Well, in WotC News in The Duelist #3 (fall of 1994), Wizards noted that 300 million cards total had been sold at that point. White on these kinda things. crossed Atog was new to me! In an era before wizards.com or The Dojo, there was D'Angelo and his collection of wisdom from the internet and beyond. or Best Offer. Limited Edition Alpha (or just Alpha for short) was the first Magic: The Gathering print run. The opportunities for collectors are obvious, and we felt that it would be a disservice to those collectors for us to blur the lines between common and uncommon cards to such an extent. The only thing thats seem wrong is that a c2 for deserts seems a bit low because of its "tribal" affiliations (Camel, Desert nomads). role, but probably not one deeply involved in print runs, and I believe he was slightly off. Buying Cards. I would love to end here, but feel I should add a couple of notes on Revised, Fallen Empires and 4th Edition. It was a rare thing though. approximately 390 million). So this post is my truth on 93/94 era print runs. This 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. But your walls are better. That gained traction with D'Angelo. Packs have eight cards, where two are from the uncommon sheet. 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. 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. 16,379 . Having print runs allows better control of distribution of colors and mechanics in packs. $38.00 $ 38. $8.95 shipping. Everyone tend to agree that Wizard's had moved from away from thinking the average player would buy something like one starter deck and four boosters as their Magic collection when Unlimited was made. MTG! Yet orders of The Dark outstripped orders for Magic: The Gathering, Limited Edition by more than 7 to 1. 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. I'm not sure where those numbers came from. 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". 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 In April 1994 (when Revised was released), Dave Howell mentioned that 50 million cards had been printed for the set at the time. Unlimited booster. This would put Beta on 7.9 million cards. I guess we should also note that Alpha rares are very rare. Man you are crazy, awesome work . Magic the Gathering Alliances Booster Pack 12 Cards. written by J.M. The earliest estimates by D'Angelo is 30-35 million (March 1994). I'm not sure "better" randomization is a goal they have. If lands was c1 then desert would have been a c7. It became apparent that if such a huge amount of product were released it would ruin the collectability of The Dark. Long story short, our initial guesses were wrong regardless, and after minor digging on the web I found that the correct answer is that one quadrant of the common sheet got overprinted, and that the basics were replacing copies of particular commons of each color (the accidental Mountain should have been Desert Nomads). And I trust Dave Howell over J.M. Or they just added 9 cards to the c4 rarity making them c5. Now we reach a point which I think might be a source of some small estimation confusion. Get Our Products On . 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. That would mean if you assume a boosters/starter ratio of 75/25 about 100.000 rares of each type were printed. This print run intended to fix some of the errors with Revised, including the … This white-bordered set consisted of the same 302 cards as the Beta print run. Never . If the lands had been c2 then desert would also have been a c2 (and two distinct desert types, regular and mirage (tent)?). Free shipping. Everything else informative about Magic items and events. That number would include most of the 175 million cards from the early expansions and core sets, along with the first drops of Fallen Empires and the first six months or so of Revised. 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 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. White, the then-editor of Scrye Magazine. 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). 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. by jamesbond » Mon Oct 20, 2008 8:21 am, Post a guest . This is pure speculation, but it kinda makes sense and does add up ;)Regarding “Mirage Desert”; I’d guess that that is printing/layout mistake akin to “Hairy Runesword” or “Crossed Atog”. While Alpha God packs might be nothing more than a rumor, there definitly were a handful Beta starters with Alpha cards. But they missed a mountain in the common sheet (c1). Could it simply be based on this random UseNet comment from June 1994? I´ve always wondered about the c11 (desert) in Arabian Nights. by coolio » Sat Oct 25, 2008 9:26 pm, Post MTG always had psuedo randomization in packs, both paper and online. more different cards than Beta. 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). 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 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. The Dark contains approximately 100 cards. I've ever written. by mystical_tutor » Wed Dec 03, 2008 1:00 am, Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 0 guests. 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. Break out your top hats and monocles; it’s about to classy in here. High quality Mtg inspired Art Prints by independent artists and designers from around the world. And this (yours, which should be above mine):Thanks! Math checks out. 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. So I strongly suspect 7.9 million to be the right number. The number of U1s in The Dark would then be 25.2 times as many as the U1s in Limited Edition. On March 31 1994 the following policy release went out: "Wizards of the Coast would like to offer an explanation concerning the placement of orders for The Dark. by l0qii » Mon Oct 20, 2008 2:22 am, Post It is likely the set that has suffered the most impactful collateral damage. Shortly after Beta had been finished, Richard Garfield noted in an 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. Let's go. Typos, wrong casting costs, missing power/toughness, mistranslations, and even wrong art! this is another topic but what pleasure playing a 40 cards(ABC) deck drinking a TIPA or imperial stout looking opponent smile watching this crazy hand !In any case, thanks for these numbers this will become "THE" source of numbers-chougnoul-, I wanted to create an account but I cannot comment other than anonymously. All in all, things work out if we have a print run of 35 million cards with 1/6 of the run in starters and 5/6 in boosters, and get kinda weird otherwise. 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. 'Til next time, keep safe and enjoy the season responsibly. All data from the excellent Scryfall. These two runs are known as Limited Edition Alpha and … A later (1995) supplement to The Duelist called The Complete Card list would however imply that the number was closer to 1,070 rares. 