Collecting Edge of Eternities is shaping up to be a really great experience. While some of the booster fun variants will, of course, be confined to Collector Booster Packs, there is a surprising amount of excitement to be had opening up Play Booster Packs including Stellar Sights Lands, Borderless Celestial Basic, Borderless Viewport, Borderless Triumphant, Borderless Surreal Space, and Special Guests.
Exclusive to the Collector Booster Packs will be Textless Sothera, the Supervoid in singularity foil, Poster Stellar Sights Lands, Out-of-this-World Japan Showcase, and Extended-Art cards.
Tezzeret, Cruel Captain (Default Frame), Illustrated by Chris Rahn
Edge of Eternities (EOE) Main Set
Starting at the beginning, the Edge of Eternities main set, or default frame set if you prefer, consists of the first 261 cards with the EOE code in the bottom-left corner. This is followed by 16 basic lands, numbered 262-276, with new artwork specific to Edge of Eternities. If you’re the type of collector who wants four copies of everything (for deck-building in Standard, Pioneer, and Modern) then you’ll need binder/box/bin space for 1,044 cards.
The remaining new cards, in the Bonus Sheet, Special Guest, and Commander series, comprise an additional 79 cards. You won’t necessarily need four copies of each, though you might, especially for the bonus sheet lands that see a lot of play in Vintage and Legacy. Make sure you keep them in mind when figuring out how much space your Edge of Eternities Collection needs.
Borderless Viewport Lands
Right after the default frame series come one of the most beautiful variant sets Magic has had in a while: Borderless Viewport Lands. These 10 cards (five shock-lands and five mythic rare legendary Planet lands) comprise serial numbers 277-286 and are meant to visualize the lands through the frame of a spaceship window. The frames are similar but not exactly the same, which is awesome, and the whole text of the card, including the name, is in the lower third of the card space.
Susur Secundi, Void Altar (Borderless Viewport Frame), illustration by Piotr Dura
These will be available in both Play Boosters and Collector Boosters with “Galaxy Foil” versions being available only in Collector Boosters. Don’t miss out on the sweetest Godless Shrine there is.
Borderless Triumphant Variants
The next series of 16 cards are called Borderless Triumphant and make up collector numbers 287-302. The chase cards from this variant set are Tezzeret, Cruel Captain, Alpharael, Stonechosen, Sami, Wildcat Captain, and one more mythic rare to be revealed during preview season. Each of these features a central figure (all 16 cards are Creature type cards) and a vintage sci-fi background that calls back to the 1950’s space age aesthetic.
Tezzeret, Cruel Captain (Borderless Triumphant Variant), Illustrated by Magali Villeneuve
These cards will be available in Play Boosters and Collector Boosters in both Non-Foil and Traditional Foil.
Borderless Surreal Space
Continuing our journey through the “Borderless” variants brings us to the Borderless Surreal Space series which is 14 cards making up serial numbers 303-316 and featuring artwork that’s meant to be reminiscent of the final scenes of 2001: A Space Odyssey (Wizards has said they didn’t want any specific real world intellectual property to influence Edge of Eternities, but they described this series of art pieces as “trippy, mind-warping style” and if that isn’t the bright colors of 2001: A Space Odyssey I dunno what it is. Maybe it’s gone to plaid? Can I get a kickback for Spaceballs 2? Cross-promotion anyone?
Rust Harvester (Borderless Surreal Space Variant), Illustrated by Scott Balmer
Similar to the Triumphant series, these will be found in both Play and Collector Boosters in non-foil and traditional foil treatments.
Extended-Art
Back to the boring good old Extended Art variants! There are 40 of these from Edge of Eternities comprising serial numbers 317 through 356. In case you’re unfamiliar with Extended Art cards, they use the original art from the Default Frame series but then remove the outer border of the card, extending the artwork to the edge of the card. They’re really quite good looking for still being closely associated with the default card frame.
The Eternity Elevator (Extended-Art Variant), Illustrated by Josu Solano
Unlike the previous borderless variant series, these cards are only found in Collector Booster packs, so if you want to replace your default frames with these, they may not be cheap. Alternatively, since most Collector packs will be opened in search of that gorgeous Sothera variant, maybe there will be tons of these going around, especially the non-foils, that it won’t be too bad.
Japan Showcase
Moving on to serial numbers 357-366 we have some new hotness in the form of the “Out-of-This-World” Japan Showcase cards. These 10 cards will only be found in Collector Boosters and have art that is meant to be a tribute to Japanese classic Sci-Fi anime styles. They even have their own variant set for the variant in the form of Fracture Foils which have a white border outline. Also, be warned, that even if you open one of these in an English Collectors Booster pack, it will have a one-in-three chance of being in Japanese.
Starfield Vocalist (Japanese Showcase Variant), Illustrated by nina
Borderless Celestial Basic Lands
Our next five cards, 367-371, are the five basic lands but in Borderless Celestial form. These will be found at a roughly 1:5 rate in Play Boosters (one in every 5 packs) and one in every five of those will be traditional foil. You can find galactic foil versions in the Collector boosters.
