Magic Reveals 38 Marvel Playing cards That Truly Have Me Excited

Magic: The Gathering‘s Marvel Super Heroes set arrives next June, just in time for Avengers to return to theaters and Doomsday to debut at the end of the year. But the licensed Universes Beyond expansions have been at their best when they add more flavor to the trading card game rather than just lean on it for publicity. On Tuesday, Wizards of the Coast gave fans a taste of what to expect from the latest comic-book-inspired set, from Incredible Hulk card art to new Captain America card mechanics.

The company teased 38 new cards on its latest WeeklyMTG show. There’s loads of Legendary Creatures, some neat spells, and plenty of actually nifty artwork. There’s Captain America, a 3/2 white creature with a defend counter that protects it from one occasion of injury. There’s Bruce Banner, a 1/1 blue who can remodel into the Hulk with an Enrage situation that provides him a +1/+1 counter when broken and a second assault section.

After which there’s Physician Doom, a 3/3 black creature that enters with Doombot tokens, lets gamers draw a card and take harm on the finish of their flip, and is indestructible whereas an artifact creature or Plan is on the sphere. Wizards additionally revealed a notable reprint of Heroic Intervention, with the impact of “Permanents you control gain hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.” The set has a Horn of Greed, too, with the proper Physician Doom “toot” artwork.

Whereas the reprints every have callbacks to some basic Marvel comedian e-book artwork, my favorite-looking playing cards thus far are the full-art variants of Widow-Making Infiltrator, Dig Via Time, and Elektra, Lethal Murderer. And for all of your Saga nerds on the market, we have now World Warfare Hulk, which ends with doubling a creature’s energy and toughness and giving it trample, and The Coming of Galactus, which culminates in a 16/16 black Elder Alien with flying, trample, and “Whenever Galactus attacks, destroy target land.”

I wasn’t too impressed with the Marvel set when it was initially revealed earlier this yr. Coming proper after Spider-Man and within the midst of a glut of different Universes Past crossovers, it appeared more likely to be one other property stretched skinny and rushed out to maintain the discharge calendar rolling. These preliminary card reveals look promising, although. I’m intrigued. Perhaps I wasn’t as burnt out on Marvel as I believed. I would simply should chase Galactus in spite of everything.