It looks like Warhammer 40k is coming to Magic the Gathering along with Lord of the Rings in a new partnership giant Hasbro.
The Wall Street Journal just revealed that a ton of big changes coming to how Hasbro handles D&D, Magic, and even a fabled partnership with Games Workshop. If you ever wanted to combine your love of 40k and Magic into a single game, well, it looks to be happening very soon.
Hasbro will announce new partnerships during its Thursday event, including a deal with U.K.-based Games Workshop Group to bring its war game “Warhammer 40,000” to Magic, and an agreement with Middle Earth Enterprises for a “The Lord of the Rings”-themed expansion.
Hasbro will be supposedly be revealing soon a bit of restructuring and a giant new partnership. Not only will D&D/Magic be getting a dedicated department (and possible Wizard of the Coast itself), but they will also expand with a new LoTR expansion and break the company into 3 units.
BREAKING: Warhammer 40k Coming to Magic the Gathering
We expect to see a big release by GW on this soon, but what we do know for now is that 40k will be crossing over into Magic the Gather.
Whether you will be able to play the cards in a normal game, or just a stand-alone expansion is a little unclear. Or we could see a similar Secret Lair drop as we did with The Walking Dead. It does seem a little strange that Age of Sigmar won’t be involved (yet), but maybe they just think 40k will just be that much more hyped. We’ve seen some card games for Games-Workshop stuff in the past, but none have ever really stuck. With the backing of such a giant company as Hasbro and the name of Magic the Gathering behind it, we expect this to be different.
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Hasbro’s overall revenue fell 18% last year, while GW’s rose significantly. This move to get further into the tabletop side of things seems like a smart move when you look at the statistics alone. They are also breaking their company into three segments so they can give closer attention to each of their new endeavors.
Hasbro Splitting into Smaller Units
Under the new structure, which the company plans to unveil at an investor event on Thursday, Hasbro will be divided into three units. Consumer products will encompass toys like Transformers action figures and classic board games like Monopoly. Entertainment will be dedicated to licensing, distribution, and production of film and television content. Wizards & Digital will house the assets of Wizards of the Coast and focus on expanding the existing games, creating new ones, and overseeing digital licensing for the entire business.
With the Wizards & Digital getting a larger handle on the game side of things, we expect them to pump out some quality stuff. It seems like that is the branch will handle all the D&D stuff, obviously Magic, and now a new Warhammer game. It’s good to see D&D not falling by the wayside among all of this and we are excited to see what comes next in the reveal!
LotR Getting its own Expansion
As mentioned above, there will also be a LotR spin-off as well for Magic the Gathering. The LotR cards seem like they might fit better into the existing structure of the game and could just be a new line playable within the current system. The only issue is how can they make a card good enough to showcase Boromir?
Seriously though, the people who love LotR might just buy the cards to have them even if they don’t play.
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