Netflix finally releases a sneak peek at its troubled Magic: The Gathering animated show

Look: We get that it’s not easy to translate Magic—which covers myriad alternate dimensions, contributions from thousands of artists, and those one cards where you could play as Dwight Schrute from The Office—down into a single series. And we appreciate that various Wizards Of The Coasts executives (who spend the first part of Netflix’s new sneak peek video promising, no, really, the show is actually happening) are claiming that the show will try to take those different perspectives into account. But the actual look of the show, as glimpsed in a few little clearly early snippets, just looks like a lot of CG cartoons we’ve seen in recent years—notably the League Of Legends-based Arcane, Netflix’s previous TV series based on a game that people make the entirety of their personality.

As to plot, Planeswalker will center on Chandra, “a volatile pyromancer hunted for her gifts, and haunted by her past,” who’s forced to team up with other Planeswalkers—wizards capable of moving between realities, and whose ability to cast spells and summon creatures is the canon explanation for the average Magic duel—in order to “prevent a cataclysmic war that threatens to consume their very existence.” The series is pretty clearly drawing on years of Magic lore, which we assure you that the game has in abundance, even if in recent years it’s seemed to be mostly obsessed with shoehorning Final Fantasy and Star Trek characters into the mix at a frankly daunting pace.

Planeswalker is expected to debut some time in 2027.