Wizards of the Coast is celebrating April Fool’s Day, but their announcement is very real.
Marvel’s Deadpool is getting his own surprise Magic: The Gathering Secret Lair drop, including five cards with art featuring the Merc with a Mouth.
He joins fellow Marvel superhero Spider-Man in Magic: The Gathering’s “Universes Beyond” series.
The series also includes the SpongeBob SquarePants Secret Lair and the upcoming Avatar: The Last Airbender and Final Fantasy full, standard-legal expansion sets, along with the older Fallout, Warhammer 40,000, and Dr. Who releases, among others.
Deadpool’s Secret Lair drop includes a total of five cards, with a new one for the man himself and four existing cards with new art.
Magic: The Gathering Deadpool Secret Lair Cards
Deadpool’s card, called Deadpool, Trading Card, has an ability that would be right at home in one of Magic: The Gathering’s parody “acorn” sets: Unglued, Unhinged, Unstable, Unsanctioned, and Unfinity, called acorn sets because of the acorn-shaped holographic stamp on the cards (or, for the first four, their silver borders) marking them as intended for fun, casual play, and that they cannot be used in tournaments.
But these cards all have the usual Universes Beyond triangle mark,...
