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Wizards announces Deck Builder’s Toolkit

By ManaNation ⋅ November 3, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment ⋅

Fol­low­ing in the style of the Fat packs, Wiz­ards announced today the ‘Deck Builder’s Toolkit’ to be released on May 21, 2010 which will contain:

• 100 Basic Lands
• 125 “semi-random game cards”
• 4 Booster packs from recent Magic the Gath­er­ing sets
• A card stor­age box
• An insert with advice and tips

This means that you’re look­ing at 104 basic lands and 181 non-land cards (in the­ory) for just around USD $20. This seems to be close to the best deal for new play­ers to acquire cards that will allow them to build more decks. The way it is described Wiz­ards makes it sound like this is a casual prod­uct. Also I find it inter­est­ing they say “semi-random game cards” as that seems to sug­gest the cards will be from mul­ti­ple sets.

Ques­tions which Wiz­ards has answered for ManaNation

• A Pack­ag­ing image? — There are no pack­ag­ing shots yet.
• What does semi-random mean? — Of the 125 “semi-random” cards. 81 will be the same between every toolkit, 44 of these will be randomized.
• Will the loose cards retain their expan­sion sym­bol? — Cards will retain the expan­sion sym­bol they were released in.

Update 1:48PM EST — Wiz­ards has responded with the answers to the above questions.