2,985
edits
Changes
→Elite packs by set
Drop rate quantification was altered in September 2022 to show the probability that a card rarity would appear in the entire pack. Previously (the rates in brackets), probabilities indicated the chance that a given card would be of a given rarity, and thus the percentages added up to 100%.
The current wording for (%) percentage chance list is: "The percentages below refer to the odds of getting at least one card from the associated rarity within the entire purchase "
Once acquired, a card pack may be opened at any time. Waiting will not change them. Opening a card pack provides a fixed number of random cards, generally from the same [[Portal:Cards|card set]]. These opened cards may be new for the player, or already owned ("duplicates" or "dupes").
* New cards are added to the player's collection, and may subsequently be added to [[Deck|Decks]].
* Duplicate cards are converted to runes ({{Runes}}) and mana orb ({{Orbs}}) [[Resources]].
The contents of some packs, e.g. Elite packs, are fixed when they are awarded or bought. Waiting to open them will never change what sets or card groups their contents may be drawn from. The contents of other packs are determined when opened, so what determines the contents may change before it is opened. I.e., cards from new sets may be added to the possibilities, and cards from [[Standard]] that rotate out to [[Legacy]] may be removed. Information about what a pack will and will not contain is usually found first, and first hand, from [[Coalitions]] and MtGPQ Discord channels, or the [[Elite pack tracking]] articles.
==Rarities==
Each card has a rarity of either Common {{Rarity|C|35}}, Uncommon {{Rarity|U|35}}, Rare {{Rarity|R|35}}, Mythic {{Rarity|M|35}}, or Masterpiece {{Rarity|MP|35}}. Progressively rarer cards are less likely to drop from packs, according to drop rates set by the publisher. Drop rates may change at any time.
Some rarities never drop from some pack types. Normally, cards of all rarity except Masterpiece can be obtained by [[Crafting]]. Masterpiece cards may only be crafted as a [[VIP]] bonus.
==Pack types==
===Regular pack types===
Current and previous probabilities. For sale, regularly, for various currencies
:★<small><small> : Unknown whether this is current value</small></small>
:‡<small><small> : Current data ingame as of October 2022</small></small>
! rowspan="2" | Cost
! rowspan="2" | Notes
! colspan="5" | {{nowrap | Per 100 cards ★ / <br>/ Per pack ‡}}
|-
! {{nowrap | C {{Rarity|C|20}}}}
! {{nowrap | MP {{Rarity|MP|20}}}}
|-
| Booster Pack || 5 || {{Crystals|60}} || Five random 5 cards; rates vary slightly per set| rowspan="3" | 55 / 99.49<br> ~ 98%| rowspan="3" | 39 / 38.06<br>~ 92%| rowspan="3" | 5 / 7.08<br>~ 24%| rowspan="3" | 1.4 / 0.23<br>~ 7%| rowspan="3" | 0.1 / <br>0.0036%
|-
| Super Pack || 15 || {{Crystals|150}} || 3 Booster packs
| Premium Pack || 26 || {{Crystals|300}} || 5 Booster Packs plus a random rare
|-
| Free Booster || 3 || - || Three random cards with poor drop ratesfrom [[Standard]] sets| 82 / <br>99.49% || 15 / <br>38.06% || 2 / <br>7.08% || 0.1 / <br>0.23% || -/ <br>0.00%
|-
| rowspan="2" | [[Elite packs|Elite Pack]]
| rowspan="2" | 1
| {{Jewels|400}} || (Mythic+ Pack) A single non-dupe Mythic or betterof the named set| - || - || - || 70 / <br>71.44% || 30/ <br>28.56%|-| {{Jewels|120}} || (Rare+ Pack) A single Rare or better| - || - || 75 / <br>74.61% || 22 / <br>22.39% || 3 / <br>3%
|-
| rowspan="2" | (Set) {{Ability|Vanguard}} cards | rowspan="2" | 1 | {{Jewels|120}} || A single non-dupe Rare or betterMythic [[Gems#Vanguards|Vanguard]] card of the named set || - || - || 90% || 10% || -|-| {{Jewels|400}} || A single non-dupe Mythic {{Ability|Vanguard}}, of the named set || - || - || 75 - || 22 100% || 3-
|-
|}
The contents of [[Elite packs]] are tracked on the wiki at [[Elite pack tracking]].
