Ultimate Masters
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| Symbol description | Infinity symbol made of two skulls | ||||
| Release date | December 7, 2018 | ||||
| Themes and mechanics | Graveyard matters | ||||
| Set size | 254 | ||||
| Expansion code | UMA[2] | ||||
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Ultimate Masters is a booster-based compilation set that was released on December 7, 2018. It was said to be the last Masters series set "for the foreseeable future".[3][4] It is designed to be drafted and is meant to be the conclusive celebration of twenty-five years of Magic: The Gathering.
Set details
Ultimate Masters contains 254 cards (101 common, 80 uncommon, 53 rare, and 20 mythic rare) 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 are only available through local games stores, while big-box stores like Walmart and Target have three-pack blister packs (Draft Packs). Ultimate Masters has an MSRP higher than previous Masters products. The MSRP is $13.99 per booster pack, $335.76 per booster box, and $34.99 per blister pack. WotC said that "supplies will be limited", implying that the print run for Ultimate Masters likely was small.
Ultimate Box Topper
Each booster box comes with a random semi-borderless foil box topper, each being available as regular card in the set, too.[5] There is a total of 40 box toppers.
Magic Online
Ultimate Masters releases on Magic Online on December 7, 2018, the same day as the paper set. Box toppers are distributed by Treasure Chests.
Themes and mechanics
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.[6] 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.
Changes in rarity
Common to uncommon
Uncommon to common
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Uncommon to rare
Rare to uncommon
Rare to mythic rare
Mythic rare to rare
Cycles
- Tapland manlands — Five lands that can turn into creatures until end of turn. One rare for each allied color pair, able to produce either color, and enter the battlefield tapped: Celestial Colonnade, Creeping Tar Pit, Lavaclaw Reaches, Raging Ravine, and Stirring Wildwood.
Token cards
Ultimate Masters has sixteen tokens.[7]
1/1 Citizen creature, for Template:Cardlink.- 1/1 Spirit creature with flying, for Template:Cardlink.
2/2 Drake creature with flying, for Template:Cardlink.- 2/2 Homunculus creature, for Template:Cardlink.
1/1 Faerie Rogue creature with flying, for Template:Cardlink.- 20/20 Legendary Avatar creature with flying and indestructible named Marit Lage, for Template:Cardlink.
- 6/6 Wurm creature with trample, for Template:Cardlink.
- 2/2 Zombie creature, for Template:Cardlink, Template:Cardlink, Template:Cardlink, and Template:Cardlink.
1/1 Elemental creature, for Template:Cardlink.- 1/1 Elemental creature, for Template:Cardlink.
- 1/1 Soldier creature with haste, for Template:Cardlink.
- 3/1 Elemental creature named Spark Elemental, with trample, haste, and "At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice Spark Elemental", for Template:Cardlink.
4/4 Elemental creature, for Template:Cardlink.- X/X Ooze creature, for Template:Cardlink.
- 1/2 Spider creature with reach, for Template:Cardlink.
1/1 Spirit creature with flying, for Template:Cardlink.
Notable cards
Cards with new art
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