impressive google skills! by Tenacious_Dyl » Mon Oct 20, 2008 5:28 am, Post Every early (and late) source points to Arabian Nights having a print run of five million cards. Thus, an uncommon card printed in The Dark would be 26 times more common than an uncommon card from Magic: The Gathering, Limited Edition. I thought it would be interesting to try to tap the resources in these forums to aggregate information about print runs of sets. He had some very solid estimates, but as the Internet grew D'Angelos numbers somehow got repeated as the singular truth over the web and beyond. I didn't count the different pictures on the Urza Tron lands as different cards here btw, if you want to do that you could divide the C5 into three C1 and one C2, and the C6 into two C1 and two C2. This again points to a total run of 10 million cards - the number that Adkinson had promised early on. Another suggestion from The Duelist (in The Complete Card List from 1995) is 2.6 million cards, which was later repeated in the first Official Encyclopedia. MTG Arena Tabletop Magic Online. This information includes: - Details on how many cards were printed in the first seven sets of Magic The Gathering (Including a complete list of known print volumes by card). rares in Legends very small print numbers. That particular article was Now I'm actually done. Ok, so this one gets a bit more tricky. That would mean if you assume a boosters/starter ratio of 75/25 about 100.000 rares of each type were printed. While Alpha God packs might be nothing more than a rumor, there definitly were a handful Beta starters with Alpha cards. is a very specific number for these kind of things, and works out almost perfectly if we have an Alpha run of 2.5 million and a Beta run of 7.5 (the number adds up to 61,295 to be exact). As production manager, Dave Howell would likely have the most accurate info on these things, and there's really no reason for him to make that number up, as it makes the "collectible limited edition" less rare and exclusive, and it's a confession that they messed up their the plan to print 10 million cards. 8,283 sold (FOIL) x1x Koma, Cosmos Serpent (KHM) Kaldheim MtG. The vast number of different role, but probably not one deeply involved in print runs, and I believe he was slightly off. MTG Press v4.4.0.50 Magic: The Gathering Chronology Unlimited Edition, or Unlimited is the second edition of the core set. Sign Up, it unlocks many cool features! Magic The Gathering: - Print Runs - The Reserve List - Counterfeits - Buying Cards - Articles Print Run Statistics How many of each card were printed in 1993 & 1994? 21 times as many cards as there were in Limited Edition (given an Alpha+Beta run of 10.4 million cards) works out to 218.4 million. The earliest estimates by D'Angelo is 30-35 million (March 1994). The sustained popularity of Magic The Gathering over the past 25 years, combined with the limited print runs of the early product, and the commitment to not reprint some of the most iconic and powerful cards created, has led to an ongoing issue of counterfeit Magic Cards. I've ever written. 35 million seems far more likely. A couple of other suggestions are of note however. It had 295 cards and a mere 2.6 million print run. Got proper lost in UseNet groups for a while there, and my The Duelists don't have ctrl+f. Magic The Gathering: - Print Runs - The Reserve List - Counterfeits - Buying Cards - Oldschool Magic - MTG Finance. Apparently there was supposed to be basic lands in the set but they removed them in the eleventh hour. I am not digging any deeper on this one, and regardless where you decide to place your trust here, just know that a lot of Fallen Empires was printed. With rumored God packs, Alpha rares in Beta starters, and any other possible collation problems, I still wouldn't count on the numbers to change with more than 10 copies for each card, and we're most likely talking single digits. It smoothly evolves from "more than four times the size of Antiquities" and "around twice the size of Legends" earlier in the summer, and this number comes directly from Wizards closely after release, not as an estimate before the presses had cooled off. I know I've criticized numbers from The Complete Magic Card List and Official Encyclopedia earlier in this post, and if someone can give me any good reason that the number is in fact 40 million I'd be happy to change my mind. So in this case I'd actually like to turn to The Duelist Complete Magic Card List (1995) and The Official Encyclopedia (1996) as references. Great for New Players. I base this on information from production manager Dave "Snarke" Howell in 1993, which was noted in e.g. We also know that 100 million Revised cards had been printed by August 1994, but how many came after that? I guess the most common estimates for 4th are somewhere between 500 million to 700 million. Proofs are true magic cards on the front with a solid white back. There were a lot of FE cards everywhere in early 1995. White