Magic: The Gathering sets
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These are tables of card sets for Magic: The Gathering, a trading card game published by Wizards of the Coast.
Wizards of the Coast releases Magic cards in base/core sets and in expansion sets. After the first set, Alpha, all the base sets up till Tenth Edition consisted entirely of cards that had been printed before. Beginning with Magic 2010, the core sets will consist of half reprints and half new cards. They have ranged in size from 249 cards (Magic 2010) to 449 cards (Fifth Edition). Expansion sets, which have ranged in size from 92 cards (Arabian Nights) to 422 cards (Time Spiral), expand the game by adding new cards, with few reprints.
Expansion sets beginning with Ice Age have come in sets of three which form a block (the preferred term in actual gameplay) or cycle (the preferred term when describing the associated storyline) consisting of one large "stand-alone" expansion set of more than 300 cards, followed by two small expansion sets of less than 200 cards, which continue the themes introduced in the large set. Like the base set, stand-alone expansion sets contain basic land cards; other expansion sets do not. The large set of each block is released every October, with the small expansion sets associated with it being released the following February and May/June; this schedule began with Alliances in June 1996.
All expansion sets, and all editions of the base set from Sixth Edition onward, are identified by an expansion symbol printed on the right side of cards, below the art and above the text box. From Exodus onward, the expansion symbols are also color-coded to denote rarity: black for common and basic land cards, silver for uncommon, and gold for rare (the Time Spiral set featured an additional purple coloration for "timeshifted" cards[1]). Beginning with the Shards of Alara set, a red expansion symbol denotes a new rarity: "Mythic Rare". Wizards of the Coast also assigns an internal development codename[2] and a three-character expansion code[3] to each set.
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[edit] Base/core set editions
Alpha through Fifth Edition did not have set symbols printed on the actual cards, though those sets were retroactively given set symbols in Wizards of the Coast's official Gatherer[4] database of Magic cards.
Set | Set symbol | Set code[3] | Release date | Size[4][5] | |||||
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Total Cards | Common | Uncommon | Rare | Basic Land | Other | ||||
Limited Edition Alpha | None | LEA | August 5, 1993[6] | 295[I] | 74 | 95 | 116 | 10 | — |
Limited Edition Beta | None | LEB | October 1993[7] | 302[I] | 75 | 95 | 117 | 15 | — |
Unlimited | None | 2ED | December 1993[6] | 302[I] | 75 | 95 | 117 | 15 | — |
Revised Edition[II] | None | 3ED | April 1994[8] | 306 | 75 | 95 | 121 | 15 | — |
Fourth Edition | None | 4ED | April 1995[9] | 378 | 121 | 121 | 121 | 15 | — |
Fifth Edition | None / Roman-numeral five[III] | 5ED | March 24, 1997[10] | 449 | 165 | 132 | 132 | 20 | — |
Classic (Sixth Edition) | A Roman-numeral six | 6ED | April 28, 1999[10] | 350 | 110 | 110 | 110 | 20 | — |
Seventh Edition | A serif numeral seven | 7ED | April 11, 2001[10] | 350 | 110 | 110 | 110 | 20 | — |
Core Set - Eighth Edition | The number eight superimposed over three fanned cards | 8ED | July 28, 2003[11] | 357 | 110 | 110 | 110 | 20 | 7[IV] |
Core Set - Ninth Edition | The number nine superimposed over three fanned cards | 9ED | July 29, 2005[12] | 359 | 110 | 110 | 110 | 20 | 9[IV] |
Core Set - Tenth Edition | A Roman-numeral ten | 10E | July 14, 2007[13] | 383 | 121 | 121 | 121 | 20 | — |
Magic 2010 | "M10" | M10 | July 17, 2009[14] | 249 | 101 | 60 | 53 | 20 | 15 |
[edit] Expansion sets
Beginning with Alliances, expansion sets were given codenames while in development; the code names of the three expansions of a cycle usually fit together to form a phrase or common theme.[2]
Also beginning with Alliances in June 1996, expansion sets were released in a regular pattern: the base sets were released in October with the small expansion sets being released in February and June (Alliances was originally the third set of the block; it was retroactively made a second set with the release of Coldsnap in 2006). With the exceptions of Stronghold, a 1998 set released in March rather than February, and Scourge, a 2003 set which was released in May rather than June, this pattern of months was never broken, over a 10-year period, until 2006, when Dissension was also released a month early in May instead of June, because of the July release of Coldsnap. This appears to be a permanent shift in the schedule, because the 2007 set Future Sight also followed the trend by being released in May 2007.
