Venerable card shuffler Magic: The Gathering is expanding its multidimensional universe to include the works of J.R.R. Tolkien and Games Workshop, publisher Hasbro announced this week.

These settings are part of Magic's "Universes Beyond," a crossover expansion announced during an investor conference call today that will bring a new set of cards based on a variety of different worlds. Wizards Of The Coast has already announced that the expansion will include a new card set called Dungeons & Dragons" was included (clearly a good fit), but now the company has stated that cards from "Lord Of The Rings" and "Warhammer 40K" will also be included.

The new card set has only been announced in the physical version of Magic, but I wouldn't be surprised if it eventually makes its way into the Magic: The Gathering arena. In that case, we'll see if a decades-old card game becomes the Warhammer 40K game of our dreams.

There are plenty of Warhammer 40K games these days; Darktide seems to be a brilliant grimdark take on the Vermintide horde blasting, and Dakka Squadron may be the most Orkic game around; Amazon's LOTR MMO and Daedelic's bizarre Gollum stealth game won't appear until 2022 at the earliest.