on these kinda things. $21.97. This puts the print run of individual cards like this: There are two places where I'd like to challenge common conceptions on Unlimited. far as I can recall, wotc hasnt released the production numbers on sets in the last few yrs. raw download clone embed print report. But in the time span between summer of '94 to summer of '95 a majority of card production had shifted to Jyhad and Fallen Empires, and after that 4th Edition. Then we have one loose comment and a bunch of circle-references on non-official websites stating that it was 40 million without apparent basis. It is reasonable to assume that these cards were split 50/50 in boosters and starters, as it has been documented that Beta was split in that way and Alpha is basically the first shipment of Beta. And then there's math. Learn more about the format HERE. But there are a lot of wierd printing stuff in the early expansions. Schmalz: This 500 million number would include all of the expansions up to Fallen Empires (though FE had a good number of unsold cards in stock still at this point) and every core set up to and including Revised. Anyway: Not much to say here either. written by J.M. We do know that pre-orders were to the tune of 900 million cards, though it is of course possible that WotC didn't want to fill the pre-orders (like they decided against with The Dark, and in a sense Fallen Empires when they stopped those presses in January 1995, though it is notable that the white bordered 4th wasn't intended to be "collectable" and limited the same way as black bordered sets were). Magic the Gathering Alliances Booster Pack 12 Cards. And that's where we, the full nerds, take a deep dive into UseNet archives from March 1994, to find a topic regarding expected availability of Antiquities, where the discussion moves into people complaining about the current (non-)availability of Unlimited. 'Til next time, keep safe and enjoy the season responsibly. Wizards only makes a few guarantees about the contents of a booster, namely the # of cards at each rarity, chance of getting a foil, and that you will get at lest 1 card of each color. This was the expected print run, and this limitation was stated by Peter Adkinson early on. cards on the highest rarity (121 different rares) give individual Also, the cut [in store pre-order allocations] was made way back in late March or early April--we are not making any additional cuts." Older Sets rotate out of Standard annually as new sets are added. And there is also the issue with the different printings on the U sheets (pink Juzam) that would explain (at least) two print batches. 00. Buying Cards. Unofficial (from Magiclibrarities) Print runs Arabian Nights: 5 million Antiquities: 15 million Legends: 35 millon The Dark: 75 million Fallen Empires: 350-375 million Homelands: 220 million Ice Age: 500 million Alliances: 180 million Mirage: 400 million Visions: 180 million Weatherlight: 180 million Tempest: 400 million Stronghold: 180 million If the odds were as high as one in a hundred, that would still only add an addition 10 or so copies of each rare (and I suspect the odds were far lower than that). Wonder where the 1,100 estimate of each Alpha rare came from? For example, 1960's Topps all had print runs of over 250 million cards and significantly less than 10% of those cards survived the decades. All orders are custom made and most ship worldwide within 24 hours. A number of Alpha rares were to be found in Beta starters. But your walls are better. Printed on 100% cotton watercolour textured paper, Art Prints would be at home in any gallery. But they missed a mountain in the common sheet (c1). But estimating how many of the Alpha cards that survived past 93/94 would of course be nothing more than guesswork. Scrye noted 63 million. You have been warned. The rarity distribution in a booster is 1 rare, 3 uncommon and 11 commons; in a starter it's 2 rares, 13 uncommons, 45 commons. Ah, finally an easy one. After the draft, you will need to build a 60-card deck—much like how a traditional deck of Magic is 60 cards and a traditional draft is 40, here it's 60 to Commander's 100. A print run of around 200 million cards (not counting foreign FWB or FBB versions) is also what my numbers suggest. Then, in late August 1994 (later the same month as the set was released) we find this clarification post from Tom Wylie: I believe this is the actual number. It was clear that players were buying a lot more boosters than that, and as such Wizards knew they should shift more cards to boosters. It was released in December 1993. or Best Offer. Thats a bit low regarding lands. about 300 million) and "approximately three times the size of all previous Magic expansions combined" (i.e. Jan 19th, 2019. Fantastic post, thanks for your hard work on this MG. Having print runs allows better control of distribution of colors and mechanics in packs. The Weakstone was half of a Thran powerstone that played in major part in the Brothers' War on Dominaria. It became apparent that if such a huge amount of product were released it would ruin the collectability of The Dark. That gained traction with D'Angelo. FE is also very hard to put a more exact number on, but official statements include 312 million, 340 million, "about four times The Dark" (i.e. ***50x Snow-Covered Lands*** 10 of Each Modern Horizons Full Art Land MINT Magic. 