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