With MagicCon Amsterdam proper across the nook, Wizards of the Coast has begun spoiler season for his or her subsequent crossover set in Magic: The Gathering: Star Trek. Whereas the legendary science-fiction franchise could appear to be an odd match for a buying and selling card sport that’s finally about wizards flinging spells at one another, house (aka the ultimate frontier) is not any stranger to the sport. Simply final yr Magic went to house with the superb Fringe of Eternities set, and the gameplay design was so good it ended up being my favourite set of the yr.
What’s odd about Star Trek spoiler season although is a specific card that’s being printed on its bonus sheet. As revealed earlier at the moment, the set encompasses a reprint of Sheoldred, The Apocalypse reskinned as Kahn from the 2013 movie Star Trek Into Darkness. One of many foremost promoting factors of Magic’s Star Trek set is that Wizards of the Coast has obtained the rights to make use of the likeness of each actor they depict on the cardboard, which signifies that Sheoldred–instead of being a feminine phyrexian nightmare being–is now simply… Benedict Cumberbatch?
Exterior of being a bit bummed {that a} reprint for a $80+ card is being sullied with artwork from a J.J. Abrams movie, it acquired me pondering. There’s lots of Benedict Cumberbatch in Magic: The Gathering this yr for some cause. Not the actor himself, per se, however characters he’s depicted on display. For instance, the Marvel Tremendous Heroes set simply launched a Physician Unusual card that has artwork very clearly influenced by his on display depiction performed by Cumberbatch.
Bizarre that it occurred not as soon as however twice, however what if I informed you it’s truly taking place three instances? Following Star Trek, the following MTG crossover set is predicated on The Hobbit, and whereas a return to Center-Earth is at all times welcome, it permits yet one more character that Cumberbatch has portrayed to be depicted in Magic: The Gathering. The cardboard this time is Smaug the Magnificent, and it truly encompasses a chase printing that’s the headliner card of the whole Hobbit set.
Theoretically, which means that in case you construct a Mardu (pink, white, and black for non-players) deck, you possibly can have each Benedict Cumberbatch card be playable in your gameplan in case you so need.
What different universes can Magic: The Gathering depict so as to add much more Benedict Cumberbatch? Is that this secretly their approach of testing the water for casting him within the introduced Magic: The Gathering streaming adaptation? Who is aware of actually. I simply know that I’m drained.
