MAGIC: THE GATHERING Announces New STREET FIGHTER and FORTNITE Cards and other Plans for 2022 at Magic Showcase 2021
Wizards of the Coast recently had their Magic Showcase 2021 which involved some announcements and reveals for 2022 involving Magic: The Gathering. There was a brief touch on the upcoming animated series at Netflix with it being revealed that Brandon Routh will play the planeswalker Gideon Jura. It was also revealed that Django Wexler is writing a novel that will coincide with the release of the series and will expand on the events in the series. The big showstopper though was all the announcements for MTG card game.
It was revealed that the Secret Lair series is going to be getting some incredible themes. There will be two Fortnite-themed drops with in-game locations and characters involved as well as a Street Fighter drop featuring characters like Chun-Li who will have the multikicker mechanic. If you can’t wait for a new Secret Lair, the Out of Time Superdrop is now live with pre-orders.
In the Universes Beyond series of cards, fans can look forward to adding Space Marines from Warhammer 40,000 to their decks in Q3 2022. If you can wait a bit longer, The Lord of the Rings: Tales from Middle-earth will release in 2023 with cards featuring Aragorn, Nazgul, Mount Doom, Gandalf, Frodo, and more from the iconic fantasy series.
Finally, we learned that in 2022, fans will travel to Kamigawa 2,000 years in the future with Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty in Q1 followed by Streets of New Capenna in Q2. Then, it’ll be a return to Dominaria with Dominaria United in Q3 and then The Brothers’ War in Q4 to celebrate MTG’s 30th anniversary.
