MTG: 40K, Middle Earth, Street Fighter, And Even Fortnite Will Come To Magic: the Gathering
Curious about the many worlds coming to Magic: the Gathering over the next couple of years? Well strap in, we’re going to Fortnite.
In 2022, Magic the Gathering will be going to space. Well, more accurately it’ll be going to Space Marines, with one of the upcoming new Universes Beyond sets which take Magic: the Gathering’s expansive, almost all-consuming ability to turn anything into a card you can pay mana for and possibly tap for an effect, and rams it headlong into a fictional world ripe for the harvest.
It is a grim, bloody process that will eventually see all fictional realities collide into an unassailable conglomerate entity protected by a labyrinthine structure of copyright laws under one, united IP that will rule us all. But until we have Peppa Pig teaming up with Ross and Rachel from Friends to fight against the Ice King and Pickle Rick like some kind of hellish, multi-generational Ready Player One, we’ll have to settle for the next best (?) thing: Magic: the Gathering crossover sets.
And what a bumper crop you’ll have to look forward to next year as Magic sets its sights on a few different universes. At the Magic Showcase, we got a look at some of them, including a closer look at the new Magic/40K crossover spectacular:
The Warhammer 40K set will consist of four Commander Decks rife with Space Marines, new art, new cards, and powerful reprints all set in the world of Warhammer 40,000. These will be available “later” in 2022.
And as was previously announced, in 2023, Magic will be venturing into Middle Earth. Once again with four Commander decks and special Secret Lair drops. And we got to celebrate with a look at a most familiar birthday party:
But then we got a look at two of the new worlds that lie in store with the fast, thunderous kicks of Chun Li.
In 2022 as part of the 35th anniversary of Street Fighter, we’ll get a special Secret Lair drop full of “mechanically unique” cards as well as “in-universe (meaning regular Magic) versions [of those cards] in future releases as part of The List in Set Boosters.”
Finally Fortnite. Look, everything is already in Fortnite, and now Fortnite is going to be in Magic. Which means that, by the transitive law of Intellectual Property BS, you can look forward to Magic: the Gathering versions of The Master Chief in Fortnite, Thanos in Fortnite, and probably a Magic card version of that Travis Scott concert.
There will be two Secret Lair drops for the nascent god that will one day consume all other media, which will feature “reprints like you’ve never seen them.”
All this in the next couple of years.
