Magic: The Gathering God Packs Are Officially Returning With A Twist

Published Oct 5, 2026, 12:25 PM EDT

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Right now, Magic: The Gathering seems unstoppable. Between the droves of licensed sets in the Universes Beyond line and the original works from Wizards, fans still go out to buy them.

That said, there is a constant push and pull between Wizards and their fans, mostly stemming from the fact that it's a collectible card game, which is always going to be a point of contention with some. Some of that contention might come to a head soon, given major changes coming to Magic in 2027.

Thanks to official confirmation from Wizards of the Coast, we know exactly how God Packs will return to the game [via Polygon].

Once Nauctis: The Sunken Realm hits in 2027, it'll be the year's first set. It's also the first set in a long while to see major changes to Play Boosters and collector Boosters. God Packs will be coming to "every Magic Multiverse set," which Wizards describes as "an epic, rare Booster where every nonbasic card is a rare or mythic rare card."

It's a pretty big deal, as Wizards says that 1 in every 1,000 Booster Packs will contain 14 rare or mythic rare cards. To be clearer, if you get a God Pack pull in a play Booster, this is what you'll snag:

• 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

Collector Boosters, on the other hand, will have a 1-in-300 chance of a God Pack, which has these contents:

• 1 God Pack celebration card
• 1 Foil land
• 3 Foil default frame 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
  • You may have heard us call this the "foil fancy slot" on WeeklyMTG. It's that, but it's five of them instead of one. Yes, that means this slot could hypothetically contain multiple headliner cards. It's pretty improbable, but, hey, it could happen.

There's another big change, too, to the nomenclature of Magic: Play Boosters are now called "Booster Packs." Keep that in mind going forward.

As for what's leaving, Wizards says it's removing foil common and uncommon cards from Booster Packs and will "no longer guarantee a foil card in every pack." Allegedly, these changes are because of fan feedback.

Evidently, foils have "lost their luster" in recent years, and now, foils will be rare or mythic rare, with an "increased drop rate" to balance it out. Collector Boosters will now remove two commons and one uncommon from foil slots and will not replace them because they are the "least-exciting parts" of opening collector packs.

Wizards ultimately calls this massive move in Magic: The Gathering a "trade-off" due to "more complex" Booster printing. Time will tell if the team pulls off this big change, but there's plenty of room for compromise in the future if it doesn't.