Nearby Planet | Illustration by Bruce Brenneise
Wizards has put a lot of care to make cracking packs exciting with Project Booster Fun, an initiative that primarily manifests in alternate arts and borders and special foil treatments on cards you can open in booster packs.
The foil treatments often express a specific flavor or design philosophy by altering which parts of the foil shine, or even by adding designs into the foil itself. One such product is galaxy foils, which bring the wonder of the cosmos to a Magic card near you. Here’s everything you need to know about galaxy foils in MTG.
What Is a Galaxy Foil in MTG?
Cascading Cataracts | Illustration by Andrew Mar
Galaxy foils in Magic are a special foil treatment with stars and planets woven through the foil layer. They add a space-theming flair to the foils, which gives the sets that have them—as of writing, Unfinity and Edge of Eternities—a unique, specific flavor.
Here’s a video from CoolStuffInc that shows off the galaxy foil treatment in all its sparkly glory:
How Do You Identify a Galaxy Foil?
Galaxy foils have a shiny, reflective treatment with star and planet motifs printed in the foiling. This manifests as a series of bright points of varying sizes that adorn the card. Some larger ones with a touch of detail for the planets, but most are small, distant points of starlight.
You can also identify galaxy foils based on the sets, because very few sets have used the treatment; there’s two Secret Lair drops, plus Unfinity and Edges of Eternity. If anybody tries to sell a galaxy foil that isn’t from those sets, you’re getting scammed.
How Do You Get Galaxy Foils?
If you want a specific card in galaxy foil, your best bet is to head to your local game store or an online retailer like TCGplayer to buy the singles you need. It’s the only way to guarantee that you get that Breeding Pool or Baaallerina.
You can also crack packs to find them and chase the high of finding something rare and shiny. If you want to collect galaxy foils from Unfinity, they’re only available in Collector boosters, which contain 3-5 galaxy foils, including at least one rare and one space-ic land.
Edge of Eternities also only offers galaxy foils in its Collector boosters, but they have no dedicated slot and appear at a much lower rate.
What Types of Packs Have Galaxy Foils?
As of Edges of Eternity, only Collector boosters have a chance to contain galaxy foils, and only Collector boosters from Unfinity and Edge of Eternities.
What Sets Have Galaxy Foils?
Galaxy foils have appeared in two traditional sets thus far: Unfinity, released in 2022, and Edge of Eternities, released in 2025.
Additionally, two Secret Lairs have used the galaxy foil treatment: Through the Wormhole and Totally Spaced Out. These were part of the Secretversary superdrop.
- BATTLE FOR THE FATE OF A DYING STAR—Explore distant planets, wield dazzling magic, and wage war with alien factions
- LAUNCH YOUR COSMIC COLLECTION—Collector Boosters are the ultimate way to add unique and exclusive cards to your collection, with tons of foils, special card treatments, and more
- MAY CONTAIN GALAXY FOIL CARDS—Make your deck sparkle like starlight with 0–3 Galaxy Foil cards in each Edge of Eternities Collector Booster
- POWER IN RARITY—Collect some of the hardest-to-find cards with 5 cards of rarity Rare or higher in every pack
- COLLECTOR BOOSTER BOX CONTENTS—12 Edge of Eternities Collector Boosters, with 15 MTG cards in each pack
What Are the Odds of Opening a Galaxy Foil?
Unfinity Collector boosters contain a minimum of three galaxy foil cards, with dedicated slots for one galaxy foil rare or mythic, one common or uncommon, and one galaxy foil full-art space-ic land—which is replaced by a borderless galaxy foil shock land in 4% of boosters.
At most, you can find five galaxy foils in the Collector booster, as there’s a slot for an uncommon card and a rare/mythic rare card that can be in traditional foil or galaxy foil.
Edge of Eternities Collector boosters lack slots dedicated solely to galaxy foils, so you aren’t guaranteed any, but several slots contain the chance at a galaxy foil. If the odds are in your favor, you can have as many as three galaxy foils.
