I’m an Iron Maiden superfan. I’m also a huge Magic: the Gathering player. So when I saw that two of my favorite things on Earth would be colliding, I was ecstatic. Check out the announcement video straight from MTG Secret Lair.

For people that don’t know about Magic: the Gathering Secret Lair, it’s basically like a multiverse opening up for Magic cards to get made about popular intellectual property or artists. We’ve had horror movie Secret Lairs, there’s even a Jaws Secret Lair coming alongside this Iron Maiden one. I was stoked, and then I saw the cards.

As an Iron Maiden fan who knows the ins and outs of Magic: the Gathering, this is embarrassing. Not only do the cards look like the most low-effort thing possible, with choosing obvious creatures from the Killers and Somewhere In Time albums for spells, but they picked a blue creature for the only one in the set? So you take one of the most beloved and cherished heavy metal icons in the history of the genre, and you give them unplayable cards AND completely screw up the color of the character. Blue is based around drawing cards, countering spells, and controlling the board. Where in any of the Iron Maiden art does that show itself? Eddie is a time-traveling cyborg, a killer stalking the streets of London, someone who has fought the devil on the cover of The Number of the Beast, he’s been a samurai, a deity of immense power on Seventh Son of a Seventh Son, and plenty in between.

So the fine folks at Wizards of the Coast chose not only an Eddie that isn’t on an album cover for the creatures in the drop, but they also didn’t pick an iconic look of the character.

This might all sound like Greek to people who don’t know Iron Maiden and Magic, but for those who do, you know what I’m talking about.

In a sea of Secret Lairs, this is an absolute embarrassment for Iron Maiden fans, and Wizards of the Coast should be ashamed for what looks like a low-effort cash grab.

You can check out the rest of the Secret Lair Scare Superdrop here.

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