Most early expansion sets did not have exact release dates; they were just shipped out within the space of a week, and retailers could start selling them as soon as the sets were received. By the time of Alliances in 1997, however, release dates were set as Mondays (the earliest set with an exact Monday release date might possibly have preceded Alliances, but Alliances is the earliest set with a cited and confirmed Monday release date). Beginning with Mirrodin in 2003, the release dates were changed from Monday to Friday.
All sets beginning with Homelands[VI] also have a pre-release date, on which cards are sold in limited quantities in pre-release tournaments. These tournaments were formerly always held two weeks before the release date, but since Shards of Alara they are now held one week before the release date.
2007/2008 releases note: Rather than the normal 3-set cycle, the four sets released from October 2007 through July 2008 were released in two "mini-cycles" - Lorwyn and Shadowmoor - and are considered a single 4-set cycle for tournament rotation purposes.
Set | Expansion symbol |
Expansion code[3] |
Development codename[2] |
Pre-release date | Release date | Size[4][5] | |||||||||||
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Total Cards |
Common | UC | Rare | Basic Land |
Other | ||||||||||||
Arabian Nights | A scimitar | ARN | none | none | December 1993[15] | 92[V] | 40 | 19 | 32 | 1 | — | ||||||
Antiquities | An anvil | ATQ | none | none | March 1994[16] | 100[VI] | 30 | 44 | 26 | — | — | ||||||
Legends | The capital of a Doric column | LEG | none | none | June 1994[17] | 310 | 75 | 114 | 121 | — | — | ||||||
The Dark | A thin crescent moon | DRK | none | none | August 1994[18] | 119 | 40 | 44 | 35 | — | — | ||||||
Fallen Empires | A crown | FEM | none | none | November 1994[19] | 187[VII] | 121 | 30 | 36 | — | — | ||||||
Homelands[IX] | The globe of Ulgrotha | HML | none | October 14, 1995[VII] | October 1995[20] | 140[X] | 50 | 47 | 43 | — | — | ||||||
Ice Age Cycle/Block | |||||||||||||||||
Ice Age | A snowflake | ICE | none | none[VII] | June 1995[21] | 383 | 121 | 121 | 121 | 20 | — | ||||||
Alliances | A flowing banner | ALL | Quack[2] | May 18, 1996[22] | June 10, 1996[10] | 199[XI] | 112 | 43 | 46 | — | — | ||||||
Coldsnap[IX] | A hanging trio of icicles | CSP | Splat[2] | July 8, 2006[23] | July 21, 2006[24] | 155 | 60 | 55 | 40 | — | — | ||||||
Mirage Cycle/Block | |||||||||||||||||
Mirage | A palm tree | MIR | Sosumi[2] | September 21, 1996[25] | October 8, 1996[10] | 350 | 110 | 110 | 110 | 20 | — | ||||||
Visions | Zhalfirin Triangle of War/stylized "V" | VIS | Mirage Jr.[2] | January 11, 1997[26] | February 3, 1997[27] | 167 | 62 | 55 | 50 | — | — | ||||||
Weatherlight | The Thran Tome, an open book | WTH | Mochalatte[2] | May 31, 1997[28] | June 9, 1997[10] | 167 | 62 | 55 | 50 | — | — | ||||||
Rath Cycle or Tempest Block | |||||||||||||||||
Tempest | A storm cloud | TMP | Bogavhati[2] | October 4, 1997[29] | October 14, 1997[10] | 350 | 110 | 110 | 110 | 20 | — | ||||||
Stronghold | A portcullis | STH | Rachimulot[2] | February 21, 1998[30] | March 2, 1998[10] | 143 | 55 | 44 | 44 | — | — | ||||||
