Stream Notes: 3/8/24
Soda’s Six Pack: MTG Fallout Release Set

Soda’s business has many facets, to include trading cards. Although he doesn’t have the licensing- thus, permission- to sell Magic: The Gathering products, he knows plenty who do. We can critique WotC and MTG for their business practices and how many sets have been released just in the last year, but our Fallout fans were tipped off to this one.

The MTG × Fallout crossover officially dropped after a month or two of advertising and discussion. With Fallout having a swathe of official and fan-released products- including the Fallout streaming show airing in April and Fallout: London marching onto Nexus Mods in the same month- 2024 may be the Chinese Year of the Dragon, but looks like the Gaming Year of Fallout. With cards and TTRPGs rounding out their portfolio, Bethesda’s post-apocalyptic world has a huge year ahead. With that said, the cards look…

Actually good.

The art is great, the cards are from many corners of Fallout lore, and have apparently sold well, according to Soda. His fellow TCG distributors have sold out in some cases, so maybe WotC made an intelligent marketing move? Time will tell if these cards will be used in play or locked by Vault-Tec for future bragging rights.

Of course, the foils are being resold for a pretty pack of Nuka-Cola caps, but that’s nothing new.

Just saying: Caesar looks like Bobby Hill.

Also: Gary.