The more Marvel we get in our Magic: The Gathering, the more awesome we find it. They’re two great tastes that taste great together, as evidenced by multiple Secret Lairs and the Marvel’s Spider-Man set. We’ve already seen several cards in MTG‘s upcoming Marvel Super Heroes collaboration, including Captain America, Mister Fantastic, Super-Skrull, and the Incredible Hulk. Now, Nerdist is thrilled to exclusively reveal a brand-new card in the collection that officially drops June 26. It’s a character who finds herself at home on the mean streets of New York City but can wield a mean katana. We’re speaking of course of Colleen Wing, the Street Samurai and ally of Misty Knight and Iron Fist.
Check out the grand reveal of this new card below, featuring gorgeous character art by Jurijus Chitrovas. Between generating major value through +1/+1 counters and giving you the ability to scry, she looks poised to be a must-add for many decks. Plus, to take you even deeper into the thought process behind a card like Colleen Wing, Street Samurai, we spoke with Game Design Architect Dave Humpherys, who helped lead development on fan-favorite sets like Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty and Dragons of Tarkir.
NERDIST: Is it more challenging to design mechanics for a street-level Marvel character like Colleen Wing or characters that deal with more cosmic threats?
Dave Humphreys: On average, the street-level characters I found to be more challenging to design to feel special, but it was more a matter of how unique the power suite, personality, and key story moments of each character was than their power level. When there was a lot of depth in those facets, it was easier to get first draft of designs, but it was also harder to get them just right, since we knew fans would expect us to hit certain notes. Fortunately, this set is packed with characters with distinct attributes. For characters that had qualities shared with lots of characters, we often leaned more into set themes.
Without spoiling anything from the Marvel Super Heroes set (unless you want to), is there an existing Commander you would slot Colleen into?
She should fit well into decks where the commander is something like Feather, The Redeemed. Colleen’s ability to scry can help you find more instants and sorceries to keep Feather’s arsenal grow. Meanwhile, Colleen can grow into a significant threat on her own via the +1/+1 counters she builds up.
From a character and lore perspective, what was the thought process when building Colleen Wing’s mechanics? For example, can she Scry because she works as a private investigator?
Dave: Colleen was built largely to be a good fit for some of the set themes, in particular for some of the red-white color pair where a lot of the street heroes are clustered. In this set, this color pair often thrives off of noncreature spells and specifically at times with ones that target your own creatures as an upgraded twist on the old mechanic of Heroic, which felt like a fun nod here. Battlewise Hoplite was a beloved card in its day, which was a strong inspiration here. We only like to do so much repeated surveilling here, or we’d probably have gone with the over scry for flavor of those words, but the storytelling still felt reasonable enough.
Magic: The Gathering | Marvel Super Heroes will release on June 26, 2026.
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