Throne of Eldraine Collector Booster
Throne of Eldraine Collector Booster with booster sleeve
Magic Collector Boosters are booster packs targeted at collectors. Unlike Draft Boosters, which optimize the Draft experience with a lot of repetition and a huge number of commons, Collector Boosters are maximized for more diversity in content, with more rares, foils, extended art, borderless planeswalkers and showcase cards.[1]
History[ | ]
For Ravnica Allegiance, Wizards introduced the first Collector Boosters. They contain fifteen cards for $12.99:[2] These featured:
- 2 foils of any rarity
- 3 rares/mythic rares
- 10 uncommons
This was a very limited experimental test run. Collector Boosters were only available in Japan and North America, and even there they were not widely available.
Collector Boosters became a regular feature with the release of Throne of Eldraine.[1] This version contained:
- 1 rare/mythic rare with extended art
- 1 foil rare/mythic rare
- 9 foil commons/uncommons
- 3 special-frame cards (showcase cards or borderless planeswalkers)
- 1 ancillary card (a new card that is connected to the set but doesn't appear in Draft Boosters. E.g. cards from Planeswalker decks or a Commander-focused card)
- 1 foil token
Contents of of Collector Boosters vary per set. As of Bloomburrow, the default composition is as follows:
| Quantity | Type | Chance of surprise |
|---|---|---|
| 5 | Rare or Mythic Rare | 12-13 cards are Traditional Foil 6 cards have a booster Fun card frame Collector Booster-exclusive special treatment in 3% of boosters |
| 4 | Uncommon | |
| 5 | Common | |
| 1 | Land | |
| 1 | Double-sided token | Non-playable card, excluded for draft. |
Booster Fun[ | ]
R&D introduced "Booster Fun" as the collective name that R&D use for the types of card frames (called card treatments[3] ) that could appear in Collector Boosters: extended art, borderless planeswalkers and showcase cards.[1][4] Booster Fun cards evolved from Masterpieces. The difference is that the Booster Fun cards are versions of cards in the set, not from outside of the set.[5]
Foil and non-foil Booster Fun cards may also appear in regular Draft Boosters, but at a much lower rarity. Non-foils appear in the same rarity slot as the original card. Foil Booster Fun cards appear in a common slot like other foils.[6]
Booster Fun was later also extended to Set Boosters cq Play Boosters..
References[ | ]
- ↑ a b c Mark Rosewater (July 21, 2019). "Project Booster Fun". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ Hipster of the Coast on Twitter
- ↑ Clayton Kroh (May 21, 2021). "Booster Fun of Modern Horizons 2". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ Mark Rosewater (September 21, 2019). "Premium boosters seem fine conceptually, but the details of what the collector boosters contain are really hard to wrap one’s head around.". Blogatog. Tumblr.
- ↑ Mark Rosewater (September 21, 2019). "Does this mean that Masterpieces aren't coming back?". Blogatog. Tumblr.
- ↑ Mark Rosewater (September 22, 2019). "Will the non-foil “Booster Fun” cards be found in their normal draft booster slots?". Blogatog. Tumblr.