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Magic: The Gathering is one of the most popular tabletop games in the world. With millions of players, tens of thousands of cards, and new releases coming out all the time, it’s a constantly evolving game that can be played in an almost endless number of ways.
However, getting into it can be a bit overwhelming. If you’re buying for yourself or for a friend, knowing what the best thing to get can be a lot of information to process. Fortunately, here are the most recent releases, as well as what each one includes.
Updated April 26, 2023 by Joe Parlock: March of the Machine is the biggest event in Magic: The Gathering in years. With a full-scale invasion of the multiverse, it visits planes both new and old as they try and hold off against Elesh Norn and her Phyrexian army. March of the Machine is a huge set, but also a really good jumping-on point for the game, and so here is everything you need to get caught up.
The Newest Set: March Of The Machine
March of the Machine is the culmination of a story that's been in the works for over a decade. Following on from Phyrexia: All Will Be One, it shows the major invasion right across the multiverse of Elesh Norn and her nightmaring Phyrexians, and tells the stories of the countless worlds that stand and fight back.
This is what is known as an 'event set', one that is much wider in scope than the usual release. Alongside showcasing dozens of settings on the new battle cards, it features reprints of popular commanders as the Multiverse Legends, and a notably higher power level than what we've been seeing for a while.
March Of The Machine Draft Booster Box
For those who want to get stuck in and enjoy March of the Machine's fantastic limited environment, draft boxes are the way to go. These are the most affordable type of pack, and are designed for playing draft or sealed, but also lack the number of flashy art treatments other booster packs offer.
Each pack includes a basic lend, ten commons, three uncommons, and one rare or mythic rare. Every pack also has one guaranteed legendary creature card from the Multiverse Legends reprint set, which could include real big-money cards like Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer or Atraxa, Praetor's Voice.
The Booster Box contains 36 packs of 15 cards each, for a total of 540 cards.
March Of The Machine Set Booster Box
Set boosters are the comfortable medium between gameplay-focused Draft boxes, and flashy, bling-filled Collector's boosters. If you just want to crack packs and find a good mix of rare cards, alternate art styles, and foils, a Set booster is the way to go.
Set boosters have fewer cards than any other pack, featuring 12 cards instead of the usual 15. However, they can include up to five rare or mythic rares in a pack. You'll also get an art card, and one in four packs will include reprints of older cards from a rotating set known as The List.
Set boosters also contain at least one Multiverse Legend per pack, with the chance of there being more than one if you're lucky.
You get fewer cards here than in a Draft box, with 30 packs of 12 cards, for a total of 360 cards. However, with a higher number of rares, The List, and more chances of showcase treatments, it's often worth it to pick a Set over a Draft box if you're just collecting.
March Of The Machine Collector's Booster Box
The flashiest option is to buy a whole box of March Of The Machine Collector's boosters. These packs include exclusive art-treatments, serialised cards, and five guaranteed rares in every pack.
Containing 15 cards, each pack can include art treatments like extended frames, or even 'serialised' cards with an exclusive number printed on them to make them unique. You can find also find Etched Foils, or the Collector's booster-exclusive Halo foils in every pack. To top things off, there are three foil Multiverse Legends cards, with at least one of them a guaranteed rare.
These are the priciest option, but, for those who want nothing but hits, are definitely the way to go. The box contains 12 packs, a total of 180 cards. Packs also include double-sided foil token, which can't be found anywhere else.
March Of The Machine Jumpstart Booster Box
Jumpstart boosters have struggled to win the affection of the Magic community, thanks in part to their highly limited pack archetypes and repeated cards. However, Jumpstart is still one of the easiest ways to play Magic, and March of the Machine has some interesting packs to keep you interested.
Each Jumpstart pack includes 20 cards which make up half of a deck. By opening two packs and shuffling them together, you have a ready-to-play deck, complete with lands. Alongside lands, and a guaranteed rare from the full March of the Machine set, there are also 15 Jumpstart-exclusive cards, such as Surrak and Goreclaw or Cragsmasher Yeti.
Jumpstart boxes come with 18 packs of 20 cards, for 360 cards total, which is enough to make nine decks. It is also compatible with other Jumpstart set products, so you could mix and match them with Phyrexia: All Will Be One's, The Brothers' War's, or Dominaria United's Jumpstart packs to make something a bit more chaotic.
