Magic: The Gathering‘s fall set Dominaria United could have a unique hook for its collector boosters: cards ripped straight from authentic booster packs of Legends.
Wizards of the Coast discovered about a warehouse closing down in central Washington that contained sealed Magic merchandise saved there and despatched a crew to retrieve them. In an auspicious flip of occasions, that warehouse contained instances of Legends booster packing containers from 1994, designer Matthew Danner stated in a video published by Wizards.
Legends is a big set in Magic’s historical past. It launched the idea of Legendary Creatures, which is the main target of the sport’s hottest format Commander. The suite of multicolored creature cards set the tone for Magic design that also holds in the present day.
After discovering such a big assortment of sealed classic merchandise the crew sprung into motion. The video confirmed a gaggle of Wizards staff opening the Legends in a room and sorting the cards—all sporting gloves to protect the cards that shall be despatched out in Dominaria United collector boosters.
“We knew this was going to be a once-in-a-lifetime alternative,” recreation producer Natalie Kreider stated.
Dominaria United is set to launch on Sept. 9 and options collector booster packs with cards from Legends. Notable cards from Legends include Tetsuo Umezawa and Moat. There is a finite variety of cards from these packing containers. Only three p.c of collector boosters will include a card from Legends.
Not each card from Legends shall be accessible in collector boosters. Here are all of the cards that aren’t included.
- Adventurers’ Guildhouse
- Arboria
- Backdraft
- Blight
- Blue Mana Battery
- Brine Hag
- Cathedral of Serra
- Cocoon
- Deadfall
- Eternal Warrior
- Floral Spuzzem
- Frost Giant
- Great Defender
- Green Mana Battery
- Heaven’s Gate
- Hunding Gjornersen
- Ivory Guardians
- Kry Shield
- Land Tax
- Lord Magnus
- Mana Drain
- Marhault Elsdragon
- Mountain Yeti
- Presence of the Master
- Princess Lucrezia
- Puppet Master
- Rabid Wombat
- Radjan Spirit
- Ramirez DePietro
- Relic Bind
- Sea Kings’ Blessing
- Seafarer’s Quay
- Seeker
- Shimian Night Stalker
- Silhouette
- Sir Shandlar of Eberyn
- Sivitri Scarzam
- Spectral Cloak
- Spirit Link
- Sunastian Falconer
- Takklemaggot
- Tor Wauki
- Undertow
- Underworld Dreams
- Unholy Citadel
- Wall of Dust
- Wall of Light
- Wall of Putrid Flesh
- Wall of Tombstones
- White Mana Battery
- Alabaster Potion
- Barbary Apes
- Caverns of Despair
- Cleanse
- Craw Giant
- Darkness
- Flash Counter
- Gwendlyn Di Corci
- Imprison
- Invoke Prejudice
- Nether Void
- Pradesh Gypsies
- Pyrotechnics
- Relic Barrier
- Sylvan Library
- Wall of Opposition
Collector boosters are the most costly type of booster pack in Magic. They include alternate arts, foils, and usually are not designed for Limited. Special printings of cards are additionally usually accessible in them. Innistrad: Crimson Vow collector boosters had the alternate artwork Dracula cards and Streets of New Capenna had foil-etched artwork deco cards.
Wizards has experimented with reprinting older cards in booster packs. Set boosters can include cards from The List, a curated assortment of 300 cards from Magic’s historical past. Strixhaven: School of Mages had the Mystical Archive, which included 63 reprinted spells that have been legal in Strixhaven’s Limited codecs.
Dominaria United is the primary time older cards are included in booster packs that aren’t reprints. These are instantly from Legends booster packs.
Magic’s upcoming fall set begins the sport’s 30-year celebration. Dominaria United returns to Magic’s authentic setting for the primary time since 2018’s Dominaria, which was launched to rejoice the sport’s twenty fifth birthday.
Dominaria was a love letter to Magic’s previous with loads of callbacks to outdated lore. It launched sagas and a few of Magic’s strongest cards like Teferi, Hero of Dominaria. It additionally was lauded for its stellar Limited format with a heavy legendary-matters theme.