One of the biggest surprises Wizards of the Coast revealed during the Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths stream today was the Godzilla Series Monsters, the unique alternate-art Magic: The Gathering cards featuring the iconic monsters of Toho Corporation such as Godzilla, Mothra, and King Ghidorah. WotC also revealed some of the cards with the Godzilla Series Monsters and Showcase versions, and they look amazing.
Today, Mike Turian, the principal product for Magic, has revealed more details about the Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths Collector Boosters, Godzilla Monster Series, and showcase treatments.
Turian shared some information on what you can expect from an Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths Collector Booster:
Turian revealed that there are 19 Godzilla Series Monster Cards in Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths, and one of them, the Buy-a-Box promo only exists in its Godzilla Series Monster form, but others has both an Ikoria ard and a matching Godzilla Series card. The Godzilla Series versions and Ikoria versions are equivalent to one another, so you can still only play a maximum of 4 copies in a deck no matter which version is played.
Here's how you can get all 19 Godzilla Series Monster Cards:
As for the showcase cards, Turian revealed that the common and uncommon slot will always be mutate cards such as "Cloudpiercer". In the showcase rare or mythic rare slot, you could get a showcase mutate rare or mythic rare such as Illuna. Or you could get one of the three new borderless Planeswalker cards such as either Lukka or Vivien.
In addition to the Godzilla Series Monster cards and showcase cards, Collector Boosters will also contain extended-art versions of rares and mythic rares.
Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths is officially scheduled to be released on May 15 (rescheduled release day).
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