The List

The List is a rotating catalogue of 300 cards introduced in 2020 in the vein of the Timeshifted cards of Time Spiral and the Mystery Booster set. It pays homage to the past of Magic: The Gathering and is similarly curated as the list for the Universal promo pack. The cards can be found in the simultaneously introduced Set Boosters.

Description
Starting with Zendikar Rising, the cards of "The List" can be found 25% of the time in Set Boosters instead of a marketing card. As with Mystery Booster the cards are supposed to be "pick-ups", meaning that they will be printed as they previously appeared (including art, card frame, expansion symbol and collector number) with the exception that they'll have a small planeswalker symbol in their lower-left corner. A number of cards in "The List" (15 as of Strixhaven's release) use the same artwork as cards of the same name in "Mystery Booster", making those cards from the two sets nearly indistinguishable from each other.

"The List" has commons, uncommons, rares, and mythic rares which will fall at the proper rate to one another. Being on "The List" does not make cards Standard-legal. They are legal in whatever formats the cards are already legal in. The cards can be pulled from anywhere in Magic's history. Some of the cards in "The List" will change from set to set, but the main core will remain intact. Usually some cards are being swapped out for others that better fit a new set's themes. On occasion, a card that officially has been removed can still show up in a later set.

Misprints
For unknown reasons, six white cards don't use the correct version of the white mana symbol, but an entirely new version.

Universes Beyond to Magic
In June 2021, it was announced that for upcoming Universes Beyond Secret Lairs, Wizards of the Coast planned to create and print versions of the mechanically unique Secret Lair Universes Beyond cards that are set in Magic 's Multiverse approximately six months (the exact time may vary) after their release in Secret Lair. The in-Magic versions be available on The List. To start, they'll appear on The List more frequently than other cards to make them easier to find. The non-canon cards and the canon cards are considered equivalent game pieces, meaning you can only play four copies (or one copy) of either the Magic version or Universes Beyond version in your deck.