Wizards of the Coast has made a particular April Fools’ Day Secret Lair announcement for Magic: The Gathering. A sure red-suited, wisecracking Marvel character is coming to the favored card recreation. Not Spider-Man or The Avengers; it is a Deadpool Secret Lair.
The Deadpool Secret Lair Announcement
In response to its retailer web page itemizing, the Deadpool Secret Lair will embrace 5 playing cards that includes the merc with a mouth. The outline is written from the attitude of Deadpool, full with crass self-awareness.
4 of the 5 playing cards within the Deadpool Secret Lair are reprints. These reprints characteristic Deadpool-themed art work by Justine Cruz, Slawomir Maniak, Miguel Mercado, Kevin Sidharta and Tomasz Zarucki. The reprinted playing cards are as follows:
- Lethal Rollick
- Noticed in Half
- Blasphemous Act
- Vandalblast
Presentation-wise, the playing cards are a strong illustration of Deadpool’s anarchic humorousness. Blasphemous Act reveals him sitting on the moon, wielding the Infinity Gauntlet. Lethal Rollick portrays him driving on a unicorn with a rainbow within the background. Mechanically, Noticed in Half is taken from the Unfinity set, which is, by design, foolish and irreverent, which inserts the character completely.
However the fifth and closing card within the Deadpool Secret Lair is a mechanically distinctive legendary creature: Deadpool, Buying and selling Card. It’s, because the identify suggests. Deadpool is a Black/Purple creature with 5/3. By itself, not a nasty card, till you learn the textual content, “when Deadpool enters, chances are you’ll change his textual content field and one other creature’s.”
That is potent sufficient by itself. Deadpool can steal an enemy creature’s talents by their guidelines textual content. However that is not all that’s in Deadpool’s textual content. You additionally lose life in the beginning of every flip, which is a devious mixture.
Lastly, the Deadpool Secret Lair drop can be coming to sure retail shops. Like all prior Secret Lairs, you may order each foil (MSRP $39.99) and non-foil (MSRP $29.99) bundles on-line. As well as, all WPN retail shops may have non-foil bundles obtainable on April 25. That is the primary time a Secret Lair drop has been obtainable at retail.
