane, Liliana Vess, Garruk Wildspeaker, and Chandra Nalaar, and the adventures they have. This book is going for about $15 in bookstores now, as it was released January 5th. Graphic novel and Magic: the Gathering fans should pick this up and add it to their collection.

Next is the all-foil booster packs. This isn’t much different than normal booster packs except that every card is foil. The cards come from the Alara block which consists of Alara Reborn, Shards of Alara, and Conflux. These will hit store shelves on January 8th. If anyone gets them, let me know what you think! I’m really curious. Keep in mind, these will only be available for a limited time.

Worldwake and M11 comes this year, as well as Rise of the Eldrazi. Worldwake will be making waves starting February 5th. Prerelease events will be January 30th and 31st. For those that love the spoilers, those will start appearing on January 18th on magicthegathering.com, so keep a look out for them. The fun thing about M11, the core set for this year, is that it will stay in Standard with M10 until the October cycling, when M10 will be ‘demoted’ to Extended only.

A new duel deck set, Phyrexia vs The Coalition, will be released on March 19th. Phyrexia, the mono-black army, will face off against the Coalition, who represent the five-colors of magic. Duel decks are really fun because they allow two players to split the cost and each get an amazing preconstructed deck made to play right out of the box.

Whew! That’s a lot of excitement for the first half of this year! Keep on the look out for all these exciting products and whatever else the Wizards of the Coast team will come up with.