Jumpstart is not a booster product in the usual sense. Each pack is half a deck: 20 cards built around a single theme, seven or eight of them lands, designed so that two packs shuffled together make a playable 40-card deck with no deckbuilding at all. That changes what a box is for, and it changes how the sealed market treats it. Here is the configuration, the themes, the chase cards and what a Jumpstart booster box costs in September 2026.
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| Release date | July 17, 2020 in the US; October 16, 2020 in Europe |
| Set code | JMP |
| Set size | 495 cards, comprising 78 new cards and 417 reprints |
| Booster types | Jumpstart packs only, 20 cards each, 24 packs per box |
| Themes | 46 themes across 121 possible pack variations |
| Chase cards | Allosaurus Shepherd, Muxus Goblin Grandee, Chain Lightning, Scapeshift, Craterhoof Behemoth |
| Booster box (Sep 2026) | $80-$130 |
Twenty-four Jumpstart packs of 20 cards. Each pack is a single theme - Goblins, Spooky, Dinosaurs, Rainbow, Under the Sea and so on - with a rare or mythic at its head and a fixed list underneath, except that common themes come in four variations, rare themes in two and mythic themes in one. That is where the 121 pack variations come from. Packs were $3.99 at release, making a box roughly $96 at MSRP. In September 2026 sealed boxes sell for $80 to $130, with a market price near $89 and recent sales clustering between $73 and $90.
That is worth pausing on: six years after release, a Jumpstart box sells for roughly what it cost new. It is the clearest counterexample on this site to the idea that Magic sealed appreciates by default.
A four-pack retail bundle sold through mass-market channels. Multipacks show up at $20 to $35 and offer no content advantage over four loose packs beyond the packaging.
Single packs run $4 to $9 depending on whether the seller knows which theme is inside. Sealed Jumpstart packs are opaque about their theme on some printings and labelled on others, and a labelled pack for a desirable theme - the Mythic-headed ones especially - sells at a premium. This is the only place in Jumpstart where a single pack can be worth buying deliberately.
A Jumpstart case is six boxes. Cases are cheap relative to every other product on this list and are the sensible unit if you are a store or a group that runs a lot of casual events.
Jumpstart shipped no Collector Boosters, no Draft Boosters, no bundle and no box toppers. It also has no Booster Fun treatments and no serialized cards.
There are no special treatments in Jumpstart. Every card is a standard printing, and there are no foils in the packs at all - Jumpstart was printed entirely non-foil, which is unusual and worth knowing before you buy hoping for a premium hit.
Value sits in a short list of new cards and reprints. Allosaurus Shepherd is the set's most valuable card by a distance, a mythic Elf that became a Legacy and Commander staple. Muxus, Goblin Grandee is the other headline new card. On the reprint side, Chain Lightning, Scapeshift, Craterhoof Behemoth, Terror of the Peaks and Ajani's Chosen carry real money, and the set delivered a handful of Commander staples that had not been reprinted in years. Below that, the pool is deliberately shallow - most of the 417 reprints are commons and uncommons chosen to make themed half-decks work rather than to excite collectors.
No, not as a hold, and this is one of the easiest calls on the site. A box has gone from roughly $96 to roughly $89 in six years. Wizards printed Jumpstart deeply because it was a product aimed at new and casual players sold through mass-market retail alongside game stores, and it has since been followed by Jumpstart 2022, Foundations Jumpstart and Jumpstart packs inside premier sets, all of which dilute the original's position.
What Jumpstart is genuinely good at is play. Two packs and you have a deck; a box gives twelve decks for under $100, which is the cheapest route to a full evening of casual Magic that exists. For a shop running casual nights, a family teaching Magic to kids, or a group that wants to play without building anything, a Jumpstart box is excellent value. Buy it to open and play. If you want Allosaurus Shepherd, buy the card - it costs a fraction of a box and you will not open one.
Jumpstart's tampering problem is theme-picking, not counterfeiting. Because packs contain fixed decklists tied to a visible theme, a seller who can identify the theme through the wrapper or from labelled packaging can pull the desirable ones and sell the rest as a "box". Check that a box is factory shrunk with a single clean seam, that the flaps show no adhesive residue, and that the packs inside sit tight. A box sold at a discount by someone who also lists individual high-value themes should be treated as picked.
For loose packs, buy labelled packs from sellers who list the theme openly and price it accordingly; buy unlabelled packs only from a sealed box you saw opened. Counterfeit Jumpstart product is rare because the value simply is not there, so outer-wrap checks matter less here than on any other product on this list. The main thing you are protecting against is paying box money for a box with the twelve good themes already removed.
Local shops often keep Jumpstart in stock as a teaching product and price it close to release, so the card shop directory is the right first stop. Card shows are a good place to buy individual themed packs cheaply. Online, these searches return the cleanest results:
Twenty-four packs of 20 cards. Two packs shuffled together make a playable 40-card deck, so a box produces twelve decks.
Forty-six themes, with 121 possible pack variations. Common themes have four variations, rare themes two and mythic themes one.
No. The original Jumpstart was printed entirely non-foil, which is unusual for a Magic product and worth knowing before buying.
In September 2026 sealed boxes sell for $80 to $130 with a market price near $89. MSRP at release was roughly $96, so the box has not appreciated.
No. Jumpstart is a supplemental product. Its cards are legal in whatever formats they already occupied, mainly Modern, Legacy, Vintage and Commander.
Allosaurus Shepherd, a new mythic that became a Legacy and Commander staple. Muxus Goblin Grandee, Chain Lightning and Scapeshift follow it.
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