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What you can do with a kit on your own
A Prerelease Pack gives you a set-specific pool of cards to open and use for deckbuilding. You can treat opening and evaluating that pool as a solo activity even if you do not have anyone available for a match.
- Sort the cards by color or card type and compare which combinations look strongest.
- Build one or more Sealed decks, then use the remaining opened cards to try alternate versions.
- Goldfish a deck by drawing sample hands and playing pretend turns. This can help you practice sequencing, but it does not test how your deck handles an opponent’s plays.
- If you want, play both sides as an informal house-made exercise. That is not an official Magic solo format, and the cited Wizards rules do not provide a solitaire Sealed ruleset.
What the kit does—and does not—include
Contents vary by set, so check the guide for the specific Prerelease Pack rather than assuming every kit is identical. For example, Wizards’ 2024 Foundations Prerelease guide lists six Play Boosters, a traditional foil year-stamped rare or mythic promo, a card storage box, a spindown counter and an Arena code card available only in select regions. The 2026 The Hobbit guide lists six Play Boosters, a traditional foil promo, a deck box and a spindown die.
Those contents support opening a card pool and building a deck; they do not turn the pack into a self-contained solo game. The ordinary Sealed format requires another player for a match.
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How Sealed deckbuilding works
Wizards’ Sealed Deck format page sets a 40-card minimum. You build from the cards you opened, and the rest of that pool serves as your sideboard. You may add any number of basic lands. The Foundations guide recommends aiming for exactly 40 cards so that your strongest cards are more likely to appear in a game.
Wizards describes Sealed games as 1v1 and lists two players. Its format page says games can be best-of-one or best-of-three; playing alone can help with construction practice, but it cannot reproduce a match against another person.
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What you need for an at-home session
- A kit for the set you want to open: check its set-specific contents, since pack contents are not universal.
- Basic lands: the opened boosters may not provide enough for your deck. At Prerelease events, stores provide basic lands, and Wizards says players may bring their own preferred basics. At home, have lands ready if needed. See the Prerelease event page.
- Another player for a regular Sealed match: without one, you can still open, sort and build, but you are not playing an ordinary Sealed match.
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