Magic: The Gathering Foundations/Beginner Box
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| Symbol description | A five-point star-shaped portal | ||||
| Design | Reggie Valk (lead) | ||||
| Release date | November 15, 2024 | ||||
| Plane | Multiversal | ||||
| Set size | 200 | ||||
| Expansion code | FDN[1] | ||||
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The Magic: The Gathering Foundations Beginner Box is a supplemental Magic set with additional Foundations cards, designed as onboarding experience for beginning players.[2] It is marketed as the best way to learn how to play and includes all essentials for someone's first game of Magic: The Gathering.[3] It retails for $29.99.
Description
The Beginner Box consists of 10 packets with 20 Foundations cards inside each one, with two packets for each of Magic’s five colors of mana (200 cards total).[4] Using the mix-and-match system originally designed for the Jumpstart product line, players can combine and recombine those 10 packets into many different kinds of decks. Beginning players can start with a tutorial game with two pre-shuffled 20-card decks (Cats and Vampires), each with a step-by-step tutorial that will walk them through their first five turns.[5] Once they’ve learned the basics, the players can grab two themed half decks each, shuffle them together to create 40-card decks and play.
The Beginner Box is a significantly more built-out experience that has a lot more content than previous starter sets. It is full of concepts and cards that are easy to learn but important to know as new Magic players build their "foundation".[6]
Note that the packs and themes in the Beginner Box differ from the 46 Jumpstart packs that can be found in Foundations Jumpstart.[2]
Contents
- 200 themed cards (10 packs)
- 10 specialty cards (theme inserts)
- 2 reference cards
- 1 16-page reference booklet
- 2 36-page How-to-Play booklets
- 2 game board playmats
- 2 spindown life counters
Themes
There are 10 different themes.
| Name | Color | Theme | Rare | Notes |
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| Cats | 
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Cats | Jazal Goldmane | Pre-shuffled |
| Healing |
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Life gain | Ancestor Dragon | |
| Undead | 
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Zombies and skeletons | Death Baron | |
| Vampires |
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Vampires | Crossway Troublemakers | Pre-shuffled |
| Pirates | 
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Pirates | Corsair Captain | |
| Wizards |
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Wizards | Mystic Archaeologist | |
| Inferno | 
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Dragons | Terror of Mount Velus | |
| Goblins |
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Goblins | Dropkick Bomber | |
| Primal | 
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Fatties | Aggressive Mammoth | |
| Elves |
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Elves | Elvish Archdruid |
Magic: The Gathering Arena
Cards from the Beginner Box will be available on Magic: The Gathering Arena alongside cards from the main set and Starter Collection.[7] Unlike the main set, the Beginner Box is not available for purchase on the client and the cards can only be obtained by crafting wildcards. The cards do not appear in Magic: The Gathering Foundations packs or Limited events.
Magic Online
The Beginner Box is not available for purchase on Magic Online.[8] Cards exclusive to the Beginner Box will only be available on the client in their previously printed forms.
Training Game
Draw Order for Cats (White)
Draw Order for Vampires (Black)
Decklists
White
Creatures (8)
Enchantments (1)
Artifacts (1)
Blue
Creatures (8)
Enchantments (1)
Artifacts (1)
Creatures (7)
Enchantments (1)
Black
Creatures (8)
Creatures (8)
Enchantments (1)
Red
Creatures (7)
Instants (1)
Enchantments (1)
Artifacts (1)
Creatures (7)
Sorceries (1)
Artifacts (1)
Green
Creatures (8)
Gallery
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Contents
References
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- ↑ a b Wizards of the Coast (August 2, 2024). "A First Look at Magic: The Gathering Foundations". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ Chris Wyman (August 14, 2024). "Peek inside the Foundations Beginner Box for Magic: The Gathering". Gamingtrend.com.
- ↑ Wizards of the Coast (November 1, 2024). "Magic: The Gathering Foundations Beginner Box Contents". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ Charlie Hall (June 28, 2024). "First look: Magic: The Gathering Foundations, the new set for beginners". IGN.com.
- ↑ Magic: The Gathering (October 25, 2024). "Teaching Magic is hard!". Twitter.
- ↑ Clayton Kroh, Jubilee Finnegan (November 4, 2024). "MTG Arena Announcements – November 4, 2024". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ Magic Online Team (November 06, 2024). "Magic: The Gathering Foundations on MTGO". MTGO.com.