Wizards of the Coast Is Giving God’s Favourite Princess Her Personal ‘Magic: The Gathering’ Secret Lair

It’s taken some time for Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast to study what to take from the huge success of Baldur’s Gate 3 just a few years in the past, and even then, what they’ve largely discovered to take is “merchandise the hell out of that get together.” However whereas we wait for somebody, someplace, to consider a Baldur’s Gate 4, we’ll not less than take the merchandise, particularly within the type of Magic playing cards.

This week Wizards of the Coast announced an enormous Dungeons & Dragons-themed “superdrop” for its Secret Lair platform, aptly named “Roll for Initiative.” Overlaying a veritable host of D&D theming, from adventure-module-inspired units to blacklight artwork variants of playing cards from the prior Dungeons & Dragons units for Magic, the seven-set drop additionally contains two Baldur’s Gate 3 units, every primarily based round a particular member of the smash hit game’s fundamental get together: Shadowheart the Half-Elf Cleric and Gale Dekarios the Human Wizard.

Early takes on Baldur’s Gate 3‘s motley crew beforehand appeared throughout the Adventures of the Forgotten Realms and the Battle for Baldur’s Gate Commander Legends units, and Karlach and Astarion beforehand acquired their very own Secret Lair units as a part of Dungeons & Dragons‘ fiftieth anniversary celebrations. So it’s good to see extra members of the get together get their dues, even when it looks like it’s going to take some time (and be very expensive) to get the entire group in Secret Lair type.

Away from the town of Baldur’s Gate, the opposite drops function a trio impressed by iconic Dungeons & Dragons characters and creatures, the aforementioned Blacklight variants, and a set of lands depicting iconic places from throughout the Forgotten Realms.

As with all Secret Lairs these days, these are going to be extremely exhausting to get when queuing opens up for them at 8 a.m. Pacific—an hour earlier than gross sales start at 9 a.m.—on February 9. And also you’ll need loads of gold out of your bag of holding, too: every set prices $30 for the standard model or $40 for a holo-foil variant, and Wizards is providing huge bundles, starting from all seven normal drops ($200), all seven foil variants ($270), and a completionist’s combo of each for a whopping $465.

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