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According to a recent article on DailyMTG, Magic: The Gathering's main news hub, beginning with Edge of Eternities, art cards will no longer be included in Play Boosters. Instead, you can now only find art cards in Collector Boosters.

The "Collecting Edge of Eternities" Article

The article states the following about the rates for pulling art cards in Collector Boosters (section in bold typeface for relevance):

Each Edge of Eternities Collector Booster box contains 12 Collector Boosters, each of which contains the following:

• 15 Magic: The Gathering cards
  • 5 Traditional foil commons
  • 4 Traditional foil uncommons
  • 1 Traditional foil or galaxy foil celestial basic land
  • 1 Traditional foil rare or mythic rare
  • 1 Non-foil extended-art or borderless Edge of Eternities Commander card
  • 1 Non-foil Booster Fun card
  • 1 Land from the Stellar Sights bonus sheet
    • Non-foil, traditional foil, and galaxy foil lands appear in this slot.
  • 1 Foil Booster Fun card
• 1 Art card or traditional foil double-sided token
  • A traditional foil double-sided token appears in 65% of Collector Boosters.
  • 1 of 54 Art cards can appear in 30% of Collector Boosters. An additional 5% of Collector Boosters can have an art card with a gold-stamped artist signature or Planeswalker symbol.

The Internet's Reaction

This change is largely ambivalent to whether fans like the cards or not. Many players actually liked art cards. However, they originally seemed to be firmly in the minority among players who had an opinion of the cards. According to one Redditor, "As the one person at my LGS who collects art cards this makes me very sad. Usually during drafts people just give me the art cards they open cause nobody else wants them, so I get why WotC is doing it. But still. Pain." Another said, "Oh, I must be part of the few that actually likes them, I have tons of tokens and can make more but the art cards feel distinctive and cool."

Despite my earlier statement, it seems that these comments were not drowned in an ocean of approval. This potentially leads us to believe that more players liked these cards than the public lets on. Nevertheless, you can now find art cards at a rate of approximately 1 in every 3 Collector Boosters. This potentially raises the scarcity of these aesthetic add-ins.

And speaking of add-ins, Wizards of the Coast has also officially announced an end to ad cards in Play Boosters as well. Silver linings, one could suppose!

And now, we'd like to ask you: How do you feel about Magic: The Gathering's art cards? Was this a good move by Wizards of the Coast? Finally, with its gorgeous space-age landscapes, was Edge of Eternities the place for this change? Sound off below!