Magic: The Gathering thirtieth Anniversary Edition is a brand new product created by Wizards of the Coast as a way to have a good time the cardboard sport’s authentic launch in 1993. Each field will include simply 4 packs of 15 playing cards. Each card can have a novel card again, and none of them will probably be match authorized.

This commemorative, collectible product, as Wizards calls it, will value $999.

Sales begin on-line starting Nov. 28, with supply for shoppers in North America anticipated earlier than the top of the yr. According to a put up on the official Magic web site, the set is meant to characterize the complete 30-year historical past of the sport by rereleasing a few of its oldest playing cards in a extremely collectible format. Wizards is hoping to invoke the identical rush of opening a pack of playing cards from the Alpha or the Beta set. That contains the potential to seek out a number of playing cards from the Power Nine — together with a remake of the long-lasting Black Lotus.

Cards will characteristic “touched up” artwork the place wanted, and can exclude some playing cards.

“We wanted to be nostalgic,” Wizards stated on its weblog, “but not everything met our modern standards.” For occasion, Crusade — which was faraway from the Magic archives in 2020 together with a number of different playing cards — will probably be absent from this set. Contract from Below, Darkpact, Demonic Attorney, Earthbind, and Weakness have additionally all been excluded.

Here is the official description of simply what you may count on contained in the field:

Each show of thirtieth Anniversary Edition will include 4 packs of pure nostalgia reimagined in a contemporary context. Each pack incorporates 15 playing cards, 13 playing cards within the fashionable body — 1 uncommon, 3 uncommons, 7 commons, and a couple of fundamental lands — plus one fundamental land within the retro body, one further retro body card, and a token.

Friendly native sport shops may also be capable of get in on the motion. All Wizards Play Network shops will obtain one copy of Magic: The Gathering thirtieth Anniversary Edition for show functions, whereas Premium WPN shops will obtain three.