A Comic Strip From 2020 Predicted SpongeBob's Arrival In MTG

Summary

• A SpongeBob SquarePants Secret Lair crossover was among many big annoucements made during MagicCon.
• A shocking reveal to everyone other than the creator of a comic strip from 2020 predicting SpongeBob's MTG arrival.
• The same short comic also joked about Iron Man joining the TCG who will be a part of the upcoming Marvel Superdrop.

A lot of news about Magic: The Gathering's near and distant future was covered during this past weekend's MagicCon, one of the most surprising announcements being the reveal of a SpongeBob SquarePants Secret Lair crossover coming in 2025. Well, actually, despite how wacky it is, Wizards Of The Coast bringing Bikini Bottom to MTG might not have been all that surprising at all to some of you.

With Fortnite already a part of MTG and Marvel and Final Fantasy crossovers still to come thanks to Universes Beyond, some of you predicted something as weird as SpongeBob might be coming too. Twitter user d00mwake shared a mocked up image jokingly predicting a SpongeBob Universes Beyond crossover was coming all the way back in August 2023. Impressive, but turns out someone not only beat them to it, but they predicted the Nickeolodeon mascot was coming to MTG before Universes Beyond had even begun.

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In September 2020, weeks before MTG's The Walking Dead crossover set was released which kicked off Universes Beyond, Cardboard Crack shared a comic strip joking about what the TCG might become with Wizards opening the doors to crossovers. In the short comic, the player begins by informing their opponent that they have attacked with SpongeBob. An unknowing glimpse into MTG's future more than four years ahead of time, and likely the wildest example the comic's creator could think of at the time that they never believed would really come true.

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SpongeBob wasn't the only MTG crossover Cardboard Crack's comic unknowingly foreshadowed in 2020. As the players go back and forth, the same player who attacked with SpongeBob later uses Iron Man's repulsor blast. One of MTG's next Universes Beyond crossovers will be with Marvel and among the cards revealed for its Superdrop are some Iron Man ones. Kylo Ren and Frozen's Elsa are also mentioned in the comic and while they aren't a part of MTG yet, you'd have to think with Marvel opening the Disney door, it's only a matter of time.

Considering the Universes Beyond-heavy direction in which MTG is headed, I'd put money on there being a Star Wars set coming sooner rather than later. That's if the reactions of long-time MTG fans don't make Wizards reconsider the direction in which it is taking MTG. Aside from the SpongeBob bombshell, one of the biggest reveals during MagicCon was that 50 percent of new sets will be Universes Beyond starting in 2025, and that crossover sets will be legal in all formats, two announcements that have not gone over well with a lot of players.

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