Double Masters 2022 (2X2): Set Guide & Card List

Some sets are built to push the story forward. Double Masters 2022 was built to give you two rares in every pack and a reason to crack open your wallet for some of the most sought-after reprints in the game. Released on July 8, 2022, 2X2 is a booster-based compilation set - meaning it contains no new cards (save one very unusual exception) and is designed entirely around reprinting powerful cards in a draftable format. It follows the blueprint laid out by the original Double Masters (2020), and in my opinion, it delivered on that promise in some genuinely satisfying ways.

What is Double Masters 2022?

Double Masters 2022 is a 332-card compilation set - not tied to any story block or plane - designed to be drafted and to bring expensive staples back into print at a lower price point. Its tagline, Too Strong. Too Shiny, tells you everything about what Wizards was going for: powerful cards, lavish treatments, and a premium product feel throughout.

The set contains:

• 91 commons, 80 uncommons, 120 rares, 40 mythic rares, and 1 special card
• Borderless variants numbered #333-#412
• Foil-etched versions of every rare and mythic rare (#413-#572)
• Textured foil treatments exclusive to Collector Boosters (#573-#577)
• Two release promo cards: Weathered Wayfarer and Bring to Light (#578-#579)

With all those variant treatments counted in, the full numbered set reaches 579 cards - which is where that headline number comes from.

Format check: Double Masters 2022 is not legal in Standard, Pioneer, or most rotating formats on its own. The reprinted cards retain whatever legality they had before - so a Modern-legal reprint is still Modern-legal, and a Legacy-only card is still Legacy-only. The set itself is designed for Limited play (Draft and Sealed).

Themes and mechanics

Because 2X2 is a compilation set, it doesn't introduce a new mechanical identity from scratch. Instead, it pulls together cards from across Magic's history and organises them into a coherent draft environment. The mechanical variety is wide by design - you're seeing creatures, planeswalkers, and spells from many different eras sitting alongside each other.

The one genuinely new card in the set is Cryptic Spires (#332), a land with a unique L-Rarity - meaning it appears in every booster, guaranteed, and never shows up in foil. It's a draft-support card, the kind of fixing that helps a wide, multicolour format actually function. One per pack is a quiet but smart piece of design for the Limited environment.

Many reprints in 2X2 feature new artwork, which is worth knowing if you're a collector or someone who cares deeply about which version of a card sits in your deck. This is part of what makes compilation sets genuinely exciting beyond just the reprint value - sometimes the new art is the reason to pick up a copy.

Draft boosters and collector boosters

The product structure for 2X2 is one of its most distinctive features, and it's worth understanding before you buy.

Draft boosters

Each 17-card Draft Booster (16 cards plus one marketing card) contains:

• 2-4 cards of Rare or higher rarity
• 3-5 Uncommons
• 8-10 Commons
• 1 Cryptic Spires (guaranteed)
• 2 Traditional Foil cards of any rarity

The guaranteed two rares per pack is the signature of the Double Masters line, and it makes the draft format feel noticeably richer than a standard set. Seeing multiple rares at your table is the norm, not the exception.

Collector boosters

Each 15-card Collector Booster contains:

• 4 cards of Rare or higher
• 2-6 Uncommons
• 5-9 Commons
• 10-11 Traditional Foil cards
• 1 Rare or Mythic Rare foil-etched card (guaranteed)

Collector Boosters are also the only place to find the textured foil treatments (#573-#577), which are among the most visually striking card treatments Wizards has produced. If you're hunting those, that's your route.

Limited and draft

Drafting 2X2 is a genuine treat if you enjoy wide, powerful, multicolour formats. The presence of Cryptic Spires in every pack acts as a kind of mana safety net, letting you draft more ambitiously across two or three colours without quite as much fear of getting colour-screwed.

The token suite gives you a strong hint at the kinds of strategies the format supports. The set includes 22 tokens and 2 emblems covering a remarkable range:

• Go-wide token strategies (Soldiers, Vampires, Saprolings, Monks, Spirits)
• Sacrifice and value engines (Eldrazi Scions, Eggs, Zombies)
• Big creature payoffs (4/4 Angels, 4/4 Bears, 3/3 Boars, Cat Dragons)
• Spellslinger support (Elementals for Young Pyromancer and Seasoned Pyromancer, Drakes for Talrand)
• Artifact strategies (Treasure tokens, Phyrexian Golems)

The emblems for Liliana, the Last Hope and Wrenn and Six signal that planeswalkers are a real presence in the format - which makes sense given how many powerful walkers were candidates for reprinting.

I think the format rewards players who can identify a synergy package early in the draft and commit to it, rather than just rare-drafting the most individually powerful cards. That said, with two rares per pack flying around the table, rare-drafting is a temptation that's hard to resist entirely. 😄

Notable cards and treatments

Rather than listing every reprint, it's worth highlighting the treatment categories that make 2X2 stand out as a collector's product:

Borderless cards (#333-#412) cover a substantial portion of the set's rares and mythics, giving many powerful cards a fresh, full-art look. The new artwork commissioned for this set is one of the genuine artistic highlights of 2022 releases.

Foil-etched versions exist for every rare and mythic rare in the set - all 160 of them (#413-#572). This is a significant commitment. If there's a specific card you want in foil-etched, it's in there.

Textured foil cards (#573-#577) are the rarest treatment and Collector Booster exclusives. The textured foil process gives cards a tactile, almost embossed quality that photographs beautifully and feels genuinely different in hand.

The release promos - Weathered Wayfarer and Bring to Light - went to players at the launch event on July 8, 2022.

Lore and setting

Double Masters 2022 doesn't have a story or a plane of its own - it's a compilation product, so there's no narrative thread connecting the cards. What it does have is a kind of retrospective sweep through Magic history: cards from widely different eras and worlds sitting together in the same draft format.

If anything, Too Strong. Too Shiny is the lore. This is a set about celebrating powerful cards and giving them the premium visual treatment they arguably always deserved.

Set legacy

Double Masters 2022 arrived at a moment when the secondary market for Magic singles was under sustained pressure, and compilation sets with genuine reprint equity were genuinely valued by the player community. As a draft product, it offered something rare: a format dense with powerful effects and interesting decisions, built from cards that players already knew and cared about.

The collector infrastructure - borderless art, foil-etched rares across the board, textured foils - set a benchmark for how Wizards approached premium treatments in subsequent sets. Whether that's entirely a good thing for the game's accessibility is, honestly, a fair debate. But as a product that delivered on its stated promise of Too Strong. Too Shiny, it's hard to argue it fell short.

For Limited players, 2X2 is one of those formats that gets talked about warmly. The wide card pool, the mana fixing from Cryptic Spires, and the sheer variety of token and synergy packages made it a more interesting draft experience than many expected from a pure reprint set.