Today, Wizards of the Coast has announced that it's shifting the release date of Magic: The Gathering's Jumpstart product to July 17 because of the manufacturing delays due to COVID-19. Originally announced last February, Jumpstart was set to release in July 3 with prerelease events scheduled on June 20-21.
Wizards noted that this shift will not affect the release of Core Set 2021, which is set to release in June 25 on digital, and July 3 on tabletop.
Wizards also said that Jumpstart will release on Magic: The Gathering Arena on July 16, and on Magic Online on June 25 through Treasure Chests only.
WotC describes Jumpstart as a "new kind of play experience inside a new kind of booster."
Here are key descriptions of Jumpstart:
> Each booster contains 20 cards centered on a theme. What theme each booster contains is randomized, but each themed 20 cards will be sealed inside the pack and labled.
> One in three boosters includes an extra rare.
> It's loaded with reprints—almost 500!
> Jumpstart introduces 37 new cards to the game. These will not be Standard-, Pioneer-, or Modern-legal cards. They are legal in Legacy, Vintage, and Commander.
> It's closely tied to Core Set 2021—they share a lot of content and release near one another—but Jumpstart is a stand-alone product.
> All cards are legal in Eternal formats (Legacy, Vintage, and Commander)
> Every pack includes one basic land with art that matches the pack's theme. A few of them use thematically appropriate lands from M21, but most of them use brand-new themed land art created for Jumpstart.
You can check out all the themes for Jumpstart they announced so far here.
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