When was Dominaria Remastered released?

Dominaria Remastered was released on January 13, 2023. It is the second remastered Magic: The Gathering set to appear in paper.

How many cards are in Dominaria Remastered?

Dominaria Remastered contains 457 cards in total. This includes 261 regular cards (101 commons, 80 uncommons, 60 rares, 20 mythic rares), plus retro frame versions, retro frame basic lands, borderless versions, and a release promo card.

Which sets are included in Dominaria Remastered?

DMR draws cards from 27 sets that took place on Dominaria, ranging from Alpha all the way through Dominaria (2018). These include iconic sets like Legends, Ice Age, Urza's Saga, Invasion, Time Spiral, and more. Three cards that first appeared in Modern Horizons are also included. Notably, the Tempest block sets are absent, as they took place on the plane of Rath rather than Dominaria.

Is Dominaria Remastered draftable?

Yes — Dominaria Remastered is a fully draftable set. Despite drawing cards from 27 different sets across Magic's history, it was designed with Draft and Sealed in mind, with its own internal format structure.

Why aren't Tempest, Stronghold, or Exodus in Dominaria Remastered?

Those sets took place on the plane of Rath, not Dominaria — even though Rath was later overlaid onto Dominaria. The design team chose to exclude them on those grounds, and also noted that the first three Rath sets had already been used in Tempest Remastered.

What alternate card treatments are in Dominaria Remastered?

DMR includes three alternate treatments beyond regular frames: retro frame versions of selected cards (numbers 262–401), retro frame basic lands (402–411), and borderless versions (412–456). Premium foil versions are randomly inserted across all treatments.

Dominaria Remastered (DMR): Set Guide

Some sets tell a new story. Dominaria Remastered tells thirty years of them at once.

Released on January 13, 2023, DMR is the second remastered Magic: The Gathering set to appear in paper - a fully draftable collection that pulls cards from 27 different sets, reaching all the way back to Alpha and forward to Dominaria (2018). If you've ever wanted to crack a pack and find something from the earliest years of the game sitting next to a Time Spiral-era staple, this is the set designed for exactly that feeling.

What is Dominaria Remastered?

Dominaria Remastered is a 457-card curated reprint set built around one of Magic's oldest and most storied planes. Rather than introducing new cards or advancing the storyline, it reaches across Magic's history to assemble a draftable set that celebrates Dominaria's past - from the earliest sets through the modern day.

The set contains 261 regular cards: 101 commons, 80 uncommons, 60 rares, and 20 mythic rares. Beyond those, the card list expands significantly through alternate treatments:

| Card numbers | Treatment | |---|---| | #1-261 | Regular frame cards | | #262-401 | Retro frame versions of selected cards | | #402-411 | Retro frame basic lands | | #412-456 | Borderless versions | | #457 | Release promo card |

Premium (foil) versions are inserted randomly across all treatments. The retro frame and borderless versions make this a particularly attractive set for collectors alongside its draft appeal.

The 27 sets behind the curtain

The cards in DMR are drawn from 27 sets that take place on Dominaria, spanning the full breadth of the game's history:

Early era: Alpha, Antiquities, Legends, The Dark, Fallen Empires
Ice Age era: Ice Age, Alliances, Coldsnap
Mirage era: Mirage, Visions
Urza era: Urza's Saga, Urza's Legacy, Urza's Destiny
Prophecy and Invasion era: Prophecy, Invasion, Planeshift, Apocalypse
Odyssey era: Odyssey, Torment, Judgment
Onslaught era: Onslaught, Legions, Scourge
Time Spiral era: Time Spiral, Planar Chaos, Future Sight
Return: Dominaria

Three cards also make appearances that first showed up in Modern Horizons.

Format check: You might notice some notable absences. Tempest, Stronghold, Exodus, and Nemesis are all missing - even though the Rath overlay later merged that plane with Dominaria. The design team made a deliberate call here: those sets didn't take place on Dominaria at the time of publication, and the first three had already been used in Tempest Remastered. It's a sensible distinction, even if it means some beloved Rath-era cards sit this one out.

Draft and Limited

One of DMR's central promises is that it's a fully draftable set - not just a pile of reprints, but a structured Draft and Sealed format with its own internal logic. Pulling together cards from 27 different sets and making them play well together in a draft environment is a genuine design challenge, and it's the same one that sets like Tempest Remastered and Eternal Masters tackled before it.

Because the set draws from so many different eras, Limited players can expect a format with a wide variety of playstyles represented - from the aggressive, tribal-leaning Onslaught era to the grindier, graveyard-focused Odyssey block. The mechanical breadth means draft archetypes likely reward knowing which eras' cards pull in the same direction, rather than just drafting the most powerful cards in isolation.

If you're sitting down to draft DMR, it's worth thinking about which slice of Dominaria's history you want to inhabit at any given table.

Lore and setting

Dominaria is Magic's home plane - the setting for the vast majority of the game's first fifteen years of storytelling, and the backdrop for some of its most iconic characters and conflicts. The Brothers' War, the Ice Age, the Phyrexian Invasion, the Mirari storyline, the Time Spiral crisis - all of it happened here.

Lore aside: Gavin Verhey mentioned that Invasion Remastered was on the shortlist of sets considered for this treatment. The Invasion block is beloved for its draft experience, but the team felt that many of its cards wouldn't have much appeal outside of Limited today. Dominaria Remastered's wider scope gives it a broader base of cards with appeal across casual, Commander, and Legacy formats.

DMR doesn't advance the story - it's a retrospective, a celebration of the plane's history rather than a new chapter. Think of it less as a novel and more as a very well-curated anthology.

Notable details and trivia

A few things worth knowing before you crack your packs:

The borderless version of Siege-Gang Commander contains a Star Trek reference in its flavor text, which is a delightful piece of self-aware charm from the creative team.
Hyalopterous Lemure received new artwork - and this time, it actually depicts a lemure (the undead spirit from folklore) rather than a lemur (the adorable primate). Only took a few decades to fix that one. 😄
The set was first rumored in public registries as early as November 2021, more than a year before its release.

Set legacy

Dominaria Remastered sits in an interesting spot. As only the second remastered set to appear in paper (after Tempest Remastered, which was paper-only in limited quantities, and following several digital-only remastered sets on Magic Online and Arena), it represents a maturing approach to how Wizards packages Magic's history for modern players.

For collectors, the combination of retro frames, borderless treatments, and reprints spanning thirty years of the game makes DMR a set with genuine depth. For Limited players, it's one of the rare opportunities to draft cards from eras that most players only know from traded copies or online queues. And for anyone who fell in love with Dominaria's history - the Urza saga, the Invasion, the Time Spiral - it's a chance to hold that history in your hands again.

I think the most honest way to put it is this: Dominaria Remastered isn't trying to shake up formats or define a new competitive era. It's trying to remind you why this plane, and this game, meant something in the first place. For that, it does exactly what it sets out to do.