The non-foil cards here are rares and mythic rares from Wilds of Eldraine or new-to- Magic Wilds of Eldraine Commander cards. All WPN stores will receive the following promo to support your Commander Party; WPN Premium stores will receive the promos in traditional foil: Wilds of Eldraine Enchanting Tales (WOT): Historic plus individual cards may be used for the respective formats in which they are legal. And that’s a shame, because when you dig into the card boosters, Wilds of Eldraine has glittering bags of fairy dust to enjoy.

Today, we'll review the suite of events for the Wilds of Eldraine season, plus the promos you'll have on hand to support each. Prerelease (September 1 – 7) 30th Anniversary PromosBefore we go further, we must note that all the card prices we use in this article are taken from Cardmarket, and always the lowest price listing for each card. The spreadsheet for all of our workings can be found at the end of this article so you can customise your own data set with prices of your own choosing. For players in your community who bring friends or family to your events, you can award the entire party with the Bring-a-Friend promo. This promo is refreshed for the Wilds of Eldraine season—it is now Cultivate. If you haven't done so yet, today is the day to set some time aside and schedule your Wilds of Eldraine season events. The earlier you schedule, the sooner your players can see what you're running and make plans to come to your store—and even gather up some friends to come along for the fun. We're sending WPN stores a Lotus Petal promo card that you can begin passing out to your community starting the weekend of September 22. Handing out the promo to your community is easy: all your players have to do is show up and play in one event at your store. Then, you can distribute one Lotus Petal promo to each player, while supplies last. Use the Lotus Petal to highlight your Friday Night Magic events, your Commander Nights, or even entice your community to bring their friends and family to a new player event at your store!

More concerning than the first issue, it seems that rares and mythics can only appear in the 1st Wildcard slot; the 2nd Wildcard slot can only ever be a common or uncommon. All other treatments in this slot, besides the confetti foil cards, will appear in traditional foil. Eldraine is a plane of wonderful chaos and contradictions—your players will be invited to start their own storybook adventure, enveloped in a fantastical fairytale with a twist to break the curse of an endless slumber.WPN Premium stores will receive Top 8 and Winner promos in nonfoil with their store name custom printed on them; please provide both copies of the promo to qualifying players. Season-Long Promo Support Bring-a-Friend Promo For ideas on how to distribute your 30th Anniversary promos, you can always visit the Promo Usage & Policy hub. Buy-a-Box Promo You'll have three promo categories in your kit to support Store Championship: participation promos based on your community size, eight Top 8 promos, and one Winner promo. FAIRY-TALE INSPIRED CARDS + ART CARD—Each Set Booster contains 12 cards with art and mechanics inspired by storybook themes plus an Art Card showcasing a piece of art from the set, sometimes featuring a foil signature from the artist A TALE ONLY YOU CAN TELL—Venture into the untamed Wilds of Eldraine, a fairy tale-inspired world in the Magic multiverse, and free the kingdom from a curse of endless slumber

However, it is exceptionally rare for the contents of a box to be worth more or even the same as the sealed price, with many recent MTG products suffering from overprinting and terrible EV ratios. In comparison, the €95.37 vs €111 is relatively healthy. Part of the value of opening a Set Booster Box is the fun of the opening itself. This intangible value is impossible to put a number on and will vary from person to person! Since Dominaria United, we've supported Prerelease events with additional promos to commemorate Magic's incredible 30th anniversary. Starting at your Wilds of Eldraine Prerelease, you can distribute the following promos: FAIRY-TALE INSPIRED CARDS + ART CARD - Each Set Booster contains 12 cards with art and mechanics inspired by storybook themes plus an Art Card showcasing a piece of art from the set, sometimes featuring a foil signature from the artist Wilds of Eldraine Set Boosters and Collector Boosters have a few additional cards to uncover that don't appear in Wilds of Eldraine Draft Boosters. There’s a lot more to Magic, but that’s out of the scope of this article. Suffice to say there are good reasons it’s such a hugely popular phenomenon, and one of them is the tactical depth and excitement of card by card play, with the advantage swinging from one player to the other until someone makes the final, fatal breakthrough. The question is: what novel ideas does Wilds of Eldraine bring to the game?PLAY A GAME THAT FUSES ART, STORIES & STRATEGY - Magic: The Gathering is a collectible card game that weaves deep strategy with art and mechanics that explore the themes of a particular world and story - whether you want to play a casual game with friends, collect cool cards, or get competitive, Magic welcomes you to The Gathering

The first thing we can do with this list is discount most of the slots as being worthless. Basic Lands (of any treatment), Commons, Uncommons, and even foil-stamped Art Cards have negligible value on average. This leaves us with: Slots 1, 2, 3, 4, and both Wildcards to consider. Open House is replacing Launch Party for Wilds of Eldraine, which is a perfect opportunity for new-to- Magic players to visit your store and learn the ropes of Magic in a friendly social environment. Plus, you can encourage the engaged players in your community to bring in their friends and family and teach them to play. You may even find engaged players interested in becoming a mentor for other new players at your store. As the 1st Wildcard has a 23.4% chance of a card from this pool worth 1.411, the expected value of the 1st Wildcard is 1.411 * 0.234 = 0.33. Similarly the expected value of the 2nd Wildcard slot is 1.411 * 0.016 = 0.023. While there are lots of great thematic cards to enjoy, because this set is part of the standard format, you have to consider how the various effects will integrate with other releases for the game. And the answer, on the whole, is very well. There are a lot of powerful cards here with great utility regardless of their fae stylings. Moonshaker Cavalry is a game-ending flying creature that gives all your other creatures flying, too, and a buff based on the number you control. Asinine Antics puts the curse effect on all opposing creatures, reducing them to 1/1 stats, making for an easy board wipe. And if you’ve got extra mana to spare you can cast it as an instant.For example, the Wildcard pool has 124 rares and 65 mythics. The probability of any rare being pulled is not 1/189 but 1/124 multiplied by the rare-pool weighting of 6/7. Similarly, the chance of any one mythic being pulled is 1/65 * 1/7. With that in mind, we can weight all the rares and mythics appropriately to get an expected value of 1.411. Lastly, we just need to figure out the value of the main-set rare/mythic slot. Just as before, we collect price data for every card that can appear in this slot and then weight them by the usual 6/7 and 1/7. Again, as this slot contains 80 potential cards, we’ll not post an image but you can find our full workings in a google spreadsheet at the bottom of the article. With this main-set rare/mythic slot resulting in 0.811 of EV, we can now add everything together for our Set Booster EV... Commander Party events are available to all WPN stores, and this time your players will immerse themselves in a storybook that provides the table with unique rules to implement during their Commander game. A TALE ONLY YOU CAN TELL - Venture into the untamed Wilds of Eldraine, a fairy tale-inspired world in the Magic multiverse, and free the kingdom from a curse of endless slumber