Marvel Officially Announces New High Fantasy Crossover Series

Elizabeth Olsen as Scarlet Witch in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

Published Oct 10, 2026, 10:34 AM EDT

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Marvel’s supernatural side has never struggled to find trouble for its heroes. Doctor Strange can barely finish dealing with one threat before another dimension becomes everyone’s problem, while Thor’s family connections make divine intervention considerably less reassuring. Put those corners of the universe together, and there’s plenty of room for an adventure that goes beyond another fight on Earth.

For Magic: The Gathering, those characters also seem like an obvious match. A game built around casting spells already has plenty in common with Marvel’s sorcerers and gods, even before considering the creatures they encounter. But bringing familiar characters into a card game presents an opportunity to do something more ambitious than recreate their greatest hits.

Wizards of the Coast has announced Magic: The Gathering | Marvel: Darkhold Destiny, the first Universes Beyond set built around an original story and setting. Revealed at New York Comic Con on October 9, the collaboration centers on Doctor Strange, Thor, Hela, and Dormammu, with a narrative spanning nearly 30 dimensions. Marvel and Wizards developed the storyline together, and a companion comic will bring the adventure to readers alongside the cards.

Collider Exclusive · 8 Questions · 2 Minutes Which MCU Villain Do You Align With? Killmonger · Namor · Zemo · Thanos

Eight honest questions about how you actually are: what you do about something unfair, how long you will wait for what you want, who you are really loyal to, how easily you let a thing go. Answer them and we will tell you which one of these four you have more in common with than you would like. Every one of them thinks they are the reasonable person in the room.

🐆Killmonger(Black Panther)

🔱Namor(Wakanda Forever)

🎭Zemo(Civil War)

🧤Thanos(Infinity War)

FIND YOUR VILLAIN →

How do you react to something you think is unfair? All four of these men started here.

ALoudly, and I want the whole thing torn down. BI protect whoever it hurt, first and fast. CI say nothing, and I start planning. DI look for why it keeps happening at all.

NEXT QUESTION →

How long will you wait for something you want? Patience separates these four more than anything else.

ANot long, since I have waited long enough already. BAs long as my people stay safe meanwhile. CYears, if years are what it takes. DTime does not really come into it.

NEXT QUESTION →

Who are you actually loyal to? Answer for the real one, not the polite one.

AThe people nobody else turned up for. BMy own, and nobody outside that. COne person, and they are already gone. DAn idea, rather than any group of people.

NEXT QUESTION →

How do you win an argument? Everybody has one method and uses it every time.

ABy being angrier and more right. BBy making the cost of disagreeing obvious. CBy letting them talk until they trip over something. DBy explaining it until they run out of objections.

NEXT QUESTION →

How easily do you let something go? This is the question that makes villains out of people.

AI do not, and I can tell you exactly why. BOnce whoever caused it stops being a threat. CWhen the balance is settled, and not before. DInstantly, because it was never personal.

NEXT QUESTION →

What do you think about breaking the rules? Nobody on this list has ever felt guilty about it.

AThey were written by whoever benefits from them. BMine apply, and theirs do not reach me. CRules are a tool, and I use them precisely. DThe rule matters far less than the outcome.

NEXT QUESTION →

What do people say about you behind your back? You already know which one it is.

AThat I am far too angry about it. BThat I put my own above everybody else. CThat I am much quieter than I should be. DThat I am certain in a way that unnerves them.

NEXT QUESTION →

What would you do with real power? Eight questions in, this is the one that picks your villain.

AGive it to the people it was kept from. BUse it to shut my own people off from the world. CUse it to make the guilty face what they did. DUse it to fix the thing everybody refuses to face.

REVEAL MY VILLAIN →

The Case Is Made You Align With…

Four villains, and four arguments the films were honest enough to actually let them make. Here is the one you lean towards, the part of it that holds up, and the exact point where it stops holding up.