1 MTG Arena Promo Card ; This slot is for a promo card good for a booster pack on Magic: The Gathering Arena. by Tenacious_Dyl » Fri Oct 17, 2008 8:46 pm, Post official.comments.and.PR.1993 at the Magic ftp (marvin.macc.wisc.edu). Paper print runs are different, also unlike Arena/MTGO where there is only a fixed set of print runs, paper print runs do vary by printer. The Dark contains approximately 100 cards. All that taken into account, I would put the print run of Revised at around 200 million cards, give or take some tens of millions. Ok, last one. Well, in WotC News in The Duelist #3 (fall of 1994), Wizards noted that 300 million cards total had been sold at that point. ↳ Promotional, Misprinted, and Unofficial Magic Items, ↳ Different Auction Sites Reports and MTG Commercial Websites, ↳ Promotional and Unofficial Magic Items, ↳ Searching, Buying, Paying, Shipping, Storing, http://crystalkeep.com/magic/products/index.php. Sometimes people just make mistakes and with all the language and print variations there is plenty of room for things to go unnoticed. Break out your top hats and monocles; it’s about to classy in here. Its print run of 2.6 million cards sold out very quickly and was replaced by Limited Edition's Beta print run. 340 was the latter number of the two, so maybe that one is the most correct? Packs have eight cards, where two are from the uncommon sheet. However, after all those orders came in, WotC became very concerned. These cards have a limited print-run of 50-150 world wide, depending on the expansion and a few factors described here. That would mean around 6 million cards in starter decks. approximately 390 million). MTG Print Runs (By Sets) Post by Tenacious_Dyl » Fri Oct 17, 2008 7:46 pm I thought it would be interesting to try to tap the resources in these forums to aggregate information about print runs … Another NetRep around that time is noted to have quoted the set to about twice the size of Legends (i.e. Math checks out. Another clue would perhaps be to look at the rarity of the two desert type, is regular c10 and mirage c1? I think that is slightly off as well. Not a member of Pastebin yet? And I mean, considering the small number of expansions and long period of time between 4th and 5th, the increased capacity of the printers, and the surging interest in the game, I'd consider a billion (or more) 4th Edition cards to be a very reasonable estimate. However, there's a small however. The collectible card game Magic: The Gathering published seven expansion sets from 1993–1995, and one compilation set. These sets contained new cards that "expanded" on the base sets of Magic with their own mechanical theme and setting; these new cards could be played on their own, or mixed in with decks created from cards in the base sets. So I believe the Magic Wiki is currently off by a factor two or so here as well, just in the opposite direction compared to Revised. If we print one starter (1:3:11) and five boosters (2:13:45), the ratio averages out to 1:4:14.2; close enough to call home about. In the end, we get this (rounding to nearest 100) : As with Arabian Nights, the Antiquities print run is not really a contested number. So this post is my truth on 93/94 era print runs. This would put Beta on 7.9 million cards. In reality, no cards would have been uncommon at all. Free shipping. And who would chime in if not the production manager himself, Dave "Snarke" Howell: "100,000 decks". It aligns well with plans to not print to demand (interpreted around 220 million), but having some wiggle room to adjust during the summer as new stores pop up. The rare slots are occupied by cards from the rare sheet, and the sheet had 121 cards, not 116. As Carta Mundi had a capacity of around 15 million cards per month back then, and Revised started its print run in February, this makes a lot of sense. Only 7 left in stock - order soon. 1 Set details 2 Marketing 3 Misprints 4 References 5 External links For information on the mechanics and themes, notable cards, storyline, design and … I guess we should also note that Alpha rares are very rare. 3.9 out of 5 stars 10. These two runs are known as Limited Edition Alpha and … Only 1 left! A decent percentage of the cards were likely thrown away after being used as product samples, discarded as marked cards when combined with newer printings, or simply trashed as a part of some "satanic panic" at the time. level 1 Anyway, 35 million Legends cards give us something like this (rounding to closest 100 as usual): The distribution in Legends boosters would imply there exists three times as many uncommons