Keep in mind that Jumpstart boosters are the only March of the Machine packs that do not include a Multiverse Legend reprint.
March Of The Machine Set Booster Bundle
The most affordable way to collect March of the Machine is to pick up one of the Booster Bundles, rather than a full store display box. Coming in at just under half the price of a full box, Booster Bundles include eight Set booster packs, a spindown life counter, a pack of lands, and a foil promo card.
For March of the Machine, this promo card is an alt-art version of Ghalta and Mavren, the Elder Dinosaur and Vampire teamup from Ixalan. The dice is also really nice, being a porcelain white with golden numbers etched into it.
As these are Set boosters, you'll still be getting Multiverse Legends, alternate art styles, and cards from The List. You're getting fewer cards here – 137 total – but at such a lower price, it's a good way to get a sample of March of the Machine without dropping so much cash.
March Of The Machine Commander Decks
You can't have a huge event set like March of the Machine and not have a full array of five Commander decks to go with it. Featuring commanders from different planes, it also features the return of Planechase – an alternate way to play Magic that adds an extra layer of random chance by having you hop between different Plane cards.
The fives decks are:
- Growing Threat, a white/black Phyrexian-focused deck led by Brimaz, Blight of Oreskos.
- Cavalry Charge, a white/blue/black Knight deck with Sidar Jabari of Zhalfir as the commander.
- Call for Backup, a red/green/white deck focused on March of the Machine's new backup mechanic, led by Bright-Palm, Soul Awakener.
- Divine Convcation, a white/blue/red convoke-themed deck helmed by Kasla, the Broken Halo.
- Tinker Time, a green/blue/red deck focused on artifact tokens that also includes the game's first legendary Gremlin, commander Gimbal, Gremlin Prodigy.
Each deck includes a 100-card deck, a thicker, etched-foil version of its commander, tokens, a life tracker, a deck box, ten Planechase cards, and an exclusive Planar Die to go with it.
Each deck also includes a Collector's booster sample pack, which includes two random cards that could be found in a Collector's booster. This could be anything from a simple foil right up to one of the exclusive alt-art treatments.
You can either buy the decks individually or as a full bundle of all five.
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Phyrexia: All Will Be One
With Phyrexia: All Will Be One, Magic: The Gathering took us to the heart of the enemy’s home turf, as ten Planeswalkers descended upon New Phyrexia to hopefully put a stop to their invasion of the multiverse. This was the first tentpole premiere set of the year, and so it received the full array of products, including booster packs, Commander decks, and even a new “Compleat Edition” bundle.
Despite still being intended for players 13 years old and over, Phyrexia: All Will Be One is an incredibly dark set, with high amounts of body horror and brutal imagery on the cards. However, it’s also a notably high-power set, with lots of powerful and valuable cards to collect, and will likely have a lasting impact on the game.
Phyrexia: All Will Be One Draft Booster Box
The basic release for All Will Be One is the draft booster, which, like most MTG sets, includes 15 cards, including one rare or mythic rare, one basic land, one foil card. If you’re intending to play Magic’s limited formats, such as Sealed or Draft, these are the booster packs you’ll need.
The booster box contains 36 boosters, for a total of 540 cards. However, Draft boosters have fewer chances of including alternate art styles and fewer rare cards; this box is intended for playing first, collecting second – if you care about bling and big pulls, other kinds of boxes are available.
Phyrexia: All Will Be One Set Booster Box
Set boosters are the middle ground between the budget option of a Draft booster, and the high-cost luxury of a Collector pack. These packs only contain 12 cards each, but have a much higher number of rares, foils, and alternate art treatments than Draft packs, to make the pack opening experience itself more exciting.
Set boosters also have a 25 percent chance of including a card from The List, a rotating series of older cards from outside of the Phyrexia: All Will Be One set. While ONE’s List includes real powerhouses like Ashnod’s Altar and Blightsteel Colossus, it also notably includes in-universe reprints of 2022’s Secret Lair x Street Fighter crossover cards – which otherwise have been completely unavailable for almost a year.
The Set booster box includes 30 packs for a total of 360 cards. While this is significantly less than a Draft box, you’re more likely to get bigger, more exciting cards that often makes Set boosters the go-to for Collectors who don’t want to drop a ton on a Collector box.
