Summary
A lot ofMagic: The Gatheringnews just hit all at once, and there’s a chance you missed one pretty big detail while catching up on the updates about set rotations changes and the legality of Universes Beyond sets starting next year - the return of Manufacturer’s Suggested Retail Prices, or MSRPs. Something that Wizards Of The Coast decided to remove from its MTG products almost six years ago.
MSRP is exactly what the acronym suggests when expanded. Prices suggested by the manufacturer of a product that the retailers selling those products can either adhere to, use as a guide, or ignore. When Wizards stopped issuing MSRPs for Magic products in 2019,it noted that the reason for doing sowas a dislike of MSRPs in certain parts of the world which, in turn, had led to some confusion among MTG players around the world.
Fast forward to today’s statement revealing Magic MSRPs are back during the MagicCon panel in Las Vegas, the reason given for their return was the lack of an “anchor point” for the prices of its products. Even though retailers will still be able to charge whatever they like for MTG products, even with the return of MSRPs, Wizards notes Magic players were attaching an arbitrary price to new sets and packs based on the first price they saw, and that often, those prices didn’t reflect the true value of the products.
MSRPs Will Return To Magic: The Gathering Starting With Foundations
As for why now, the first Magic products to have an MSRP set by Wizards Of The Coast since 2019 will be ones that are a part of its upcoming Foundations set. An important set to have suggested prices not only because they will be lower than many other MTG products, but also because Foundations will largely be aimed at bringing new players into MTG. Wizards won’t want potential players put off by confusing and inflated prices, and below it has detailed what the MSRPs will be for Foundations when the set is released next month.
Foundations MSRP
Wizards has also set MSRPs for Aetherdrift and Innistrad Remastered, noting that the set prices are the same as the ones that would have been used for Bloomburrow and Duskmourn: House Of Horror had it been using MSRPs when those sets were released.
Aetherdrift MSRPs
Again, this doesn’t mean this is what all of the MTG products listed above will now cost everywhere you look for them. These are just suggested prices directly from the source so if players are ever baffled by prices, or if they think they might be about to get ripped off, they can refer back to these MSRPs to make sure they’re not paying over the odds for sets, packs, and bundles.
Magic: The Gathering Foundations Bundle
Magic: The Gathering’s Foundations is a set that has been specifically designed to help onboard new players. Foundations will be legal in Standard play for five years rather than the usual three, and this bundle includes nine boosters to get you started along with a card featuring alternate art exclusive to this bundle
