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Wizards Releasing all Foil Boosters

By ManaNation.com ⋅ September 29, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment ⋅ Print This Post

Today on Wizards.com they announced the release of all foil boost­ers. These boost­ers will be avail­able begin­ning Jan­u­ary 8th, 2010 and will con­tain 15 foil cards from Shards of Alara, Con­flux, and Alara Reborn. The packs will come with a MSRP of $11.99 in the US. Based on the prod­uct image we can expect them to be avail­able at generic retail stores as they are designed to hang on the shelves.

Foil Magic the Gathering Booster pack

The biggest details to real­ize is that these booster packs will be a com­bined card pool from all three sets in the Alara Block. We must believe it will fol­low the stan­dard 1–3-10–1 dis­tri­b­u­tion with 1 rare/mythic rare, 3 uncom­mons, 10 com­mons and 1 land, as they did not say oth­er­wise in their offi­cial announcement.

So why would Wiz­ards do this? It seems another pre­mium prod­uct designed to sell well, and given that it is not in the stan­dard booster pack, instead being a hang­ing pack — they’re hop­ing the foil­ness will draw in new play­ers who see the packs at the stan­dard retail stores.

Comments

  1. Awe­some idea. do you know how dif­fi­cult it is to get foil cards just by buy­ing packs?

    jeff mackay | November 15, 2009, 12:50 am | #

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