Phyrexia: All Will Be One Collector Booster Box
The crème de la crème of Magic: The Gathering is the Collector booster. 15 cards, 10 of them foil. Up to six of them could be rare or mythic rares, with the packs also featuring the greatest spread of alternate art styles to sweeten the deal. If you want a really fancy opening experience, with exclusive cards you’ll not find anywhere else, a Collector booster is the way to go.
Collector booster boxes only contain 12 packs, giving it the smallest raw card total of any booster box at 180 cards. However, the most valuable cards in the entire set are here, including the exclusive Step-and-Compleat foiling treatment that covers the card in the Phyrexian symbol in a very posh, fashion-inspired foiling.
Another neat inclusion for All Will Be One are the full-art lands, with each Collector booster guaranteed to include a foil version of either a “Phyrexianized Land”, reimagining Magic’s mana symbols are horrific effigies to the glory of Phyrexia, or the “Panorama Lands”, which showcase the scenery of New Phyrexia in one extra-wide image.
Phyrexia: All Will Be One Jumpstart Booster Box
The final style of booster box for Phyrexia: All Will Be One is the Jumpstart boosters. Jumpstart is a quick and easy way to get into playing Magic, without needing to worry about building your own deck.
Each pack includes 20 cards (including lands) based on a specific colour and theme, such as White Mites, Green Toxic, or Blue Progress – take two, shuffle them together, and you have a 40-card deck ready to play. Jumpstart boosters also include one of five exclusive cards not found elsewhere in the set, making it worth picking up a few packs even if you don’t intend on playing Jumpstart.
Each Jumpstart booster box contains 18 packs of 20, for a total of 360 cards. Keep in mind that these packs all include multiple lands, so on balance you’ll be getting much less variety than you would in a Set booster. However, Jumpstart is one of the simplest and most fun ways of playing Magic, and is definitely worth checking out if you’re new to the All Will Be One set.
Phyrexia: All Will Be One Bundle
Booster boxes are the most expensive way of buying Magic. If you want to save some money, bundles are a great way to get a decent whack of cards without dropping three digits on cards – and it even includes some nice extras at the same time.
Bundles contain eight Set booster packs, a pack of 40 basic lands, and a promo card of Karumonix, The Rat King with exclusive art only found in bundles. It also comes with a spindown counter for tracking your life, and a storage box to keep everything in. As these are Set boosters, you’ll be getting 137 cards total, with a decent mix of art styles, rarities, and value.
While not available on Amazon, the Compleat Edition bundle is also available through local game stores as a more upmarket version of the bundle. Alongside 12 Set boosters, 40 foil lands, a promo card, and the spindown tracker, you’ll also get the exclusive Compleat Edition booster. This pack includes two mythic rare cards and ten basic lands with an exclusive ‘Oil Slick Raised Foil’ treatment not found in any other kind of booster pack.
Phyrexia: All Will Be One Commander Decks
Most sets for Magic: The Gathering release alongside preconstructed decks for its most popular format, Commander. All Will Be One is no different, with two decks that look at each side of the Phyrexian conflict.
The first is the white/black/green Corrupting Influence, which brings the new toxic and corrupted mechanics to Commander for the first time. Meanwhile, the red/white Rebellion Rising deck looks at the surviving Humans of New Phyrexia, with a deck all about tokens and Equipment to go wide and swarm your opponents.
Each box comes with one 100-card deck (with ten of those cards being brand new to the game), as well as a life tracker, a pack of tokens, and a Collector Booster Sample Pack, which gives you two cards you may only normally find in a Collector booster.
These decks can both be played straight from the box, and, as they are balanced against each other, provide a fantastic way of getting into MTG’s Commander format for the first time.
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Jumpstart 2022
Jumpstart 2022 was the long-awaited follow-up to 2020’s surprise hit, Jumpstart. The idea is so simple, it’s shocking Wizards hadn’t done it sooner: open two booster packs, each with their own theme, and shuffle them up.
It’s a quick and easy way for newcomers to get into Magic, while also offering powerful cards and valuable reprints for the veterans. Keep in mind that Jumpstart 2022 is a full set of its own, with exclusive cards and reprints, and is different to the Jumpstart boosters released for Dominaria United and The Brothers’ War.
Jumpstart 2022 Draft Booster Box
As Jumpstart is meant to be played in a specific way, it is only available as Draft boosters. The Set and Collector boosters of other sets aren’t available here.
