Magic: The Gathering Missed A Trick With It’s Warhammer 40,000 Crossover
I’m going to come right out and say it: I don’t play Magic. I barely know what it is, despite the fact that I once bought a starter set when I was an impressionable student. I know there’s mana, I know there are different colours, but I don’t know what they mean.
One thing I do know about Magic: The Gathering, though, is that our very own MTG specialist, Joe Parlock, drops excellent art into TheGamer Slack every so often. I don’t understand what I’m looking at most of the time, but I know it looks great. Compare it to the Pokemon TCG, which I play more often and actively collect, and the art is on another level, generally speaking.
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That’s why I got excited for Magic’s forthcoming crossovers. I’m a Warhammer nut in the Golden Age of Warhammer video games, and I couldn’t wait for some cards to add some more spice to the universe so many of us know and love. That’s love in the sense that it’s really rich and vivid, not love in the sense that I admire Roboute Gulliman and the space fascists. The Lord of the Rings cards (from a forthcoming crossover coming next year) I saw in a preview looked great – unlike The Rings of Power, Peter Jackson, or even Alan Lee in their scope and design. I like Tolkien more than I like Warhammer, but I was still excited to see some artists apply this imagination and creativity to the ideas of the 41st Millennium.
Never have I been so disappointed. Around half of the cards use existing Warhammer 40k art, which, while cool, we’ve all seen before. It’s not only the same style, the same characters, and the same artists that Warhammer fans see every time they open a Codex or turn on a video game, it’s the
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