Magic: The Gathering’s Marvel Cards Are a Heroic Sight to Behold

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Throughout 2024, Magic the Gathering has released crossover packs featuring fashionable franchises similar Fallout and Assassin’s Creed through its Universes Beyond line. Naturally, the fashionable paper crippled has much brands up its sleeve, main among them being Marvel, whose packs got their archetypal afloat uncover astatine New York Comic-Con up of their November 4 release.

The Secret Lair Superdrop features 27 cards dispersed crossed 5 Marvel heroes: Captain America, Iron Man, Storm, Black Panther, and Wolverine. (While Steve Rogers and Logan are the stars of their respective sets, their successors Sam Wilson and Laura Kinney besides popular up successful immoderate cards.) Along with modular instant and sorcery cards themed astir their respective hero, the packs volition besides travel with a caller legendary paper for their respective hero. For example, if you woody combat harm to a subordinate with Storm’s legendary, the adjacent instant oregon sorcery spell successful the crook volition besides use tempest damage. You tin spot the cards and their effects close below.

Wizards of the Coast made it beauteous clear Magic’s got much Marvel up its sleeve. Spider-Man volition header a tentpole acceptable expected to deed adjacent year, and WOTC teased this Secret Lair driblet is “just the beginning” of its concern with Marvel. “Hasbro volition proceed to bring caller ways for players to explicit their Marvel fandom through Magic: The Gathering’s collection of Universes Beyond crossover products,” said the property release.

Marvel comes to Magic: The Gathering when the Secret Lair Superdrop goes connected merchantability opening November 4 for $40 (non-foil) oregon $50 (foil successful a constricted people run).

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