The Jumpstart Draft Booster Box contains 24 packs, with each pack including 20 cards each. Every pack is a specific theme – such as Wolves, Morbid, or Teamwork – and includes between seven and eight lands, one or two rares, and the rest split between common and uncommon.
Each pack of Jumpstart 2022 also includes one showcase card, which is a card with alternate art unique to the set. For Jumpstart 2022, that theme is manga art, with various manga artists contributing new takes on popular cards.
Jumpstart 2022 doesn’t include any box toppers or buy-a-box promo cards.
The Brothers’ War
The final Standard-legal set of 2022, The Brothers’ War took us back to one of Magic’s oldest stories with the battle between Urza and his brother Mishra. It was a set full of history, giant mechs, and the body-stealing Phyrexians in one of their earliest appearances.
On top of an excellent set, The Brothers’ War included multiple side-sets you could find in packs, from the retro-framed artifact reprints to the Universes Beyond crossover with Transformers. It also included two new Commander decks with a very retro twist.
The Brothers’ War Draft Booster Box
Draft boosters for The Brothers’ War are the best thing to buy if you want to play the set’s limited formats, such as draft and sealed. These are the most basic type of booster pack, but they still include enough special extras for those on a budget.
Like all other premiere sets, Draft boosters for The Brothers’ War include 36 booster packs, each containing 15 cards. Each pack can contain one retro-framed artifact card of either uncommon, rare, or mythic rarity, one rare or mythic rare, three uncommons, nine commons, and one basic land (25 percent of Draft boosters will replace this land with a full-art basic land instead).
Draft boosters are the only packs that don’t include any of the Transformers crossover cards.
The Brothers’ War Set Booster Box
Set boosters are the best way to get bling for your decks without breaking the bank on expensive Collector boosters. While these cost more than Draft boosters, and can’t be used to play draft or sealed formats, they feature art treatments and cards that are impossible to find in Draft boosters, making them ideal for collectors.
The Set booster box contains 24 packs of 12 cards each. Like Drafts, you’ll receive a retro-framed artifact of any rarity. You’ll also get one rare or mythic from the main set, one foil of any rarity, two “wildcards” (random cards from the main set, the Commander- or Jumpstart-exclusive cards, or from the Transformers crossover) of any rarity, three uncommons, three commons, and one basic land.
Set boosters also have a 25% chance of including a bonus card from “The List”, a rotating list of older cards. These can range from simply interesting pieces of Magic’s history to absolute powerhouses that are more valuable than the rest of the set, making finding any List card an exciting moment.
The Brothers’ War Bundle And Gift Bundle
If you’re not able to splash out on a full booster box, Bundles are a great way of having a fun pack opening experience on a budget.
Both bundles contain eight Set booster packs, a 20-sided spindown life counter (either red or green), a pack of 40 basic lands, and two promo cards: a retro-framed Queen Kayla Bin-Kroog, and one card from the Transformers crossover.
The Gift Bundle has a few differences. The spindown counter is replaced with a blue Transformers-themed one, which is exclusive to the gift bundle, and also comes with one Collector booster. Considering Collector boosters cost almost $30 on their own, one included in this often makes Gift bundles one of the best deals in MTG.
As The Brothers’ War’s Collector boosters have one guaranteed Transformers card in them, this means the Gift Bundle will definitely give you at least two of the cards from the crossover, as opposed to the one promised in regular Bundles.
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The Brothers’ War Collector Booster Box
The crème de la crème for Magic: The Gathering is the Collector booster. Full of alternate art, some of which is exclusively found here, they are by far both the most expensive and also the most valuable boosters of all.
Collector booster boxes include 12 packs of 15 cards, and each individual pack includes: one guaranteed foil rare or mythic rare (from the main set or from the retro artifact reprints), two non-foil retro reprints, one foil retro reprint, one Transformers card, one foil rare or mythic rare, one non-foil rare or mythic rare, a nonfoil rare or mythic rare from the Commander- or Jumpstart-exclusive cards, one guaranteed foil full-art land, two foil uncommons, four foil commons, and an exclusive double-sided token.
