Foundations Jumpstart

Foundations Jumpstart, a.k.a. Jumpstart 2025, is a supplemental Magic booster set with mostly reprints and some new cards. It was released on November 15, 2024, concurrently with the Magic: The Gathering Foundations set.
==Set details==
Foundations Jumpstart is the follow-up to Jumpstart and Jumpstart 2022. The Jumpstart format mashes together themes from throughout the history of the game and lets you skip the deckbuilding part. To play a game of Jumpstart, players open two half-deck packs of twenty cards and shuffle them together to form a ready-to-play deck. The set is designed for two-player gameplay, but players can also play multiplayer with it.
Foundations Jumpstart is a Commander-, Legacy-, and Vintage-legal set, and individual cards are also legal where already available in other formats.
J25 #1-29 are new non-legendary cards, #30-56 are new legendary cards with anime art, #57-80 are anime reprints, #81-95 are basic lands, #96-156 are other reprints with new art, and #157-780 are the remaining reprints. The cards numbered #1–56 are permitted in the Commander, Legacy, and Vintage formats. Returning cards with the J25 set code and numbered 57–780 are legal for play in any format where a card with the same name is permitted.
Note that several new cards from the Foundations main set are categorized as reprints in Foundations Jumpstart, indicating that they originally would have had separate release dates. There is also no card with the collector number #350. On the other hand, there are also several new cards in Jumpstart Foundations that are counted as reprints in the main set.
===Marketing===
 
Foundations Jumpstart is sold in 20-card Jumpstart Boosters, with 24 boosters per booster box. Each booster contains a face card (the "Pack Summary card", or "Theme insert") that indicates the pack's theme and color. The set is also sold in 2-Booster Packs.
The contents of each pack fit one of 46 randomly chosen themes, with each theme having a "rarity" of common, rare, or mythic rare. Common and rare themes have multiple variations of their pack contents; there are 121 possible pack contents. All boosters contain at least one rare or mythic rare, and one in three boosters includes an extra rare. Within each pack, seven or eight of the pack's 20 cards are lands and the rest are spells. Every Foundations Jumpstart Booster contains one card with anime-inspired art. 
Note that the packs and themes differ from the 10 Jumpstart packs that can be found in the Foundations Beginner Box.
With Foundations Jumpstart the convention for Jumpstart set expansion codes was changed. The set is now coded after the year following the year that the product is released (J25), to keep it relevant longer.
===Magic: The Gathering Arena===
Alongside Magic: The Gathering Foundations, Foundations Jumpstart cards became available on Magic: The Gathering Arena. The packets in MTG Arena aren't exactly the same as those in the tabletop Foundations Jumpstart — there are some with variable card slots. All cards became available from November 12, 2024, for crafting. While the individual cards will be kept available, the set itself is only available to play through a limited-time event that runs from November 19th until December 2nd, 2024. The Foundations Jumpstart cards are legal in both Historic and Timeless.
==Themes and mechanics==
46 themes range from the familiar to the curious. Common themes are each represented four times in different variations among the 121 packs, rare themes twice, and mythic themes are represented only once. The rarity of a given pack should not be taken as an indication of power level; but rather how replayable the theme is. The variant decklists of a given theme always have the same general flavor, mana curve, and game plan. In addition to the Chaos, each color features 2 mythic themes, 3 rare themes, and 4 common themes.
Name 	Color	Rarity	Theme 	Rares 	Mythics
Prideful 	 	Mythic	Cats 	 	
Giddyap 	 	Mythic	Horses, Unicorns, and Pegasi	 	
Angels 	 	Rare 	Angels 	/ 	
Heroes 	 	Rare 	Heroic 	 	
Legion 	 	Rare 	Go wide 	/ 	
Healers 	 	Common	Life gain 	/ / / 	
Stalwart 	 	Common	/ 	/ 	
Armed 	 	Common	Equipment 	/ / 	
Enchanted 	 	Common	Enchantments 	/ / / 	
Illusions 	 	Mythic	Illusions 	 	
Ninjas 	 	Mythic	Ninjas 	 	
Of the Coast 	 	Rare 	Beach critters 	 	
Drowned 	 	Rare 	Milling 	 	
Wizards 	 	Rare 	Wizards 	/ 	
Soaring 	 	Common	Flyers 	/ / / 	
Surprise! 	 	Common	Flash 	/ / / 	
Bookworms 	 	Common	Card draw 	/ / 	
Inventive 	 	Common	Artifacts 	/ / / 	
Snakes 	 	Mythic	Snakes and Gorgons 	 	
Nefarious 	 	Mythic	Life loss 	 	
Treasures 	 	Rare 	Treasure 	/ 	
N'er-do-wells	 	Rare 	Rogues and Assassins 	/ 	
Icky 	 	Rare 	Worms and Insects 	/ 	
Clerics 	 	Common	Clerics 	/ / / 	
Vampires 	 	Common	Vampires 	/ / / 	
Grave Robbers	 	Common	Graveyard recursion 	/ / 	
Ghastly 	 	Common	Monsters, Demons and Zombies	/ 	/
Too Many 	 	Mythic	Aggro 	 	
Burning 	 	Mythic	Direct damage 	 	
Dragons 	 	Rare 	Dragons 	 	
Copied 	 	Rare 	Instants and Sorceries 	/ 	
Warriors 	 	Rare 	Warriors 	/ 	
Stoked 	 	Common	Creature pumping 	/ / 	
Goblins 	 	Common	Goblins 	/ / 	
Bloody 	 	Common	Vampires 	/ / / 	
Zealots 	 	Common	Exert and Haste 	/ / 	
Dinner 	 	Mythic	Food 	 	
Modified 	 	Mythic	Modified creatures 	 	
Fun Guys 	 	Rare 	Fungus 	/ 	
Beasts 	 	Rare 	Beasts 	 	
Dinosaurs 	 	Rare 	Dinosaurs 	/ 	
Encounter 	 	Common	/ / 	 	
Explorers 	 	Common	Ramp 	/ / / /	
Elves 	 	Common	Elves 	/ / 	
Landfall 	 	Common	Landfall 	 	/
Chaos 	 	Mythic	WUBRG Cascade 	/ 	
 New card.
