Collector Booster
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)
- 1 foil token
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.
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.