Wizards of the Coast unveiled the product line details for March of the Machine, a new Magic: The Gathering Standard set, for release on April 21, 2023.
March of the Machine is a set that ties up loose ends from the conflict with the Phyrexians (see “Wizards of the Coast Compleats“). The product line offers up the usual array of SKUs with the only notable change being to the Draft Boosters. The Draft Boosters now feature a varying number of rares, uncommons, and commons. There are also Helper cards included in packs across the product line.
The new product line for this set is as follows:
March of the Machine Collector Booster Packs and Displays. March of the Machine Collector Booster Boxes include 12 March of the Machine Collector Boosters. Each Collector Booster comes with 15 Magic: The Gathering cards and a traditional foil double-sided token. The cards will be a combination of 5 cards of rarity Rare or higher, 4 uncommons, 5 commons, a Land card, and the token. Every Collector Pack features a total of 10–12 traditional foil cards.
March of the Machine Draft Booster Packs and Displays. These booster packs include 15 March of the Machine cards and a token/ad card or Helper card that are optimized for the draft format, and come in displays of 36 packs. Each pack comes with 1 to 2 cards rarity rare or higher, 3 to 5 uncommons, 8 to 9 commons, a land card, and the token/ad card or Helper card. Traditional foil borderless mythic rare Planeswalker cards are found in less than 1% of these boosters, and traditional foils of any rarity replaces a common in 33% of these boosters.
March of the Machine Set Booster Packs and Displays. March of the Machine Set Booster Boxes contains 30 March of the Machine Set Boosters. Set Boosters come with 12 Magic: The Gathering cards, an Art Card, and a token/ad card, Helper card, or card from “The List” (found in 25% of packs). Packs include a combination of 1 to 5 card(s) of rarity rare or higher, and 3 to 8 uncommons, 2 to 7 commons, and a Land card. A non–Art Card and non–Land card of any rarity will be foil in these packs. Traditional foil borderless mythic rare Planeswalker cards are found in less than 1% of these boosters, and foil-stamped Signature Art Card replaces Art Card in 10% of boosters.
March of the Machine Jumpstart Booster Packs and Displays. The March of the Machine Jumpstart Booster Boxes have 18 March of the Machine Jumpstart Boosters. These packs contain 20 Magic cards that are all based on a specific constructed deck theme, and two Jumpstart packs can be shuffled together to make a deck. Each pack features 2 cards rare cards and 2 traditional foil land cards.
March of the Machine Bundle. The bundle comes with 8 March of the Machine Set Boosters, 20 foil basic lands, 20 non-foil basic lands, a foil alt-art promo card, a storage box, a Spindown life counter, and 2 Reference cards. These bundles will ship in cases of 6.
March of the Machine Commander Decks. The Commander Decks are 100-card ready-to-play decks feature 98 additional non-foil Magic: The Gathering cards and 2 traditional foil Legendary cards. The contents of each deck includes a foil-etched Display Commander, 10 specialty cards (not featured in the main set), a two-card Collector Booster Sample Pack, 10 double-sided tokens, a Life Wheel, a special die, a strategy insert, and a deck box. They come in case configurations of 4 decks per carton.
March of the Machine Prerelease Pack. Prerelease Packs are made specifically to use during prerelease events. These packs include 6 March of the Machine Draft Booster packs, a traditional foil, a year-stamped Rare or Mythic rare card, a new Mythic Rare card (which is a traditional foil in 18% of Prerelease Packs), a code card to unlock 6 March of the Machine boosters in Magic: The Gathering Arena (only available in select regions), a deck box, and a spindown life counter.
For more information on future releases of Magic products, check out ICv2’s 2022 calendar (see “‘Magic: The Gathering’ Release Calendar For 2022/2023“).
Click on Gallery below for packaging images of the products!
Source: ICv2
