This month, the increasingly popular trading card game Magic: The Gathering, and its online version Magic: Arena, released a new pack this month that includes a plethora of great kaiju-sized creatures from the Godzilla series. The pack includes nearly every popꦡular hero✨ic or villainous monster from the 30-year series, reimagined through the game's fantastic card design.
Along with the monsters, the pack also brings along some kaiju-sized implications for where the game could head from here. Could future crossovers be a possibility? We sure hope so, as the game's deckbuilding system would only get more interesting if players could start adding more and more of their favorite characters from media. With that hope in mind, here are 10 m🅷ore monsters that the game should add.
10 More Godzilla Creatures 𓂃
This one may seem either obvious or unnecessary, but if there is already a partnership built here, it makes sense to slowly bring in the monsters♍ that didn't make it over in this first wave.
Notable additions that could be interesting to see would be the 1998 Godzilla, if only so that the rest of the crew can fire radioactive breath at him, or to be more genuine, Jet Jaguar, whose ability to grow and fist-fight these beasts cꦚould be explained away via magic, just like it kind of already is in the film.
9 𝓰 Cloverfield ꦦ
The unnamed kaiju from the 2008 hit monster film might not have the lore that typically comes with a Magic creature, but it has more than 😼enough of a following to make up for 🔯it.
Plus, the monster's design would translate beautifully to the game's art style, making this a monster that would at least look rig🧸🧸ht at home.
8 Gamera
This kaiju, while never as ultra-popular as Godzilla, has still reached an impressive level of popularity. The giant radioactive turtle had multiple films in the 60s and 70s, then returned for a well-🐼received trilogy in the late 90s.
While it has battled many formidable monsters, Gamera has never taken on Godzilla himself. Magic: Arena could give the two the ba𓃲ttlefield fans have wanted for decades.
7 Power Rangers Villai🔴ns
Okay, now hear me out, one of the biggest collections of kaiju in the history of media is the Power Rangers franchise. There are thousands🌊 upon thousands of hours of content, with new monsters showing up nearly every episode, each with a semi-unique design.
The real money would 🧸be in a pack that allows the Rangers, or their Zords, as magical constructs, but just combing through the series for interesting monsters🍎 would be more than enough to make a fantastic expansion for the game.
6 The Thing
Although there is no name or even form directly a🦋ttached to the horrid creature from John Carpenter's classic horror film, the freedom of design choice would only make the card iterations all the more spectacular.
As far as a pack goes, unlike some of the oth🐲ers on this list, this creature could bring with it some really interesting instant cards, making for some terri♕fyingly cool game strategies.
5 Tremors
This cult classic monster comedy proves that giant sandworms aren't only found under interstellar science fiction landscapes. Sometimes they're found in Texas. Luckily for this list, ♓these things w꧟ould look right at home in a fantasy setting, as well.
Basically just being iconically designed worms, these beasties are the easiest to translate on the list from an art perspective. Nonetheless, they would be an exciting addition that would l✃ikely make the die-hard fans of the🔯 still-running film franchise very happy.
4 Predator
The deadly hunter from the classic 80s sci-fi-action film has a ton of dangerous tools at its disposal, and all of them would look incredible visualized in the Magic art-style.
Predator is also an easy addition to justify, considering that it loves huntiꦗng other capable life-forms for sport. Where better to drop it than in a game full of dangerous beasts and monsters. The predator would likely feel like it has just woke up on Christmas morning.
3 Gremlins
The little fiends from Joe Dante's classic film would be an excellent fit in Magic: Arena. They are gross, 👍rambunct✤ious, and most of all, vicious.
Having one card covered in Gremlins would be great, but the dream scenario is a full pack like the Godzilla one, giving us a flashing gremlin, spider grem🔯lin, ligh﷽tning gremlin, and all the other iconic versions of the monster.
2 King Kong
Withꦡ Godzilla added, it seems obvious that King Kong would be next in line, but it could🌊 be that the giant ape won't be coming anytime soon. The new pack that includes the Godzilla monsters also has a giant ape creature named Kogla, The Titan Ape.
The creature is very similar to Kong in design, raising the question of whether he is basically serving as a replacemen༺t or placeholder for the actual Kong. Here's hoping that isn't the case and he is added eventually.
1 ⛎ Xenomorphs
One terrifying creature that would fit in brilliantly with the style of the game is the main terror of the Alien fra𝄹nchise. The xenomorph already looks like it could be a beast in a fantasy game setting, so plucking this thing out of space wouldn't be an issue.
Worth noting is that even more than the Gremlins, the xenomorph ha꧃s many shapes and sizes. A full set with face-huggers, infaไnt aliens, fully grown xenomorphs, and of course, the queen, would be an awesome group to play with.