Nauctis: The Sunken Realm Release Date, Products and Prices
Wizards published Collecting Nauctis on November 13, 2026. Here is the 2027 calendar, every product with its price, what is in the new 14-card Booster Pack and 12-card Collector Booster, the Booster Fun card counts, and the seven cards revealed so far.
A Nauctis Booster Pack costs $5.49 and holds 14 Magic cards, and the slot that used to be a guaranteed foil is now either a non-foil common or a foil rare or mythic. That is the trade the 2027 booster changes promised, and as of November 13 it has a set attached to it.
Wizards published Collecting Nauctis: The Sunken Realm | A First Look on November 13, 2026, written by Ben Bleiweiss, Jubilee Finnegan and Kendall Pepple, alongside Laurel Pratt's Planeswalker's Guide to Nauctis. Between them you get the release calendar, the MSRP list, the slot list for both booster types, Booster Fun card counts and the setting. Pack percentages are not in it yet; the article says more product details are "soon to come". If you want the why behind God Packs and the foil cut, that is our God Packs and 2027 booster changes explainer. This post is the what, for Nauctis specifically.
The dates: story, Prerelease, rotation, release
All dates are from Wizards' Collecting article, and every one of them falls between January and April 2027.
| Date | What happens |
|---|---|
| January 4, 2027 | The Nauctis story begins on DailyMTG and The Magic Story Podcast |
| January 29 | Standard rotation |
| January 29 to February 4 | Prerelease events |
| February 1 to 28 | Magic Presents: Black History Month Celebration |
| February 2 | MTG Arena release |
| February 5 | Tabletop release |
| February 5 to April 1 | Two-Headed Giant Commander Night, Magic Academy, Friday Night Magic, Standard Showdown |
| February 12 to 18 | Commander Party, Part 1 |
| February 19 to March 18 | Store Championship |
| February 26 to 28 | MagicCon: Detroit and Pro Tour Nauctis |
| March 5 to April 1 | Magic Presents: Sunken Trove |
| March 13 to 14 | Magic Spotlight: Nauctis in Zagreb, Croatia |
| March 19 to 25 | Commander Party, Part 2 |
| March 20 to 21 | Magic Spotlight: Nauctis in Toronto, Canada |
The rotation line is the one to plan around. Wizards' October 12, 2026 banned and restricted announcement says Nauctis triggers an extra-large rotation that removes Wilds of Eldraine, The Lost Caverns of Ixalan, Murders at Karlov Manor, Outlaws of Thunder Junction with The Big Score, Bloomburrow and Duskmourn: House of Horror. The Collecting article now pins tabletop rotation to January 29, the first day of Prerelease. On MTG Arena, Alchemy is removed on February 2 as part of the same changeover; our Alchemy retirement post has those dates. The Pro Tour is Nauctis Draft plus Modern, and the Pro Tour qualification guide covers the routes in.
Every product, its price and what it holds
| Product | MSRP | What is inside |
|---|---|---|
| Booster Pack | $5.49 | 14 Magic cards plus a double-sided token. Boxes hold 30 packs and a Box Topper. |
| Collector Booster | $26.99 | 12 Magic cards plus an art card or foil token. Boxes hold 12 packs and a Box Topper. |
| Commander Deck (x4) | $49.99 | 100 cards: 2 traditional foil new-to-Magic commanders, 98 non-foil cards including 10 new-to-Magic cards, 10 tokens, deck box |
| Premium Edition Commander Deck (x4) | $79.99 | Same lists with borderless traditional foil commanders, all 98 other cards in traditional foil, tokens foil on one side |
| Bundle | $57.99 | 9 Booster Packs, 1 traditional foil promo, 30 basic lands, spindown die, storage box |
| Secret Lair Bundle | $89.99 | 6 Booster Packs, 2 Collector Boosters, 2 of 10 foil Secret Lair promos, 20 foil full-art basics, spindown die, storage box |
| Draft Night | $89.99 | 12 Booster Packs, 1 Collector Booster, 90 basic lands, 10 tokens |
| Prerelease Pack | Not listed | 6 Booster Packs, 1 traditional foil rare or mythic rare, deck box, spindown die |
The four Commander decks are Merfolk Regiment, Terrors of the Abyss, Blood in the Water and Seal the Deal. Wizards has not named their commanders yet.
The MSRPs match Reality Fracture's line for line where the products overlap, per Wizards' Collecting Reality Fracture: $5.49, $26.99, $57.99 Bundle, $89.99 Secret Lair Bundle and Draft Night. So the price of a pack did not move while its contents did.
Run the bundles against the single-pack MSRPs and they split three ways:
- Bundle: 9 Booster Packs are $49.41 at MSRP, so the promo, 30 lands, die and box cost $8.58.
- Secret Lair Bundle: 6 Booster Packs plus 2 Collector Boosters are $86.92, so the two promos, 20 foil full-art basics and die cost $3.07.
