The 57 Best Marvel Super Heroes Reprints in MTG

Divine Visitation | Illustration by Flavio Greco Paglia

While we often focus on the new toys we get during a set’s release, you’ll always find me putting together an order or three of just reprints. It’s usually the perfect time to stock up on Commander staples that I need for my next deck, and sometimes the reprints include cards I can’t track down, or that have climbed to higher price than I’m willing to pay.

I’ve scoured the Marvel Super Heroes product lineup for some of the best and most important reprints.

What Marvel Super Heroes Products Have Reprints?

Giant Growth | Illustration by Andreia Ugrai

The Magic: The Gathering Marvel Super Heroes sets all have reprints, though the main set has fewer reprints than the Commander decks, the Jumpstart boosters, or the Marvel Universe bonus sheet.

The sets I’ll pull from for these reprints are:

• Marvel Super Heroes (MSH): The main Standard-legal set; cards found mainly in Play Boosters. Some also appear in specific MSH Jumpstart Boosters and Commander decks.
• Marvel Super Heroes Eternal (MSC): Cards in supplemental products that aren’t Standard-legal, found in Jumpstart Boosters, Scene Boxes, and Commander decks.
• Marvel Universe (MAR): The Source Material bonus sheet that returns from Marvel’s Spider-Man. MAR cards show up in about 1 in 24 Marvel Super Heroes Play Boosters. They have collector numbers 041 through 100 and are all reprints.

You can find any of the Marvel Super Heroes lineup of cards in Collector Boosters, so I won’t mention them for each card.

Best Marvel Super Heroes Main Set Reprints

Lightning Strike | Illustration by Toni Infante

#5. Giant Growth

Okay, so the main set doesn’t have that many reprints. But what we get is good for Limited, starting with a classic Giant Growth.

#4. Lightning Strike

Lightning Strike is standard fare in Limited. You’ll want to upgrade to Lightning Bolt anywhere else, though.

#3. Thirst for Knowledge

Thirst for Knowledge has been periodically reprinted since Mirrodin. It’s especially good if you can reanimate what you discard, whether through its own abilities or whatever else you have going on.

#2. Blazing Crescendo

A combat trick that also gives you an impulse draw for 2 mana is often iterated on, but sometimes it’s just fitting to reprint something we’ve see before. The art, flavor text, and card itself combine into a well-thought Blazing Crescendo reprint.

#1. Take Up the Shield

While not necessarily a card we needed from a supply standpoint, I’ll shout out some cards here for pure flavor reasons. This Take Up the Shield artwork that represents Steve Rogers and Sam Wilson together is the kind of lay-up you need to make in a set like this.

Best Marvel Super Heroes Jumpstart Reprints

#10. The Clone Saga

Found in: Tricksters

The Clone Saga is arguably the best SPM card reprinted here, and it gives me a round 10. Woo.

#9. Grapeshot

Found in: Scarlet

We don’t really need it since it’s a common in Dominaria Remastered, but Grapeshot fits the stormy vibes of a Scarlet Witch Jumpstart theme, so I’m here for it.

#8. Savage Lands

Found in: Savage Lands

Believe it or not, this is the first printing of Savage Lands in a Universes Beyond product. Which means it never received a printing with the UB inverted triangle (RIP). It was also strangely absent from the Blight Curse precon in Lorwyn Eclipsed.

Mike Myers as Goldmember voice: “Isn’t dat veird?”

#7. Mist-Cloaked Herald

Found in: Atlantis

One-mana unblockable creatures enable mechanics like sneak and ninjutsu, so they’ll always have a tailormade archetype. If your deck has payoffs for dealing combat damage to players, Mist-Cloaked Herald and friends are perfect to lower your curve.

#6. Farseek

Found in: Fantastic

Oops, I burned my Goldmember gag on a budget tri-land.

