Would Universes Within versions of cards from non-Secret Lair products that are deemed important to reprint be allowed to be printed as part of other sets or products, or would they only be put on the List?

Reprinting any card follows the rules of reprints, meaning there are a lot of places it can be used. The challenge for certain Universes Beyond cards, a pretty small amount, is if we want to reprint it with a different creative, but have it count as the same card (meaning you can’t play eight of them in formats where they are legal).

Hi Mark,With the continued plan of 2 UB sets a year, is there any more concrete planning yet for UW reprints. There are lots of mechanically fun cards that will be fun in universe already, but with the speed the UB cool is going to be growing, it would seem prudent to be planning how to integrate them now, unless the plan is to license reprints of the original UB card, which would be helpful to know as a player.

We are setting up means by which to do Universes Within reprintings if we need them, but it’s not going to be all that many cards that need it. We sell *a lot* of Universes Beyond cards which will meet demand in most cases.

Do Universes Within cards need to be reprinted in batches (like how all current Universes Within cards are groups based on Universes Beyond secret lairs) or is it possible to print them as one-offs where they're appropriate?

They can be one-of’s where appropriate.

Could a Universes Beyond card be printed/reprinted in the retro frame, or is it more likely that a Universes Within version would be made for the retro frame?

Anything is possible, but I’ll say it isn’t very likely.

In 2021, WotC released an article saying that mechanically unique universes beyond secret lair cards would get universes within reprints approximately 6 months later. The exact wording of this was “The [universes within] versions will be available in The List, findable in Set Boosters…” Set boosters no longer exist, but The List still does. With the advent of play boosters, is the rule of “approximately 6 months later” still the case? Or is that promise now void because there are no Set Boosters anymore?

As the game evolves, we have to adapt. We still plan to make sure unique mechanical Secret Lair cards, in some form, find a home in randomized booster product.

Where can I voice my official preference for Universes Within? I don't recall seeing any polls or questions in the regular surveys. I try to respond to all of them.Universes Beyond hurts my brain. I don't want to play Gambit, Gambler Ninja when my opponent's Nuclear Shelter enters and gives me 3 Geiger Counters. Particularly after Frodo has been Tempted by the ring but had to chump block a Tyranid King. Frodo died but was exiled instead by the Flying Saucer's Anti-Grav beam. Jace watched, baffled, as Megatron argued with Dr. Malcolm about the insignificance of human life.Please help me. Give me a choice or a voice?

Magic is a game where you craft your own deck. There are over 25,000 cards to choose from that aren’t Universes Beyond. The idea that every mechanical design has to live on an in-universe concepted card is, both, simply not feasible, and not something the vast majority of Magic players feels is a necessity.

I think it’s a very good thing that fallout has more card names, types, and abilities that are not quote unquote “plane bound”. That is to say, cards with names, types, and abilities that could easily be reprinted elsewhere in magic without needing to do the universes within treatment. Obviously this can’t be done with legendary cards, and some UB cards are naturally going to have names and types tied to their IP (like gallifrey falls or tyrannids), or they’ll have names that aren’t inherently tied to their IP but certainly don’t fit in regular magic (like nuclear fallout or cyber conversion) but it’s nice that a lot of these cards that will likely be staples in various formats won’t have their chances of being reprinted bogged down. It seems to me like this is happening more in fallout than it did in previous UB sets. Is this intentional? Or is it just coincidence? It seems like a difficult line to tread, being evocative in flavor while simultaneously generic in name, but I think (based on the spoilers so far) fallout has been mostly good on this.

It depends a lot on the property.

Hey Mark, bouncing off the previous legendary creature questions, because Universes Beyond will tend to have more, how does this affect their power level? Are Universes Within legends more powerful on average because there are fewer? Really interested to hear how you balance this out 🙂

Power for legendary creatures is not correlative to how many appear in the set.

Can we get a scale for mechanics returning in supplemental sets or maybe UB mechanics coming to Universes Within premier sets

There’s really not much off limit for supplemental sets, so a scale doesn’t work great. For example, we’ve done Storm multiple times.

Do you find there is a significant demand for Universes Within versions of Universes Beyond cards, or does it mostly come from a small minority of players?

It’s a small minority of players, but that doesn’t mean it’s not a important sentiment to understand.