Galaxy Foil Borderless Viewport Lands
As we continue to count up, serial numbers 372-381 are reserved for the Galaxy Foil variants of the Borderless Viewport lands (see above). I continue to really appreciate that Wizards gives the alternate foil treatments their own serial numbers so it’s easy to know which one you have compared to the traditional foil treatment which goes with the base serial number.
Textless Sothera, the Supervoid in Singularity Foil
With serial number 0382 all to itself, this variant of Sothera, the Supervoid is the big chase card for the Collector Boosters as this card appears in less than 1% of all booster packs and looks like something out of a Secret Lair drop. With stunning art by Micha Huigen you can’t miss this one on the table.
Sothera, the Supervoid (Textless Singularity Voil Variant), Illustrated by Micha Huigen
Japan Showcase Galaxy Foils
Again we have a Galaxy Foil run as cards 383-392 give us the Galaxy Foil renditions of the 10 Japanese Showcase cards (see above)
Promotional Cards
The rest of the run, which so far is cards 393 through 399, includes a bunch of promo cards that you get from various promotional activity like buying a box from your store, playing in a league, picking up a bundle, etc. Some of these end up fairly sought after but they’re not something you can collect from a pack. Talk to your local game shop about how you can get them, if you’re interested.
Edge of Eternities Stellar Sights (EOS)
It’s BONUS SHEET time! Similar to Final Fantasy’s Through the Ages (FCA) run, Edge of Eternities will have a bonus sheet titled “Stellar Sights” with the serial code EOS. These cards are not Standard-legal but remain legal in any older format they were already legal in. There are 45 total cards in this set and they come in two variants: Stellar Sights and Stellar Sights Posters. The Posters have a different frame and that 1950’s Sci-Fi aesthetic. Both variants are gorgeous if you ask me, and if I were picking these up I would probably try to get all 45 Galaxy Foil Stellar Sights Posters and make an amazing Edge of Eternities Poster out of them.
Mana Confluence (Stellar Sights Variant), Illustrated by Sam Burley
One in every eight Play Boosters will have one of these, with the ability to get both the Poster variant and Traditional Foil versions of each. Every Collector Booster will have one of these, and those will also have the Galaxy Foil versions as well (yes, there are six different versions across variant and foiling). The Galaxy Foils will show up about once in every nine or so Collector Boosters, so they shouldn’t be too hard to track down. But there are 45 of them, so getting any specific card, like Reflecting Pool or Ancient Tomb or (Hipsters of the Coast’s first ever preview card) Cascading Cataracts, may be difficult, especially if you want the Poster variant.
Cascading Cataracts (Stellar Sights Posters Variant), Illustrated by Sam Chivers
Edge of Eternities Special Guests (SPG)
There’s 10 more bonus cards, this time on the Special Guests serial line which is shared with a bunch of other sets. These cards will have SPG codes 0119 through 0128 and feature some really fantastic pulp science fiction comic book cover art. These very well could have been a Secret Lair on their own, and will likely be highly sought after, especially the Sliver Overlord. There’s only 10 of these, so they could make for a really nice collector piece when framed together, especially in foil treatment.
Sliver Overlord (Science Fantasy Special Guests), Illustrated by James Bousema
The non-foil versions of these can be found in Play Boosters where they will replace a common in 1.8% of packs (that’s one in roughly every 56 packs) so they will not be easy to find at all. On the other hand, 6% of Collector Boosters will have a traditional foil Special Guest card (that’s one in roughly every 17 packs). So what’s actually more rare? 56 Play packs or 17 Collectors packs? Expect these to be tricky to get in non-foil but come down over time as more packs are opened.
Edge of Eternities Commander (EOC)
Last but certainly not least are the new Commander cards added as part of the two Edge of Eternities Commander pre-constructed decks. This series introduces four new Commander cards and 20 new-to-Magic cards as well. Obviously the easiest way to get these cards is to pick up both Commander decks which include the entire set of new card. But, there are variants of these 24 new cards. Every Collector Booster will have one of the 24 cards, but there are no foil treatments. You’ll have a 9% chance of grabbing one of the borderless Commander cards and a 91% chance of getting an Extended-Art variant of one of the 20 new rare cards.
So the only way to get the foil versions of the new Commanders (four cards) is to buy the pre-constructed decks. Otherwise you can only get non-foil versions in Collector boosters.
Edge of Eternities Art Cards
There’s 54 of them. I dunno what else to tell you. You either like collecting these or you don’t. The Final Fantasy art series was likely in much higher demand than the usual art series. I think these are great for collectors, but I also understand that the lack of legality makes them essentially worthless.
Anyways, that’s all for Collecting Edge of Eternities and this edition (the very first collector’s edition!) of Collecting: Edge of Eternities. We’ll be back in a few months with Collecting: Spider-Man!
Rich Stein (He/Him) has been collecting cards since he was a child with sports trading cards in the late 1980’s before making the seamless transition into collecting gaming cards in the mid-1990’s. He has sold his entire paper Magic collection twice (once to pay for a car and once to pay for a wedding) and now only has Doctor Who and Final Fantasy Commander Decks for tangible play sessions. Otherwise he’s moved his collecting addiction to Magic Arena but is still happy to live vicariously through giving the rest of you advice on how to fill your living space with collectible cardboard!