Magic Changes Play and Collector Boosters Starting With Nauctis

Wizards of the Coast will rename Play Boosters to Booster Packs and change the contents of both those packs and Collector Boosters starting with Nauctis: The Sunken Realm, the first Magic set of 2027, the company announced on October 5, 2026.

In its booster update announcement, Wizards said the changes will not increase MSRP. The trade-off is fewer low-rarity foils, including 3 fewer cards in Collector Boosters, alongside higher foil rare and mythic rare drop rates in Booster Packs and a small chance of opening a God Pack.

Booster Packs Lose Guaranteed Foils

The renamed Booster Packs will no longer guarantee a foil card. Foil commons and uncommons are leaving the product entirely; any foil you open in one will be a rare or mythic rare.

Traditional-foil Japan Showcase cards will become possible pulls in the wildcard slot. Those treatments were previously exclusive to Collector Boosters, so players opening the core booster product will gain access to a treatment they previously needed the premium product to open.

Wizards also says foil rare and mythic rare drop rates will increase, but gives no numerical odds. That means fewer packs will necessarily contain a foil, while the foils that do appear will all be higher-rarity cards.

Collector Boosters Lose 3 Cards

Collector Boosters will remove 2 foil commons and 1 foil uncommon without replacing them. Some foil commons and uncommons will remain in Collector Boosters, making that product their remaining home across these 2 booster formats.

Wizards says players often skipped those cards during Collector Booster openings, while feedback on Play Boosters suggested low-rarity foils had lost their appeal. The company also cites printing capacity: adding God Packs and Japan Showcase cards to Booster Packs requires room in an increasingly complex production process.

On whether removing cards itself makes Collector Boosters more exciting, Wizards is direct:

We'll be honest here—it doesn't.

The unchanged MSRP therefore comes with a smaller Collector Booster. The new God Packs are a separate, rare outcome, rather than replacements for the removed cards in every pack.

God Packs Come to Both Products

For Magic Multiverse sets, Wizards gives God Pack odds of 1 in every 1,000 Booster Packs and 1 in every 300 Collector Boosters. It describes God Packs as boosters where every nonbasic card is a rare or mythic rare.

• A Booster Pack God Pack contains:
• 1 God Pack celebration card
• 10 non-foil rare and/or mythic rare cards
• 2 non-foil Booster Fun rare and/or mythic rare cards
• 2 traditional-foil Booster Fun rare and/or mythic rare cards

• A Collector Booster God Pack contains:
• 1 God Pack celebration card
• 1 foil land
• 3 foil rare and/or mythic rare cards
• 3 non-foil Booster Fun rare and/or mythic rare cards
• 5 foil Booster Fun rare and/or mythic rare cards

Wizards says the final group of 5 foil Booster Fun cards could contain multiple headliner cards. It calls that outcome improbable, so the God Pack odds should not be read as the odds of opening multiple headliners.

The Rollout Starts in 2027

God Packs are planned for each Magic Multiverse set from Nauctis: The Sunken Realm onward. Universes Beyond God Packs are expected in 2028, rather than at the start of this rollout; Wizards has not named their first set or specified the full timing of the other booster changes for those releases.

For players and stores comparing the revised products, the remaining details are the complete ordinary-pack contents and the numerical foil rare and mythic rare odds. Wizards has not provided either. Collectors also have no stated Japan Showcase pull rate for Booster Packs, leaving the availability of those treatments unresolved ahead of Nauctis: The Sunken Realm.