Chris Baylis reviewed some of the game's expansion sets for "Arcane" magazine, beginning with the "Underdark" booster pack, rating it a 7 out of 10 overall. He found that virtually half of the 100-card set was accounted for by its main deck-building features, namely the high-level clerics, the surplus of clerical spells, a heavy influence of powerful monsters, and the underground Realms. He felt that these cards "go a long way towards redressing the balance upset by "Powers" (set six), which made Psionicists almost insurmountable". Baylis reviewed the "Runes & Ruins" expansion set, rating it a 6 out of 10 overall. Baylis comments that "The most interesting cards of the set are the unarmed combat holds, kicks and punches, presented in a very unusual oil painting form and carrying a clenched fist symbol not yet in the rulebook." Baylis reviewed the "Birthright" booster pack, rating it a 5 out of 10 overall. Baylis concluded his review by saying: "Overall the "Birthright" expansion is of very little interest to anyone other than card collectors, with only one of the 100 cards immediately springing to mind for possible consideration as an addition to my personal gaming deck." Baylis reviewed the "Draconomicon" booster pack, rating it a 7 out of 10 overall. He noted that this expansion was mostly researched from the "Draconomicon" handbook from TSR: "As you would expect with spellcasting Wyrms, it is accented towards magic, though the set is also bolstered by events and allies that are associated with Dragons and dragonkind."