Magic: The Gathering Foundations/Starter Collection
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| Symbol description | A five-point star-shaped portal | ||||
| Design | Carmen Klomparens (lead) | ||||
| Release date | November 15, 2024 | ||||
| Plane | Multiversal | ||||
| Set size | 477 | ||||
| Expansion code | FDN[1] | ||||
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The Magic: The Gathering Foundations Starter Collection is a fixed supplemental card set of 387 cards designed for beginning players.[2][3] The Starter Collection retails for $59.99.
Description
Once players have mastered the Foundations Beginner Box, they can move on to the Starter Collection. This collection helps beginning players expand on the themes and techniques they’ve already discovered in the Beginner Box.[4] With this set Magic players learn about combos, color hosers, hand attack, disruption and multicolor.[5]
The Foundations Starter Collection is available in the English language only.
Contents
- 387 regular cards
- Includes 26 traditional foil cards
- 90 Basic lands
- Of those, 10 are full-art basic lands.
- 14 double-sided tokens
- 3 Magic: The Gathering Foundations Play Boosters
- 12-page "How to Build Your Deck" booklet
- 2 reference cards
- 1 Click Wheel life counter
- storage box
Foundations Commander
Three Foundations cards are included in the Starter Collection to support Commander gameplay. These are not legal in Standard.[2] Arcane Signet, Command Tower, and Sol Ring each feature the FDC expansion code, and a unique expansion symbol () to separate them from the rest of the Collection.[3]
Magic: The Gathering Arena
Cards from the Starter Collection will be available on Magic: The Gathering Arena alongside cards from the main set and Beginner Box.[6] Unlike the main set, the Starter Collection 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. In the initial set announcement, Sol Ring was listed as becoming available on Arena in the Foundations card image gallery. This was subsequently clarified as a mistake and the card would not be added to the client for crafting.
Magic Online
The Starter Collection is not available for purchase on Magic Online.[7] Players who purchase the Account Upgrade Kit will receive one copy of each reprinted card from the Foundations Starter Collection – 103 cards in all – in addition to the Kit's regular contents.
Collection contents
White
Creatures (25)
Instants (6)
Lyra Dawnbringer, Angel of Vitality, and Make a Stand are in traditional foil. One copy of Ajani's Pridemate has borderless art.
Blue
Rite of Replication, Confiscate, and Negate are in traditional foil. Refute has borderless art.
Black
Massacre Wurm, Feed the Swarm, and Gatekeeper of Malakir are in traditional foil. One copy of Vengeful Bloodwitch has borderless art.
Red
Gratuitous Violence, Guttersnipe, and Impact Tremors are in traditional foil. Abrade has borderless art.
Green
Creatures (27)
Pelakka Wurm and both copies of Imperious Perfect are in traditional foil. Gigantosaurus is a traditional foil, full-art card. Reclamation Sage has borderless art.
Multicolor
Creatures (22)
Enchantments (1)
Boros Charm and Unflinching Courage are in traditional foil.
Colorless
Sol Ring, Arcane Signet, and Command Tower are in traditional foil and have the FDC set code.
Adaptive Automaton, Gilded Lotus, Maze's End, Expedition Map, and Hedron Archive are in traditional foil. Swiftfoot Boots has borderless art.
Tokens
There are 8 tokens included in the Starter Collection that are not found in Foundations Play Boosters and Collector Boosters.
1/1 Cat creature with lifelink for Regal Caracal.- 2/2 Cat Beast creature for Felidar Retreat.
- 1/1 Dog creature for Release the Dogs.
1/1 Rat creature with “This creature can’t block.” for Redcap Gutter-Dweller.
1/1 Phyrexian Goblin creature for Ovika, Enigma Goliath.
3/3 Beast creature, for Primeval Bounty.- 4/4 Beast creature, for Rampaging Baloths.
Copy for Rite of Replication.
The double-sided tokens included in the collection are:.[8]
- 2× 1/1 Soldier creature //
1/1 Faerie creature with flying - 2× 1/1 Cat creature with lifelink // 1/1 Phyrexian Goblin creature
- 1× 2/2 Cat Beast creature // ?
- 1× 1/1 Dog creature // 3/3 Beast creature
- 1× 1/1 Dog creature // 4/4 Beast creature
- 1×
1/1 Insect creature with flying // ? - 2× 2/2 Zombie creature // 1/1 Goblin creature
- 2× 1/1 Elf Warrior creature // 1/1 Rat creature with “This creature can’t block.”
- 1× Copy // 1/1 Human creature
- 1× ?
Cycles
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| Mythic Rare Creatures | Lyra Dawnbringer | Sphinx of the Final Word | Massacre Wurm | Dragonmaster Outcast | Vizier of the Menagerie |
| Five mythic rare monocolored creatures. | |||||
| Mythic Rare Noncreatures | Angelic Destiny | Finale of Revelation | Demonic Pact | Pyromancer's Goggles | Primeval Bounty |
| Five mythic rare noncreatures that have a monocolored color identity. | |||||
| Enemy Color Hosers | Devout Decree ( )
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Flashfreeze ( )
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Deathmark ( )
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Mindsparker ( )
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Mold Adder ( )
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| Five uncommon cards that punish opponents for playing the respective enemy colors. | |||||
Double cycles
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| Temples | Temple of Enlightenment | Temple of Deceit | Temple of Malice | Temple of Abandon | Temple of Plenty | Temple of Silence | Temple of Epiphany | Temple of Malady | Temple of Triumph | Temple of Mystery |
| Ten rare taplands that enter tapped, let their controller scry 1, and can be tapped for two different colors of mana. | ||||||||||
| Gainlands | Tranquil Cove | Dismal Backwater | Bloodfell Caves | Rugged Highlands | Blossoming Sands | Scoured Barrens | Swiftwater Cliffs | Jungle Hollow | Wind-Scarred Crag | Thornwood Falls |
| Ten common taplands that enter tapped, gain the controller one life, and can tap for two different colors of mana. | ||||||||||
| Guildgates | Azorius Guildgate | Dimir Guildgate | Rakdos Guildgate | Gruul Guildgate | Selesnya Guildgate | Orzhov Guildgate | Izzet Guildgate | Golgari Guildgate | Boros Guildgate | Simic Guildgate |
| Ten common taplands with the Gate subtype that enter the battlefield tapped and can tap for two different colors of mana. | ||||||||||
Pairs
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| Knight of Grace ( )
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Knight of Malice ( )
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Knights with a mana cost of  M, power/toughness of 2/2, first strike, and hexproof from the other's color. They allude to the classic pair White Knight and Black Knight from Alpha.
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Notable cards
- Gigantosaurus is reprinted as a textless card.
Gallery
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Contents of the Collection. -
Expansion symbol for the three Commander cards.
References
- ↑ Information below the text box
- ↑ a b Wizards of the Coast (August 2, 2024). "A First Look at Magic: The Gathering Foundations". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ a b Wizards of the Coast (October 29, 2024). "Magic: The Gathering Foundations Starter Collection 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). "Magic players have to learn about combos eventually.". 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.
- ↑ Jubilee Finnegan (November 1, 2024). "The Tokens of Magic: The Gathering Foundations". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.