What is the Dominaria Promos set (PDOM)?

Dominaria Promos (PDOM) is the set code used to catalogue the 118 promotional cards distributed alongside the 2018 Magic: The Gathering set Dominaria. These cards were given out at events like Prerelease, FNM, Store Championships, and through retail programs like Buy-a-Box — not sold in booster packs.

What was the Buy-a-Box promo for Dominaria?

The Buy-a-Box promo for Dominaria was Firesong and Sunspeaker, a legendary Minotaur Cleric with collector's number 280/269 — placing it outside the main set's numbered sequence. It was exclusive to the Buy-a-Box retail program at launch and became a popular Commander card.

What were the FNM promos for the Dominaria season?

The Friday Night Magic promos for the Dominaria season were foil versions of Opt, Cast Down, and Shanna, Sisay's Legacy. These were distributed at FNM events running from September through November 2018.

What was the Magic Open House promo for Dominaria?

The Magic Open House promo was a full-art Llanowar Elves — one of the most distinctive printings of that card. It was given to players who attended Open House events around the Dominaria release in 2018.

What was the Store Championship promo for Dominaria?

The Store Championship promo for Dominaria was a full-art foil Steel Leaf Champion, awarded at Store Championship events held June 18–24, 2018. Steel Leaf Champion was a competitive Standard staple at the time, making this a promo with genuine tournament relevance.

Are Dominaria Promos cards legal in Standard or other formats?

The format legality of a promo card matches the legality of the card in the main set. For example, a foil promo Cast Down is legal in the same formats as the regular Cast Down from Dominaria. The promo treatment doesn't change legality — only the card name and set of original printing matters for format rules.

Dominaria Promos (PDOM): Complete Set Guide

Promos are some of Magic's most sought-after physical objects - not because they break formats, but because they're the version of a card you want to sleeve up. Dominaria Promos (set code PDOM) is the collection of 118 promotional cards tied to the release of Dominaria (DOM) in 2018, distributed across a range of organised play events and retail programs throughout that year.

If you played any Dominaria-era events at your local game store, there's a good chance you came home with at least one of these.

What is Dominaria Promos?

Dominaria released in April 2018 and was a landmark set - a love letter to Magic's oldest plane, packed with legendary creatures and deep callbacks to thirty years of history. Alongside the main set, Wizards of the Coast distributed a suite of promotional cards through the PDOM set code, covering everything from Friday Night Magic participation prizes to Store Championship winner trophies.

These 118 cards aren't a standalone product you can buy in booster packs. They're tied to specific events and retail programs, each with their own art treatments, foiling, and distribution methods. Think of PDOM as the envelope that Scryfall and other databases use to collect all of those scattered promos in one place.

Themes and card treatments

Dominaria Promos don't introduce new mechanics - that's DOM's job. What PDOM does is present cards from the Dominaria set (and a few evergreen staples) in special treatments that make them stand out from their regular printings.

Treatments across the PDOM set include:

Full-art versions of cards, giving them a borderless or extended art feel
Foil-only printings for league and FNM prizes
Stamped prerelease copies with the set symbol stamped in gold on the card face
Buy-a-Box exclusives with a higher collector's number than the main set

The variety here is part of what makes promo sets interesting to collect. The same card can look dramatically different depending on which event you earned it at.

Promotional cards by event

Prerelease

Prerelease promos for Dominaria follow the standard model of that era: players received a stamped rare or mythic rare pulled from the set, foiled and date-stamped. The specific card varied depending on which booster kit you opened. The Prerelease Weekend ran April 21-22, 2018.

Magic Open House

The Magic Open House promo for Dominaria was a full-art Llanowar Elves - one of the cleanest versions of that card ever printed, and a genuinely lovely piece to own even if you're not a collector. Llanowar Elves had just returned to Standard for the first time in years with Dominaria, so this promo had real gameplay relevance at the time.

Draft Weekend Launch promo

Players who participated in Draft Weekend launch events received Zahid, Djinn of the Lamp, a splashy blue Creature from the main set given a promo treatment here.

Friday Night Magic

The FNM promo cycle for the Dominaria season covered three cards distributed across the September-November 2018 period:

Opt
Cast Down
Shanna, Sisay's Legacy

Opt and Cast Down in particular were heavily played in Standard at the time, which made these foil FNM versions genuinely desirable for competitive players - not just collectors.

Magic League

League participants could earn a foil Zhalfirin Void, a scry land that saw reasonable play in various Dominaria-era decks.

Buy-a-Box

The Buy-a-Box promo for Dominaria was Firesong and Sunspeaker, a legendary Minotaur Cleric that became an immediate Commander favourite. Notably, it carries collector's number 280/269 - meaning it sits outside the main set's numbered sequence, a deliberate signal that it wasn't available in booster packs.

Rules note: Buy-a-Box promos from this era were exclusive to the retail program at release. Firesong and Sunspeaker was later made more widely available in subsequent products, but the PDOM stamped version remains the original printing.

Store Championship

Store Championships ran June 18-24, 2018, and the prize card was a full-art foil Steel Leaf Champion - the participation reward for finishing in the top slots. Steel Leaf Champion was one of the defining green threats in Standard at the time, so this was a promo with real competitive cachet.

Notable cards and their appeal

A few cards from PDOM are worth highlighting specifically:

Firesong and Sunspeaker remains the most talked-about card in the set among Commander players. The Buy-a-Box version was the only way to get it at launch, which made it genuinely scarce for several months.

The full-art Llanowar Elves is, in my opinion, one of the prettiest printings of that card in the game's history. If you play any green Commander deck and you're not using this version, I'd gently ask why. ✨

Cast Down and Opt as foil FNM promos were functional staples in 2018 Standard, which meant players were actually sleeving these up in tournament decks rather than filing them in a binder. That combination of promo treatment and genuine playability is what makes certain FNM promos feel special.

Set legacy

Dominaria Promos sits in a particular moment in Magic's promo history - before the explosion of Collector Boosters, extended-art treatments, and serialised cards changed what "premium" meant for the game. These promos were earned at your local game store, handed across a table by a judge, or tucked into a bag with your booster purchase.

There's something I find genuinely charming about that model. The full-art Llanowar Elves you got at Magic Open House represents a Saturday afternoon at your LGS, not a secondary market transaction. For a lot of players, that context is part of what makes these cards worth holding onto.

As a collectible set, PDOM is accessible compared to later promo collections - most individual cards are affordable on the secondary market, with Firesong and Sunspeaker and the full-art Llanowar Elves commanding modest premiums over their regular printings.