Magic: The Gatheringfans havea pretty strained relationship when it comes to Universes Beyond. A lot of people enjoy them, as they bring popular characters over from other mediums and boost the popularity of MTG as a whole, while others think Wizards of the Coast is focusing on them too much and that Universes Beyond is diluting the core MTG experience and its world.
Both sides make good points, and sets like the recent Final Fantasy crossover can be huge for Magic: The Gathering overall, but it’s easy to see why certain crossovers can rile people up. For example, one of the next major Universes Beyond isa Spider-Man crossover this September, and adding a superhero with spider powers from New York will be a lot more difficult to mix into an already-established fantasy world than something like Final Fantasy.
Magic: The Gathering Fans Have “No Interest” In Spider-Man’s Universes Beyond Set
It’s this kind of crossover that tends to rankle MTG fans the most, and rankled they very much are.In a new post on the MagicTCG subreddit, a user called Many-Razzmatazz-9584 claims that the Spider-Man set is the “least excited” they’ve ever been for a set, and that the idea of Marvel and DC coming to the game actually bothers them more thanthe Spongebob Secret Lair that release a while ago.
It’s a pretty popular post, currently sitting at a whopping 6.1k upvotes, and the replies are filled with other fans completely uninterested in Spider-Man coming to MTG. For example, one user called DazZani admits that they “keep forgetting it’s real”, while another user called BloodMoonGo says that their “money is safe” for the set.
CopperGolem8 admits that while they like Spider-Man as a character, they actually “have no interest in playing him in MTG”, while a user called AnthonyPantha goes as far as saying that Spider-Man “has zero place in Magic”, and that the entire thing just “feels like 100% a cash grab” due to how little thought has actually gone into the crossover making sense.
Unfortunately, for those that actually don’t like all the Universes Beyond stuff,they are the highest-selling products that Wizards of the Coast releases, and it’s difficult to imagine Spider-Man being an outlier that will suddenly buck the trend. It’s kind of a shame, but Magic will continue to be dominated by crossovers until people stop buying them, and that’s probably not going to happen any time soon.
