narrowing the Standard card pool down to, well, half the Standard card pool doesnt really give us a direction to work in
MTGs Universe Beyond series is absolutely killing it in 2025 the fact that we've seen Final Fantasy and Spider-Man get their own sets is still an unreal thought to me, but here we are with Avatar: The Last Airbender dropping Nov
And on the other side, there are endless examples of dead or dying TCGs that are rooted to popular IP
Getting to play to see if you can piece together a good combination and then do this over and over again in a high energy environment
Then theres the far more dramatic Floodborn characters, which have been exposed to a magical flood of mixed ink and have taken on an extreme new form
Keep an eye out for pre-release events, the chance to win a special promo card, and more