You might not think a new set was out already, but here it is, an ‘epilogue’ set with no commons and full-priced boosters.

Let’s start with the big change: This is a very small set, not meant for drafting or Sealed or anything like that. There’s no commons! In other times, this might have been a bonus sheet, just like the Multiverse Legends sheet for March of the Machine.

So let’s get into what is what, and how rare is rare. Surprises ahead!

We’re given 15 uncommons, 25 rares, and 10 mythic rares. 

Each of those cards will have an Etched Foil version and a special frame. Most of the special frames reflect the planes involved, as they did with the Multiverse Legends set. The land of the set, Drannith Ruins, and the six cards that have a retro frame do not have Halo foil versions.

Three rarities, two frames, three foil treatments. They don’t always overlap, either. Etched foil has the matte frame we’re used to, plus we have Extended Art versions of all the rares and mythics in this set.

Plus, there’s two different boosters. Epilogue Boosters and Collector Boosters.

Epilogue Boosters are the more basic, and the cheaper ones.

We can calculate this pretty quickly, especially because Etched Foil and Halo Foil aren’t options for this booster.

One of the things we’re told in the Collecting article is that 1 in 6 Epilogue Boosters will have a rare or mythic rare. That’s outside what I’d expect, but a useful tidbit because now we know the relative proportions of rarities to each other in this set.

Hearken back to Algebra with me. We’re told that 5/6 boosters will have an uncommon in the slot. We also know that Wizards likes to distribute twice as many rares as mythic rares. Breaking that down, and with a little fractions, we can say that out of 18 random boosters, 15 will have an uncommon, 2 will have a rare, and one will contain a mythic rare.  With this in mind, here is the table for the distribution for the next to last slot, a regular frame, traditional foil of any rarity:

	Percent chance of opening any card of that rarity	How many of these will you get in a booster box of 24?	How many packs to open to get a specific card of that rarity?
Uncommon	83.1%	19.94 uncommons	18 packs
Rare	11.2%	2.68 rares	225 packs
Mythic Rare	5.6%	1.34 mythics	180 packs

Now you might be saying, “Wait a minute, rares are rarer than mythics?” and the answer appears to be yes. Rares are going to appear twice as often, but there’s only ten mythics to choose from. 

The final slot in this booster is a mix of everything in the Booster Fun frame. Which in this case is everything, both foil and nonfoil. With that many options, you can imagine your odds get more and more terrible. We know that they give us the 1 in 6 for rares and mythics. It’s an additional 1 in 6 to get a foil in this slot!

Booster Fun frame (planar, retro, borderless)	Percent chance for any card of that category	Percent chance for a specific card of that category	# of boosters to open one specific card from that category
Nonfoil Uncommon	69.3%	4.62%	21.6
Nonfoil Rare	9.26%	0.37%	269.97
Nonfoil Mythic Rare	4.63%	0.46%	215.98
Traditional Foil Uncommon	13.8%	0.92%	108.7
Traditional Foil Rare	1.85%	0.074%	1,351
Traditional Foil Mythic	0.925%	0.0925%	1,081

Again, for the Epilogue Boosters, the rarest rares are rarer than the rarest mythic rares. Wild, but normally there’s a higher proportion of rares to mythics. 

Let’s talk about Collector Boosters. 

The Traditional foil/regular frame slot is easy to figure out. There’s 25 rares and 10 mythics, and therefore the pool of potential pulls is 60 cards (2 of each rare, 1 of each mythic.) You’re at 1/30 to get the rare you want and 1/60 for the mythic you want.

Extended-Art is one more step. There’s an EA version for each rare and mythic. Then 1/3 of these boosters will have a foil in the slot. 

	Percent chance for any card of that category	Percent chance for a specific card of that category	# of boosters to open one specific card from that category
Nonfoil EA Rare	55.56%	2.22%	45
Nonfoil EA Mythic Rare	11.11%	1.11%	90
Foil EA Rare	27.7%	1.11%	45
Foil EA Mythic Rare	5.56%	0.56%	180

The Etched Foils are precisely the same as the Traditional Foil.  There’s 25 rares and 10 mythics, and therefore the pool of potential pulls is 60 cards (2 of each rare, 1 of each mythic.) You’re at 1/30 to get the rare you want and 1/60 for the mythic you want.

Then the last slot, where special Planar frames come into play, as well as Halo foil printings. They did a tricky thing here, as retro foils aren’t available in Halo. So while we have 25 rares and ten mythics in traditional foil, we also have 21 rares and 8 mythics in Halo foil. It’s a little odd, but here’s 

	Percent chance for any card of that category	Percent chance for a specific card of that category	# of boosters to open one specific card from that category
Traditional Foil Planar Frame Rare	69.4%	2.7%	36
Traditional Foil Planar Frame Mythic Rare	13.9%	1.39%	72
Halo Foil Planar Frame Rare	11.67%	0.55%	180
Halo Foil Planar Frame Mythic Rare	2.2%	0.27%	360

With all this said, let’s summarize with examples of each rarity and version.

Card/treatment/set	Approx. number of Epilogue Boosters needed to find one copy
Nonfoil Planar Frame Feast of the Restless Dead (Uncommon)	21.6
Nonfoil Planar Frame The Kenriths’ Royal Funeral (Rare)	269.97
Nonfoil Planar Frame Kiora, Sovereign of the Deep (Mythic Rare)	215.98
Card/treatment/set	Approx. number of Collector Boosters needed to find one copy
Nonfoil Extended Art Spark Rupture (Rare)	45
Nonfoil Extended Art Calix, Guided by Fate (Mythic Rare)	90
Foil EA Tranquil Frillback (Rare)	45
Foil EA Nahiri, Forged in Fury (Mythic Rare)	180
Etched Foil Rebuild the City (Rare)	30
Etched Foil Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin (Mythic Rare)	60
Traditional Foil Planar Frame Rocco, Street Chef (Rare)	36
Traditional Foil Planar Frame Mythic Rare	72
Halo Foil Planar Frame Sigarda, Font of Blessings (Rare)	180
Halo Foil Planar Frame Sarkhan, Soul Aflame (Mythic Rare)	360

I hope that these numbers help you figure out what purchases to make, and for how much. Stay tuned for more math with every set of packs.

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Cliff (@WordOfCommander) has been writing for MTGPrice since 2013, and is an eager Commander player, Draft enthusiast, and Cube fanatic. A high school science teacher by day, he’s also the official substitute teacher of the MTG Fast Finance podcast. If you’re ever at a GP and you see a giant flashing ‘CUBE DRAFT’ sign, go over, say hi, and be ready to draft.