No, what’s extra weird is that MSC is for both the Commander decks and the Jumpstart cards that aren’t MSH cards. But a card that’s in both a precon and a Jumpstart theme has separate printings for each. Same art. Different collector number.

You know what my collector number is? UNH 77.

#5. Lightning Bolt

Found in: Scarlet

The long-time holder of the best burn spell in Magic, you can’t get much tidier damage than the 3-for- Lightning Bolt.

#4. Big Score

Found in: Heroes for Hire

The great thing about cards with additional costs like Big Score is that you only need to pay the cost once when you copy them. A copied BS gives you four cards and a mana refund, with color-fixing, no less.

#3. Deadly Dispute

Found in: Doom

Deadly Dispute gets the edge over Big Score by virtue of being a 2-mana spell that’s also a sacrifice outlet. I’m glad that there isn’t a Dimir () Strixhaven founder to have acted as a cipher enabler….

#2. Time Warp

Found in: Kang Dynasty

Time Warp is one of the stronger extra turn spells because it doesn’t exile itself as it resolves. You can combine it with Regorwth and other versions of recursion to chain extra turns, or you can find ways to get some cost reduction; discard it in a Green Goblin deck, and you’ll be able to cast it from your graveyard for a mayhem cost of .

#1. Dark Ritual

Found in: Doom

It’s been a while since we’ve had a reprint of Dark Ritual that wasn’t a Secret Lair or something, though it’s in one of the rarer Jumpstart themes from this lineup.

Best Marvel Super Heroes Commander Reprints

Honorable Mention: Evergreen and Deciduous Reprints

This is the spot for your Lightning Greaves, your umpteen different Sol Rings and Arcane Signets, your Talismans, et al. I’ll even say Skullclamp and Three Visits, considering how often they’ve appeared in Universes Beyond precons since about Doctor Who or so.

#20. Seize the Day

Found in: The Fantastic Four

Seize the Day also appears in Marvel Universe, but this Johnny Storm reprint in the Fantastic Four precon really captures his impulsive nature.

#19. Taunt from the Rampart

Found in: The Fantastic Four

Goad is one of the best abilities to crack through a stalled board state where nobody wants to do anything. You can use Taunt from the Rampart for either ability or both, but the result is carnage regardless.

#18. Avengers Monitoring Station (Herald’s Horn)

Found in: Avengers Assemble!

When your typal deck has a high curve and needs ramp, or when it’s in a bad color identity for card draw, Herald's Horn gives you both.

#17. Monologue Tax

Found in: The Fantastic Four

Super villain monologues are such a trope that Brad Bird clowned on it in The Incredibles. While not the most efficient taxing white enchantment, Monologue Tax is very fitting for this set. If we aren’t getting Smothering Tithe reprints, I want the ones we do get to have a flavor element going for them.

#16. Propaganda

Found in: Doom Prevails

Nobody is immune to Propaganda. It’s a great way to dissuade opponents from attacking you when you don’t rely on a wide creature base as much as they do. It also stacks well with similar attack-based taxes to build a thick pillow fort around you. You probably know a control player who’s replacing some of their older copies with these Loki posters.

#15. Black Panther’s Claws (Hammer of Nazahn)

Found in: Wakanda Forever

Hammer of Nazahn hasn’t had a reprint since Commander Masters, aside from a reskin as Piko Piko Hammer in the Sonic the Hedgehog Secret Lair. It’s a fantastic equipment to run in any deck built around them. It auto-equips itself and any of your equipment that enter afterwards, but the +2/+0 and indestructible both go a long way on their own. Just a tidy combination of acceleration and protection.

#14. Franklin’s Finality (Annie Joins Up)

Found in: The Fantastic Four

Annie Joins Up has become a staple of 5-color soup decks lead by the likes of Ezio Auditore da Firenze, Cosmic Spider-Man, or Heroes in a Half Shell, and it’ll find some new homes in MSH and MSC, too. Even when you stick to Naya () colors, you can double up on Etali and other dinosaur triggers, it’ll double your commander’s trigger in decks like Toph, the First Metalbender, or there’s always the Miles Morales legends deck.