Exodus | A bridge | EXO | Gorgonzola[2] | June 6, 1998[31] | June 15, 1998[10] | 143 | 55 | 44 | 44 | — | — | ||||||
Artifacts Cycle or Urza Block | |||||||||||||||||
Urza's Saga | Two gears | USG | Armadillo[2] | October 3, 1998[32] | October 12, 1998[33] | 350 | 110 | 110 | 110 | 20 | — | ||||||
Urza's Legacy | A hammer | ULG | Guacamole[2] | February 6, 1999[34] | February 15, 1999[10] | 143 | 55 | 44 | 44 | — | — | ||||||
Urza's Destiny | An Erlenmeyer flask | UDS | Chimichanga[2] | May 29, 1999[29] | June 7, 1999[35] | 143 | 55 | 44 | 44 | — | — | ||||||
Masquerade Cycle or Masques Block | |||||||||||||||||
Mercadian Masques | A domino mask | MMQ | Archimedes[2] | September 25, 1999[36] | October 4, 1999[37] | 350 | 110 | 110 | 110 | 20 | — | ||||||
Nemesis | A battle axe | NMS | Euripides[2] | February 5, 2000[38] | February 14, 2000[39] | 143 | 55 | 44 | 44 | — | — | ||||||
Prophecy | Three crystals | PCY | Dionysus[2] | May 27, 2000 | June 5, 2000[40] | 143 | 55 | 44 | 44 | — | — | ||||||
Invasion Cycle/Block | |||||||||||||||||
Invasion | The symbol of the Coalition[XII] | INV | Beijing[2] | September 23, 2000[29] | October 2, 2000[41] | 350 | 110 | 110 | 110 | 20 | — | ||||||
Planeshift | A swirling portal | PLS | Hong Kong[2] | January 27, 2001[42] | February 5, 2001[42] | 143 | 55 | 44 | 44 | — | — | ||||||
Apocalypse | Crying mask of Yawgmoth | APC | Shanghai[2] | May 26, 2001[43] | June 4, 2001 | 143 | 55 | 44 | 44 | — | — | ||||||
Odyssey Cycle/Block | |||||||||||||||||
Odyssey | The Mirari, a metal orb on a helix | ODY | Argon[2] | September 22, 2001[29] | October 1, 2001 | 350 | 110 | 110 | 110 | 20 | — | ||||||
Torment | An ouroboros | TOR | Boron[2] | January 26, 2002[44] | February 4, 2002[44] | 143 | 55 | 44 | 44 | — | — | ||||||
Judgment | A balancing scale | JUD | Carbon[2] | May 18, 2002 | May 27, 2002[45] | 143 | 55 | 44 | 44 | — | — | ||||||
Onslaught Cycle/Block | |||||||||||||||||
Onslaught | A four-legged "morph"[XIII] creature | ONS | Manny[2] | September 28, 2002[46] | October 7, 2002[46] | 350 | 110 | 110 | 110 | 20 | — | ||||||
Legions | Two crossed spears behind a shield | LGN | Moe[2] | January 25, 2003[47] | February 3, 2003 | 145 | 55 | 45 | 45 | — | — | ||||||
Scourge | A dragon mask | SCG | Jack[2] | May 17, 2003[48] | May 26, 2003[48] | 143 | 55 | 44 | 44 | — | — | ||||||
Mirrodin Cycle/Block | |||||||||||||||||
Mirrodin | The sword of Kaldra | MRD | Bacon[2] | September 20, 2003[49] | October 2, 2003[49] | 306 | 110 | 88 | 88 | 20 | — | ||||||
Darksteel | The shield of Kaldra | DST | Lettuce[2] | January 24, 2004[50] | February 6, 2004[50] | 165 | 55 | 55 | 55 | — | — | ||||||
Fifth Dawn | The helm of Kaldra | 5DN | Tomato[2] | May 22, 2004[51] | June 4, 2004[52] | 165 | 55 | 55 | 55 | — | — | ||||||
Kamigawa Cycle/Block | |||||||||||||||||
Champions of Kamigawa | A torii gate | CHK | Earth[2] | September 18, 2004[53] | October 1, 2004[54] | 306 | 110 | 88[XIV] | 88 | 20 | — | ||||||
Betrayers of Kamigawa | A shuriken | BOK | Wind[2] | January 22, 2005[55] | February 4, 2005[54] | 165 | 55 | 55 | 55 | — | — | ||||||
Saviors of Kamigawa | A lantern | SOK | Fire[2] | May 21, 2005[56] | June 3, 2005[54] | 165 | 55 | 55 | 55 | — | — | ||||||
Ravnica Cycle/Block | |||||||||||||||||