====Tokens==== 
Foundations Jumpstart comes with neither tokens nor emblems: that said, several cards in the set generate tokens, so a list is provided below for reference.
 These tokens do not have paper printings as of the time of release. They appear in MTG Arena, though.</br>
==Notable cards==
===New cards===
There are 56 new cards in Foundations Jumpstart.
===Reprints with anime art===
===Other reprints with new art===
*These cards also appear in Magic: The Gathering Foundations, where they are counted as reprints. Due to the timeline, Foundation Jumpstart was edited first.
*These cards have art that was new in other recent products.
==Changes in rarity==
===Rare to Uncommon===
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==Notable cards== 
* from the D&D set Adventures in the Forgotten Realms is reprinted without the ability word Pack tactics.
*<c>Shorecomber Crab</c> from the Arena New Player Experience is printed for the first time in paper.
===Misprints=== 
*The illustration credit for incorrectly states the artist was Brooklyn Smith instead of David Alvarez. The printed in Magic: The Gathering Foundations and the digital versions of the card on Magic Online and MTG Arena have the correct artist credit.
==Pack Summary cards==
White
File:J25 Angels pack summary card.png|Angels
File:J25 Armed pack summary card.png|Armed
File:J25 Enchanted pack summary card.png|Enchanted
File:J25 Giddyap pack summary card.png|Giddyap
File:J25 Healers pack summary card.png|Healers
File:J25 Heroes pack summary card.png|Heroes
File:J25 Legion pack summary card.png|Legion
File:J25 Prideful pack summary card.png|Prideful
File:J25 Stalwart pack summary card.png|Stalwart
Blue
File:J25 Bookworms pack summary card.png|Bookworms
File:J25 Drowned pack summary card.png|Drowned
File:J25 Illusions pack summary card.png|Illusions
File:J25 Inventive pack summary card.png|Inventive
File:J25 Ninjas pack summary card.png|Ninjas
File:J25 Of the Coast pack summary card.png|Of the Coast
File:J25 Soaring pack summary card.png|Soaring
File:J25 Surprise! pack summary card.png|Surprise!
File:J25 Wizards pack summary card.png|Wizards
Black
File:J25 Clerics pack summary card.png|Clerics
File:J25 Ghastly pack summary card.png|Ghastly
File:J25 Grave Robbers pack summary card.png|Grave Robbers
File:J25 Icky pack summary card.png|Icky
File:J25 Ne'er-do-wells pack summary card.png|Ne'er-do-wells
File:J25 Nefarious pack summary card.png|Nefarious
File:J25 Snakes pack summary card.png|Snakes
File:J25 Treasures pack summary card.png|Treasures
File:J25 Vampires pack summary card.png|Vampires
Red
File:J25 Bloody pack summary card.png|Bloody
File:J25 Burning pack summary card.png|Burning
File:J25 Copied pack summary card.png|Copied
File:J25 Dragons pack summary card.png|Dragons
File:J25 Goblins pack summary card.png|Goblins
File:J25 Stoked pack summary card.png|Stoked
File:J25 Too Many pack summary card.png|Too Many
File:J25 Warriors pack summary card.png|Warriors
File:J25 Zealots pack summary card.png|Zealots
Green
File:J25 Beasts pack summary card.png|Beasts
File:J25 Dinosaurs pack summary card.png|Dinosaurs
File:J25 Dinner pack summary card.png|Dinner
File:J25 Elves pack summary card.png|Elves
File:J25 Encounter pack summary card.png|Encounter
File:J25 Explorers pack summary card.png|Explorers
File:J25 Fun Guys pack summary card.png|Fun Guys
File:J25 Landfall pack summary card.png|Landfall
File:J25 Modified pack summary card.png|Modified
Multicolor
File:J25 Chaos pack summary card.png|Chaos
==Trivia==
*There is a blue packet called "Wizards" and another called "Of the Coast", allowing players to combine them for Wizards of the Coast. The official Magic Twitter account referenced this in a post, noting that the combination could be referred to as "Ruining the Game."
* is reprinted with all four of its creature types Phyrexian Human Cleric Minion on its type line for the first time.
==See also==
*Magic: The Gathering Foundations
*Jumpstart
*Jumpstart 2022
*Jumpstart: Historic Horizons
==References==
Category:Jumpstart sets