Collector boosters are the only way to find three different art treatments: one percent of packs will include “serialised” retro artifact reprints, which have a unique identifying serial code on them to make them the only one like it in the world. Meanwhile, there is a 12 percent chance of finding a “Shattered Glass” Transformers card, which reimagines the series’ heroes as villains, and vice-versa.
Finally, numerous cards in the packs have a chance of being either extended (where the art spreads across the card and spills over the border), or full-art (where it reaches from top to bottom as well as side to side).
In other words, Collectors boosters are an overwhelming surge of bling that you won’t get in any other pack, making a Booster Box of it a real treat.
The Brothers’ War Jumpstart Booster Box
Introduced in Dominaria United, Jumpstart boosters make a comeback for The Brothers’ War, giving you an easy way to quickly get into what this set has to offer.
Like the larger Jumpstart sets, each pack includes 20 cards based on one of five themes – for The Brothers’ War, this can include things like a blue Powerstone Tokens pack, or a green Titanic pack all about buffing large creatures. You shuffle two packs together, and you’re immediately ready for a new game.
Booster boxes include 18 packs of 20 cards each – enough for you and a friend to get nine games in. Each pack includes two guaranteed foil lands, six non-foil lands, and two rares (one of which is a Jumpstart booster exclusive). The rest will be split between common and uncommon cards.
Keep in mind that Jumpstart boosters are the only Brothers’ War boosters that don’t include retro artifact reprints, and also don’t include the Transformers crossover cards.
The Brothers’ War Preconstructed Commander Decks
As The Brothers’ War is a set all about Magic’s history, its Commander decks are the first ever to be entirely printed in retro frames that call back to the early days of the game. Between Urza’s Iron Alliance and Mishra’s Burnished Banner, tons of cards are printed in this popular treatment for the first time, and there are a ton of exclusive cards debuting here for the first time as well.
Urza’s Iron Alliance is a white/blue/black deck that’s all about building up a wide army of artifact creatures, that all then get bigger with each further artifact you play. Meanwhile, Mishra’s Burnished Banner is all about sacrificing artifacts and finding ways to bring them back from the graveyard for profit.
Each box includes a 100-card deck, with each one including 10 brand-new cards and 90 reprints, including lands. They also include a life tracker, deck box, and a Collector booster sample pack, which includes two cards that could be found in any Collector booster pack.
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Unfinity
Right now is a really interesting time for Magic, as in its almost 30-year history we’ve only ever had a handful of ‘Un-sets’; or parody releases that poke fun at the game. The latest of these parody sets is Unfinity, which takes us to the outer space funfair of Myra the Magnificent’s Intergalactic Astrotorium of Fun.
Unfinity is full of cards that get your playgroup to do everything from wear hats to throwing cards across the table. It’s a wacky, radically different take on the MTG we usually get to play, and, in a first for Un-sets, it even includes cards you can slot into your other decks.
Unfinity Draft Booster Box
Unfinity is a smaller-scale release than major sets like Dominaria United, and so is only available in two forms. The first are Draft boosters, which are designed to be played in limited games using just what you pull from a pack. Considering Un-sets are almost always designed to be played in a limited way, this is usually the best way to experience Unfinity.
Draft boosters for Unfinity contain 14 cards, and one sticker sheet. In every pack you’ll receive one guaranteed full-art “Space-ic Land” that reimagines Magic’s usual Plains, Islands, Swamps, Mountains, and Forests are either alien scenes or gazing down at planets from orbit. There’s a four percent chance for boosters to include a Borderless Shock Land – valuable lands that are highly playable in multiple different formats, and are definitely going to be in high demand. You’ll also get one rare or mythic rare in every pack.
In every box, you’ll also get a Box Topper in its own, individual wrapper. For Unfinity, these box toppers are foil Borderless Shock Lands, guaranteeing you’ll get at least one when you buy a box.
Unfinity Collector’s Booster Box
All you need to do is look at the wrapping for Unfinity’s Collector’s boosters to see exactly what this set is all about. Full of quirky characters and retro futuristic style, it’s an artistic treat on top of a zany set to play.
For Unfinity, every single card in a Collector’s booster is foil. In those 15 cards, you’ll get up to five space-y “Galaxy foils”, including one definite galaxy foiled land, and up to 12 traditional foils. You’ll also get a guaranteed reprint of a card from an earlier Un-set, something that has never happened in a booster product like Unfinity before.