- Draft Night: 12 Booster Packs plus a Collector Booster are $92.87, so it is $2.88 cheaper than buying them loose, with the lands thrown in.
A full Booster Pack box at the per-pack MSRP is $164.70 and a Collector box is $323.88. Wizards' MSRP list has no box prices, so those are per-pack arithmetic, not a published box price.
What is in a Nauctis Booster Pack
"Booster Pack" is the new name for what used to be the Play Booster. Here is the slot list Wizards published:
| Slot | Cards |
|---|---|
| Common | 6 |
| Common or Special Guests card | 1 |
| Uncommon | 3 |
| Rare or mythic rare | 1 |
| Uncommon, rare or mythic rare | 1 |
| Non-foil common, or traditional foil rare or mythic rare | 1 |
| Basic land | 1 |
| Magic cards | 14 |
| Non-foil double-sided token | +1 |
Line it up against Collecting Reality Fracture and the change that matters is in that sixth row. Reality Fracture's Play Booster had "1 Traditional foil card", which was a common 49.5% of the time and an uncommon 40.5%. The Nauctis slot can still be a foil, but only a rare or mythic. Otherwise it is a plain common. Wizards has not said how often each outcome lands.
The pack also stays at 14 cards, which our God Packs post flagged as an open question in October. Special Guests share a slot with a common (SPG cards are legal in Commander, Legacy and Vintage, and playable in Nauctis Draft and Sealed when opened). One in about 1,000 Booster Packs is a Booster God Pack: 10 non-foil rares or mythics, 2 non-foil Booster Fun rares or mythics, 2 traditional foil Booster Fun rares or mythics and a celebration card.
What is in a Nauctis Collector Booster
| Slot | Reality Fracture (15 cards) | Nauctis (12 cards) |
|---|---|---|
| Traditional foil commons | 4 | 3 |
| Foil uncommons | 5 (2 regular, 3 echoed pairs) | 3 |
| Basic land | 1 traditional foil tower basic | 1 non-foil or traditional foil basic |
| Traditional foil rare or mythic | 1 | 1 |
| Non-foil rare or mythic from the Commander set | 1 (braintwister or Booster Fun FRC) | 1 (NAC) |
| Non-foil Booster Fun rare or mythic | 2 | 2 |
| Foil Booster Fun rare or mythic | 1 | 1 |
| Art card or foil double-sided token | +1 | +1 |
The five rare-or-mythic slots survive intact. The cut lands entirely on foil commons and uncommons: one fewer common and two fewer uncommons than Reality Fracture. At the same $26.99, cost per Magic card goes from $1.80 to $2.25.
One in about 300 Collector Boosters is a Collector God Pack: a foil land, 3 foil rares or mythics, 3 non-foil Booster Fun rares or mythics, 5 foil Booster Fun rares or mythics and a celebration card.
Booster Fun treatments and card counts
| Treatment | Cards | Where you find it |
|---|---|---|
| Abyssal Lotus headliner (textless raised foil, art by Kelogsloops) | 1, about 500 printed | Collector Boosters only, in English in every language's Collector Boosters |
| Sunken treasures (pearlescent) | 20: 15 classic reprints, 5 new-to-Magic | Box Toppers only, 1 per Booster Pack box and Collector box |
| Sunken treasures (undersea foil, new this set) | Same 20 | Collector Boosters only |
| Ocean panorama (triptychs with connected flavor text) | 24 | Booster Packs and Collector Boosters, non-foil and traditional foil |
| Coral frame | 38 | Booster Packs and Collector Boosters, non-foil and traditional foil |
| Borderless rare lands | 7 | Booster Packs and Collector Boosters, non-foil and traditional foil |
| Japan Showcase | 10 | Traditional foil in Booster Packs and Collector Boosters; fracture foil in Collector Boosters only |
| Secret Lair Bundle promos | 10 | Secret Lair Bundle only, 2 per bundle |
Two notes. The Japan Showcase run is ten cards, and the rule for language is fixed: Japanese boosters always give the Japanese printing, every other language gives English. And Wizards adds that "even more borderless treasures await", so this table is not the final Booster Fun list.
The one sunken treasures card the Collecting article shows is Crucible of Worlds, in both its pearlescent (0345) and undersea foil (0365) versions. Scryfall catalogues the pearlescent one under the Commander set code, NAC, not NAU.
