Within the 63-card Enchanting Tales sheet sits an even rarer subset: 20 cards that received a completely different art treatment, illustrated specifically by Japanese artists in an anime-inspired style.
Wizards of the Coast revealed this treatment ahead of Wilds of Eldraine's release with a preview showing off cards like Greater Auramancy, Smothering Tithe, Rhystic Study, and Necropotence in their new anime borderless versions.
These are not a separate set of cards mechanically. They are alternate-art versions of specific Enchanting Tales cards, functionally identical to their standard fairy-tale-bordered counterparts.
This guide covers how the anime borderless treatment actually works and what makes it so much harder to pull than a standard Enchanting Tales card.
Fifteen mythic rares and five rares out of the full 63-card sheet received the anime borderless treatment, with Wizards specifically structuring it as one rare and three mythic rares per color across the five colors.
That structure means every color of Magic got a proportional share of anime treatments, rather than the rarer versions clustering around any single color's enchantments.
Wizards previewed several specific anime borderless cards ahead of release, including Greater Auramancy, Smothering Tithe, Rhystic Study, Aggravated Assault, Doubling Season, and Necropotence, each shown with new Japanese-illustrated artwork.
These reveals came from a limited preview batch rather than the full 20-card list, so treat any additional card claimed as anime borderless with some caution unless confirmed directly through Scryfall's official Enchanting Tales set gallery.
Draft and Set Boosters each have roughly a 2.8% chance per pack of the dedicated Enchanting Tales slot containing an anime borderless card, split into about 1.1% for a rare and 1.7% for a mythic rare specifically.
Set Boosters also include two additional wildcard slots where both standard and anime borderless Enchanting Tales cards have a smaller additional chance to appear, slightly improving your overall odds per pack.
Wilds of Eldraine Collector Boosters introduced confetti foil versions of the anime borderless cards specifically, applying a special sparkling foil treatment on top of the already-rare anime artwork.
Each Collector Booster carries roughly the same 2.8% chance of containing one of the 20 confetti foil cards, making a confetti foil pull meaningfully rarer than either a standard Enchanting Tales card or a plain anime borderless one.
Japanese-language Draft, Set, and Collector Boosters print their anime borderless Enchanting Tales cards in Japanese, while every other language's boosters print them in English regardless of the card's art style.
This means an English-language anime borderless card is not a misprint or an error. It is simply how the treatment was designed to appear outside of Japanese-language product specifically.
The combination of genuinely powerful cards, like Necropotence and Rhystic Study, with a rare, visually distinct art treatment gives the anime borderless cards a chase appeal that goes beyond typical alternate-art variants.
Because the pool is limited to just 20 cards total, completing an anime borderless Enchanting Tales set is a realistic, if expensive, long-term collecting goal compared to chasing every alternate treatment across a full set.
Because the anime borderless treatment looks dramatically different from a standard Enchanting Tales card, checking a card's exact collector number and set code against Scryfall's official gallery is the most reliable way to confirm you are buying the correct version.
This matters especially when buying singles online, where a listing photo alone may not clearly distinguish between a standard fairy-tale-bordered card and its rarer anime counterpart.
Wizards revealed the anime borderless treatment gradually, starting with a small preview batch of six cards ahead of the full preview season beginning August 15, building anticipation before showing the complete 20-card list.
This staggered reveal strategy is a common approach for high-interest Booster Fun treatments, giving the community time to discuss each batch before the next one arrives.
Twenty cards total, 15 mythic rares and 5 rares.
A special sparkling foil treatment applied only to anime borderless cards in Collector Boosters.
Only in Japanese-language boosters; other languages print them in English.
Roughly 2.8% in Draft and Set Boosters, split between rare and mythic odds.
Chasing the anime borderless treatment means accepting genuinely long odds, which is exactly what makes a successful pull feel worth celebrating. A magnetic one-touch holder like the EVORETRO one-touch magnetic holder protects a rare pull without hiding the art behind a cloudy sleeve.
For everyday handling of the rest of your Enchanting Tales pulls, a stack of rigid toploaders works well too. The EVORETRO toploaders keep every card corner-protected right out of the pack.
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