#13. Kindred Dominance

Found in: Doom Prevails

Typal payoffs are always in high demand, but especially if it’s a one-sided sweeper. Kindred Dominance costs a bunch of mana, but leaves your opponents with few blockers, if any. At that point, you should be able to turn a bunch of cardboard sideways and declare victory.

#12. Toxic Deluge

Found in: Doom Prevails

Someone at Wizards really decided to ship the Doom Prevails precon with two of the best black board wipes in the game and a host of other good cards. Toxic Deluge is also a perfect teaching card: It shows that life is just as much a resource in this game as cards or mana, but its -X/-X and its lack of targeting also teach the limits of different protective abilities.

#11. Patchwork Banner

Found in: Doom Prevails

The combination of a typal anthem and a color-fixing mana rock was an instant staple, one of many cards that makes Bloomburrow so fun to continue to crack open. Patchwork Banner just saw its first precon reprint in Secrets of Strixhaven Commander, but it returns to give a boost to your villainous ensemble.

#10. Withering Torment

Found in: Doom Prevails

Reprint rookie! Black doesn’t get much straight enchantment removal; that’s more green’s or white’s thing. Withering Torment gives black flexible creature or enchantment removal, and at instant speed. Three mana is fair, but Grixis () has spellslinging cost reduction for days and black has cards that let you pay life rather than mana for stuff, so it can find its way into higher power builds, too.

#9. Skybreaker, Sword of Bashenga (Sword of the Animist)

Found in: Wakanda Forever

You can almost never go wrong with Sword of the Animist, but it’s especially good when your commander wants to attack and wants lots of mana, but you don’t have the colors or card slots for too much ramp. Give it a few more consistent reprints and I’ll start to consider it deciduous, too.

#8. Helm of the Host

Found in: Wakanda Forever

Wakanda Forever reprinted so many good equipment cards. You don’t even need to attack with the creature you equip with Helm of the Host; due to the combination of abilities, you can leave your original copy safe behind defensive lines while you send the token out to battle. And if it survives, so much the better, since Helm doesn’t even have you exile or sacrifice the copy at the end of combat or your turn.

#7. Quantum Misalignment

Found in: The Fantastic Four

Quantum Misalignment gets its first reprint since Doctor Who. It’s a contender for one of the best clone-type cards in the game since rebound nets up to two copies of your best creature.

#6. Raise Repulsor Shields (Raise the Palisade)

Found in: Avengers Assemble

This reprint of Raise the Palisade is much needed. This typal mass bounce spell was introduced in the Elven Council precon, and its only reprints have come in Lord of the Rings Collector boosters and the Everyone’s Invited! Secret Lair Commander deck. It’s sorcery speed and costs slightly less mana than an overloaded Cyclonic Rift, which is why any typal Commander deck that dips into blue has this in its 99 (or its wish list).

#5. Loki’s Double (Spark Double)

Found in: Doom Prevails

One of the best clones in the game doesn’t have the shapeshifter type, but it allows you to copy your best creature or planeswalker, including legends. Spark Double enters as a copy, so it can copy a creature’s enters ability. It also doesn’t target, so you can copy a creature you’ve equipped with Lightning Greaves. The extra +1/+1 or loyalty counter help if you’re already proliferating for whatever reason, but a second copy of your best creature in a singleton format is something you should always have on your radar.

#4. Kindred Discovery

Found in: Avengers Assemble

One of the best blue enchantments for Commander, at least if you’re running a typal deck, Kindred Discovery offers you consistent access to extra cards as long as you keep developing your board and attacking. You know, trying to win? It was coming up on three years since the last reprint, so the timing is good, and I’m not complaining one bit about this art with heroes comparing powers and weapons.

