Wizards of the Coast’s venerable card game series had some peculiar crosses over the years. But things will only get stranger and more wonderful with the expansion of your last crossover into a real Magic multiverse that would make even the more experienced planeswalkerturn the head: Lord of the Rings and Warhammer 40,000.
Polygon reports today that during a Hasbro investor call, Wizards of the Coast announced a new line of Magic collaborations called Universes Beyond. As the name implies, the new set of cards will be home to collaborations with other licenses in addition to those created by Wizards.
TThe first two additions to the line are as incredible as you might expect: Wizards is formally collaborating with the Middle Earth Business and Games Workshop to bring the worlds of Lord of the Rings and Warhammer 40,000 (would you think they would go to Sigmar’s Age instead, but maybe someday?) for the card game. No additional details have yet been revealed about the things we really want to know, such as how many terrains we need to touch to play Baharroth, cry of the wind, or if Gandalf becomes ill from summoning when you bring him back as Gandalf the White.
But suffice it to say that we are excited. We will bring more about Magic: The Gathering – Universos Beyond how and when we learn.
Update: At the a new blog publish detailing Universes Beyond, Wizards of the Coast clarified that the new line will be distinctly separate from its standard card launches, with a special badge indicating collaborative cards. The launches will cover several Magic formats, including a Warhammer 40,000 Commander Deck, and is not strictly confined to the “Secret Lair” crashes like recent collaborations with Living Dead.
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In addition, they noted that Adventures in the Forgotten Realms, a Upcoming Dungeons and Dragons to define, they will not actually be considered part of the line, and the brand will only be used for Magic license collaborations outside Wizards of the Coast properties – we have updated the language of the previous version of this post to reflect this clarification.
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