and eleven times as many commons as rares. This first printing contained 295 unique cards, and was a very small order of just 2.6 million cards total. This is because modern day MTG print runs are much much larger to accommodate for the enormous player base compared to the 'old days' Severity of the misprint and supply of the misprint are inversely proportional. Now we reach a point which I think might be a source of some small estimation confusion. So, given 2.5 million cards, 50/50 split between Starters and Boosters we'd reach these numbers (rounded to the closest 10): Total number Alpha basics: 837,300 (there are more Islands than other basics, but divide by five for a decent estimate of each land). It only came in booster packs, so no fuss there either. While looking at and considering purchasing vintage Magic The Gathering Cards, most people eventually come to the same question: How many of these cards were printed? Mtg Wiki is not really possible; it defies logic both in regards to what little data we have from WotC on the subject, and the capability of the printers at the time. Tom Wylie in 1994 (rec.games.trading-cards.magic.misc; huzzah for BBS archives and old ftp servers), and in general seems to be the number in early official documentation by people who worked with the release. The Sets above represent Magic’s Standard format. Barely know why I'm even spending time on these expansions, as the opinion of the internet hive mind appear to be pretty much identical to my own calculations. It was however noted by production manager Dave Howell (in "Bog Wraith and Boogeyman Halloween Edition FAQ" from October 1993) that they overshot the production a little, and a total number of 10.4 million cards were in fact delivered. Man you are crazy, awesome work . I believe I have access to pretty much all the written sources D'Angelo had at his time, along with perhaps a handful more thanks to excellent books and some better information on the print sheets and printing process available. So I strongly suspect 7.9 million to be the right number. 1000 Magic the Gathering Cards Lot With 100 Lands! Magic: The Gathering contained approximately 300 different individual cards. And we can't have people being wrong on the Internet. As a big craft-beer-oldschool-player I really appreciate all these informations. I read somewhere long ago thought that the dark commons were the first printings of Arabian i December and that the lightened them up for a second batch in January 94. Everything else informative about Magic items and events. Writing this post was triggered by a comment from Scott Latham on my previous post on Unlimited. With that into account, I believe the November press release number was slightly wrong (it might well have quoted an earlier number on the Magic ftp), and when that number was repeated in the 1995 Duelist it snowballed into general acceptance. It was a promo basic land in Core Set 2020 but will be an MTG Arena promo card starting with Throne of Eldraine. My guess would rather be something like the different light/dark printings of commons having originally been basics. When you are interested in purchasing magic cards there is a wide variety of options for purchasing, each … In early documents, we hence often find 7.5 million as the print run for Beta. Alpha Misprints In August 1993 Wizards of the Coast released the 1st wave of its initial print run, which came to be known as "Alpha". EDIT: Limited Edition Alpha (August 1993): 2.6 million cards / 1,100 of each rare. All sources point to 15 million cards, or maybe slightly over. The light printings of the commons doesn’t really align with the cards on the uncommon sheet, so I suspect that they were added at a later point of the sheet layout. All this taken into account, the most likely print numbers for The Dark are: Jesus, this took a lot of time to dig through, cross-check and calculate. @Jonas: I suspect that Desert were supposed to be super common, Deserts were an integral setting for a lot of stories in Arabian Nights, and a couple of cards (Desert Nomads, Camel) hint at a prevalence of Desert in Arabian Nights card pools. of each rare" suggestion. 1 History 1.1 Glacian 1.2 Mishra 1.3 The Brothers'War 1.4 Urza 1.5 Karn 2 In-game references 3 References The weakstone had been cracked by Dyfed to open a permanent portal between Dominaria and Phyrexia. The second thing I'd like to challenge is the full print run. Its counterpart was the Mightstone. All data from the excellent Scryfall. Carta Mundi increased their capacity quite a bit over the next year, and by mid 95 they could produce 90 million cards each month. $8.95 shipping. The Summer Magicprint run of Revised Editionwere printed in the summer of 1994. There's also rumors of Alpha "God packs", where a large number of the cards in the pack are rares (God packs surely existed in Beta; here's a video). It has The "around 500 million" estimate we find at e.g. The only thing thats seem wrong is that a c2 for deserts