Hasbro lately introduced a multi-year licensing partnership with Warner Bros. to deliver 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, position play, motion figures & collectibles, interactive plush, board video games and extra to be revealed later this 12 months.”
This made Magic: The Gathering gamers a bit of 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 among 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 considerations on Reddit, the Wizards of the Coast group group posted, “The Magic Multiverse has its personal college 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 reasonably than a highschool means Strixhaven additionally dodges all that sketchy youngster endangerment stuff that makes Harry Potter seem 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 a substitute.
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 based mostly on The Hobbit and Star Trek, after all. In the meantime, the licence for Harry Potter buying and selling playing cards was lately acquired by Higher Deck, although that is purely for collectibles reasonably than a sport.