===Unusual or obsolete pack types===
Current and previous probabilities . Offered as rewards and rarely if ever for currency, or no longer for sale:★±<small><small> : Unknown whether this is current value</small></small>
:‡<small><small> : Current data ingame as of October 2022</small></small>
{| class="wikitable"
! rowspan="2" | Cost
! rowspan="2" | Notes
! colspan="5" | {{nowrap | Per 100 cards ★ ± / <br>Per pack ‡}}
|-
! {{nowrap | C {{Rarity|C|20}}}}
! {{nowrap | MP {{Rarity|MP|20}}}}
|-
| Basic Booster || 3 || - || Three random cards with poor drop rates (awarded in some events)from the [[ORI]], [[KLD]], [[AER]], [[AKH]] and [[HOU]] sets| 73 / 97.97% || 23 / 54.94% || 3.6 / 10.28% || 0.4 / 1.07% || ,0.02 / 0.07%
|-
| Standard Booster † || 5 || - || Five random cards from [[Standard]] sets †| 97.96% || 91.58% || 24.13% || 6.96% || .36%|-| Legacy Booster || 5 || - || Five random cards from [[Legacy]] sets| % || % || % || % || %|-| Standard Booster (non-duplicate) || 5 || - || 5 cards from [[Standard]] sets; each will not be the same as any card already owned ★| 97.96% || 91.58% || 24.13% || 6.96% || .36%|-| Legacy Bundle (non-duplicate) || 5 || - || 5 cards from [[Legacy]] sets; each will not be the same as any card already owned ★| 97.96% || 91.58% || 24.13% || 6.96% || .36%|-| Free Pack || 1 || - || (Obsolete, replaced by 3-card Free Pack) One random card with poor drop rates
| 83 || 15 || 2 || 0.1 || -
|-
| Fat Pack || 20 || {{Crystals|200}} || 4 Booster packs ''(Obsolete, replaced by Super PackReward only; no longer for sale)''
| rowspan="2" | 54
| rowspan="2" | 41
| Big Box || 71 || {{Crystals|600}} || 14 Booster packs plus a random rare or mythic ''(Obsolete, replaced by Premium Pack)''
|}
† Vanguards and selected other cards are excluded. Over 90% of Standard cards are included, and no Masterpiece cards are excluded. ★ If, for example, the player owns all {{Rarity|C|35}}, {{Rarity|U|35}} and {{Rarity|R|35}} cards, non-duplicate packs can contain only {{Rarity|M|30}} and {{Rarity|MP|35}} cards. Therefore, the percentages shown must be a starting point: the probabilities as if no cards were owned Around [[AFR]], releases of selected cards were offered in the Vault: packs of a single color, and later, themed, named packs. An example of the latter is "Bloody Glory", a [[Kaldheim]] pack accessing 30% of the set's cards at a 50% higher price and up to 19 times higher rate of rare cards: {{Rarity|C|20}} 96.39%, {{Rarity|U|20}} 82.12%, {{Rarity|R|20}} 54.48%, {{Rarity|M|20}} 27.81%, and 7.07% chance of a Masterpiece. '''Other''': [[M19]] Multicolored and Colorless pack; 5 cards == Packs and releases ==The likely contents of Booster packs of any given set will, by definition, differ from those of another set not only by their particular cards, but in the probability of a given rarity appearing. And for the same reason: the sets are different. === Hibernum expansions ===As of October 2022, there were 37 sets released, but there are only 34 [[Elite Card pack#Regular pack types|Booster pack]]s available. [[Eldritch Moon]] cards were moved into [[Shadows over Innistrad]] packs, [[Oath of the Gatewatch]]to [[Battle for Zendikar] ], and [[Aether Revolt]] was rolled into [[Kaladesh]].[https://forums.d3go.com/discussion/66406/expansion-creep] Hibernum made them expansion sets; they are tracked , as of 2022, not available to purchase on their own,[https://forums.d3go.com/discussion/69211/event-rewards] although they have been offered as prizes on occasion. Subsets only contain one-third or so of the associated Magic: the Gathering set's cards. Commons were the first to go, and none of the three have a single {{Rarity|C|45}}. Not having Masterpieces is a separate issue; [[KLD]] was the first to have {{Rarity|MP|45}}, [[AER]] has them, and [[BFZ]] and [[SOI]] do not. Main set cards or packs are often offered as rewards in subset events, and presumably to offset card availability imbalance, Eldritch Moon had its cards given as rewards in the main set's event: :As of October 2022, an [[EMN]] Rare is still given as a reward in [[Avacyn's Madness]]; not in a pack, but "loose", as are rewards for [[Training (Story)|Training]]:Special 5-card booster packs with 65 of the 67 [[Eldritch Moon]] cards were constructed to award as additional, holiday season prizes in the December 2022 running of [[Avacyn's Madness]]. [[Hour of Devastation]] was the first set to not be added to the wiki pool of cards of the previous, odd-numbered release. All of this may sound dire, but most of it either benefits the player or balances out. Commons tend to be less useful. Not having Masterpieces means that more powerful cards tend to be found at the Mythic or even Rare level, to which {{Card URL|Omniscience}} and {{Card URL|Whir of Invention}} attest. Players were concerned, when Hour of Devastation was announced, that its large card pool would make acquiring [[Elite pack trackingAmonkhet]]cards too difficult, but it was not made into an expansion. The small size of the three expansion sets, with their smaller card pool, less diluted their main sets.