Keep in mind that you can’t draft with a Collector’s booster, mostly because it lacks the sticker sheets found in Draft boosters. However, it does include lots of flash and stylish cards to pull, and the chance of getting exclusive galaxy-foiled cards makes it all worthwhile.
Dominaria United
Magic: The Gathering’s Dominaria United kicked off its 30th-anniversary celebrations. Returning to its original setting of Dominaria, it featured tons of legendary creatures to build new Commander decks around, as well as heralded in a whole new era for Magic’s main ruleset (or ‘format’), Standard.
There are lots of ways to pick up Dominaria United that suit all kinds of players. Here’s everything you need to know about buying MTG’s newest set, Dominaria United.
Dominaria United Draft Booster Box
Dominaria United’s draft boosters are mostly aimed at those who like playing limited formats. These are the most basic kind of booster pack, featuring 15 cards, including one guaranteed rare card, one basic land card, and one in three packs includes a shiny foil card.
While they’re the most basic, they’re also the most versatile if you’re buying for someone else, as only draft packs can be used in draft and sealed games, but still includes the same cards, and chances of getting the fancier alternate-art “showcase” style. Each draft booster also includes one guaranteed legendary creature, which means Dominaria United is especially good for fans of the Commander format.
Draft booster boxes include 36 booster packs, for a total of 541 cards. All booster packs also include a box topper, an extra promotional card in its own packet. For Dominaria United, these are the Legends Retold series, which reimagines characters from Magic’s history in new ways.
Dominaria United Set Booster Box
Set booster boxes are aimed at a slightly different type of player than a Draft box. Set boosters are not designed for limited play, and are instead made for the enjoyment of ‘cracking packs’. While Set boosters contain fewer cards than a Draft pack (12 rather than 15), you’re more likely to find alternate art, exclusive cards, and foils.
You’re also more likely to find rare cards, as up to four cards in every Set booster can be rare, rather than just the one in a Draft. Of those twelve cards, at least one will be rare, one will be foil, and, for Dominaria United, one will also be a legendary creature. Set boosters also have one more thing that sets them apart: The List. The List is a collection of older cards that are chosen to be reprinted, and can include everything from obscure cards from 30 years ago to absolute powerhouses of the game today. The List cards appear in one in every four Set booster packs.
A Set booster box includes 30 packs of 12 cards each and one foil box topper from the Legends Retold collection, for a total of 361 cards. That may seem like fewer cards than a Draft box for roughly the same price, but for those who like bling or don’t really bother with playing in drafts, Set boosters are a fantastic choice.
Dominaria United Set Booster Bundle
Booster boxes are a pretty hefty investment. Sometimes you don’t want to buy 30+ packs for over $100, you just want a small sampling of what the set has to offer. Fortunately, that’s what Booster Bundles are for.
Dominaria United’s Set Booster Bundle contains eight Set booster packs, a 20-sided dice that functions as a spindown life counter, and a pack of basic lands with a free promo card. This promo is exclusive to bundles, with a foil, alt-art Herd Migration available.
A surprising upside of bundles is actually the box itself. Dominaria United’s bundle box is very stylish, featuring two of the game’s most popular characters, Liliana Vess and Ajani Goldmane, on either side. More than just looking good, these are excellent storage solutions, and can easily hold more cards than just the ones that come in it for those with unruly collections spilling over every surface.
Dominaria United Collector’s Booster Box
The cream of the crop of MTG booster packs are the Collector’s boosters. These are a lot more expensive than their Set and Draft counterparts, but there are plenty of exclusive art treatments available only in Collector’s boosters that make them a good pick for anyone wanting only the best of the best.
Each Collector’s booster contains 15 cards, with up to 13 of them being foil. Five or six cards will be guaranteed rares, and in Dominaria United two foil legendary creatures are also included. Notably, Collector’s boosters are also the only way to get extended art versions of exclusive cards only normally found within the Commander decks.
Dominaria United Collector’s boosters also include Lost Legends, which are cards from 1994’s set Legends included in three percent of packs. Not reprints; actual, physical cards taken from sealed Legends booster packs and repackaged. These are exceptionally rare, as many cards from Legends have never been reprinted, and some can also be incredibly valuable.
Each Collector’s booster box contains 12 packs of 15 cards each, and one box topper, for a total of 181 cards. Though this is the most expensive product for Dominaria United, it’s also by far the most eye-catching for anyone who wants to bling out their deck with fancy foils and art treatments.
