What cards are in Murder at Karlov Manor Play Boosters?

Play Boosters make their thrilling debut when Murders at Karlov Manor releases on February 9. Players will have their hands on them even earlier during the coming week of Prerelease, from February 2 – 8. 

This epic new offering is the best of both worlds: combining the thrill of opening a Set Booster and the playability of a Draft Booster.
We previously outlined their contents, but that only tells part of the story. Now that the full Card Image Gallery for Murders at Karlov Manor has been revealed, we want to show off all the booster fun you may find inside:

Showcase Dossier: This splashy new treatment transforms Ravnica Detective Agency files into playable cards. It gives players a glimpse into the intrigue and mystery of Murders at Karlov Manor.

Magnified Cards: Are another piece of the puzzle in Murders at Karlov Manor, but they’re not just flavorful fun. Each one gives you a closer look at a critical moment in the story as it all comes together.

Borderless Cards: Have returned, bringing incredible art to life as beloved Magic characters burst free of their frame.

Borderless Dual Lands: Both the regular and Borderless Rare Dual Lands show up in the Wild Card slot in Play Boosters. This gorgeous art shows another side of the beloved city of guilds.

The stylish Impossible Basic Lands: These are sure to be a boon to any collection. Each one explores the dizzyingly-large metropolis of this fan-favorite setting.

Every Play Booster comes with one Rare or Mythic, one Wildcard, one Foil, and one card from the List or a Special Guest. That means a single Play Booster can contain one to four rare cards! 

Coming Soon

Arriving next week is this great game from Farplace which is a animal charity based in the UK.

Farplace The Game is a family board game for ages 8 to adult, playing in 30-60 minutes. It combines set collection with a race mechanism, and each animal player moves slightly differently on the board. You are saving items to rehome and release animals in need of rescue at the core of the game.

We will be selling this game from early in February and we will also be adding a copy to our Game Library that you will be able to borrow for just £2 per night.

Watch this space for a how to play guide in the coming weeks.

What Is a Play Booster?

The Play Booster combines the best of two worlds: it takes the Set Booster's fun-to-open experience and weaves in the Draft play that is integral to the Magic ecosystem. 

Starting with Murders at Karlov Manor, the Play Booster will replace the Draft and Set Boosters.

Opening a Play Booster is just plain fun.

The Play Booster was created to retain the fun experience of opening a Set Booster while weaving in the play experience of the Draft Booster. With up to four rares in each pack, the possibility of booster fun in each slot, and exciting updates to The List, Play Boosters are every bit as fun to open as Set Boosters.

Play Boosters contain 14 cards, with one non-playable card; there are 8 slots in a Play Booster, which are as follows:

• 6 Commons—There is a possibility of booster fun in this slot.
• 1 Common or Card from The List—Most of the time this will be the 7th common, but when a card from The List shows up, it shows up here.
• 3 Uncommons—There is a possibility of booster fun in this slot.
• 1 Wildcard—This card can be almost anything from the main set. It can be any rarity, and it has the possibility of being Booster Fun. Whatever it is, it will be nonfoil.
• 1 Main set Rare or Mythic Rare
• 1 Foil of any rarity—This is just like the Wildcard slot except that the card is guaranteed to be foil.
• 1 Basic Land
• 1 Non-Playable card—This can be a token, a play aide, an ad card, or an art card

Some future sets may have small shifts to account for something cool or new in that set. 

What About The List?

In the past, The List has mostly been reprints of older cards. Play Boosters are going to tinker with what exactly can be on The List. For example, when Play Boosters premier, The List will include what are called Special Guests, cards that are exciting reprints that we can give new art and will thematically tie into whatever set they are in.

In addition to the Special Guests, there will be 40 cards that are reprints without new art. Of those, 30 will be common or uncommon and 10 will be rare or mythic rare. This is down from the 300 cards that previous iterations of The List had. 

Here is the percentage breakdown for your players' potential to open items from The List slot in the first Play Booster:

• 87.5% – A common from the main set
• 9.38% – A common or uncommon normal reprint from The List
• 1.56% – A rare or mythic rare normal reprint from The List
• 1.56% – A Special Guests card from The List

Kill Team Descends Into a World of Nightmares

The new season of Kill Team began with the space hulk Gallowdark having crashed into the forge world of Bheta-Decima, while teams of Space Marine Scouts and Aeldari Aspect Warriors battled over critical information on the planet’s crumbling sea platforms. Now, two of the most terrifying forces in the galaxy pit their mastery over fear against each other in the aptly named Kill Team: Nightmare.