==Opening Booster packsby set ==Once acquiredThe drop rate of Booster packs released early on vary from those released today, a card pack may be opened and from each other. Releases after [[M20]] all have the same probabilities now, if they did not at any timerelease. Opening a card pack provides a fixed number Sets as far back as [[Kaladesh]] had or were given the same probabilities as today, but the set that began the current continuity of random cardsunvarying 97.96%, 91.58%, 24.13%, 6.96%, generally from the same 0.36% probabilities is [[Portal:CardsCore Set 2020]]. {| class="wikitable" width=100%|-! colspan="6" | Probability |-! Set! C {{Rarity|C|20}}! U {{Rarity|U|20}}! Rare {{Rarity|R|20}}! Mythic {{Rarity|M|20}}! MP {{Rarity|MP|20}}|-|card set{{ORI}} [[Origins]] [[ORI]]|| 99.71% || 75.65% || 23. These opened cards may be new 37% || 5.92% || -|-| {{BFZ}} [[Battle for Zendikar]] [[BFZ]] || 99.71% || 75.81% || 23.31% || 5.82% || -|-| {{SOI}} [[Shadows over Innistrad]] [[SOI]] || 99.67% || 75.43% || 27.4% || 6.22% || -|-| {{EMN}} [[Eldritch Moon]] [[EMN]] || - || 100% || 1.4% || 32.52% || -|-| {{KLD}} [[Kaladesh]] [[KLD]] || 97.96% || 91.58% || 24.13% || 6.96% || 0.36%|-| {{AKH}} [[Amonkhet]] [[AKH]] || 97.98% || 91.62% || 23.62% || 6.97% || 0.36%|-| {{HOU}} [[Hour of Devastation]] [[HOU]] || 97.96% || 91.63% || 23.46% || 7.29% || 0.5%|-| {{XLN}} [[Ixalan]] [[XLN]] || 98.64% || 89.96% || 18.42% || 6.32% || 0.99%|-| {{RIX}} [[Rivals of Ixalan]] [[RIX]] || 97.98% || 91.52% || 24.45% || 6.61% || 0.35%|-| {{DOM}} [[Dominaria]] [[DOM]] || 97.95% || 91.61% || 23.45% || 7.57% || 0.5%|-| {{M19}} [[Core Set 2019]] [[M19]] || 97.96% || 91.63% || 23.46% || 7.29% || 0.5%|-| {{GRN}} [[Guilds of Ravnica]] [[GRN]] || 97.96% || 91.58% || 24.13% || 6.96% || 0.36%|-| {{RNA}} [[Ravnica Allegiance]] [[RNA]] || 97.93% || 91.52% || 24.08% || 8.06% || 0.36%|-| {{WAR}} [[War of the player, or already owned Spark]] [[WAR]] || 97.96% || 91.56% || 24.14% || 6.96% || 0.36%|-| {{ODY}}{{TOR}}{{JUD}} Odyssey Block ("duplicates"[[From the Vault]]: ODY TOR JUD; {{Crystals|75}})|| - || 99.97% || 55.24% || 17.93% || 7.66%|-* New cards are added to the player's collection, and may subsequently be added to | {{ODY}} [[DeckODY|DecksOdyssey]][[ODY]] || - || 99.97% || 55.24% || 17.93% || 7.66%* Duplicate |-| {{ODY}} [[ODY|Odyssey]] [[ODY]] Collector rewards (3 cards are converted to runes () || - || 94.02%|| 61.65% || 21.47% || 11.59%|-|-| {{RunesTOR}}[[TOR|Torment]] [[TOR]] Collector rewards (3 cards) and mana orb (|| - || 94.02% || 61.65% || 21.47% || 11.59%|-| {{OrbsJUD}}[[JUD|Judgement]] [[JUD]] Collector rewards (3 cards) || - || 94.02% || 61.65% || 21.47% || 11.59%|-| Current ([[M20]] onwards) || 97.96% || 91.58% || 24.13% || 6.96% || .36%|-|} == Elite packs by set ==Elite pack probabilities vary throughout MtGPQ history, up to and including the present. The contents are chosen from a selection, not from the whole set. Thus Elite Packs from the same set, offered months apart, may vary in their probabilities, and therefore from these listings. However, the differences are likely small; the only known difference is between two [[ResourcesBRO]]packs, with a 0.01% variation between them.
{{Game concepts}}
[[Category:Game mechanics]]
[[Category:Cards]]
