Feels more inevitable than putting literal famous anime waifus on Magic cards, right? Do I have to repeat this song and dance again, Magic has always been infused with much more science fiction than you think. So just don’t sit here to think about whether the idea is right, just care about the execution, care about whether the cards are something fun to play.

Also, just to let you know, unless you count reskinning some UB cards back to the form they’re supposed to be in Arena’s grain resolution, this will be our last in universe set of the year. What a messed up timeline, this thing was supposed to be in a different standard year than Aetherdrift and Tarkir! And that problem will certainly come up somewhere.

Also, there’s actually a previous space set to this. It’s Unfinity, it’s even pathetic, to put it simply. One of the reasons is because looking at that set, you really feel how much that serious tone Magic artists put into the card really makes a genre setting stick, and that’s certainly really really hard to do when you also have to nail a theme park theme, which is let me joke about it again, just being honest about capitalism’s intentions when it comes to art.

About that serious tone to make a genre setting stick, apparently it’s due to the designers finally consciously putting a dividing line between allusions versus blatant tropes. So that’s to the hope of the end of the hat sets nightmare Magic went through, especially when we drew a clear line for a place that literally blatant tropes can reign (not with a card frame unfortunately).