Wizards of the Coast has confirmed that it does not “at the moment” have plans to go to any magical faculties moreover its personal Strixhaven in future units, suggesting that a Harry Potter collaboration is not within the playing cards for the second.
This comes from a Reddit put up from the official WOTC_CommunityTeam Reddit account in response to a thread on the Magic: The Gathering subreddit asking if WOTC would possibly “contact the hearth that’s [Harry Potter]” sooner or later. The put up was sparked by a slide from this morning’s Hasbro earnings name, the place the WOTC father or mother firm talked about increasing its partnerships on IP resembling Harry Potter, KPop Demon Hunters, Avenue Fighter, and Voltron.
In response, WOTC_CommunityTeam wrote, “The Magic Multiverse has its personal college of Magic at Strixhaven with loads of secrets and techniques nonetheless to discover. Our Universes Past roadmap at the moment does not have us visiting any others.”
The reply does say “at the moment,” that means that a future Harry Potter collaboration will not be absolutely off the desk for the longer term. The firm has been printing increasingly of its “Universes Past” collaborative units lately (so many, it is now the topic of a lawsuit) in addition to smaller “Secret Lair” units for different collaborations. Nevertheless, WOTC does plan these units out fairly far prematurely, usually round three years and even as many as 5 in the case of Final Fantasy. Meaning we’re unlikely to see Harry Potter make an look for no less than a few years, if in any respect.
Extensively well-liked as Harry Potter is, the put up and subsequent group dialogue on Reddit is overwhelmingly in opposition to Harry Potter being launched into Magic because of author and creator J.K. Rowling’s openly professed transphobic beliefs, in addition to her large donations to anti-trans causes. In distinction, a fundraiser for Trans Lifeline run by well-liked Magic content material channel Tolarian Neighborhood School simply amassed over $600k in donations over three days. The sport itself launched its first canonically trans character, Alesha, Who Smiles at Demise, way back in 2015 in a short story, and has since turned her into a pretty solid Commander card.
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