Foundations Draft Tier List Card Game Base

Bonisiwe Shabane

-Nov 18, 2025, 3:56 AM

foundations draft tier list card game base

Welcome to our Foundations Draft Tier List. This article is meant as a companion to our Foundations Draft Guide, which is releasing later this week. (Most likely on Thursday.) While that one focuses on the big picture stuff, in this article you can find grades for every Foundations card, based on how good it is in draft. Before we start, let’s check what each grade means. For each grade, you’ll also find a couple of examples from the previous draft format, Duskmourn. All grades (except F) can also use a “+” or a “-” symbol.

Naturally, C+ is a better grade than C, which is better than C-. So, here are the grades for every card in the Foundations Play boosters. Below you'll find Draftsim's draft rankings and ratings for every card in Foundations. These ratings are used in our draft simulator to inform the bot pick order within the packs. As always, a list like this is only a jumping off point to help you with Pack 1, Pick 1 decisions -- or maybe your first few picks. However, you should be quickly adjusting your picks according to curve, synergy, and signals from the other drafters.

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We have a Foundational set! Magic Foundations will be Standard legal for at least the next 5 years, providing a base level magic experience that will underlay anything else coming out in that time. Wizards has given us a Foundation for what Magic should be, how it should feel, and what it’s like to draft. We’re back to basics, but with a modern power level and a lot of interesting things to do. The cards are simpler and there are no tricky mechanics, but the format will still be interesting and skill intensive. There are a lot of cards coming to standard, and only about half of them are draftable.

For reference, here are the draftable Foundations cards. If you want a card-by-card breakdown of every draftable card in the set, here is the full ratings list which I’ll be updating weekly and here is the full card-by-card review where I explain... This article is for the general strategy for each color pair, and useful numbers while you’re drafting. Without further ado, let’s get started with: Here are some useful numbers for context and future reference. Chandra, Flameshaper | Illustration by Mark Winters

Greetings planeswalkers! We’ve had about a solid two weeks of Foundations drafts so far, and there’s an Arena Open coming this weekend, too. The core question I want to answer here is: How do you play the latest Magic set? Is there anything unexpected about this new Core Set? Or is it mostly just stock MTG? By the end of this guide, you should be well prepared to battle this weekend.

Valkyrie's Call | Illustration by Scott Murphy Foundations is the latest Core Set product that isn’t called a Core Set. It was designed as a solid introduction to the game that would function as Standard‘s backbone, and it's hands down the best MTG set to draft for beginners. Foundations cards will be legal for a full five years, which is more than twice as long as most Standard sets. The set is half new cards and half reprints and focuses on communicating tried and true MTG concepts to new players. The ultimate core set of Magic is here!

Foundations is bringing experienced players that nostalgia feeling, while giving beginners a great starting point. On top of that, it’s also draftable, and that’s what our Foundations Draft Guide can help you with. Given the nature of the set, we’ve also tried to explain some basic concepts and tricks into more details to beginners. But no matter your skill level, this guide should give you a good idea of what’s going on in this format. This way, you won’t be going in blind, but will know what to pay attention to. First, we’ll check the best commons, then we move to the exploration of different archetypes.

(That’s where we’ll mention the relevant mechanics this time around, as they are fairly simple and vanilla.) Finally, there’s a Tier List with every card graded. Let’s get to it. A 3/3 creature for three mana is okay, but not particularly good. When you get its stats split across two bodies, it becomes significantly better, for multiple reasons:

Foundations Draft Tier List Card Game Base

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