All Collector boosters have a celestial basic land, which comes in traditional foil 66.6% of the time and galaxy foil 33.3% of the time.
EOE also has a slot dedicated to the Stellar Sights bonus sheet; you can get a galaxy foil Stellar Sights land 6% of the time at rare, or 1.5% of the time at mythic rare. You can also open the special post Stellar Sights lands at 3% for rare and less than 1% of the time for mythic.
The last EOE slot that can contain a galaxy foil is dedicated to Foil Booster Fun cards, which contain a galaxy foil rare or mythic rare borderless viewport land, with odds of 2% and 1%, respectively.
All these numbers came from Wizard’s articles that break down which cards are in which packs; if you want to read further, here’s the one for Unfinity, and for Edge of Eternities.
Are Galaxy Foils Valuable?
The value of a foil is a tricky thing, because it often correlates to the demand for a card and scarcity. Galaxy foils of in-demand cards like the borderless shock lands from Unfinity are incredibly valuable and all go for well over $100, but those are also exceptionally rare. The space-ic lands from Unfinity are also pretty pricey, for basics at least, and they run for $3-13 depending on the art and land. Meanwhile, random commons and uncommon like Baaallerina go for cents.
Edge of Eternities galaxy foils are likely to be much more valuable than their Unfinity counterparts due to the much lower odds to find them, and fewer possible cards that use the treatment; there aren’t really any random commons in EOE in galaxy foil. The closest you get are the celestial basics, but players often want a bunch of basics for their deck, which drives up demand.
- 12 Unfinity MTG Collector Boosters plus 1 foil Borderless Shock Land box topper card
- The very first Un-set Collector Boosters—15 foil Magic cards plus 1 foil token in each booster
- 1 Traditional Foil reprint from a previous Un-set in every pack
- 1 Galaxy Foil and 1 Traditional Foil space-themed land in every pack—1 Galaxy Foil Borderless Shock Land in 4 percent of packs
- Total of 3–5 Galaxy Foils plus 10–12 Traditional Foil cards in every pack
Galaxy Foils vs. Traditional Foils
Galaxy foils have a similarly reflective treatment to a traditional foil, but they have that star and planet motif that makes them immediately recognizable. They also have a slightly textured surface which makes them tactically different from traditional foils. The galaxy foils also have more of a matte finish.
Galaxy Foils vs. Surge Foils
Surge foils also have a special treatment, except they don’t have a motif like the galaxy foils. Surge foils have a reflective rainbow treatment that streaks across the card, almost like somebody stirred up the foiling. They’re easy to distinguish from galaxy foils because they have a streak/band type of appearance compared to galaxy foils, which have a speckled or sparkly appearance due to the many small points of stars.
Can All Cards Be Found in Galaxy Foils, or Only Certain Ones?
In Unfinity, cards numbered 287-537 can appear in galaxy foils, a range that includes cards at all rarities, though it isn’t the entire set.
Edge of Eternities is much more selective with its galaxy foils. The only cards that appear in galaxy foiling from EOE are the celestial basic lands, the Stellar Sights bonus sheet (both the base version and the poster version), and the borderless viewport lands, which includes shock lands.
Do Galaxy Foils Warp or Bend More than Traditional Foils?
Galaxy foils don’t warp more than traditional foils, though some curling may still occur.
Are Galaxy Foils Tournament-Legal?
Yes! The foil treatment has no impact on a card’s legality, so a galaxy foil card is legal so long as the card itself is legal in whatever format you’re playing.
Wrap Up
Mountain (Edge of Eternities) | Illustration by Adam Paquette
Galaxy foils are a lovely treatment that adds a lot of flavor to cards. I really appreciate a foiling treatment that does something more than make a card shiny, and this helps sell the deep-space vibe of the sets that contain them.
What do you think of galaxy foils? Do you enjoy the foil treatments Project Booster Fun gives us? Let me know in the comments below or on the Draftsim Discord!
Stay safe, and thanks for reading!
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