Ultimate Masters

Ultimate Masters is a booster-based compilation set that was released on December 7, 2018. It was designed to be drafted and was meant to be the conclusive celebration of twenty-five years of Magic: The Gathering.

Set details
Ultimate Masters contains 254 cards and includes randomly inserted premium versions of all cards. The product contains cards from across Magic 's entire history with some of Magic 's most popular cards. Every booster box of Ultimate Masters contains 24 booster packs—each with fifteen randomly inserted game cards, including one premium foil card in every pack. The sixteen-card boosters (the sixteenth card is a marketing card) feature artwork from Liliana of the Veil, Karn Liberated, and Vengevine. The set will be released in English and Japanese.

Boxes of Ultimate Masters were only available through local games stores, while big-box stores like Walmart and Target had three-pack blister packs (Draft Packs). Ultimate Masters had an MSRP higher than previous Masters products. The MSRP was $13.99 per booster pack, $335.76 per booster box, and $34.99 per blister pack. WotC said that "supplies would be limited", implying that the print run for Ultimate Masters likely was small.

This set was said to be the last Masters series set "for the foreseeable future". However, Double Masters would be released less than two years later.

Ultimate Box Topper
Each booster box came with a random semi-borderless foil box topper, each being available as regular card in the set, too. There is a total of 40 box toppers.

Magic Online
Ultimate Masters released on Magic Online on December 7, 2018, the same day as the paper set. Box toppers were distributed by Treasure Chests.

Themes and mechanics
Ultimate Masters was originally designed as a graveyard-themed set, nicknamed Immortal Masters. This theme is still present in the set symbol and in promotional text on the booster boxes. It has fourteen returning keywords. Every color in this set has multiple cards that care about the graveyard in some way, providing resources for delve, flashback, and dredge in blue, black, and green. White and red see the return of the heroic mechanic from Theros. In addition, white has a heavy Aura subtheme, and madness is prevalent in red.

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Token cards
Ultimate Masters has sixteen tokens.
 * 1)  1/1 Citizen creature, for.
 * 2)  1/1 Spirit creature with flying, for.
 * 3)  2/2 Drake creature with flying, for.
 * 4)  2/2 Homunculus creature, for.
 * 5)  1/1 Faerie Rogue creature with flying, for.
 * 6)  20/20 Legendary Avatar creature with flying and indestructible named Marit Lage, for.
 * 7)  6/6 Wurm creature with trample, for.
 * 8)  2/2 Zombie creature, for, , , and.
 * 9)  1/1 Elemental creature, for.
 * 10)  1/1 Elemental creature, for.
 * 11)  1/1 Soldier creature with haste, for.
 * 12)  3/1 Elemental creature named, with trample, haste, and "At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice Spark Elemental", for.
 * 13)  4/4 Elemental creature, for.
 * 14)  X/X Ooze creature, for.
 * 15)  1/2 Spider creature with reach, for.
 * 16)  1/1 Spirit creature with flying, for.

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Controversy
It was discovered that the packaging of the box topper of each box of Ultimate Masters is semitransparent, making the top card easily visible in certain light and angles.