The latest Magic: The Gathering thirtieth anniversary panel at GenCon included some massive surprises concerning the Universes Past line, which lately resulted in a well-liked Lord of the Rings crossover. It will be selecting up a pair extra names of explicit word to videogame-likers. The post-apocalyptic world of Fallout and the numerous worlds of Ultimate Fantasy might be coming to Magic within the subsequent two years, and we should always count on 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 may be performed at any time, and even introduced again from the lifeless.
It is a chaotic and informal format that is develop into the most well-liked official approach to play Magic, forward of even the one-on-one competitions of Customary format. Just like the crossovers for Warhammer 40,000 and Physician Who, the Fallout playing cards will solely be authorized in Commander, and might be packaged as a number of preconstructed decks “every representing one of many wasteland’s many colourful factions.”
Ultimate Fantasy is a methods additional off, scheduled for 2025. Not like the Fallout playing cards, the Ultimate Fantasy set might be a tentpole launch accessible in booster packs, and presumably authorized throughout numerous codecs. “The set will embody every most important Ultimate Fantasy sport that has been launched up to now,” Wizards of the Coast stated, “from the unique Ultimate Fantasy to the lately launched Ultimate Fantasy 16. The set may even be accessible to play on Magic Area.”
We additionally received some extra element on the beforehand introduced Murderer’s Creed crossover. Coming in July of 2024, this one might be arriving within the type of “Past boosters”, a brand new taste of booster pack that comprises 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 might be arriving within the type of booster inserts, which 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’ Battle. The dino-themed Jurassic World playing cards might be a part of an upcoming set known as The Misplaced Caverns of Ixalan.
The GenCon panel additionally laid out the main points 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 yr’s subsequent units, that are known as Outlaws of Thunder Junction, Fashionable Horizons 3, Bloomburrow, and Duskmourn: Home of Horror.