Every series eventually ends, and for From the Vault, that ending arrived with a fitting mechanical twist. Released November 24, 2017, From the Vault: Transform was the tenth and final volume, built entirely around double-faced cards.
Fifteen transforming cards filled the box, spanning multiple blocks and mechanics that all shared the same physical card design: two faces on one piece of cardboard.
No formal announcement ever confirmed the series was ending, but no eleventh volume ever followed Transform, making it the genuine closer whether Wizards planned it that way or not.
Here's what made the cut in the series' final entry, and why it remains a fitting way to close out the line.
The set includes three cards with entirely new art on both faces: Delver of Secrets, Huntmaster of the Fells, and Garruk Relentless. It also includes all five transforming planeswalkers originally printed in Magic Origins, among them Jace, Vryn's Prodigy, one of the most format-defining cards of its era.
Other highlights include Archangel Avacyn alongside her transformed side, and the meld pair Bruna, the Fading Light and Gisela, the Broken Blade, which combine into a single powerful creature when both are in play together.
Double-faced cards represent one of Magic's more visually striking physical design innovations, making them a natural, eye-catching subject for the series' final premium foil treatment. The theme also let the set span multiple blocks, from Innistrad's original transform cards to Magic Origins' planeswalkers.
Closing the series on a mechanically unusual, visually distinct theme gave Transform a natural sense of finality even without an official announcement confirming it as the last volume.
Jace, Vryn's Prodigy is the set's most competitively significant inclusion, a one-mana creature that transforms into a powerful planeswalker and saw play across nearly every format it was legal in in its era. Delver of Secrets anchors an entire archetype built around cheap spells and aggressive tempo strategies in Legacy and Modern.
The Bruna and Gisela meld pair represents the set's more unusual mechanical inclusion, showing off a card type that only a handful of Magic sets have ever used.
Any deck already running double-faced cards benefits from this volume, since its fifteen cards span multiple colors and strategies rather than one narrow archetype. Legacy and Modern tempo decks specifically get real value from Delver of Secrets and Jace, Vryn's Prodigy.
Collectors closing out a complete series set also treat Transform as a priority pickup given its status as the genuine finale.
Transform was produced in a single limited print run in 2017 and has never been reprinted as a complete boxed set since its original release. Jace, Vryn's Prodigy and a few other individual cards have seen later reprints elsewhere, but never in this exact From the Vault foil treatment.
As the series finale, sealed Transform boxes also carry a natural collector premium tied to closing out the full ten-volume run.
Transform sits in the top tier of the full series ranking, driven by genuinely format-defining cards like Jace, Vryn's Prodigy and Delver of Secrets. Its status as the finale adds meaningful collector demand beyond just the individual card power level.
Check our full ranking of all ten volumes to see exactly how Transform compares to Twenty and the rest of the series.
Double-faced cards have only grown more common since 2017, appearing in Modern Horizons sets, Innistrad returns, and multiple Commander products in the years since. Transform's fifteen-card retrospective captured the mechanic's origins right before it became a regular part of Magic's ongoing design toolkit.
Looking back at this box today reads almost like an early highlight reel for a mechanic that's since become permanent rather than a one-off gimmick. Few other single-mechanic themes from the series have aged into this much ongoing relevance across current-era products, which keeps demand for this volume's foils steady even today.
It released on November 24, 2017, as the tenth and final volume in the series.
Every card is a double-faced card, transforming between two different faces during play.
Yes, it remains a strong include in Legacy and Modern tempo strategies built around cheap spells.
No, Wizards never formally announced an ending, but no eleventh volume ever followed it.
Double-faced cards need protection that keeps both sides scratch-free during regular play. A one-touch magnetic holder displays a transformed Jace or Delver without risking either face.
For the rest of the box, toploaders keep every double-faced card protected between games.
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