seems a bit low because of its "tribal" affiliations (Camel, Desert nomads). The closest thing I can find to an official estimate is this post from the summer of 1995: I don't know if this is hyperbole or something, but I read this as "we are printing over one billion 4th Edition cards". Innistrad was the last block on the old size of print runs and Return to Ravnica was the first block of the much larger current print runs. I again blame Scott and the Brothers of Fire for pushing me down the rabbit hole to actually try and fact check these old numbers. (for reference, common rarity numbers :1@C1 (mountain), 1@C11 (desert), 9@C5, 16@C4 )well, I´ll stop rambling now, sorry./Jonas, Damn, I accidentally deleted Preacher and my own discussion regarding the darker printings on the Arabian Nights common sheet and how basics could have been intended to distributed on the sheets. High quality Mtg inspired Art Prints by independent artists and designers from around the world. Math checks out. It is notable that Legends is a ridiculously large expansion though. This 2.6 million estimate has since become the most common go-to number, but looking at information from the actual production manager and other sources closer to the printing, 2.5 million would be the best bet with some margin. a post about Richard Garfield's PhD thesis. And I trust Dave Howell over J.M. Awesome as always! I did however watch some (2) Arabian booster openings and cards were either from the dark och light printings and if the dark printings was the land subsitutes they would have been mixed with lighter ones in the boosters. It is hard to overstate the impact of Stephen D'Angelo and the Crystal Keep webpage. Jesus, this was a bit nerdy even for me, and I once wrote a post about Richard Garfield's PhD thesis. Where should I buy my cards? Removing “version b” of the commons with two versions would open 19 more slots on the common sheet, which could be used for 4 copies of each basic land on the sheet (combined with the single Mountain already on the sheet). Typos, wrong casting costs, missing power/toughness, mistranslations, and even wrong art! Yet orders of The Dark outstripped orders for Magic: The Gathering, Limited Edition by more than 7 to 1. Another source is a Duelist issue which claims the print run was 300 million cards. Hah, already covered the basics here while discussing Revised. After re-reading Scott's own (excellent) article on the set, it started to dawn on me how most every resource online that talks about print runs comes back to D'Angelo's estimates, and that so much random stuff we've found over the years cast new light and perhaps better accuracy on some of the "accepted truths". Alpha most likely had 2.5 million cards printed. So all we have to do now is count the cards on the sheets and apply some basic math. How much of these card that were sold before they ordered 4th Edition is anyone's guess, but judging by the speed with which the game grew back then and the sales numbers for the expansions before it, I'd be kinda surprised if it were less than 150 million. If you flip a coin 100 times in a row, you are going to get clusters where you have 8-10 heads in a row, even though it’s “very unlikely.” Real Magic packs are not random because they use a deterministic sequence to populate the packs – print runs. It premiered in a limited release at Origins International Game Expo in 1993, with a general release that August. Fallen Empires was somewhere between 300-400 million cards, with the two more exact official statements being 321 million and 340 million (both of them from 1995 in different publications of The Duelist). I´ve always wondered about the c11 (desert) in Arabian Nights. The D'Angelo Files and Crystal Keep were the go-to sources of Magic information in the early days of the web. In an era before wizards.com or The Dojo, there was D'Angelo and his collection of wisdom from the internet and beyond. Yup we were way off! A later (1995) supplement to The Duelist called The Complete Card list would however imply that the number was closer to 1,070 rares. Two separate releases from The Duelist in 1995, along with a November 1994 press release (by Carrie Thearle) placed the print run at 62 million. It should go without saying that minor misprints make it out into the public's hands much more often than the major misprints. This implies that The Dark was planned to be more than 60 million in the early summer of 1994. These errors are usually present on an entire print run, partial print run, or a specific language version of a card. This will become the new definitive resource on print runs, eventually replacing Crystal Keep once more people read and share it. And here is where someone (outside Wizards) guessed that the distribution would be 2/3 of cards into boosters, and 1/3 into starters, which was then repeated without much fact checking 'til the point it became "common knowledge".
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