Just a few hours ago, a WeeklyMTG livestream revealed some intriguing information about Aetherdrift. Aetherdrift is the first premier set coming in 2025, releasing on February 14th. While this livestream didn’t showcase any previews directly, it did provide some insight into various products players can purchase.
Among these products are your typical bundles and Commander Precons. On top of that, though, another unique bundle known as the “Finish Line Bundle” has been announced. This one comes with some interesting goodies we’re not used to seeing in a bundle.
Aetherdrift Bundle
Kicking things off, we have the traditional Aetherdrift Bundle. Bundles have been a mainstay in MTG for many years, and this bundle follows a similar design as previous iterations.
The bread-and-butter portion of the bundle remains the nine Play Boosters that come in a convenient storage box. From there, you’ll find 40 basic lands, generally evenly distributed. Throw in a spindown die, a traditional foil alternate-art card (not revealed yet), and a coupl ofe reference cards, and you’ve got a nice collection on your hands.
The current MSRP listing for these bundles is $53.99. Considering that Play Boosters are listed at $5.49 a piece and the bundle comes with nine of them, so long as you’re interested in the storage box, basic land pack, and spindown die, the bundle is worth the price.
Finish Line Aetherdrift Bundle
By contrast, the Finish Line bundle is valued at $79.99 based on MSRP. This is a big jump up, but luckily, there are a multitude of sweet inclusions that differentiate this bundle from the previous one.
First of all, rather than receiving nine Play Boosters, you get six Play Boosters and two Collector Boosters. Collector Boosters are at a premium for anyone who enjoys cards with all sorts of booster fun treatments. Collector Boosters even give you the chance to “strike it rich” by opening a premier version of chase cards non included in Play Boosters.
Rather than receiving 40 basic lands, you’ll receive 20 foil ones. 15 will be traditional foil, while the other five are “first place” foil basic lands. It’s unclear how these will differ, so keep your eyes open for clarification as we get closer to the set’s release.
You’ll also get three promo cards and a foil box topper for your troubles. Once again, we don’t have information about the selection of cards you can pull. Nonetheless, box toppers are always neat additions for collectors.
Finally, players will get their hands on five stickers and an oversized spindown die. The MSRP for the Finish Line Bundle is $79.99. With collector boosters listed at $24.99 a piece, the Play Boosters and Collector Boosters nearly pay for this product by themselves. As such, this bundle could easily make for a nice gift option for anyone who loves MTG.
Commander Precons
Lastly, we wanted to share the deck boxes for two Commander Precons that are appearing alongside the Aetherdrift main set release. The first deck is Living Energy. This Temur shell is focused on stockpiling energy and charging up artifact creatures.
Seeing this theme in Aetherdrift is not surprising in the slightest. Aetherdrift is all about vehicles. Both vehicles and energy were introduced in the Kaladesh block. There’s no better color combination to make this deck, either, given how busted Temur energy decks were in Standard back in the day.
Chances are, there are a bunch of vehicles like Bespoke Battlewagon that give you the option of spending energy to crew your heavy hitters. The card art clearly depicts Saheeli Rai, so maybe the new face Commander has the ability to turn your noncreature artifacts into creatures. Whatever the case may be, expect some sweet vehicle and energy-focused reprints alongside some neat new designs.
The second deck is a bit more peculiar. Known as Eternal Might, this Esper deck focuses on burning through cards and growing your Mummy army. This deck is almost certainly centered around recursive threats that are hard to deal with.
As for burning through cards, perhaps there’s a card advantage subtheme going on where you can use your extra resources to buy back your creatures when they die. It would be rather fitting for the Commander to help you resurrect your creatures and have them come back as Mummies.
For now, though, this is all speculation. We’ll be sure to share any new information about these Commander Precons and Bundles as they circulate. So, definitely check back in for updates in the near future.