Dominaria United Jumpstart Booster Box
A new type of booster pack introduced in Dominaria United were set tie-in Jumpstart packs. Jumpstar was an incredibly popular release back in 2020 that challenges you to take two random themed packs and shuffle them together to make a fully playable deck.
This is limited for those who don’t enjoy drafting and playing sealed. Quick to get going and easy to understand, it takes all the stressful decision-making out of playing and helps you get into games much faster. Not only that, but each Jumpstart booster pack includes an exclusive card not found in other packs.
Each Jumpstart booster box includes 18 packs, with each one having two foil lands, two rares (including those exclusives), and ten potential themes to play with. These will also be compatible with future Jumpstart packs, meaning you can mix and match Dominaria United’s the upcoming Brothers’ War, Phyrexia: All Will Be One, and March of the Machine’s.
Dominaria United Preconstructed Commander Decks
Most MTG sets include a few preconstructed decks for the game’s most popular format, Commander. Preconstructed decks are a great pick if you’re buying for someone else, as not only is there a high chance that they already play Commander, they also include a lot of cards you can’t get elsewhere.
Painbow is one of two decks for Dominaria United, and plays with all five of the game’s colours in a single deck thanks to its exclusive ‘face commander’, Jared Carthalion. There’s loads of powerful cards in here for tearing apart and putting in your own decks, or it can be kept whole and played with other ‘precons’ to ensure everyone at the table has similarly powerful decks to play with.
Meanwhile, Legends’ Legacy is a red, white, and black deck that packs in loads of other legendary creatures into a single deck. This makes it perfect for those who like building their own Commander decks, as it’s chock full of other potential commanders to play with. Of course, like Painbow, it’s also a fully-playable deck balanced to ensure you’ll have a good time when playing against other preconstructed decks.
Each preconstructed commander deck for Dominaria United includes the 100-card deck, a life counter, a pack of double-sided token cards, a thicker, cardboard ‘display card’ of its Commander, and a two-card Collector’s booster sample pack. Sample packs can have almost anything you’d find in a regular Collector’s booster, like foils and extended art prints. The only thing you’re not able to find in sample packs are the Lost Legends cards.
Other Magic: The Gathering Products
While most Magic releases come as part of wider sets, there are also standalone products worth picking up. These may include brand-new cards, much-needed reprints, or games you can play straight out of the box.
Starter Commander Decks
Commander is Magic: The Gathering’s most popular format, but its 100-card decks can also be intimidating for newcomers. That makes the Starter Commander Decks such an appealing option, as they’re a budget way to get into the format with four simple-to-play, yet powerful decks.
There are five decks available: the white/blue First Flight, blue/black Grave Danger, black/red Chaos Incarnate, red/green Draconic Destruction, and green/white Token Triumph. Each box includes tokens, a deck box, and a life tracker, however it won’t include the Collector booster sample pack you find in other preconstructed Commander decks.
Each deck can be purchased separately, or you can buy all five as a bundle to really kickstart your game night.
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Magic: The Gathering Universes Beyond – Warhammer 40,000 Commander Decks
Based on the immensely popular tabletop game by Games Workshop, these four decks recreate Warhammer 40,000’s various factions, such as the Imperium of Man, Necrons, Chaos, and the Tyranids. Each deck is fully legal with Magic’s prolific Commander format, and has 100 cards, tokens, spindown life trackers, and a deckbox.
While most sets get preconstructed Commander decks, the Warhammer 40,000 decks go one step further by having most of their cards be brand new to the game and not available anywhere else. Each deck includes more than 40 original cards, with the remainder being reprints of popular Commander cards with new, Warhammer-themed art.
Each deck can either be bought individually (Tyranid Swarm, Forces of the Imperium, The Ruinous Powers, and Necron Dynasties), or in a bundle that includes all four together. Keep in mind that, unlike a set tie-in Commander deck, these do not include the two-card Collector’s booster sample pack.
Instead, in a first for Commander decks, Warhammer 40,000 also introduces Collector’s Editions, which print the entire deck in a new kind of foiling Wizards describes as “surge foil”. Surge foiling differs from other styles of foiling in that it gives the cards a less uniform, almost oil-slick-like finish that looks really, really nice.
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