This packed box contains two complete Kill Teams – the horrifying Nemesis Claw warband of the Night Lords, and a brand new coven of Drukhari Mandrakes.

The Night Lords are transformed by a new upgrade sprue, draped in flayed skins, barbed hooks, and flensed skulls. New parts bring a variety of vicious weapons favoured by the sons of Konrad Curze – including a wicked chainglaive, barbed talons, and knives dripping with paralysing toxins.

Coming soon. More details when we have them.

Take Vanguard Space Marines on Combat Patrol in White Dwarf Issue 496

The first issue of White Dwarf in 2024 is on its way, and it’s bursting with awesome content for all sorts of Warhammer fans. The Slidecrown Sundering campaign reaches its epic finale, and the Bunker has new missions for Warhammer 40,000 and Warhammer Age of Sigmar to bolster your collection of battleplans.

This month’s headline is the debut of a whole new Combat Patrol, with full rules for using a balanced team of Space Marine stealth specialists led by a capable Phobos Lieutenant. This force is designed to be usable alongside all other Combat Patrols, and experienced Space Marine players may already have all of the miniatures they need to use it.

If you’re not already knee-deep in your Chapter’s vanguard, all it takes to build Strike Team Solarien is a Phobos Librarian and the contents of the Vanguard Task Force box – which also gets you extra miniatures on top of the ones you need

This Combat Patrol has a much greater focus on long-ranged combat than the regular Strike Force Octavius, with plenty of movement tricks to get them scooting around the battlefield and capturing objectives. Without the benefit of Terminator armour, they’re much more vulnerable to enemy attacks, and must make the most of their stealth abilities to avoid a sticky end.

White Dwarf is the first place you’ll be able to get hold of the rules for Strike Team Solarien, so be sure to pick up a copy. They’ll be following in the app and on WarCom in a few months time.

That’s not all from the 41st Millennium in this issue either, as Index Xenos takes a deep look at the Necrons’ mighty Sautekh Dynasty – headed up by the infamous Imotekh the Stormlord. Imotekh is a major player in the upcoming Crusade: Pariah Nexus book, and it pays to know what makes the metal monarch tick – whether you’re serving his rule or resisting it

Tale of Four Warlords returns to the Mortal Realms as our commanders add new allies to their forces – by building and painting an entire Vanguard box each! A new Warlord even joins the fray halfway through, so the Stormcast Eternals have a lot of catching up to do.

Elsewhere, there’s heaps of hobby and gameplay content for you to enjoy, including shiny new rules for the recent crop of Cities of Sigmar characters to use in Warhammer Quest: Cursed City. Taking a Freeguild Marshal and the members of his Command Corps into Ulfenkarn is sure to put a spanner in Radukar’s plans, and give you all kinds of new scenarios to try out.

Pick up your copy this Saturday, and save a few pennies as we are now selling it for just £6

Exploding Minions

The Minions have invaded the Exploding Kittens universe! 

Play an all-new Minions themed version of your favourite explosive card game featuring new card types AND magical banana-dogs. This game is family-friendly, super fun, and easy to learn. It is a fast-paced party game perfect for game night or as an anytime boredom buster.

A Minion spin on the record-breaking game, Exploding Kittens.

Family-friendly and easy to learn.

72 cards that refresh the cored game, adding a new level of strategy and hilarity.

Brand new illustrations that creatively combine Minions and Exploding Kittens
Includes the new Clone Card that, when played, adopts the properties of the card beneath it.

Coming soon to KD Games.

Incoming!!!

The greatest exemplars amongst the mysterious and unyielding Dark Angels are the Deathwing. Each a skilled veteran, they are led by heroes of a thousand battles, clad in Terminator armour and hefting powerful weapons taken from the Chapter’s most sacred armouries.

Belial, Grand Master of the Deathwing, commands 15 Terminators. Ten of these are existing mulit-part Terminators, accessorised in classic Deathwing style with two new Dark Angels upgrade frames, while the other five are the indomitable Deathwing Knights, unstoppable juggernauts armed with mighty heirloom weapons.

The box also contains Codex Supplement: Dark Angels, a 96-page book containing the rules and background for the Dark Angels, and featuring a unique cover. You also get 20 datasheet cards covering every unit in the Codex Supplement and two transfer sheets with over 200 transfers each

Due the February at KD Games

Army Painter

Coming March/April 2024

A new wave of The Army Painter Warpaints is coming.

