The latest Magic: The Gathering thirtieth anniversary panel at GenCon included some massive surprises concerning the Universes Past line, which lately resulted in a preferred Lord of the Rings crossover. It’s going to be selecting up a pair extra names of explicit word to videogame-likers. The post-apocalyptic world of Fallout and the various worlds of Remaining Fantasy will likely be coming to Magic within the subsequent two years, and we must always anticipate to see some Jurassic World playing cards too.
Fallout is first on the invoice, and can arrive within the type of preconstructed decks to be used in Commander. Commander is the format the place four-or-so gamers go face to face with 100-card decks, every led by a single legendary Commander who will be performed at any time, and even introduced again from the useless.
It is a chaotic and informal format that is develop into the most well-liked official method to play Magic, forward of even the one-on-one competitions of Normal format. Just like the crossovers for Warhammer 40,000 and Physician Who, the Fallout playing cards will solely be authorized in Commander, and will likely be packaged as a number of preconstructed decks “every representing one of many wasteland’s many colourful factions.”
Remaining Fantasy is a methods additional off, scheduled for 2025. In contrast to the Fallout playing cards, the Remaining Fantasy set will likely be a tentpole launch out there in booster packs, and presumably authorized throughout varied codecs. “The set will embody every important Remaining Fantasy recreation that has been launched thus far,” Wizards of the Coast mentioned, “from the unique Remaining Fantasy to the lately launched Remaining Fantasy 16. The set will even be out there to play on Magic Enviornment.”
We additionally received some extra element on the beforehand introduced Murderer’s Creed crossover. Coming in July of 2024, this one will likely be arriving within the type of “Past boosters”, a brand new taste of booster pack that incorporates each new playing cards and reprints, and is authorized in codecs together with Fashionable, however not draft. It nonetheless sounds a bit complicated, however we’ll hear extra as its launch date will get nearer.
Lastly, the Jurassic World playing cards will likely be arriving within the type of booster inserts, that means they’re going to be tucked away inside booster packs for a mainline set, just like the Transformers playing cards in boosters for The Brothers’ Warfare. The dino-themed Jurassic World playing cards will likely be a part of an upcoming set referred to as The Misplaced Caverns of Ixalan.
The GenCon panel additionally laid out the small print of different upcoming releases that do not contain crossmedia advertising and marketing, like Ravnica Remastered and Murders at Karlov Manor, that are each on the slate for the primary quarter of 2024, in addition to the 12 months’s subsequent units, that are referred to as Outlaws of Thunder Junction, Fashionable Horizons 3, Bloomburrow, and Duskmourn: Home of Horror.
