Born of the Gods Collation

Born of the Gods is a small set with 60 commons, 60 uncommons, 35 rares, and 10 mythic rares. This is the normal size for a small set of this era. Foil cards are included in booster packs with advertised odds of 1 : 67 cards. The set was printed in English in the USA and Belgium.

Born of the Gods was sold in 15 card booster packs (which contain an additional ad card). Booster boxes have 36 packs.

US Pack Anatomy

The US printing uses sequential collation.

Packs are back-facing and have 10 commons followed by 3 uncommons, a rare, a basic land (from Theros), and an ad card. If there is a foil card, it will appear after the rare, displacing a common.

The commons are printed on one sheet with each card appearing twice (and one filler). This is divided into a 66-card A run (with 33 distinct cards) and a 54-card B run (with 27 distinct cards). Discounting foils, packs contain 5-6 A cards followed by 4-5 B cards.

When a foil appears in a pack, it will displace a B common card. This can happen both in packs with 4 B commons (resulting in 3 remaining) and in packs with 5 B commons. The foil rare sheet has 3 copies of each rare and one copy of each mythic rare which violates the normal 1/8 mythic rate.

Uncommons are printed on one sheet with each card appearing twice (and one filler). This is divided into a 66-card A run (with 33 distinct cards) and a 54-card B run (with 27 distinct cards). Packs can have either 2 A cards followed by 1 B card, or 1 A card followed by 2 B cards. Since the runs are unbalanced, 2 A cards should mathematically happen 13/20 of the time.

Common Runs [1]

The A common run consists of 33 different cards each appearing twice. The choice of first card is mostly arbitrary.

The B common run consists of 27 different cards each appearing twice. The choice of first card is mostly arbitrary.

Uncommon Runs

The A uncommon run consists of 33 different cards each appearing twice. The choice of first card is mostly arbitrary.

The B uncommon run also consists of 27 different cards each appearing twice. The choice of first card is mostly arbitrary.

Token Run

The marketing cards in Born of the Gods have a token, tip, or emblem on the front face. They are printed on an 11 × 11 sheet with different items appearing different numbers of times. The choice of first card is mostly arbitrary.

Token Rarity
Gold × 1	Kiora, the Crashing Wave Emblem × 1	Kraken × 1
Elemental × 5	Zombie × 5	Bestow Tip Card × 6
Deck Proportions Tip Card × 6	Elspeth Tip Card × 6	Expansion Symbol Tip Card × 6
Gods Tip Card × 6	Heroic Tip Card × 6	Inspired Tip Card × 6
Kiora Tip Card × 6	Tribute Tip Card × 6	Xenagos Tip Card × 6
Bird × 7	Cat Soldier × 7	Centaur × 7
Wolf × 7	Bird × 10	Soldier × 10

Foil Common Sheet

There is a picture of the foil common sheet available. [2] Each common card appears twice. The extra copy of Divination is presumed to be a filler. Note that the images I could find were of poor quality, so there is a greater possibility of error in transcription.

Foil Uncommon Sheet

There is a picture of the foil uncommon sheet available. [3] Each uncommon card appears twice. The extra copy of Spiteful Returned is presumed to be a filler.

Foil Rare Sheet

There is a picture of the foil common sheet available. [4] Each rare card appears three times and each mythic rare appears once. The extra copies of Oracle of Bones are presumed to be fillers.

[1] The common runs for US Born of the Gods were originally posted by Medussa on the MTG Salvation forums.

[2] A picture of the foil US common sheet was posted in the Uncut Sheet facebook group by Jonathan Thivierge.

[3] A picture of the foil US uncommon sheet was posted in the Uncut Sheet facebook group by Rauntu Munday.

[4] A picture of the foil US rare sheet was posted in the Uncut Sheet facebook group by Lawrence Camangon.