Are GRN Guild Kit cards Standard legal?

No. The reprints in GRN Guild Kit (GK1) are not Standard legal. They can be used in formats like Commander, Legacy, and Vintage where the individual cards are otherwise legal, but the Guild Kit printing itself doesn't grant Standard legality.

What guilds are in the GRN Guild Kit?

GK1 includes five decks covering the guilds featured in Guilds of Ravnica: Selesnya (green/white), Boros (red/white), Dimir (blue/black), Golgari (black/green), and Izzet (blue/red).

Which cards have alternate art in GRN Guild Kit?

The five face cards of the decks feature exclusive alternate art: Trostani, Selesnya's Voice (Selesnya), Aurelia, the Warleader (Boros), Izoni, Thousand-Eyed (Golgari), Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind (Izzet), and Etrata, the Silencer (Dimir). These alternate art versions are unique to GK1.

What comes inside each GRN Guild Kit?

Each kit contains a 60-card preconstructed deck, five double-sided tokens, an official guild pin, a guild sticker, a spindown life counter, and an insert with guild mission instructions.

Where do the cards in GRN Guild Kit come from?

Each deck draws from every Ravnica set released up to Guilds of Ravnica — including the original Ravnica block (2005–2006) and the Return to Ravnica block (2012–2013) — making them a kind of greatest-hits collection for each guild across Magic's history.

Is GRN Guild Kit the same as Ravnica Allegiance Guild Kits?

No — they're companion products. GRN Guild Kit (GK1) covers the five guilds from Guilds of Ravnica (Selesnya, Boros, Dimir, Golgari, Izzet), while Ravnica Allegiance Guild Kits (GK2) covers the other five guilds (Azorius, Orzhov, Rakdos, Gruul, Simic). Together they complete all ten Ravnica guilds.

GRN Guild Kit (GK1): The Complete Guide

The five guilds of Guilds of Ravnica have always been more than factions - they're identities. The GRN Guild Kit leans into that completely, packaging each guild as its own 60-card preconstructed experience and layering in physical collectibles that make you feel like you've actually joined up.

What is GRN Guild Kit?

Released alongside Guilds of Ravnica (GRN) in 2018, the GRN Guild Kit (set code GK1) is a collection of five separate 60-card preconstructed theme decks, each built around one of the five guilds featured in that set: Dimir, Golgari, Izzet, Selesnya, and Boros.

The total card pool across all five kits is 127 cards. What makes these decks unusual is their scope - rather than drawing on a single set, each deck pulls together reprints from every Ravnica set released up to that point. That means cards from the original Ravnica: City of Guilds (2005), Guildpact (2006), Dissension (2006), Return to Ravnica (2012), Gatecrash (2013), and Dragon's Maze (2013) all show up alongside newer GRN cards.

Format check: The reprints in GK1 are not Standard legal. These are collector and casual products - great for playing with, not for sleeving into your Standard or Pioneer deck.

Each kit comes packaged with:

A 60-card preconstructed deck
Five double-sided tokens
An official guild pin
A guild sticker
A spindown life counter
An insert with guild mission instructions

Themes and mechanics

Each deck is built to reflect its guild's mechanical identity - the way it's played on the table should feel like the way that guild operates on Ravnica.

The five guilds

| Guild | Colors | Mechanical Identity | |---|---|---| | Selesnya | {G}{W} | Token generation, go-wide, lifegain | | Boros | {R}{W} | Aggressive combat, soldiers, attacking rewards | | Dimir | {U}{B} | Control, cipher, mill, evasion | | Golgari | {B}{G} | Graveyard recursion, sacrifice, value | | Izzet | {U}{R} | Spells matter, instants and sorceries, weird creatures |

Because the card pools span all three Ravnica blocks, you get to see how each guild's mechanics evolved over more than a decade of design. Selesnya's token strategies, Golgari's graveyard loops, Izzet's spell synergies - all represented in their fullest form here rather than the slice you'd get from any single set.

Notable presentation and card treatments

One of the most compelling reasons to pick up these kits - even if you already own the cards - is the presentation.

All legendary cards in the Guild Kits use the then-current legendary card frame treatment. More importantly, the face card of each deck features exclusive alternate art. Those five face cards are:

Trostani, Selesnya's Voice (Selesnya)
Aurelia, the Warleader (Boros)
Izoni, Thousand-Eyed (Golgari)
Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind (Izzet)
Etrata, the Silencer (Dimir)

These alternate art versions are unique to GK1 and aren't available anywhere else, which makes them genuinely appealing for collectors and Commander players who want a distinctive copy of their commander.

The basic lands are also worth a mention. Each deck's lands feature a text box design tailored to the guild - a small detail, but one that rewards the kind of person who notices when a product has been made with care. Foil versions of these guild-flavored lands were distributed at Ravnica Weekend events.

The expansion symbol for each deck is a miniature version of that guild's symbol, rather than a shared GK1 symbol. Open five decks next to each other and you're looking at five different expansion symbols.

Tokens

Each kit includes five double-sided tokens. The full token roster across GK1 covers the breadth of what these guilds have created across Ravnica's history:

Copy (for Stolen Identity)
1/1 Horror with flying (for Call of the Nightwing)
3/3 Weird with defender and flying (for Thunderheads)
1/1 Goblin (for Goblin Rally)
1/1 Saproling (for Korozda Guildmage; also for Pollenbright Wings, Scatter the Seeds, Selesnya Evangel, and Selesnya Guildmage)
1/1 Soldier (for Sunhome Guildmage)
3/3 Centaur (for Call of the Conclave)
5/5 Wurm with trample (for Advent of the Wurm and Armada Wurm)
8/8 Elemental with vigilance (for Grove of the Guardian)
2/2 Legendary Wolf named Voja (for Tolsimir Wolfblood)

The main set tokens include a 1/1 Soldier with lifelink, a 1/1 Goblin, a 1/1 Insect, and a 2/2 Elf Knight with vigilance.

Lore and setting

Ravnica is one of Magic's most beloved planes - an entire world covered by a single sprawling city, governed (and constantly destabilised) by ten guilds, each controlling a different aspect of civic life. The GRN Guild Kit leans into that identity hard.

The five guilds represented here each have distinct personalities and histories:

Selesnya is the communal, nature-infused guild of unity and growth
Boros is the militant guild of law, order, and righteous combat
Dimir is the secretive, manipulative guild of information and shadows
Golgari is the death-and-rebirth guild that keeps Ravnica's underbelly running
Izzet is the chaotic league of mages and scientists who treat the city as their laboratory

The guild pin, sticker, and mission insert aren't just packaging - they're an invitation to pick a side. For many players, that's genuinely part of the appeal.

Set legacy

The GRN Guild Kit occupies an interesting space in Magic's product history. It arrived at a moment when Wizards was experimenting with products that blurred the line between game product and collectible, and by most accounts it landed well.

For long-time Ravnica fans, these kits offered something no booster product could: a curated, flavour-coherent slice of an entire guild's card history in one package, with unique treatments on the cards you'd most want to display or play. For newer players, they were a gentle on-ramp into one of Magic's richest settings.

The alternate art face cards - particularly Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind and Aurelia, the Warleader - remain sought-after by Commander players who want a version of those legends that feels distinct from the standard printings.

A companion product, the Ravnica Allegiance Guild Kits (GK2), followed in early 2019 with the other five guilds, making GK1 the first half of a complete ten-guild Ravnica collection.