The Gathering is Making Fallout, Final Fantasy-Themed Card Sets

Magic: The Gathering has been going laborious on the model crossovers by means of its “Universes Past” line this 12 months with the likes of Physician Who and Lord of the Rings. Over the following few years, that enlargement is ready to proceed, with extra big-name franchises added to the road—particularly video video games.

Through the thirtieth anniversary panel for the tabletop card sport, Wizards of the Coast revealed the following handful of manufacturers that’ll be added to the “Universes” line by means of 2026. Bethesda’s Fallout franchise is getting the Magic remedy, with themed Commander Decks set to launch in March 2024. Per Wizards’ press launch, the Fallout playing cards had been made in collaboration with the developer and can “carry the Wasteland’s many colourful factions to Magic: The Gathering in order that gamers can recreate a few of Fallout’s most well-known—and outlandish—moments.” You possibly can watch the complete panel down under.

Along with Fallout, Sq. Enix’s Last Fantasy and Ubisoft’s Murderer’s Creed collection are each getting card units of their very own. The Last Fantasy playing cards will cowl every of the mainline entries within the collection, from the unique Last Fantasy to the more moderen Last Fantasy XVI. In the meantime, the Murderer’s Creed set may have playing cards stated to be “mechanically distinctive” and reprints with their very own distinctive artwork. Apparently, the discharge notes that the Creed playing cards will cowl “all Murderer’s Creed video games launched to this point,” fairly than simply the mainline ones. (Presumably, “each” simply refers back to the spinoffs on consoles and PC akin to Murderer’s Creed Brotherhood and Murderer’s Creed Rogue.) The Murderer’s Creed set is slated for a July 2024 launch, whereas Last Fantasy’s is dropping in 2025—and has the added bonus of being the one set from these three collection that’ll even be performed digitally within the Magic: The Gathering Area online game.

Exterior of video video games, Wizards teased out different collaborations to return for the “Universes Past” line. November’s Misplaced Caverns of Ixalan enlargement can even operate as a crossover with Common’s Jurassic Park motion pictures, with playing cards that characteristic paintings of characters and scenes from the movies, together with the Jurassic World trilogy. And in early 2024, the Ravnica block may have a standalone expertise primarily based on the Clue board sport.

There’ll even be a lot of wholly authentic releases, akin to subsequent 12 months’s Outlaws of Thunder Junction. Starting in September with Wilds of Eldraine, a brand new multi-year arc for Magic will play out and presumably lengthen to 2025 initiatives at the moment codenamed “Tennis” (centered on multi-plane dying races), “Volleyball” (sci-fi area opera) and “Wrestling” (set within the Lorwyn block). That story will wrap up with 2026’s “Ziplining,” which Wizards of the Coast stated can be similar to earlier expansions March of the Machine or Battle of the Spark. Additional particulars on these initiatives, akin to their precise names and playing cards, will revealed within the coming years.

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