Shoutout to Titan of Littjara, a creature that inverts Kindred Discovery by drawing cards in bunches when it enters and attacks. It’s reprinted in the Doom Prevails precon as Lady Loki's Manifestation.

#3. Bond Lands

Found in: Marvel Super Heroes Commander

Bond land reprints? Feels good, man.

If you’re a regular Draftsim reader, you know that we’re often thoroughly unimpressed with precon mana bases. Wizards throws us a bone occasionally with the likes of Hall of Heliod's Generosity, Inventors' Fair, or Arcane Lighthouse, but so many good land cycles are hardly ever reprinted.

The MSC precon lineup has four bond lands spread across each of its decks, with new art and flavor text that ties into that precon’s theme.

#2. Black Market Connections

Found in: Doom Prevails

One of the best black enchantments in the game, Black Market Connections offers mana, cards, and board presence, as long as you have the life to pay into it. The tokens are type-fixed shapeshifters that fit any creature type, and some decks like bats can compensate for the life lost with no sweat. Both the Treasure and the shapeshifters are perfect sacrifice fodder, and they have obvious synergies with Treasure and token payoffs.

#1. Birds of Paradise

Found in: Wakanda Forever

The Boltable Bird has returned. Birds of Paradise is among the game’s longstanding and most iconic cards, and among the best turn-1 plays. Often imitated but never surpassed. If your aim is deck consistency, accept no substitutes.

Best MSH Marvel Universe Reprints

#15. Extinction Event

The Ikoria printing maybe be closer to bulk rare prices, but this Extinction Event is one of the more highly valued Marvel Universe cards on some marketplaces. You should be able to guess why in a snap.

#14. Show and Tell

Show and Tell is so good that it’s defined an archetype in Legacy. Omniscience and Sneak Attack are common cards to pair with it, along with Griselbrand or an Emrakul. It’s far more likely to backfire in multiplayer formats, though, which is my bias here.

#13. No Mercy

Forget rattlesnakes. No Mercy will have you hooded up like a cobra. There’s a few honey badgers out there that don’t care; you’re just giving Zurgo Stormrender or Garna, Bloodfist of Keld free cards, but most other decks have to deal with the enchantment first if they want to deal with you.

#12. Fiery Emancipation

We love damage doublers and adders, but you’re really cooking when you get your damage triplers online. Fiery Emancipation is especially great if you can turn damage that you take into more damage for your opponents, like with Daredevil, Fearless Fighter’s quasi-redirection.

#11. Defense of the Heart

Defense of the Heart just needs to survive a turn to grab the two best creatures from your deck, which scales incredibly well with whichever power level you want to play. The high end is grabbing your win conditions or combo pieces, the mid-section is grabbing the answers you need when you need them or your two best ETB triggers, and the low end is grabbing, well, nothing, because your opponent is running an Aven Mindcensor or something.

#10. Ravenous Tyrannosaurus

Not the most impactful across formats, but definitely one of the more important in terms of keeping a relevant card (at least to dinos) mildly accessible. Ravenous Tyrannosaurus first appeared in the Jurassic World Collection booster insert set along with Don't Move and others. Even without using its devour ability, you can aim its attack trigger at smaller creatures to send more damage to your opponent’s face, you can use it to punch something that you need to handle, and there’s always the option to go somewhere in the middle.

#9. Steelshaper’s Gift

Every time we get new equipment commanders, the demand for Steelshaper's Gift goes up. It’s one of the best equipment tutors at 1 mana and with no other restriction, and I have to say, this artwork does the card justice.

#8. Warleader’s Call

Warleader's Call is one of the reasons I go to bat for Murders at Karlov Manor. A Boros () Impact Tremors effect that’s also an anthem slots in nicely at 3 mana in decks that pump out token creatures, no matter how you plan to use them.