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. 1 Set details 2 Marketing 3 Misprints 4 References 5 External links For information on the mechanics and themes, notable cards, storyline, design and … Jan 19th, 2019. Another source is a Duelist issue which claims the print run was 300 million cards. 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. 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). 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". Hah, already covered the basics here while discussing Revised. cards on the highest rarity (121 different rares) give individual Hehe, at least this was on the web and not on some old BBS or FTP ;), That sounds pretty neat! I base this on information from production manager Dave "Snarke" Howell in 1993, which was noted in e.g. This meant there would have been 21 times as many cards in The Dark as there were in Magic: The Gathering, Limited Edition. I guess the most common estimates for 4th are somewhere between 500 million to 700 million. 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. Proofs are true magic cards on the front with a solid white back. 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". Writing this post was triggered by a comment from Scott Latham on my previous post on Unlimited. And there is also the issue with the different printings on the U sheets (pink Juzam) that would explain (at least) two print batches. Nights, Antiquities and The Dark combined. 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. 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. 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. Where should I buy my cards? Every sheet has 121 cards, and Alpha didn't have a separate land sheet, instead basics were spread out across the other sheets. 8,283 sold (FOIL) x1x Koma, Cosmos Serpent (KHM) Kaldheim MtG. rares in Legends very small print numbers. ***50x Snow-Covered Lands*** 10 of Each Modern Horizons Full Art Land MINT Magic. 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. Sign Up, it unlocks many cool features! 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. The Summer Magicprint run of Revised Editionwere printed in the summer of 1994. This number was repeated by e.g. $21.97. by Tenacious_Dyl » Tue Oct 21, 2008 8:02 am, Post The first one is something pretty much everyone admits to being guesswork; the distribution of cards between starters and boosters. The initial print run of 2.6 million cards sold out quickly, and a new printing run was released in October 1993. Thats a bit low regarding lands. interview with the magazine Cryptych that there had been 61,200 All; MTG Arena Download free and experience Magic right on your PC. far as I can recall, wotc hasnt released the production numbers on sets in the last few yrs. This is great info, but better if we know the source. 9 I've read 40 million cards on a lot of random sites, but I have no idea where it came from. The Duelist #3 (1994, in the article that quoted Alpha almost 40% off no less) placed the run at 65 million, as did some early discussions on rec.games.deckmaster before the official release. A lot of deserts though. Enter Your Decklist. Anyway: Not much to say here either. Every early (and late) source points to Arabian Nights having a print run of five million cards. A couple of other suggestions are of note however. 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). 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. In the end, we get this (rounding to nearest 100) : As with Arabian Nights, the Antiquities print run is not really a contested number. Jesus, this was a bit nerdy even for me, and I once wrote a post about Richard Garfield's PhD thesis. 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. In reality, no cards would have been uncommon at all. I can´t find the source though so the argument wears thin. All orders are custom made and most ship worldwide within 24 hours. Some of these had questionable official numbers, and some had nothing but hints or nods. Moderators: cataclysm80, Apocalypse2K, berkumps, dragsamou, mystical_tutor, pp, hammr7, l0qii, Post There were a lot of FE cards everywhere in early 1995. So all we have to do now is count the cards on the sheets and apply some basic math. Printed on 100% cotton watercolour textured paper, Art Prints would be at home in any gallery. But as it stands, we have a production manager saying that the printing got truncated to make room for other products, and two official sources (along with early estimates from D'Angelo) putting the completed run at around 35 million. I think that is slightly off as well. It only came in booster packs, so no fuss there either. So it appears they had orders for 220 million cards, give or take, and decided against printing that many. The vast number of different 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. 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 card will not be available in all regions. 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. Here goes what I have so far. It has Includes Foils & Rares! Perhaps they replaced all basics with deserts? The second thing I'd like to challenge is the full print run. 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. 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 the basic lands was supposed to be on the common sheets and was removed/replaced but with what? 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. 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. 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. Not a member of Pastebin yet? 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. Source for those claims are from the production manager here: http://howell.seattle.wa.us/games/mtg/anfollowup.shtml. Revised is very hard to get a good grip on, but as it is part of the card pool for a majority of the world's OS groups and I believe the current popular estimates (500-600 million) are off by a factor two or three, some notes are warranted. It is hard to overstate the impact of Stephen D'Angelo and the Crystal Keep webpage. A number of Alpha rares were to be found in Beta starters. It was a promo basic land in Core Set 2020 but will be an MTG Arena promo card starting with Throne of Eldraine. WOTC delivered these to the artists as a sample of how their original work looked after resized & printing in the set. With all those word and numbers said, I believe these are the print numbers for Unlimited (rounded to nearest 100): Number of each Unlimited uncommon: 58,700, Total number Unlimited basics: 11,390,300. MTG Arena RNA Uncommon Print Run. 70 million cards). Older Sets rotate out of Standard annually as new sets are added. 