{"id":979005,"date":"2026-08-04T00:56:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T00:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/979005\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T00:56:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T00:56:15","slug":"magic-the-gathering-is-moving-away-from-new-york-city-for-a-while-after-fan-complaints-hasbro-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/979005\/","title":{"rendered":"Magic: The Gathering is moving away from New York City for a while after fan complaints, Hasbro says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The world of Magic: The Gathering is a multiversal fantasy setting, and the Universes Beyond formula has allowed MTG players to venture to the Upside Down (of Stranger Things), Cybertron (from the Transformers), Middle-Earth (from The Lord of the Rings), and the many worlds of Final Fantasy&#8230; but, after a couple of visits in the last few years, one place MTG fans seem to have gotten sick of is New York City.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>During <a rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/investor.hasbro.com\/events\/event-details\/hasbro-second-quarter-2026-earnings-conference-call\" target=\"_blank\">a buttoned-up investor call by its parent company Hasbro<\/a>, overall CEO Chris Cocks revealed that they had heard complaints that their recent New York City-based settings weren&#8217;t fantasy enough for fans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the one thing I\u2019ll say on the Universes Beyond partners that we have next year is, they\u2019ll probably be a bit more fantasy adjacent,&#8221; Cocks says in the call (via <a rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/mtgrocks.com\/hasbro-ceo-reveals-break-from-mtg-new-york\/\" target=\"_blank\">MTG Rocks<\/a>). &#8220;I don\u2019t think any of them will take place in New York City because we definitely have gotten that feedback from some fans.\u201c<\/p>\n<p>In truth, he&#8217;s not wrong: NYC has been featured in two recent Marvel sets, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles set, and, going back two years, in the Ghostbuster cards. That being said, I doubt NYC will completely be out of MTG&#8230; it has offices in the city, and is a fixture of recent New York Comic Cons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are three &#8216;Universes Beyond&#8217; sets planned for 2027, but none of them have been announced yet. It&#8217;s presumed at least one will be a continuation of the multi-year partnership with Marvel Comics.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The world of Magic: The Gathering is a multiversal fantasy setting, and the Universes Beyond formula has allowed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":979006,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,393,161164,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,48189],"class_list":["post-979005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-gaming","tag-hasbro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-wizards-of-the-coast"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117034522139162385","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=979005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/979006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=979005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=979005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=979005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}