There are 20 Special Guests in this set. This is twice as many individual Special Guests as we’ve seen in any other set they’ve appeared in, but they will still be appearing in roughly 1.82% of packs. While the drop rate hasn’t changed, this means you’re about half as likely to see any individual Special Guest as you normally are.
The following Special Guests are in this set:
Thousand-Year Elixir
Painter’s Servant
Door of Destinies
Dolmen Gate
Slippery Bogle
Risen Reef
Manamorphose
Regal Force
Leaf-Crowned Visonary
Helix Pinnacle
Devoted Druid
Heat Shimmer
Goblin Sharpshooter
Goblin Chieftain
Faerie Macabre
Bitterblossom
Wanderwine Prophets
Mistbind Clique
Kinsbaile Cavalier
Idyllic Tutor
As always, these Special Guests are legal in Limited, but otherwise their set legality will not change based on these printings.
The Play Booster breakdown by Rarity is:
81 Commons
100 Uncommons
60 Rares
28 Mythic Rares
15 Basic Lands (5 normal frame, 5 full art Shadowmoor lands, 5 full art Lorwyn lands)
The most common Lorwyn Eclipsed Play Booster will have the following breakdown:
Common: 8
Uncommon: 4
Rare: 1
Basic Land: 1
The frequency you’ll see any specific card of each rarity per 8 person draft pod, on average, is as follows:
Common: ~2.3
Uncommon: ~0.94
Rare: ~0.52
Mythic: ~0.19
Special Guest: ~0.02
Prerelease packs will conatin the following:
6 Lorwyn Eclipsed Play Boosters
1 Traditional foil promo card
Note that these will no longer be date-stamped
1 Deck Box
1 Spindown die
Play Booster Slot Breakdown
Slots 1 – 6: Always A Common
Slot 7: A Common ~98.2% of the time, and a Special Guest ~1.8% of the time
Slots 8 – 10: Always an Uncommon
There are 10 Uncommon Fable Frame cards that will appear ~10% of the time
Slot 11: Always a Rare or Mythic Rare, broken out as follows:
Rare (Normal Frame) ~78.2% of the time
Mythic Rare (Normal Frame) ~13.6% of the time
Rare (Fable Frame) ~4.6% of the time
Mythic Rare (Fable Frame) ~1.2% of the time
Rare (Borderless Nonland) <1% of the time
Mythic Rare (Borderless Nonland) <1% of the time
Borderless reversible Shock land <1% of the time
Slot 12: Always a non-foil card, broken out as follows:
Common (Normal Frame) ~18% of the time
Uncommon (Normal Frame) ~58% of the time
Rare (Normal Frame) ~ 19% of the time
Mythic Rare (Normal Frame) ~2% of the time
Uncommon (Fable Frame) ~2% of the time
Rare (Fable Frame) <1% of the time
Mythic Rare (Fable Frame) <1% of the time
Rare (Borderless Nonland) <1% of the time
Mythic Rare (Borderless Nonland) <1% of the time
Borderless Reversible Shock Land <1% of the time
Slot 13: Always a Foil card, broken out as follows:
Common (Normal Frame) ~60.4% of the time
Uncommon (Normal Frame) ~29.8% of the time
Rare (Normal Frame) ~6.5% of the time
Mythic Rare (Normal Frame) ~1.1% of the time
Uncommon (Fable Frame) ~1% of the time
Rare (Fable Frame) ~1% of the time
Mythic Rare (Fable Frame) <1% of the time
Rare (Borderless nonland) <1% of the time
Mythic Rare (Borderless nonland) <1% of the time
Borderless Reversible Shock Land <1% of the time
Slot 14: Always a Basic Land, broken out as follows:
Non-foil (Normal Frame) ~40% of the time
Non-foil (Full Art) ~40% of the time
Foil (Normal Frame) ~10% of the time
Foil (Full Art) ~10% of the time
Slot 15: Always a helper card or double-sided token