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. Carta Mundi increased their capacity quite a bit over the next year, and by mid 95 they could produce 90 million cards each month. raw download clone embed print report. Yup we were way off! 3.9 out of 5 stars 10. The only printed reference to Alpha rares in a Wizard's publication was in The Duelist #3, where they noted 1,400 cards. The D'Angelo Files and Crystal Keep were the go-to sources of Magic information in the early days of the web. Fantastic post, thanks for your hard work on this MG. Its counterpart was the Mightstone. 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). The rare slots are occupied by cards from the rare sheet, and the sheet had 121 cards, not 116. 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? This first printing contained 295 unique cards, and was a very small order of just 2.6 million cards total. When you are interested in purchasing magic cards there is a wide variety of options for purchasing, each … As a big craft-beer-oldschool-player I really appreciate all these informations. And they both tell me 35 million. This puts the print run of individual cards like this: There are two places where I'd like to challenge common conceptions on Unlimited. Another NetRep around that time is noted to have quoted the set to about twice the size of Legends (i.e. ... Kindle Direct Publishing Indie Digital & Print Publishing Made Easy Amazon Photos Unlimited Photo Storage Free With Prime: Prime Video Direct Video Distribution Made Easy : Now I'm actually done. copies of each common card printed between Alpha and Beta combined. 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. These errors are usually present on an entire print run, partial print run, or a specific language version of a card. While there are 116 rares, 95 uncommons and 74 commons in Alpha, you can't just divide the number of rare slots in packs with the numbers of rares in the set. Math checks out. MTG Press v4.4.0.50 EDIT: Limited Edition Alpha (August 1993): 2.6 million cards / 1,100 of each rare. Dave Howell also noted in August 1994 that "just over 1,000 rares" had been printed for Alpha, which aligns well with our numbers here. 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. Great for New Players. 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. 1000 Magic the Gathering Cards Lot With 100 Lands! A print run of around 200 million cards (not counting foreign FWB or FBB versions) is also what my numbers suggest. ↳   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. 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." Maybe slightly less, as 100,000 seems like a rounded number and if it were more he probably would have stated "more than 100,000 decks" to make his point harder. We also know that 100 million Revised cards had been printed by August 1994, but how many came after that? And we can't have people being wrong on the Internet. I thought it would be interesting to try to tap the resources in these forums to aggregate information about print runs of sets. However, there's a small however. (I'm french and my english is very poor so I apologize in advance) but all on this website is a gold mine. impressive google skills! 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". I don't know who this guy is, but he doesn't strike me as one particularly deep into first hand info. Popular opinion among Carta Mundi nerds held that the ration of printing rare:uncommon:common sheets for Unlimited was approximately 1:4:15. This again points to a total run of 10 million cards - the number that Adkinson had promised early on. 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. Can you source your numbers please? But he gathered the information he could find, bundled it together on a webpage, and added a disclaimer at the top noting that he had no inside info and that a lot of it was "almost completely guesswork". It had 295 cards and a mere 2.6 million print run. And in the weeks Alpha was for sale, it is not like there existed price lists or a proper secondary market for Magic; cards didn't come with an inherent price tag to make you wary of throwing them in the trash after failing to grasp the rules. It premiered in a limited release at Origins International Game Expo in 1993, with a general release that August. 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. Also the web I guess. All sources point to 15 million cards, or maybe slightly over. But there are a lot of wierd printing stuff in the early expansions. by Tenacious_Dyl » Mon Oct 20, 2008 5:28 am, Post Sometimes people just make mistakes and with all the language and print variations there is plenty of room for things to go unnoticed. 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. 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). The collectible card game Magic: The Gathering published seven expansion sets from 1993–1995, and one compilation set. Awesome as always! Scrye noted 63 million. Learn more about the format HERE. 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. 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. Limited Edition Beta (October 1993): 7.3 million cards / 3,300 of each rare. 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. You have been warned. And it only had two print sheets. 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. It is notable that Legends is a ridiculously large expansion though. Ok, last one. Magic: The Gathering Chronology Unlimited Edition, or Unlimited is the second edition of the core set. Another clue would perhaps be to look at the rarity of the two desert type, is regular c10 and mirage c1? But estimating how many of the Alpha cards that survived past 93/94 would of course be nothing more than guesswork. 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). And then there's math. Wonder where the 1,100 estimate of each Alpha rare came from? 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. text 1.40 KB . This will become the new definitive resource on print runs, eventually replacing Crystal Keep once more people read and share it. a post about Richard Garfield's PhD thesis. 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. This would mean that they printed more Alpha rare sheets than they needed in the original 2.5 million batch. Impressive Got proper lost in UseNet groups for a while there, and my The Duelists don't have ctrl+f. And who would chime in if not the production manager himself, Dave "Snarke" Howell: "100,000 decks". 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. My guess would rather be something like the different light/dark printings of commons having originally been basics. 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 …
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