#7. Ephemerate

One mana to get your best enters trigger a second, then a third time was always too good for a common. It’s no surprise that Ephemerate is banished to the shadow realm of reprints: promos, bonus sheets, and Secret Lairs.

#6. Patriotic Shield (Sword of Fire and Ice)

Among the many Mirran swords we’ve seen over the years, Sword of Fire and Ice has to be one of the best ones. It protects your creature from the likes of Lightning Bolt and Chaos Warp, and its saboteur trigger is just plain good. Two damage means you can take out an additional creature, whether it’s an X/2 or something larger you finish off, or you can always direct it to your opponent’s face. Pure card draw like this on a colorless piece of equipment also helps non-blue decks to generate some card advantage.

You want my bold prediction? Sword of Fire and Ice will return in the George R.R. Martin Universes Beyond crossover, which will coincide with an anniversary of the first novel or the release of The Winds of Winter. But only in a Secret Lair, because putting it in another bonus sheet would be too on the nose.

#5. Marvel Secret Lair Commanders

The Marvel Secret Lair products were notoriously hard to come by; you may have logged on to buy them the day that they were made available, only for them to be sold out by the time your turn in the purchase queue came up. I have to wonder if they’re part of the reason that some Secret Lairs also ship directly to WPN stores now.

It’s a good idea to reprint them here for anyone that missed out on their original prints or doesn’t want to shell out for them on the singles market.

#4. Heaven-Sent Marvel (Archangel of Thune)

Archangel of Thune is both one of the best angels and the best lifegain payoffs you could ever want. It has combos of its own, and it can ride the coattails of any infinite life combo. It would be played a lot more if most of its printings weren’t over $50.

#3. Heroic Intervention

A card so nice, we got it thrice. Heroic Intervention is a Commander staple to protect your board, and it sees occasional reprints. It has appeared frequently in Universes Beyond products lately, and may have a destiny as a bonus sheet/Secret Lair exclusive going forward.

#2. Doom Variant (Roaming Throne)

The typal card to end all typal cards. A colorless Panharmonicon that becomes the creature type you want and protects itself with ward 2 is a problem on the battlefield. And it’s in Standard until the end of the year, a format that includes typal sets like Bloomburrow and Lorwyn Eclipsed.

Roaming Throne gives mediocre creature types a booster seat at the big kids’ table, but you can also use it just to double your commander’s triggers if they’re that powerful or important to your strategy. Its first printing at rare in The Lost Caverns of Ixalan hasn’t quite whetted our appetites for it, apparently.

#1. T’Challa’s Protection (Teferi’s Protection)

One of Magic’s best protective spells gets another reprint, at long last. Teferi's Protection has all its most obvious applications, but the fact that your life total can’t change also allows it to enable combos that would normally kill you; you can’t pay life to an effect, but if it deals you damage or causes you to lose life, like a Sign in Blood? You’re golden.

What Are the Most Expensive Reprints in Marvel Super Heroes?

The five most expensive reprints from across all Marvel Super Heroes products, as of about mid-prerelease weekend, are:

• Doom Variant (Roaming Throne)
• T'Challa's Protection (Teferi's Protection)
• Heaven-Sent Marvel (Archangel of Thune)
• Patriotic Shield (Sword of Fire and Ice)
• Wolverine, Best There Is

Wrap Up

Wolverine, Best There Is | Illustration by Victor Adame Minguez

Some of the last Universes Beyond sets had me skeptical, but I’ve wound up buying a lot of this set. There’s the expected evergreen Commander reprints, some more “deciduous” ones that appear less frequently, but still often enough to keep their prices stable. There’s cards at all kinds of previous rarities and price points that get their first reprint in the bonus sheet, from Three Steps Ahead to Storm, Force of Nature.

There’s a lot of cards I’ve left off, especially in the bonus sheet, so let me know your favorite reprints in the comments below or over on the Draftsim Discord. For more daily Magic happenings and tidbits, subscribe to our newsletter.

Until next time, happy hunting!