Time Spiral Remastered Collation

Time Spiral Remastered is an extra-large set with 121 commons, 100 uncommons, 53 rares, 15 mythic rares, and 121 "timeshifted" reprints (appearing for the first time with the old border). Foil cards are included in booster packs with advertised rate of 33% of boosters. The set was printed in English in the USA. (I haven't yet confirmed the regions of additional printings.)

Time Spiral Remastered 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 with a novel collation method (in consideration of its unusual size).

Packs are front-facing and have common-uncommon-rare ordering followed by a timeshifted card and an ad card. There are 10 commons, 3 uncommons, and 1 rare. If there is a foil, it will displace a common and appear after the timeshifted card.

There are four common runs: A, B, C1 and C2. (Due to apparent symmetry, the names C1 and C2 are chosen arbitrarily.) A and B each have 33 distinct cards with each card appearing twice. C1 and C2 each have 27 distinct cards with each of these cards appearing twice plus one copy each of Rift Elemental. Packs contains 2-3 A cards, 2-3 B cards, and 4-5 C cards. Half of packs have cards from C1 and half have cards from C2. Packs with foils always have two A cards. (They can be 2+3+4 or 2+2+5.) To ensure all common cards have the same rarity, the rate of 2A packs should be 4/11 which is 1/33 above the 1/3 foil rate; so 2+3+5 packs with no foil do appear. (As far as I've observed, such packs are C2.)

The uncommons are divided into an A run and a B run. The A run has 60 distinct cards each appearing twice and the B run has 40 distinct cards each appearing three times. 3/5 of packs have three consecutive cards from the A run and the other 2/5 have three from the B run.

Common Runs

The A common run consists of 33 different cards each appearing twice. These cards are red and blue, mostly alternating. (True alternation is not possible with an odd number of cards.) The choice of first card is mostly arbitrary.

The B common run consists of 33 different cards each appearing twice. These cards are black and green, mostly alternating. (True alternation is not possible with an odd number of cards.) The choice of first card is mostly arbitrary.

The C1 common run consists of 27 different cards each appearing twice plus Rift Elemental. The cards are mostly white. The choice of first card is mostly arbitrary.

The C2 common run consists of 27 different cards each appearing twice plus Rift Elemental. The cards are mostly white. The choice of first card is mostly arbitrary.

Uncommon Runs

The A uncommon run consists of 60 different cards each appearing twice. The choice of first card is mostly arbitrary.

The B uncommon run consists of 40 different cards each appearing three times. The choice of first card is mostly arbitrary.

Token Run

All of the marketing cards in Time Spiral Remastered have a token on the front face. They are printed in a 121 card run with items appearing different numbers of times. The first card has been chosen so the unbalance in the backs appears at the end of the sequence.

Token Rarity
Bat × 2	Giant × 2	Griffin × 5
Knight × 5	Ape × 6	Kobolds of Kher Keep × 6
Insect × 8	Soldier × 8	Assembly-Worker × 9
Cloud Sprite × 9	Llanowar Elves × 9	Metallic Sliver × 9
Spider × 9	Goblin × 17	Saproling × 17

Classic US Pack Anatomy

There is a second printing that uses more traditional collation using the same print runs (mostly reversed). The easiest way to distinguish these packs is that the cards are back-facing.

Packs still contains 2-3 A cards, 2-3 B cards, and 4-5 C commons, with half of packs having C1 and half having C2. Foil interaction with commons is different (but similar to older US foil collation). Common foils displace A commons (and, as far as I've seen appear in packs that would have had 3 A cards, so they end up with 2). Uncommon foils displace B commons (which can result in only one B card remaining). Rare foils displace C2 commons and timeshifted foils displace C1 commons. The common runs are reversed compared to the other US printing.

Packs have 1-2 A uncommons followed by 1-2 B uncommons. (Of course, more packs have 2 A uncommons.) The uncommons runs are also reversed compared to the other US printing.

Token runs are not reversed compared to the other US printing.

Belgian Pack Anatomy

The Belgian printing uses sequential collation with a novel collation method that is basicly the analogue of the usual Belgian two common run collation to 121 commons.

Packs are front-facing and have common-uncommon-rare ordering followed by a timeshifted card and an ad card. There are 10 commons, 3 uncommons, and 1 rare. If there is a foil, it will displace a common and appear after the timeshifted card.

There are two common runs. Each run has 60 cards each appearing twice plus one copy of Jhoira's Timebug. Each pack contains five cards from the A common run followed by five cards from the B run. Foils can displace a card from either run.

Common Runs

The A common run consists of 60 different cards each appearing twice plus Jhoira's Timebug. The choice of first card is mostly arbitrary.

The B common run consists of 60 different cards each appearing twice plus Jhoira's Timebug. The choice of first card is mostly arbitrary.