Designed to deliver unsurpassed coverage while being incredibly easy-to-use, featuring intense pigmentation, and in a Flexible Colour Triad system – Warpaints Fanatic are the new gold standard for miniature paints.

You can find out more about the fanatics range and its properties on the Army Painter website, here.

Warhammer 40k Kill Team - Salvation

"The industrial world of Bheta-Decima is collapsing, its surface ravaged by the burning debris and tainted inhabitants of the space hulk Gallowdark. In the ensuing chaos, a Magos Biologis sends an urgent distress call – and is answered by a Scout Squad of the Raven Guard, bound by a centuries-old debt to extract him and his research from a crumbling ocean-rig complex. However, a Blades of Khaine kill team has been dispatched to foil their escape – and the very fate of the Aeldari could depend on it."

Kill Team is a fast-paced skirmish game of tactical gameplay and tense missions. The new season starts with Kill Team: Salvation, which sees operatives clash in the ruins of a polluted planet. This boxed set contains two new kill teams – a Scout Squad of Space Marine Neophytes, and a Blades of Khaine kill team formed of vicious Striking Scorpions. You'll also find a Salvation Rig Apparatus terrain set to upgrade your killzone, a book packed with background information, new missions, and rules for both kill teams, plus two sets of datacards and tokens to keep your games running smoothly.

This boxed set contains:

– 88-page softcover Kill Team: Salvation book: All the background, artwork, and rules you'll need for both of the two kill teams in the box, plus the story of Bheta-Decima, new missions, an infiltration campaign, and rules for the Killzone: Bheta-Decima terrain set.
– Scout Squad: Space Marines in training, who use lighter armour and wargear to undertake stealthy missions and prove their mettle. These multipart plastic miniatures include 10x Scouts, each armed with a boltgun, shotgun, or bolt pistol and knife. These models come with a variety of cosmetic and upgrade options, allowing you to build specialists such as a Tracker or Sniper.
– Striking Scorpions: Aeldari Aspect Warriors armed with chainswords and shuriken pistols, trained to hunt in shadow and kill with a sudden strike. These multipart plastic miniatures include 10x Striking Scorpions, two of which can be built as Exarchs with a variety of weapons options, as well as 2x Striking Scorpion Aspect Shrine models to use as tokens.
– Salvation Rig Apparatus: Key mechanisms that control vital functions of the extraction-rig over which both kill teams are fighting. These multipart plastic miniatures includes 5x pieces of Kill Team terrain, intended for use in the missions found in the book, alongside the Killzone: Bheta-Decima terrain set.
– Transfer Sheets: A variety of waterslide decals to easily decorate your kill teams with detailed markings and iconography. Includes 1x Aeldari Craftworld Transfer Sheet, 1x Space Marines Transfer Sheet, and 2x Raven Guard Primaris Transfer Sheets.
– Datacards: Keep games running smoothly with reference cards detailing each team's operatives, Ploys, abilities, equipment, and Tac Ops, plus reference cards for the accompanying token sheets. Includes a deck of 34x Scout Squad Kill Team cards, and a deck of 40x Blades of Khaine Kill Team cards.
– Token Sheets: Easily track abilities, objectives, equipment, and Command Points throughout your game with team-themed tokens. Includes 1x Scout Squad token sheet and 1x Blades of Khaine token sheet, each containing 44x double-sided cardboard tokens.

All miniatures come with appropriate bases. These miniatures are supplied unpainted and require assembly – we recommend using Citadel Plastic Glue and Citadel Colour paints.

You'll need a copy of the Kill Team: Core Book to use the contents of this set. You'll also need the Killzone: Bheta-Decima terrain set to create the mission maps in the book. Both are available separately.

New Promo Cards

Wizards of the Coast product lineup is changing in a big way with the introduction of Play Boosters, and our first draft events to feature these packs will be Murders at Karlov Manor.To celebrate this change there will be some new promo cards. Let's dive right into the details.

What are the Play Booster Draft promos?

You get the chance to receive the following promos when you come to Play Booster Draft and League events for Murders at Karlov Manor.The promo's will be Retro Frame Arcane Signet, Commander's Sphere and Chaos Warp

How do I get the Play Booster Draft promos?

When a player participates in a Play Booster Draft or League event using their Wizards Account, they will receive one of the three special promo cards. Players must register for the event using their Wizards Account to be eligible to receive a promo.

The Magic: The Gathering Companion App is the easiest way to register for the event and is available for free on the App Store for you phone.

Players will receive a different card for the different events that we run starting with our Draft event on the Saturday of release weekend.