Lost Legends in Dominaria United: Complete List and Rarities

Last updated on August 8, 2022

Xira Arien | Illustration by Melissa A. Benson

Wizards announced an incredibly exciting promotion coming in the Dominaria United collector boosters during the set’s initial “Weekly MTG” preview stream: some packs will contain cards from the original 1994 Legends set. This is an incredibly unique promo that many wouldn’t have thought possible before the announcement.

These inserts aren’t new prints, but original cards printed in that release! How exactly did this promotion come about, and how can you take advantage of it? Let’s find out!

What Are Lost Legends?

Azusa, Lost but Seeking | Illustration by Winona Nelson

Lost Legends is an upcoming promotion in Dominaria United. Collector booster packs have a chance to contain a random card from the 1994 set Legends. The hype with these packs is their chance to contain a sought-after or valuable card (emphasis on “chance”).

But the Lost Legends can be of any rarity, so you could also pull an uninspiring common. This is still a very cool promotion that I’m excited to take part in.

How are WotC able to run a promotion like this? Well, apparently a “lost” supply of Legends booster boxes was recently found at a warehouse in Washington state. These boxes (or at least some of them) were cracked, and the single cards inside them were added to the distribution of Dominaria United.

What Products Are Lost Legends Found in?

Lost Legends cards are only found in Dominaria United collector booster packs.

This is arguably the main downside of the promotion. Lost Legends are only available to players who can afford to open the most expensive boosters of the set. Those who are only able to open draft boosters and set boosters are effectively excluded from the promotion.

What Are the Chances of Getting a Lost Legends Card?

Lost Legends cards appear in 3% of collector boosters, which is still relatively frequent for these packs. Collector boxes contain 12 boosters in this set, so the chance of pulling at least one Lost Legends card in a box is around three in ten (0.36 to be exact).

There’s no indication so far whether it’s impossible to get more than one Lost Legends card per box.

List of Lost Legends Cards

There are a total of 244 cards from Legends included in the promotion. These are:

List of Cards Not Included in Lost Legends 

For a few different reasons, a handful of cards from the original Legends set aren’t included in this promotion. Some of them just weren’t found in the boxes that are being used for Lost Legends.

There was also a print run error in Legends where only half of the uncommons in the set were included in a given batch of boxes. This batch is from the half that includes Pendelhaven but not the likes of Land Tax or Mana Drain.

The following cards aren’t included in Lost Legends:

There are also cards that were essentially “removed from MTG” in June 2020 for racism and cultural issues, as well as cards featuring artwork by artists that don’t share WotC’s current social values. These cards are:

Most Valuable and Noteworthy Lost Legends Cards

There are some absolute bangers in Legends, but none more so than The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale. It’s worth around $4,000 in good condition, and you’d expect it to be in amazing pack-fresh condition cracking it from a sealed collector booster! It’s also a Reserved List card, so it’s not likely to be reprinted soon.

Other notable cards like Chains of Mephistopheles, Moat, and The Abyss are all valued around the $1,000 to $1,500 mark. There are tons of other cards in the $100 range, and there’s also going to be an awful lot of (admittedly cool) bulk included in this promotion.

Why Is Wizards Doing This?

This is a cool promotion that will get players excited for the Dominaria United. Hype is already building: nobody really expects to get anything valuable in the packs, but the chance of it is tempting enough. The low odds of getting something valuable makes it even more exciting for whoever eventually gets those cards.

The promotion isn’t entirely without precedent. The original Zendikar set had a promotion called “Forgotten Treasures” that included cards from a variety of early sets, including Power 9 cards and other Reserved List cards. The cards for that promo were apparently bought from the secondary market, unlike with Lost Legends. Social media and MTG content creation are an entirely different beast these days, so the publicity that this promotion will get is going to be orders of magnitude greater.

Wizards may also be doing this because it just makes sense. Keeping the cards would have brought along storage and insurance costs, and almost any price that Wizards set for a “found” box of Legends would be controversial. The inclusion of Lost Legends in Dominaria United packs, the set that kicks off Magic’s 30th year, seems like a slam dunk.

Is the Story Behind Lost Legends Real or BS?

Some in the community believe that the story of finding these boxes is entirely fictional and that the Lost Legends are actually freshly-printed cards. I don’t believe this at all.

Ignoring the fact that it would be virtually impossible to mimic the card stock used in the original set, I don’t see why Wizards would choose to include Legends over something like Revised if they had a choice.

Wizards also gave out Legends packs at some events around 2018 to 2019. Three to four years between finding the boxes and figuring out the best place way to use them seems reasonable for a company of this size, especially if someone was keeping an eye on upcoming anniversaries.

Legends Found

Confounding Conundrum | Illustration by Bryan Sola

The Lost Legends promotion is causing quite a stir across the internet. Players are already posting their pre-orders of collector boxes! It’s clearly popular and I think Wizards is very happy with the buzz it’s created.

Does this promotion tempt you to buy a collector booster? Are you going to go all in and hunting for a Tabernacle? Or are you just happy to see your friends crack Kobolds of Kher Keep? Let me know down below or over on Draftsim’s Twitter.

Whether you’re seeking to find Legends or not, may all your pulls be legendary!