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It's not just an MtG card.

https://scryfall.com/card/ice/230/dire-wolves

Even if it weren't a real extinct animal it wouldn't have just been an MtG card

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dire_Wolf_(song)

The fantasy 'dire wolf' and the real 'dire wolf' have close to zero in common, except that the real dire wolf was adapted for eating megafauna and thus had the strongest bite of all canines.

And therein lies the problem, they went extinct because their prey went extinct - unless you bring back the mammoths for them to hunt, they're never going to survive in the wild; and are essentially "a wolf with a bigger appetite" to keep captive.

There are technically a few survivors -- for instance, bison and moose.

There's a reason horses are so fast; they co-evolved in the Americas with something they had to outrun.

That seems much more likely to be cheetah-ancestors than dire wolves.

Oh shit, the next instagram thing will be DnD cosplayers trying to get selfies with them.

I think Game of Thrones cosplayers would be more likely