Ravnica: City of Guilds | A tower | RAV | Control[57] | September 24, 2005[58] | October 7, 2005[59] | 306 | 110 | 88 | 88 | 20 | — | ||||||
Guildpact | The seal of the Guildpact | GPT | Alt[57] | January 21, 2006[60] | February 3, 2006[60] | 165 | 55 | 55 | 55 | — | — | ||||||
Dissension | The broken seal of the Guildpact | DIS | Delete[57] | April 22, 2006[61] | May 5, 2006[61] | 180 | 60 | 60 | 60 | — | — | ||||||
Time Spiral Cycle/Block | |||||||||||||||||
Time Spiral | An hourglass (viewed from the side) | TSP/TSB[XV] | Snap[57] | September 23, 2006[62] | October 6, 2006[62] | 422 | 121 | 80 | 80 | 20 | 121[XV] | ||||||
Planar Chaos | tilted hourglass / merging planes / stylized letters "PC" / Möbius strip |
PLC | Crackle[57] | January 20, 2007[63] | February 2, 2007[63] | 165 | 40 | 40 | 40 | — | 45[XVI] | ||||||
Future Sight | an eye gazing through a rift portal / an hourglass from above | FUT | Pop[57] | April 21, 2007[64] | May 4, 2007[64] | 180 | 33 | 33 | 33 | — | 81[XVII] | ||||||
Lorwyn Cycle/Block | |||||||||||||||||
Lorwyn | an elf ear or a leaf | LRW | Peanut[65] | September 29, 2007[66] | October 12, 2007[66] | 301 | 121 | 80 | 80 | 20 | — | ||||||
Morningtide | Sunrise / A flame | MOR | Butter[65] | January 19, 2008[67] | February 1, 2008[67] | 150 | 60 | 40 | 50 | — | — | ||||||
Shadowmoor Cycle/Block[68] | |||||||||||||||||
Shadowmoor | Crown of the Reaper King | SHM | Jelly[65] | April 19, 2008[69] | May 2, 2008[69] | 301 | 121 | 80 | 80 | 20 | — | ||||||
Eventide | Eclipsed sun | EVE | Doughnut[68] | July 12, 2008[70] | July 25, 2008[70] | 180 | 60 | 60 | 60 | — | — | ||||||
Shards of Alara Cycle/Block | |||||||||||||||||
Shards of Alara | 5-part gem | ALA | Rock[71] | September 27, 2008[72] | October 3, 2008[73] | 249 | 101 | 60 | 53 | 20 | 15[XVIII] | ||||||
Conflux | modified 5-part gem | CON | Paper[71] | January 31, 2009[74] | February 6, 2009[74] | 145[75] | 60 | 40 | 35 | — | 10[XVIII] | ||||||
Alara Reborn | branching gem | ARB | Scissors[71] | April 25, 2009 [76] | April 30, 2009[76] | 145[75] | 60 | 40 | 35 | — | 10[XVIII] | ||||||
Zendikar Cycle/Block | |||||||||||||||||
Zendikar | A kite or diamond | ZEN | Live[71] | September 26, 2009 | October 2, 2009 | 249 | 101 | 60 | 53 | 20 | 15[XVIII] | ||||||
"Long" | unrevealed | unrevealed | Long[71] | c. February 2010 | c. February 2010 | unrevealed | |||||||||||
"Prosper" | unrevealed | unrevealed | Prosper[71] | c. May 2010 | c. May 2010 | unrevealed | |||||||||||
2010-2011 "Lights"[77] block (forthcoming) | |||||||||||||||||
"Lights" | unrevealed | unrevealed | Lights [77] | c. October 2010 | c. October 2010 | unrevealed | |||||||||||
"Camera" | unrevealed | unrevealed | Camera [77] | c. February 2011 | c. February 2011 | unrevealed | |||||||||||
"Action" | unrevealed | unrevealed | Action [77] | c. May 2011 | c. May 2011 | unrevealed | |||||||||||
2011-2012 "Shake" [77] block (forthcoming) | |||||||||||||||||
"Shake" | unrevealed | unrevealed | Shake [77] | c. October 2011 | c. October 2011 | unrevealed | |||||||||||
"Rattle" | unrevealed | unrevealed | Rattle [77] | c. February 2012 | c. February 2012 | unrevealed | |||||||||||
"Roll" | unrevealed | unrevealed | Roll [77] | c. May 2012 | c. May 2012 | unrevealed |
[edit] Compilations/reprint sets
