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Jumpstart melds an easy way of deckbuilding with the "shuffle up and play" speed of constructed formats. Initially, the original Jumpstart set introduced a new way to play by mashing together themes from throughout the history of the game and lets you skip the deckbuilding part.

To play a game of Jumpstart, players simply pick two 30-card boosters and shuffle them together to form a ready-to-play 60-card deck. Broadly speaking, the goals in designing packs followed the following rough outline at the outset of this battle box's construction:

• 8 or 9 lands, with the difference coming from the average mana value of the pack. 2 of these lands would be the respective 2-color Artifact Land from the main set. The other lands present in the set (Mishra's Factory, Power Depot, and Riptide Laboratory) would be included based on pack theme and rarity. The remaining land slots would be basic lands of one basic land type matching the majority of cards in the pack.
• Up to 2 copies of any given non-land card in the set. This decision was intended to feature a wider variety of common and uncommon cards in the main set. Most cards will only appear once in any pack, while 2 color cards may appear multiple times in the same pack.
• 3-4 interaction pieces, mimicking the original Jumpstart set, and leaving room in the booster pack for its own theme to emphasize itself.
• Up to 2 Rare/Mythic Rare cards (not including lands), highlighting the booster pack theme.

Although Modern Horizons 2 draft themes typically spanned 2 colors, this Jumpstart format features packs which emphasize one color of any given pair more heavily, helping to improve the unique feel of each pack and each potential pairing.

Present in this battle box are 21 themes spanning the draft archetypes utilized in Modern Horizons 2. There are multiple unique booster packs for each 2-color pair, as well as 1 5-color booster pack.

For reference, these themes are:
/ Affinity
Artifacts are the key to victory! Pull ahead of your opponents with affinity and gain value with more artifacts in play.
/ Self Discard
Discarding is normally a drawback, but here it's an advantage! Use cards from your hand to fuel powerful effects.
/ Madness
Accelerate your strategy by combining madness with key discard abilities for maximum efficiency!
/ Storm
Patience is essential for great rewards. Save up resources for a pivotal turn and unleash a storm of spells all at once!
/ +1/+1
Counters tower over opponents with tons of +1/+1 counters. Use them to draw cards, remove permanents, or simply smash the competition!
/ Reanimator
Don't get sad when your creatures bite the dust. Instead, bring them back for another round!
/ Delirium
Stock up your graveyard and achieve ultimate power with delirium! Control your opponents until you're ready to turn the tides.
/ Sacrifice/Squirrels
Amass an army of furry friends to bite and claw out a win! Even better, utilize your Squirrels as fodder to intensify your effects.
/ Modular
Keep up the pressure with aggressive robot friends! Attack with small modular creatures to build colossal war machines.
/ Junk
Aim for the long game. Extract every ounce of value from your stockpile of Treasures, Clues, and Food!

Notable exclusions of cards not present in this set:

• Arid Mesa/Marsh Flats/Misty Rainforest/Scalding Tarn/Verdant Catacombs
• Cabal Coffers
• Urza's Saga
• Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
  While powerful cards in external settings, these lands were felt to not be the type of play environment this battle box is aiming to cultivate.
• Dakkon, Shadow Slayer
• Geyadrone Dihada
• Grist, the Hunger Tide
  Planeswalkers seemed to be an all-or-nothing inclusion here, and with 3-color strategies not well supported the decision leaned more toward the "nothing" side.
• Endurance/Fury/Grief/Solitude/Subtlety
• Archon of Cruelty
• Kaldra Compleat
• Murktide Regent
• Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
• Serra's Emissary
  Large power outliers, which would only be present in 1 booster pack, were excluded as a means to narrow the power band present, and create fewer large swings in game play.