MTG just revealed 81 cards from Marvel Super Heroes (including a busted new Thanos)

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Published Jun 2, 2026, 1:30 PM EDT

Snapping my wallet out of existence

Magic: The Gathering’s Marvel Super Heroes set arrives this month, but spoiler season is well and truly here. Wizards of the Coast has begun revealing a whole bunch of cards across the brand’s iconic history, from heroes to villains, comic arcs, and much more.

From famous faces to deep cuts, here's a deep dive into all 81 cards (including some stunning new variants) revealed today for Marvel Super Heroes.

Earth's Mightiest Heros

As you’d expect, this is where you’ll find a lot of the characters we’ve come to know and love. The Invincible Iron Man, Thanos, the Mad Titan, and Thor, God of Thunder are all part of the set, but there are more than just nostalgia trips for Marvel fans.

Thor, God of Thunder, is equipment-focused, for example, but Mjolnir can only be equipped to a ‘Worthy’ card. That means it has to be a legendary non-villain that comes in red and/or white.

Meanwhile, Thanos can literally remove half of the board with his Power-up mechanic, a new mechanic invented for Marvel Super Heroes. The set’s designers compared a creature powering up to the Kicker mechanic, with one difference that makes it better. While the additional Kicker can only be paid while casting a spell, Power-up can be paid when you cast the creature (at a reduced cost) or later on for more mana. This gives you more options, in case you want to play Thanos now, but save the boardwipe for later.

The set also introduces a second new mechanic called Teamwork (because, Avengers), which lets you tap your creatures to pay for additional spell effects, like HULK SMASH! This two-mana instant spell lets you destroy an artifact or have a creature you control deal damage equal to its power to to an opponent’s creature. However, if you pay the Teamwork cost of 4 by tapping creatures with combined power of at least 4, you can do both.

In a nod to some of Marvel's most iconic stories, Sagas return in Super Heroes, this time depicting moments like The Coming of Galactus or World War Hulk. Meanwhile, a brand-new enchantment type called Plan gains counters before being sacrificed with devastating effects. For example, Doom Reigns Supreme will let you play two of an opponent’s cards if you bring enough villain cards into play. Making sure your plan is triggered at the exact right time will be part of the challenge.

Reprints

Source Material cards were divisive in Avatar: The Last Airbender, but those are back, too, with original art from the likes of Alex Ross, Frank Miller, and Jack Kirby.

Borderless “panel” and “iconic covers” variants help sell the comic book heritage of these characters, too, while borderless “logo” variants are striking designs that call to mind a similar treatment for the Final Fantasy set’s numeral cards.

As for this set’s chase card, Marvel’s Super Heroes picks up where Spider-Man left off and adds The Mind Stone. It’s available in three printings, including one that is limited to just 150 copies. Good luck!

Oh, and since we’re talking comic books, it makes sense that Scene Boxes are back, but there are also some alternative scenes you can build by collecting cards.

These range from Common to Mythic, but if you can grab them all, you’ll be able to place the cards together to show off scenes including everyone from Iron Man to Ultron, Doctor Doom, Captain Marvel, Photon, Loki, and Storm.

New lands

You can’t cast spells without a bunch of land, and each of the five colors is getting “Calm” and “Chaos” variants.

Take the Mountain as an example. The “Chaos” image shows heroes duking it out above a skyline that includes the Avengers Tower, while the “Calm” equivalent shows Tony Stark at a party in his penthouse instead. Each has a unique flavor, too, like Elektra sitting atop a bridge for a Swamp, or a kid meeting Captain America in the Plains art.

There are new dual lands, as well, and these ones seem pretty powerful, entering untapped and tapping for colored mana as long as they just entered or you have at least one basic land. However, the don't have any color-specific subtypes, so tutoring for them will be difficult.

Commander decks

We already knew we were getting four precons for Marvel Super Heroes, but now we’ve got a look at some of the cards included.

Avengers Assemble includes Captain America, Team Leader, a 3/3 focused on growing in power as other heroes enter the battlefield, while Nick Fury makes those heroes cheaper to cast.

Wakanda Forever is an artifact deck all about using the technology of Black Panther’s home nation. When T’Challa attacks, he creates an indestructible Vibranium token that taps for colorless mana you can use to cast artifact spells; when you cast larger artifact spells, he grows.

Similar to the Turtle Power precon, the Fantastic Four precon is modular, letting you swap between all four members of Marvel’s First Family to decide who’s leading your forces, while Doom Prevails is led by Doctor Doom and Loki, with the former using the connive mechanic and the latter creating illusory clones of other villains.

There are still many more cards to be revealed, but as someone whose excitement for a Marvel set was tempered by the webslinger's antics, I’m excited to see more.

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