Reprint sets are sets of certain cards from previous sets that were re-released for different reasons. Some reasons include the cards were fan favorites and popular demand brought them back or in some cases, reprints were to commemorate certain events such as widely known matches or anniversary sets. Some reprint sets revolved around a certain theme; for example, Beatdown was themed around old, out-of-print, heavy-hitting creatures. Reprinting a card in one of these sets does not affect when it leaves Standard and Extended.
Set | Expansion symbol | Expansion code[3] |
Release date | Size[4][5] | |||||||
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Total Cards | Common | Uncommon | Rare | Basic Land | Other | ||||||
Chronicles[XX] | No specific symbol[XX] | CHR | July 1995[78] | 125[XIX] | 37 | 43 | 45 | — | — | ||
Anthologies | No specific symbol[XX] | ATH | November 1998[79] | Two 60-card pre-constructed decks | |||||||
Battle Royale | No specific symbol[XX] | BRB | November 12, 1999[80] | Four 40-card pre-constructed decks | |||||||
Beatdown | A mace | BTD | December 2000[81] | Two 61-card pre-constructed decks | |||||||
Deckmasters | A stylized letter "D" | DKM | December 2001[82] | Two 62-card pre-constructed decks | |||||||
Duel Decks: Elves vs. Goblins | A stylized axe and flame combination symbol | EVG | November 16, 2007[83] | Two 60-card pre-constructed decks | |||||||
From the Vault: Dragons | Wings of a Dragon | FVD | August 29, 2008[84] | 15 limited foil Dragon cards | |||||||
Duel Decks: Jace vs. Chandra | A point-reflected pair of swooshes | JVC | November 7, 2008[85] | Two 60-card pre-constructed decks | |||||||
Duel Decks: Divine vs. Demonic | A halo with horns coming up through its center | DVD | April 10th, 2009[86] | Two 60-card pre-constructed decks | |||||||
From the Vault: Exiled | An arrow firing diagonally leaving a trail | FVE | August 28, 2009 | 15 limited foil formerly banned cards | |||||||
Digital and Online-only sets | |||||||||||
Masters Edition[XXV] | A circle and a quarter-circle[87] | MED | September 10, 2007[87][XXVII] | 195 | 60 | 60 | 60 | 15 | — | ||
Masters Edition II | A circle and two quarter-circles[88] | ME2 | September 22, 2008[88][XXVII] | 245 | 80 | 80 | 80 | 0 | 5[XXVI] |
[edit] Introductory sets
These introductory sets were intended for novice Magic: The Gathering players.
Set | Expansion symbol |
Expansion code[3] |
Release date | Size[4][5] | |||||
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Total Cards | Common | Uncommon | Rare | Basic Land | Other | ||||
Portal[XXI] | |||||||||
Portal | A portal | POR | June 1997[89] | 222[XXI] | 97 | 50 | 55 | 20 | — |
Portal Second Age | A pentagon | P02 | June 1998[90] | 165 | 70 | 45 | 35 | 15 | — |
Portal Three Kingdoms | The Chinese character for the number 3 | PTK | May 1999[91] | 180 | 55 | 55 | 55 | 15 | — |
Starter | |||||||||
Starter 1999 | A five-pointed star | S99 | July 1999[92] | 173 | 63 | 55 | 35 | 20 | — |
Starter 2000 | "S" overlaid on a five-pointed star | S00 | July 2000[93] | 57[XXIII] | 39 | 6 | 2 | 10 | — |
[edit] Sets not legal for tournament play
These sets, though also published by Wizards of the Coast, are not legal for DCI-sanctioned tournament play.