Erik Killmonger

You align with the one who was right about the problem and wrong about the solution. Killmonger is the most persuasive villain Marvel has produced because the film never pretends his anger came from nowhere.

You notice who was abandoned and you cannot let it go, which is a moral instinct before it is anything else.
His argument lands because Wakanda really did watch and do nothing, and the film makes T'Challa admit it out loud.
Where it breaks is the method, since a man who was failed by power decided the answer was to hold more of it.
Michael B. Jordan plays him as somebody performing certainty over grief, which is why the last scene of that film still works.

Namor

You align with the protector, which is the most understandable and most dangerous position on this list. Namor is not chasing power or revenge, he is doing whatever keeps his people hidden, and he has been doing it for centuries.

Your loyalty has a hard border around it, and everything inside that border matters far more to you than anything outside it.
Talokan is the best realised world Marvel has built since Wakanda, and the film makes you understand exactly what he is guarding.
His logic is airtight right up until it requires somebody else's people to pay for his people's safety.
He would rather be feared by the surface world forever than trust it once, and history has given him reasons.

Helmut Zemo

You align with the patient one, the only man on this list with no powers, no army and no hurry. Zemo lost his family in Sokovia and then spent years working out that you do not fight the Avengers, you introduce them to each other's secrets.

You go quiet when you are hurt, and the quiet is where the thinking happens.
Zemo is the only MCU villain who completely won, and he did it with a notebook, a plan and a great deal of self control.
His grief is real, and the film is careful never to let you forget that he started as an ordinary man with a family.
Where it fails is the cost, since taking apart the people who hurt him meant hurting a great many people who did not.

Thanos

You align with the one who decided the answer was arithmetic. Thanos is not angry and not grieving in any way he will admit to, he simply reached a conclusion and never once revisited it, which is precisely what makes him frightening.

You are capable of holding a position that costs you everything, and you would call that conviction rather than stubbornness.
Infinity War works because it is structured as his film, with a goal, a journey and a sacrifice, and the heroes are the obstacle.
The flaw in the plan is not the cruelty, it is that he never seriously considered a single alternative to it.
Josh Brolin plays him tired rather than triumphant, which is the choice that turned a purple giant into a real character.

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‘Marvel Darkhold Destiny’ Gives the Crossover Its Own Comic Book Story

The original storyline is the biggest distinction in an announcement packed with Marvel products. According to Wizards, the teams began with the design intentions behind the Magic experience and expressed them through the Marvel Universe. That gives the collaboration a different starting point from adapting an existing adventure, with the story and setting developed specifically for this project. The four central characters also give the set a clear supernatural focus. Doctor Strange and Dormammu bring an established rivalry into the mix, while Thor and Hela connect the adventure to Marvel’s mythology. Wizards hasn’t revealed the full plot, so how those characters cross paths remains under wraps. The companion comic’s first chapter will release digitally, with the physical edition arriving April 7, 2027, during the set’s launch week.

Fans won’t have to wait until spring for the next Marvel release, however. The Secret Lair Countdown Kit: Marvel’s History of Heroes goes on sale November 2 at 9 a.m. PT for $199.99, with limited quantities available. The collection contains 30 cards featuring illustrations from more than 30 artists, celebrating moments including the Fantastic Four’s transformation and Jean Grey becoming the Phoenix. Wizards also previewed Doomsdrop, a collection of drops predominantly featuring Doctor Doom alongside other Marvel guests.

Doom’s tabletop appearances will extend to theaters as well. The announcement includes a Doctor Doom Magic: The Gathering card giveaway at Regal Cinemas for audiences seeing Avengers: Doomsday opening weekend in Infinity Vision. That promotion gives moviegoers another way into the collaboration before Darkhold Destiny arrives next year. For players interested in Marvel’s magical side, though, the original story is the announcement that moves this partnership into new territory.

Avengers: Doomsday premieres in theaters December 18, 2026.