Magic: The Gathering Is Channeling The MCU For Its 2023 Line-Up
One of the most memorable aspects of the Marvel Cinematic Universe is its reveals. Every San Diego Comic Con, Kevin Feige takes to the stage and throws a whole timeline of vague names and dates at a crowd of screaming fans. For anyone without much of an investment in the MCU, it looks silly to see hundreds of people cheer at the logo for Captain Marvel 3: This Time There’s Also Beak From X-Men, but for those in the room or watching at home, it’s downright electric.
Magic: The Gathering’s set reveals aren’t too different in that regard. While it doesn’t get the packed auditorium and main billing at Comic Con, the yearly unveiling of the next 12 months is one of the most exciting times in the calendar. But coming off the back of this year’s inaugural Wizards Presents, where we saw right up to the end of 2023’s releases, it feels like Magic is borrowing from the MCU in a lot more ways than the mechanisms of its reveal.
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Everything about the next year of Magic feels tinged with Marvel’s approach to telling ongoing stories, from the way the sets are spaced out, the characters they include, and even their logos. Simply look at the logo for March of the Machine, with its Phyrexian symbol embedded in there, and tell me that it doesn't look like something you’d see on Disney+.
In Magic’s story, we’re currently heading for a big confrontation with the Phyrexians, a monstrous, metallic species who aim to convert all organic matter to their own design. In true MCU fashion, they first reappeared in the game almost two years ago, with a surprise appearance of the Phyrexian Praetor Vorinclex. Like Marvel’s famous post-credit sequences, it was a cool moment that fans
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