Set | Expansion symbol | Expansion code[3] |
Development codename[2] |
Pre-release date | Release date | Size[4][5] | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Total Cards | Common | Uncommon | Rare | Basic Land | Other | ||||||
Astral[XXIV] | star with a trail | none | none | none | April 1997[94] | 12 | — | — | — | — | — |
Un-sets[XXVII] | |||||||||||
Unglued | A cracked-open egg | UGL | none | August 7, 1998[29] | August 17, 1998 | 88 | 33 | 22 | 28 | 5 | — |
Unhinged | A horseshoe | UNH | Unglued II[95] | none[96] | November 19, 2004[96] | 141 | 55 | 40 | 40 | 5 | 1[XXVIII] |
[edit] Notes
- ^I : Two cards, the common Circle of Protection: Black and the rare Volcanic Island, were inadvertently left out of the printing of Alpha. Beta and Unlimited included the two missing cards as well as one additional alternate art variant of each of the five basic lands. Consequently, those two sets each have seven more cards than Alpha did. [97]
- ^II : When the Revised Edition was in production in 1994, a number of problems with the set became apparent. Some cards' colors were washed-out. The picture and color foreground for the Serendib Efreet were wrong (not that this was the first such misprint), and there was a growing concern with the Satanic images on some of the cards. The solution was to print a "fixed" version of Revised Edition, code named "Edgar", which has since came to be known as Summer Magic because it was printed in the summer of 1994. The cards were distributed in regular Revised Edition boosters, but no Summer Edition starters were produced. Despite its intended function as a fixed Revised Edition, there were problems with Summer Magic. On some cards, the colors were too dark. Furthermore, Hurricane was printed as a blue card and thereby became the most famous and most desired Summer Magic card of all.[98] The Serendib Efreet had its artwork corrected, but the artist name was forgotten to be updated. The artist name for Plateau was not corrected as well. Because of all these flaws, the entire print run was recalled and destroyed which led to Revised Edition shortage in 1994. However, a few booster boxes survived. Summer Magic cards can sell for over $1000 for notable cards and some as high $5000. Summer Magic cards can best be recognized by their 1994 copyright date.[99]
- ^III : The only cards in Fifth Edition to have an expansion symbol were those printed in Simplified Chinese in 1998.[100]
- ^IV : In addition to the 350 cards normally available in booster packs, the Eighth Edition Core Game contained 7 "starter cards" not available in booster packs, labeled with collector numbers S1 through S7. Ninth Edition contained 9, labeled S1 through S10 (omitting S6). These were simple "vanilla" creatures which were designed to introduce new players to the game but which were regarded as bad cards and disliked by experienced players.[101][102]
- ^V : 14 of the commons were printed in two subtle variations (called "a" and "b") making 92 total cards but only 78 unique cards.[15]
- ^VI : 5 of the cards came in 4 alternate art versions making the set have 100 total cards but only 85 unique cards. The different art versions also differ in rarity causing these 5 cards to make up a total of 6 commons, 9 uncommons, and 6 rares.[4][103]
- ^VII : The first pre-release officially sponsored by Wizards of the Coast was held for Homelands in New York City. Ice Age, which preceded Homelands, had an unofficial widely-attended pre-release in Toronto.[104][105]
- ^VIII : 15 of the commons came in 4 alternate art versions, while 20 of them came in 3 alternate art versions causing 187 total cards but only 102 unique cards.[106]
- ^IX : Homelands was not designed as part of the Ice Age Cycle and has no thematic or story-based link to the other sets in it. Wizards of the Coast retroactively declared it part of the Ice Age cycle in 1997 to fit with the then-emerging standard cycle structure. Nearly a decade later, in 2006, Coldsnap, which complements Ice Age’s storyline and design themes, was at last released to replace Homelands and complete the Ice Age Block. Homelands has reverted back to a standalone set.[107]
- ^X : All commons had 2 alternate art versions making 140 total cards but only 115 unique cards.[108]
- ^XI : All commons had 2 alternate art versions making 199 total cards but only 143 unique cards and 56 unique commons.[4]
