Marvel Super Heroes Prerelease: What Actually Happened

MTG Marvel Super Heroes prerelease weekend wrapped up June 19 through 21, and the real games have started to reveal what actually matters in this format. One card stole games outright. A cluster of indestructible and hexproof threats left some decks with no real answers. And a handful of overlooked commons and uncommons quietly punched above their rarity. Here's what prerelease taught us heading into the June 26 release and the draft season that follows.

The biggest MTG singles price spikes of June 2026 span the entire market, from cheap Marvel speculation plays to a leaked Secret Lair Commander deck sending Miku, Divine Diva past $70 to a quietly compounding Premodern boom pushing Reserved List staples like Replenish toward $175. Add in the run-up to Marvel Super Heroes on June 26 and the Premodern Price Index up over 22% in 90 days, and June gave finance watchers something in every price bracket to track.

Elestrals announced a Sunstrike format update today, effective June 27, 2026, just ahead of the June 28 premier. The list bans three enablers behind the dominant turn-one Stratomoth, Champion of Aeolus strategy plus Anocell, and limits six other cards including Eruption, Ectopossum, and Majursa to one copy each. We break down every change, why Elestrals made the call to hit enablers instead of the Champion itself, and what the format looks like heading into this weekend's pre