Magic: The Gathering Sets for Marvel Super Heroes, The Hobbit, and Star Trek Arrive in 2026

Wizards of the Coast is keeping its enactment of Magic: The Gathering crossovers cards going with the announcement of 3 caller paper sets: Marvel Super Heroes, The Hobbit, and Star Trek.

Wizards of the Coast announced its latest trading paper collaborations astatine a MagicCon: Atlanta sheet today. Along with updates to the basal MTG universe, the amusement has featured reveals for expansions successful its enactment of Marvel and Middle-earth sets, arsenic good arsenic a wholly caller acceptable of cards featuring acquainted faces from Star Trek.

The Marvel Super Heroes acceptable is the archetypal bombshell of today’s amusement and comes with the committedness of a June 2026 merchandise date, which volition beryllium revealed astatine a aboriginal time. Although we’ll person to hold to spot each paper and its abilities (and hopefully much Infinity Stones), Wizards of the Coast shared a archetypal look astatine cardinal creation featuring an service of Marvel heroes and villains.

It comes blistery disconnected the heels of the Spider-Man set, which launched today. The Marvel Super Heroes MTG cards volition instrumentality things a measurement further, with the creation featuring Thanos, Ultron, Black Panther, Iron Man, Luke Cage, Squirrel Girl, and many, galore more.

Details connected The Hobbit MTG set, which follows the monumental merchandise of The Lord of the Rings Magic acceptable successful 2023, are rather a spot lighter. We cognize The Hobbit cards volition driblet August 2026, with cardinal creation featuring the likes of Gollum and Gandalf, but we’ll person to hold a portion for immoderate further updates.

Finally, there’s the long-rumored Star Trek set, which is acceptable to instrumentality MTG players to caller worlds November 2026. This is uncharted territory for Magic fans, with cardinal creation revealing cards based connected characters similar William Shatner’s Captain Kirk and Gowron, lad of M’Rel.

Including the recently announced Lorwyn Eclipsed (January), Secrets of Strixhaven (April), and Reality Fracture (October) sets, arsenic good arsenic an unannounced Universes Beyond acceptable (March), MTG players tin presently expect 7 caller sets to driblet passim the year. Meanwhile, much expansions successful the MTG Universes Beyond enactment of sets should travel arsenic nary surprise. The precocious released Final Fantasy set, which is besides prepped to person caller cards this December, managed to beryllium rather the occurrence for Wizards of the Coast erstwhile it launched earlier this year. Featuring names similar Cloud, Vivi, Noctis, Sephiroth, and more, the acceptable managed to rake successful $200 cardinal successful conscionable 1 day.

Spider-Man swung into the MTG beingness contiguous with cards based connected everyone from Doctor Octopus to Miles Morales, with an Avatar: The Last Airbender acceptable lined up with adjacent much crossover contented aboriginal this year. For more, you tin spot wherefore MTG got their hopes astir fake Star Trek cards earlier this year.

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