- ^XII : The Coalition was a group assembled by Urza to defend Dominaria against the invasion of the Phyrexians.[109]
- ^XIII : Many creatures in the Onslaught Block had the ability to "morph." Morphed creatures looked like "clay spiders."[110]
- ^XIV : This does not count the alternate art for the uncommon card Brothers Yamazaki. Counting each version separately, there are 89 uncommons and 307 cards in the set.[111]
- ^XV : 121 cards in Time Spiral were reprints and called "timeshifted." TSP refers to all non-timeshifted cards in the set. TSB, which stands for "TimeShifted Bonus" (during development, the timeshifted cards were known as "bonus cards"), refers to the timeshifted cards only.[1][112]
- ^XVI : There are 45 Timeshifted Cards in Planar Chaos, however, unlike in Time Spiral they were not reprints but instead they were existing cards from the past which were "color-shifted" (known, iconic cards that were printed in a different color). They also had assigned rarities: 20 common timeshifted cards, 15 uncommon timeshifted cards, and 10 rare timeshifted cards.[113][4]
- ^XVII : There are 81 timeshifted Cards, composing 27 of each rarity, in Future Sight. However, unlike the previous sets these timeshifted cards have a future theme in that they have different frame then normal cards and have keyword mechanics that may appear in future sets.[114][4]
- ^XVIII : Starting in Shards of Alara Wizards of the Coast introduced a new rarity level higher than rare called Mythic Rare in which a mythic rare card will appear in approximately 1 out of every 8 booster packs instead of a rare.[75]
- ^XIX : Chronicles, released in 1995 between Ice Age and Homelands, reprinted many previous cards, drawn from the Arabian Nights, Antiquities, Legends, and The Dark sets, that were becoming difficult to obtain but added no new cards to the game. Despite being published between Ice Age and Homelands, it is not considered part of the Ice Age Block; for purposes of tournament-legality, it was instead treated as an extension of Fourth Edition. The cards in Chronicles were reprinted with white borders, as opposed to their original black borders. Also Chronicles contained three uncommons with four alternate art versions meaning there are 125 total cards but only 116 unique cards and only 34 unique uncommons.[115][4]
- ^XX : Chronicles, Anthologies, and Battle Royale did not have expansion symbols of their own and instead the cards within these reprint sets just retained the symbol from their former set.[116]
- ^XXI : Portal was a series of sets featuring simplified rules intended to introduce novice players of Magic: The Gathering to the game. When they were originally released, they were not legal for DCI-sanctioned tournament play, but the DCI changed its policy and the Portal sets became legal in the Vintage and Legacy tournament formats on October 20, 2005.[117]
- ^XXII : 7 of the commons were alternate versions, so there are only 215 unique cards and 90 unique commons in Portal.[118][4]
- ^XXIII : Starter 2000 was made up of two 22-card decks and two 15-card packs, all with a fixed selection of cards.[119]
- ^XXIV : Astral is a set of 12 cards that was never actually printed on paper and exists only in the Microprose Magic: The Gathering computer game (with the exception of the oversized Aswan Jaguar included in the box). All 12 cards had abilities that depended on randomness and were therefore more practical to use on the computer than on paper.
- ^XXV : Masters Edition is a set of 195 cards from before Mirage available only on Magic Online for a limited time and not available in physical paper form.[87][4]
- ^XXVI : Masters Edition II has 5 snow-covered lands from Ice Age – it is unclear which rarity these count in.
- ^XXVII : The Un- sets are satirical sets which, though also published by Wizards of the Coast, are not legal for DCI-sanctioned tournament play.
- ^XXVIII : Unhinged contains 1 ultra-rare, called Super Secret Tech, which only exists as a foil rare card.[120]
[edit] References
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[edit] External links
- Official Magic: The Gathering sets page from Wizards of the Coast
- Explanation of the meaning of every expansion symbol
- Images of all the expansion symbols, from Crystal Keep
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