{"id":49278,"date":"2026-05-03T00:05:37","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T16:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=49278"},"modified":"2026-05-03T00:05:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T16:05:37","slug":"magic-the-gatherings-marvel-super-heroes-expansion-has-a-big-battle-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=49278","title":{"rendered":"Magic: The Gathering&#039;s Marvel Super Heroes Expansion Has A Big Battle Ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/a\/uploads\/screen_medium\/1639\/16394322\/4691330-marvelmtg.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Ask any Magic: The Gathering player what the most disappointing set of the past 12-18 months has been, and the Spider-Man set from September 2025 will often be the first or second choice. A mishmash of popular and obscure characters (Spider-UK? Huh?), inconsistent mechanics, and a subpar limited environment doomed Peter Parker&#8217;s first foray into the MTG world.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The next set on the 2026 schedule, however, is Marvel Super Heroes, and Wizards of the Coast hopes to prove that Spider-Man was an exception, not the rule. After the set&#8217;s brief appearance during the Preview Panel at MagicCon: Las Vegas, the jury is still out, and we&#8217;re starting to become concerned.<\/p>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\">When&#8217;s Marvel?<\/h2>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">During a press preview of the Preview Panel (yes, a preview of the preview) earlier this week, Wizards of the Coast showed off cards from the next three upcoming expansions: June&#8217;s Marvel Super Heroes, August&#8217;s The Hobbit, and October&#8217;s in-universe Reality Fracture. Of those three expansions, we were shown over 20 cards and pieces of art from The Hobbit, 18 cards\/art pieces from Reality Fracture, and just <em>five<\/em> new cards\/art pieces from Marvel Super Heroes.<\/p>\n<p>Continue Reading at GameSpot<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/magic-the-gatherings-marvel-super-heroes-expansion-has-a-big-battle-ahead\/1100-6539742\/?ftag=CAD-01-10abi2f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ask any Magic: The Gathering player what the most disappointing set of the past 12-18 months has been, and the Spider-Man set from September 2025&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[800,3028,577,6310,18978,3838,3835,2933,1508],"class_list":["post-49278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-gadgets-reviews","tag-ahead","tag-battle","tag-big","tag-expansion","tag-gathering039s","tag-heroes","tag-magic","tag-marvel","tag-super","wpcat-32-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/49279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}