{"id":210918,"date":"2021-03-08T17:10:38","date_gmt":"2021-03-08T17:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gamerant.com\/warhammer-magic-gathering-crossover-expectations-cards-decks\/"},"modified":"2021-03-08T17:10:38","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T17:10:38","slug":"what-to-expect-from-the-warhammer-x-magic-the-gathering-crossover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/wordpress\/index.php\/2021\/03\/08\/what-to-expect-from-the-warhammer-x-magic-the-gathering-crossover\/","title":{"rendered":"What to Expect From the Warhammer x Magic the Gathering Crossover"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Magic: The Gathering<\/em><\/strong> has been having a lot of fun with crossovers lately. When the\u00a0Ikoria<\/em> set was first revealed, it was clearly inspired by monster and kaiju movies of all kinds, but to the surprise of many,\u00a0Magic: The Gathering<\/em><\/a>\u00a0marked the occasion with a slew of special edition cards reskinned as\u00a0Godzilla<\/em> monsters.\u00a0Magic<\/em> didn’t used to interact with other settings so much, but now it puts a huge amount of effort into these rare crossover cards. That’s only one of many crossovers, too. Wizards of the Coast has dedicated resources to designing cards specifically to reference other pieces of pop culture many times now.<\/p>\n

It seems like all of these events have been gearing up for\u00a0Universes Beyond,\u00a0<\/em>Magic: The Gathering<\/em>‘s new official subseries dedicated to representing other IPs. Wizards of the Coast has already announced a couple other pieces of media that will get\u00a0Magic\u00a0<\/em>cards, and one of them is\u00a0Warhammer 40K<\/em><\/a>.<\/em> This sci-fi wargame by Games Workshop is extremely successful in its own right, so it’s not surprising that fellow tabletop game\u00a0Magic<\/em> wants kick off its\u00a0Universes Beyond<\/em> by making a connection with\u00a0Warhammer.<\/em> Wizards of the Coast has yet to reveal much about its\u00a0Warhammer 40K\u00a0<\/em>products, but fans can guess at some of the details.<\/p>\n

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It’s highly appropriate that\u00a0Warhammer 40K\u00a0<\/em>is going to be converted<\/a> into a series of Commander decks. In Commander,\u00a0Magic<\/em> players construct large and highly themed decks with a special legendary creature as their designated Commander. Commander’s highly themed decks and long play time are pretty similar to the long, sprawling games that\u00a0Warhammer 40K<\/em> is famous for.\u00a0Warhammer 40K<\/em>‘s factions will probably be the inspiration for the Commander decks; Wizards of the Coast will produce probably a deck each for the Imperium of Man, the Necrons, the Orks, and so on.<\/p>\n

That also means each deck will feature an important character from each faction as the Commander. The Emperor seems like a shoe-in for the Commander of the Imperium’s deck, for instance, whereas a Chaos deck might offer the player choice between Chaos Gods like Khorne and Slaanesh. The backbone of each deck will be built on all the unique types of units that each faction has available to it.\u00a0Warhammer 40K<\/em>‘s Commander decks<\/a> are likely to set the tone for future\u00a0Universes Beyond<\/em> sets in that it’ll require Wizards of the Coast to come up with way more unique cards than any previous crossover. For fans of the game, that’s a big plus.<\/p>\n

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Players should be ready for new keywords and mechanics introduced by the\u00a0Warhammer 40K<\/em> cards in order to capture each faction’s unique playstyle and the types of units that each faction generally has available to it. It’s up to Wizards of the Coast to decide how close it wants these Commander decks to play like\u00a0Warhammer.<\/em> For instance, the decks might have a lot of alternative win conditions to reference\u00a0Warhammer<\/em> objectives<\/a>. Alternatively, the decks might put an emphasis on the positions of players sitting around the table, since in\u00a0Warhammer,<\/em> the distance that units have to travel makes a world of difference.<\/p>\n

While the\u00a0Warhammer 40K\u00a0<\/em>decks are bound to be unique because of a lot of these potential mechanics, they do come with a small drawback. The cards in the decks might be designed very specifically to work well with each other and not normal\u00a0Magic<\/em> cards<\/a>. That’s no skin off the nose of Standard and die-hard traditional Commander players, since\u00a0Universes Beyond<\/em> isn’t Standard legal, but it could disappoint casual Commander players who want to tinker with the\u00a0Warhammer 40K<\/em> decks. It might be a little harder than usual for players to find new spins on the\u00a0Warhammer<\/em> material.<\/p>\n

No matter what the\u00a0Warhammer 40K<\/em> decks look like, though, they’re sure to stand out from the rest of\u00a0Magic<\/em>‘s products<\/a>.\u00a0Universes Beyond<\/em> is a bold initiative, and it has yet to be seen how it’ll perform. There’s already a bit of tension in the\u00a0Magic<\/em> community over\u00a0Universes Beyond<\/em>. Some fans are delighted at the notion that their favorite IPs might get lots of official\u00a0Magic<\/em> cards, while others are concerned about pop culture tainting\u00a0Magic<\/em>‘s original ideas and getting in the way of play. If the\u00a0Warhammer 40K<\/em> cards are very\u00a0self-sufficient\u00a0on purpose, that might assuage some fears.\u00a0Whatever the case,\u00a0Warhammer 40K<\/em>‘s\u00a0Magic<\/em> crossover is clearly a big deal. Hopefully Wizards of the Coast gives fans a taste of what’s to come soon.<\/p>\n

Magic: The Gathering<\/em><\/strong> is available now in game stores and digitally through\u00a0Magic Arena.<\/em><\/p>\n

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