Fallout is coming to Magic: The Gathering

Magic is adding yet another IP to its growing collection
Fallout is coming to Magic: The Gathering
Fallout is coming to Magic: The Gathering /

In its quest to become the Fortnite of the card games world, Magic: The Gathering is adding yet another IP to its growing collection in the form of iconic video game series Fallout.

Bethesda’s post-apocalyptic RPG franchise is coming to Magic: The Gathering on March 8, 2024. Four Commander Decks – themed after Survival, Technology, Military, and Mutants and thus representing key concepts of Fallout – containing major characters, weapons, abilities, and lands from the series will be released at that point. Special card treatments will be identifiable by their Pip-Boy display, which is inspired by the games’ green and black information layer.

MTG is exploring a post-apocalyptic sci-fi setting for the first time :: Wizards of the Coast / Bethesda

Each deck comes with a face card of a character that is iconic to the theme it represents:

  • For Survival, the German Shepherd Dogmeat will be players’ steadfast companion. This deck will feature the Junk token mechanic, allowing players to sacrifice resources to draw cards.
  • Dr. Madison Li leads Technology, a deck bursting with energy weapons, robots, and scientists. Players can generate Energy with Artifacts, a familiar mechanic perfectly fit for this setting.
  • The Military deck fields cloned creatures as well as human soldiers. At its head stands none other Caesar, the military dictators hell-bent on conquering the devastated United States.
  • Finally, the Mutants are commanded by Mothman. This deck contains wild monsters like the Feral Ghouls. Radiation tokens can be used to power one’s own deck or have a negative impact on the enemy’s.

While Saga cards contain pieces of the story from Fallours lore-rich world, Pip-Boy framed cards in the main decks and Vault Boy cards in the Fallout art style from Collector Boosters bring some variety into players’ hands. Land cards feature familiar environments from the Fallout games – all appropriately nuked and dangerous, of course.

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Marco Wutz
MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg