Magic: The Gathering’s crossover with Avatar: The Final Airbender nonetheless feels recent, but the sport’s writer, Wizards of the Coast, is shifting proper alongside to tease the upcoming Marvel Tremendous Heroes set scheduled for June 2026.
A Dec. 9 episode of Wizards’ official net present, WeeklyMTG, hosted by Blake Rasmussen, included a sequence of previews of recent playing cards. Rasmussen was joined on the present by Command Zone podcast host Rachel Weeks and actor Gabriel Luna, who performed the Ghost Rider Robbie Reyes on Brokers of S.H.I.E.L.D. (Rasmussen was fast to notice that Ghostrider doesn’t seem within the new set.)
Pre-orders for the brand new set have not gone dwell but, however this is a take a look at 38 new playing cards that’ll be launched as a part of Marvel Tremendous Heroes.
Marvel Tremendous Heroes most important set playing cards
The very first reveal was Captain America, Tremendous-Soldier. A 3/2 legendary creature that prices three mana, this mono-white Cap has first strike and enters with a defend counter (which negates a single chunk of harm or every other try to focus on the creature). At any time when he has a defend counter, his controlling participant and every other Heroes the participant controls additionally get hexproof.
With the third card — Quicksilver, Brash Blur — a brand new mechanic referred to as Energy-Up was launched that features a bit like Exhaust in that it buffs the creature however can solely be used as soon as. On this case, you pay 4 colorless and one purple mana to place a +1/+1 counter and double strike counter on him. Nonetheless, in an added twist, that Energy-Up price is decreased by the creature’s mana worth on the flip it enters the battlefield. Primarily based on what Rasmussen mentioned in the course of the stream, it appears Energy-Up can be one of many core mechanics of Marvel Tremendous Heroes.
Whereas discussing Moon Woman and Satan Dinosaur, Rasmussen additionally famous that “every time an artifact you management enters” triggers seem all through the Marvel Tremendous Heroes set to characterize a superhero or supervillain “inventing” one thing. And later, when Physician Doom was revealed, the hosts lingered on the word about how Doom is indestructible so long as the participant controls an artifact creature…or a “Plan.”
Rasmussen then revealed “Doom Reigns Supreme,” an Enchantment card with the subtype Plan that collects a plan counter every time a Villain enters. Ultimately, with 5 plan counters, it exiles the highest 5 playing cards of an opponent’s library and casts two spells from that stack with out paying the mana price. Plan playing cards are fairly actually long-term plans with levels to them that decks can concentrate on. A normal deck with 4 copies of this and loads of Villains to help it may theoretically exile 20 playing cards out of your opponent’s deck — and allow you to play eight of them without cost. That is fairly villainous certainly.
Naturally, The Unbelievable Hulk is ludicrously highly effective, with Enrage to realize an increasing number of +1/+1 every time he is dealt harm. However even the bottom Bruce Banner attracts X playing cards once you pay XX. Enchantment Sagas additionally return, like The Coming of Galactus and World Warfare Hulk. The latter helps you to forged a purple or inexperienced creature spell without cost, you then put three +1/+1 tokens on a goal creature, and you then double a creature’s energy and toughness and provides it trample till finish of flip. It is the right form of “overwhelm in a short time” maneuver. In the meantime, The Coming of Galactus finally will get you a terrifying 16/16 Elder Alien creature token that destroys a land every time it assaults.
Marvel Tremendous Heroes artwork showcase playing cards and reprints
A bunch of playing cards from Marvel Tremendous Heroes may also be out there in particular comic-book type artwork variants, together with creatures like Bruce Banner/Hulk and Physician Doom, together with Plan playing cards like The Coming of Galactus.
And, as per ordinary, Wizards can also be taking the chance to reprint some older playing cards with Marvel artwork. This consists of three new variants of Heroic Intervention. Nonetheless, the true spotlight right here is the Horn of Greed, which options the meme-worthy second from Marvel Comics when Physician Doom toots a horn. That one will virtually actually be a chase card.
Marvel Tremendous Heroes Commander precon deck(s)
Halfway by way of the livestream, Rasmussen introduced card designs for the Incredible 4:
He additionally confirmed that they will seem alongside each other in a single red-green-white-blue preconstructed Commander deck, and the participant can select solely one among them to be the commander. Every of those playing cards is superb in their very own proper and may slot into loads of different deck archetypes. Every member of Marvel’s first household will get some form of perk or buff at the start of fight if you happen to’ve performed a non-creature spell this flip, together with a second activated means that prices 4 complete mana.
We do not know what the opposite Marvel Tremendous Heroes precons will concentrate on, however primarily based on this development, maybe we’ll see different groups highlighted, like The Avengers or The Defenders. And now we have to imagine Wizards may also supply some kind of villain-focused Commander deck, too. Maybe Thanos is about to point out up and begin accumulating Infinity Stones?
It would even be fascinating how this Marvel Tremendous Heroes set synergizes with the Spider-Man playing cards. For all we all know, one among 2025’s most maligned units would possibly wind up being so much stronger with the best interactions. We’ll discover out in June.
