Magic: the Gathering meets Honor Among Thieves with new Secret Lair

At last, Magic: the Gathering Hugh Grant and Chris Pine are featured on cards

In commemoration of the theatrical release Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, Wizards of the Coast will release a limited edition Secret Lair Collection under the Universes Beyond banner. This collection includes characters as well as new legends from Wizards of the Coast’s upcoming movie. Magic Cards designed both for players and collectors.

Even though this seems unlikely, Magic’s First time featuring characters of other iconic pop culture icons, currently there is no plan for the Honor among Thieves Future versions of cards that can be used in-game Magic Press Releases —The Secret Lair is not like other recent ones such as the Stranger Things And Street Fighter The card text of the releases was used on subsequent cards. These cards had updated names and more accurate depictions. Magic’s aesthetic.

“Never say never, but these cards are very specific to these characters and this moment in time,” said Jeremy Jarvis, Senior Creative Director of Franchise Development at Wizards of the Coast, in an email.

“Seeing the Tiefling creature type or a d20-rolling card on a Magic-universe card might be challenging, but as JJ says, never say never,” added Corey Bowen, Senior Game Designer for Magic: The Gathering.

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While the Secret Lair team continues to release new collections with pop culture connections — it has another one planned later this year for Doctor Who — This is the first time that Universes Beyond will be connected to a movie release.

“These were driven by the script and, yes, the RPG rules provided the Secret Lair team with additional design angles,” Jarvis said. “Simon’s d20 mechanic to represent the spirit of wild magic sorcery would be a good example.”.

Bowen claims that there are three types of adverbs: D&D This design was also heavily influenced by lore.

“Aside from Jeremy’s insight and materials, being a big Dungeons & Dragons fan to begin with provided a lot of inspiration as well,” he said. “These cards not only represent aspects of these characters but also archetypical features of the D&DThey represent the classes they are representing. These cards aren’t tied to a specific Magic So we can borrow mechanics more easily from you, Magic’s history to represent resonant features of these characters.”

As with many Universes Beyond releases the cards can also be templated to look like legendary creatures. This makes them ideal for use as build-arounds. Magic’s commander format. All five Magic The central cast is represented by colors, and there’s an extra blue-red card that features Edgin (played by Chris Pine).

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“On this particular Secret Lair drop, we also had some serendipitous elegance in our favor,” Jarvis said. “Five of the six characters (what, a secret card?) It was clearly mapped across the WUBRG colour pie. Edgin is our ringleader/bard. Emotion (red) drives the Edgin most of all. Love, loss, resentment, regret. He is a Harper, as we know. He was responsible for infiltrating and spying (blue). He’s a planner and strategist (blue) that improvises and pivots on a dime (red). We also know he’s an artist, a musician that sings and plays the lute (red). I love the presentation of Edgin as a very non-Izzet take on the intersection of intellect and gut.”

Rest of the cards are only one-sided and can be used by each card. Magic’s colors, feature designs and abilities players will recognize as classic renditions of the game’s color identities.

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Doric, Nature’s Warden, which depicts Sophia Lillis’ character, is a green Tiefling Druid who fetches an extra forest card from the player’s deck when she enters the battlefield, and transforms into a massive Bird-Bear beater when she attacks.

Hugh Grant’s Forge, Neverwinter Charlatan is a black Human Rogue that can force opponents to sacrifice their own creatures and rewards you for these sacrifices with additional Treasure tokens.

Michelle Rodriguez’s Human Barbarian, Holga, Relentless Rager, is an aggressive red attacker that powers up additional creatures when she goes to battle.

Justice Smith portrays Simon Wild Magic Sorcerer as a human Elf Shaman. D&D’s 20-sided dice mechanic whenever its controller casts instant or sorcery spells.

And Xenk, Paladin Unbroken, played by Regé-Jean Page, is a white Human Knight that gets stronger as it suits with additional aura cards.

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This Secret Lair does introduce the Tiefling type of creature to be a Magic card for the first time, in Xenk’s case, the designers played with Magic’s Limitations when it comes to naming the card.

“Xenk Yendar’s card name was half driven by ‘paladin’ not being a supported subtype in Magic,” said Jarvis. “We wanted to ensure it was represented on the card, but ‘unbroken’ is a reference to an inscription etched on the blade of his Daggersword in Celestial: ‘Neither virtue nor blade shall break’. Ergo ‘Xenk, Paladin Unbroken.’”

Pre-orders for this Secret Lair begin on March 28 at www.secretlair.wizards.com, and will be available in both foil and non-foil treatments.