Wizards of the Coast is celebrating April Fool’s Day, but their announcement is very real.
Marvel’s Deadpool is getting his own surprise Magic: The Gathering Secret Lair drop, including five cards with art featuring the Merc with a Mouth.
He joins fellow Marvel superheroSpider-Man in Magic: The Gathering’s “Universes Beyond” series.
The series also includes theSpongeBob SquarePants Secret Lairandthe upcoming Avatar: The Last AirbenderandFinal Fantasy full, standard-legal expansion sets, along with the older Fallout, Warhammer 40,000, and Dr. Who releases, among others.
Deadpool’s Secret Lair drop includes a total of five cards, with a new one for the man himself and four existing cards with new art.
Magic: The Gathering Deadpool Secret Lair Cards
Deadpool’s card, called Deadpool, Trading Card, has an ability that would be right at home in one of Magic: The Gathering’s parody “acorn” sets: Unglued, Unhinged, Unstable, Unsanctioned, and Unfinity, called acorn sets because of the acorn-shaped holographic stamp on the cards (or, for the first four, their silver borders) marking them as intended for fun, casual play, and that they cannot be used in tournaments.
But these cards all have the usual Universes Beyond triangle mark, so, while the legality of cards exclusive to Secret Lair drops is usually limited anyway, it may at least see more use than any of the cards from the parody sets, especially in more casual formats like Commander.
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The other cards are more ordinary staples in the Commander format, just reprinted with art appropriate for Deadpool: Deadly Rollick, Saw in Half, Vandalblast, and Blasphemous Act.
The Deadpool Secret Lair drop is available now, and will set you back $39.99 for theregular editionor $49.99 if you want the cards infoil. Secret Lair drops have limited availability and a tendency to sell out fast, so if you want to add him to your deck, you’ll want to act fast.
However you feel about Magic: The Gathering being used as a marketing vessel in a similar way to Fortnite, you can’t deny that it brings in the money;the Final Fantasy sethasn’t even released yet and has alreadysold out and is being scalped on eBay.
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