MTG is reprinting an iconic Commander staple with the perfect Marvel art

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This is an auto-include in pretty much any green deck

Magic: The Gathering still has six months (and three other sets) to get through before returning to the Marvel universe with Super Heroes, but on Dec. 9, we got our first official look at the upcoming expansion. While Magic publisher Wizards of the Coast led with a slew of brand-new cards representing various heroes ranging from Captain America to The Fantastic Four, along with mainstay villains like Doctor Doom and Namor, the company also revealed a handful of reprints coming to Marvel Super Heroes booster and collector packs with variant art pulled straight from the comics.

This includes Magic mainstays like Ephemerate (depicted here as Monica Rambeau), Massacre Girl (Elektra) and Extinction Event (Thanos snapping the Infinity Gauntlet). However, the most exciting of the bunch may be Heroic Intervention, which actually comes in three different Marvel variants.

All three of these are great, but my favorite is without a doubt the image of the Incredible Hulk holding up a mountain to keep the rest of the Avengers alive. Not only does it match the card's flavor perfectly, but the art also frames the text better than most of these full-art reprints. The art comes from 1984's Secret Wars #4 and was drawn by Bob Layton.

If you're unfamiliar with Heroic Intervention, it's a very useful Instant spell that gives all your creatures hexproof and indestructible until the end of turn. This makes it an extremely powerful card in the Commander format, where board wipes that destroy all creatures indiscriminately are particularly common. The ability to quickly protect all of your creatures for just two mana makes this an auto-include in almost any green deck — assuming you have a copy on hand. (It's also good in most other formats.)

Heroic Intervention typically costs about $11 or $12 if you're buying it on a resale market website like TCGPlayer (although the Spider-Man reprint from earlier this year is just $9, so it's possible this new version will also be a bit cheaper). So if you happen to open one of these in a booster pack when Marvel Super Heroes arrives next year, consider yourself lucky!

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