Magic: The Gathering Marvel Super Heroes set is out now with new mechanics and a massive roster

Magic: The Gathering Marvel Super Heroes, the latest Universes Beyond expansion, is out now in both tabletop and digital form via Magic: The Gathering Arena. The set brings a massive roster of Marvel characters — Iron Man, Hulk, Captain America, Doctor Doom, Thanos, Thor, Wolverine, Black Panther, Loki, Storm, Scarlet Witch, Nick Fury, and many more — each built around mechanics that reflect their comic-book identities.

Three new mechanics define the set. Plan is an enchantment type that advances by stacking counters — usually tied to specific actions — until a condition is met and a reward triggers. Doctor Doom's Plan, Doom Reigns Supreme, advances whenever you play a Villain card, eventually forcing your opponent to exile the top five cards of their deck while letting you cast two of them for free. Doom himself is a Villain, and he enters with two Doombot tokens that also count as Villains, meaning a single play nets three life swings and three Plan counters at once. Teamwork, available on instants and sorceries, lets you tap creatures alongside the regular mana cost to unlock bonus effects — HULK SMASH!, for example, normally lets you pick between destroying an artifact or dealing damage, but with Teamwork you get both. Power-Up gives individual characters a single-use activated ability: Nick Fury's lets you search the top seven cards of your deck for a Hero, Vehicle, or Equipment and play it for free, including either face of a double-faced card. That resets if a card leaves and re-enters the battlefield — which is exactly what The Mind Stone, this set's Infinity Stone, enables.

Double-faced cards are a key part of the set's identity, pairing secret identities with their superhero alter egos: Bruce Banner flips to the Hulk, Peter Parker to Spider-Man, Tony Stark to Iron Man. The Hero and Villain creature types both carry tribal synergy, so heroes reward fighting alongside other heroes and villains do the same. Beyond the new mechanics, the set includes cards useful for existing decks — Namor scales with the number of merfolk on the board, making him an easy include in merfolk builds, while Fin Fang Foom copies instants and sorceries that target artifacts or lands.

The set arrives after the earlier Spider-Man Universes Beyond release, which head designer Mark Rosewater — a self-described Marvel fan who reportedly called dibs on a Marvel set when Universes Beyond was first conceived — acknowledged lacked the deep mechanical synergies that make a set click. Marvel Super Heroes is clearly the more ambitious follow-up, designed to work both as a standalone entry point for Marvel fans new to Magic and as a source of genuinely competitive cards for veteran players.