Hasbro not too long ago introduced a multi-year licensing partnership with Warner Bros. to carry the world much more Harry Potter merch than it already has, a factor I wrestle to consider is definitely doable. The announcement guarantees “merchandise that includes dolls, function play, motion figures & collectibles, interactive plush, board video games and extra to be revealed later this yr.”
This made Magic: The Gathering gamers a little involved. We simply had an Avatar: The Final Airbender set, and we’re three weeks out from a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles set. However whereas some of the crossovers referred to as Universes Past have been embraced by gamers—virtually each middle-aged Magic participant I do know purchased a bunch of Avatar playing cards “for my youngsters,” no actually—these aren’t ones created by a main voice in anti-trans panic.
Responding to those issues on Reddit, the Wizards of the Coast group workforce posted, “The Magic Multiverse has its own school of Magic at Strixhaven with loads of secrets and techniques nonetheless to discover. Our Universes Past roadmap presently would not have us visiting any others.”
Which is reassuring to listen to. Strixhaven is a magical college that was the topic of a Magic set launched in 2021, in addition to a Dungeons & Dragons complement, an upcoming Magic set referred to as Secrets and techniques of Strixhaven scheduled for April, and an upcoming YA novel referred to as Strixhaven: Omens of Chaos by Seanan McGuire. In addition to not being created by a figurehead of hate speech, the very fact it is a college quite than a excessive school means Strixhaven additionally dodges all that sketchy youngster endangerment stuff that makes Harry Potter appear to be a satire of British boarding faculties till you get about 4 books in and understand it is truly a bizarre celebration of them as an alternative.
In addition to Secrets and techniques of Strixhaven, there’s one other set that takes place within the Magic multiverse coming in October referred to as Actuality Fracture. On both facet of it are units primarily based on The Hobbit and Star Trek, of course. In the meantime, the licence for Harry Potter buying and selling playing cards was not too long ago acquired by Higher Deck, although that is purely for collectibles quite than a sport.