The seven cards revealed so far
Scryfall's NAU set list held seven distinct cards across 24 printings on November 14. Their text, from Scryfall:
| Card | Cost and type | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Salinae, the Ocean Mother | {6}{U}{U} Legendary Whale God, 5/7, mythic | Costs X less where X is your devotion to blue. Trample. Whenever you cast an artifact or creature spell, copy it as a 1/1 Fish. |
| Tecton, Malignant Ruin | {6}{B}{B} Legendary Elemental Kraken, 5/5, mythic | Fathomless descent: costs 1 less per permanent card in your graveyard. Menace, deathtouch. Draw a card whenever you sacrifice another permanent. |
| Goramou the Coral-Taken | {1}{R}{G} Legendary Shark, 3/4, rare | Makes a Blood token on entry. When you discard lands, exile one and put it onto the battlefield tapped at the next end step. |
| Calmwater Mentor | {2}{W}{W} Seal Monk, 3/2, mythic | On entry, search for up to two creature cards with power 2 or less. |
| Abyssal Lotus | {0} Artifact, mythic | Enters tapped. Descend 8: tap and exile it for three mana of one color, only with eight or more permanent cards in your graveyard. |
| Ring of Unity | {7} Artifact, mythic | Your artifacts have "{T}: Add {C}{C}." |
| Shimmering Citadel | Land, rare | Enters tapped, taps for W or U. Exhaust: {3}{W}{U}, {T}, draw two and gain 1 life. |
Descend and fathomless descent come from The Lost Caverns of Ixalan, and exhaust from Aetherdrift, per Scryfall's earliest printings. So the first look is mostly returning graveyard-count mechanics; what Wizards calls the set's new take on evasion "in a world without flying" has not been shown on a card yet.
Our read, for what seven cards are worth: Salinae is the Commander card here. In a blue-heavy deck it gets cheap fast and turns every creature and artifact you cast into two bodies. Abyssal Lotus is the opposite of its name's history. It enters tapped and needs eight permanent cards in your graveyard, so it is a self-mill payoff, not fast mana.
The plane: whale gods, Stranders and the Abyss
Wizards' Planeswalker's Guide calls Nauctis Magic's first underwater plane: an ocean with no remaining dry land. Five whale gods sing the currents into motion, and each grants a school of magic: Cambra (air), Salinae (tide), Lodea (brine), Ruptra (sonic) and Ethuo (algae).
The guide splits the world into a water column:
| Layer | Who lives there |
|---|---|
| The Surface | The Stranders, mostly humans and pinneon (sealfolk) in stilt cities; chordatan (sharkfolk) pirates raid from here too |
| Shallow Ocean | Kelp forests and rural merfolk cities, contested by chordatan fleets |
| The Grand Marine | Merfolk cities, homarid traders and decalid (squidfolk) warlocks; the whale gods swim here |
| The Abyss | Cold, crushing dark, with "an ancient evil" under the ocean floor |
That maps neatly onto the four Commander deck names: Merfolk Regiment, Terrors of the Abyss, Blood in the Water (sharks, and Goramou's Blood token is a hint) and Seal the Deal (pinneon, like Calmwater Mentor). Wizards has not confirmed the decks' colors or commanders, so treat that pairing as our reading of the names.
What Wizards has not published yet
- Pack percentages. No odds for the Booster Pack's foil-or-common slot, the Japan Showcase draw or any Booster Fun treatment.
- Commanders and colors for the four decks.
- The set size, and the five new-to-Magic sunken treasures cards.
- Prerelease Pack MSRP. It is not on the MSRP list.
Wizards says more product details are coming, and Reality Fracture's Collecting article carried full slot percentages. Check the Nauctis Collecting page again before buying on odds.
Quick Action Checklist
- Mark the dates: Prerelease January 29 to February 4, Arena February 2, tabletop February 5, 2027.
- Rotation lands January 29. Seven sets leave Standard; trade out of them before Prerelease weekend, not after.
- Booster Pack: $5.49, 14 cards, and the old foil slot is now a non-foil common unless it hits a foil rare or mythic.
- Collector Booster: $26.99, 12 cards. Same five rare-or-mythic slots as Reality Fracture, three fewer foil commons and uncommons.
- Best bundle value: the Secret Lair Bundle's extras cost $3.07 over its packs; Draft Night saves $2.88.
- Chasing Abyssal Lotus? Only about 500 headliners exist, Collector Boosters only.
- Commander player? Four decks at $49.99, or $79.99 for the all-foil Premium Editions. Commanders are not revealed yet.
- Want odds? Wait for the updated Collecting article.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Keep Reading
- Wizards of the Coast — Collecting Nauctis: The Sunken Realm | A First Look (November 13, 2026: dates, MSRPs, pack contents, Booster Fun counts)
- Wizards of the Coast — Planeswalker's Guide to Nauctis: The Sunken Realm (Laurel Pratt, November 13, 2026)
- Wizards of the Coast — Collecting Reality Fracture (Play Booster and Collector Booster contents and MSRPs, for comparison)
- Wizards of the Coast — Banned and Restricted Announcement, October 12, 2026 (sets leaving Standard at the Nauctis rotation)
- Scryfall — Nauctis: The Sunken Realm (NAU) set list (7 cards, 24 printings, checked November 14, 2026)
- Scryfall — Crucible of Worlds, sunken treasures printing (NAC 345)
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