Wizards of the Coast announced Festival in a Box: Atlanta 2026 on DailyMTG on 5 October. It is the Secret Lair box that brings a MagicCon's exclusives to your door, and this time the headline is what sits inside: a full box of Mystery Booster Commander Edition, a Commander product packed with never-before-printed commanders that, until now, nobody could simply buy. The sale opens on Monday 19 October on the Secret Lair store.
What's in the box
- One box of Mystery Booster Commander Edition: 24 packs of 20 cards.
- Secret Gallery: Atlanta Foil Edition: four cards illustrated by Atlanta artists (Parallax Tide, Regrowth, Viridian Revel and Assassin's Trophy).
- Four promos: full-art, textless foil Dance of the Dead, Tana, the Bloodsower and Tymna the Weaver, plus the playtest card Auspicious Aquarium.
It costs $249.99, limited to two boxes per customer. TheGamer notes that is $50 more than the Amsterdam Festival in a Box, and that the sale starts at 9am Pacific time: 5pm in the UK and Ireland, 6pm in Paris, Berlin, Madrid and Rome. The announcement only lists a dollar price, so check the euro or pound total and the shipping cost on the store page before you join the queue.
Inside a Mystery Booster Commander pack
Each pack holds fifteen commons or uncommons, three per colour, one reprint wildcard, one existing rare or mythic commander, one commander that is new to Magic, one card in the Future Sight frame and one playtest card. EDHREC counts around sixty brand-new commanders in total, and Wizards puts the chance of the new commander being foil at 4.75%. Playtest cards such as Auspicious Aquarium are not tournament legal: they are meant for Commander tables that agree to use them.
Two things the announcement leaves open: when the new commanders become legal, and whether Mystery Booster Commander Edition will ever be sold on its own in stores. Until Wizards says more, this box is the only known way to get it.
What it means for your collection
For Commander players, the draw is those new commanders, whose supply currently hangs on a product capped at two per person. That kind of card tends to spike in its first weeks and settle if Wizards reprints it or brings it to retail. For collectors, the textless Tymna and Tana promos are the pieces to watch. Before paying for singles, compare against the full card list and prices for every Magic set.