Magic The Gathering (MTG) : Vintage Basic Editions :
INTRODUCTION NOTES :
This section of the site contains all the Magic the Gathering : Vintage Basic Editions.
This site shop categorie is separate in x sections :
1 and 2) Alpha Edition & Beta Edition 1993.
3) Unlimited Edition 1993.
4) Collector's Editions Domestic & International.
5) Revised Edition US English version.
6) Revised Edition Foreign White Borders Italian dated 1995 (F.W.B.) (The Case...).
7) Revised Edition Foreign Black Borders dated 1994 (F.B.B) - French language - PENDING.
8) Revised Edition Foreign WHITE Borders DATED 1994 (F.W.B.) - French language - PENDING.
- All pics show in the shop are issued from my own data base.
-If you don't use the "customizable sorting", so if you travel from page to page, each expansions and editions are separate by a "divider" in each shop gallery.
- If you use the search engine usually the code of the expansion or edition (afa: BETA) will gives you all the cards of it.
- All of thoses shop galleries doens't contains more specific rare cards that you can find perhaps in another site section's.
As for example, you'll NOT find here :
Duel Decks, more vintage editions (Antiquities, Legends, etc...), specific cases (afa : Ice Age Glossy, 4th Alternate cards, etc...), promo cards, Special Box set, Premium decks, Commander rares cards, etc.
© 1993-2025 Wizards of the Coast LLC, a subsidiary of Hasbro, Inc.
All Rights Reserved. Which has no affiliation with E.M. GAMES.
1) Magic the Gathering (MTG) : Alpha Edition :
(First print-run - Limited Print-run).
*Release date : August 5, 1993.
-No dates on cards .
-2.61 millions cards printed.
-295 non-foil white-border cards (295 cards
(74 commons, 95 uncommons, 116 rares, 10 basic lands).
-No rarity symbol.
-Alpha cards can easily be distinguished from Beta Edition cards by their more rounded corners (radius 2mm in place off 1mm).
-Numerous Alpha cards have errors that were fixed in the Beta Edition release.
-Two cards, C.O.P. : Black and Volcanic Island were accidentally left out of the set entirely and only two versions of each basic land with unique artwork were included.
*Sold as :
Starter Deck (SKU: WOC6000) / Starter Deck Box (SKU: UNKNOWN) / Booster Pack (GTIN: 7 42818 06500 9) / Booster Pack Box (SKU: WOC6500 / GTIN: 7 42818 16000 1).
2) Magic the Gathering (MTG) : Beta Edition :
(Second print-run - Limited Print-run).
*Release date : October 4, 1993.
-No dates on cards .
-7.83 millions cards printed.
-302 non-foil white-border cards (75 commons, 95 uncommons, 117 rares, 15 basic lands).
-No rarity symbol.
-Beta cards owns usual rounded corners (radius 1mm) if you compare with Alpha cards more rounded ones.
-The wo cards, C.O.P. : Black and Volcanic Island that were accidentally left out of the Alpha were added in Beta Edition as well as the missing basic lands versions.
-13 misprinted cards in Alpha were corrected for the Beta Edition.
*Sold as :
Starter Deck (SKU: WOC6000
GTIN: 7 42818 06000 4) / Starter Deck Box (SKU: WOC6000 / GTIN: 7 42818 16500 6) / Booster Pack (GTIN: 7 42818 06500 9) / Booster Pack Box (SKU: WOC6500 / GTIN: 7 42818 16000 1).
Thoses 2 Editions are listed in the same shop categorie just bellow.
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3) Magic the Gathering (MTG) : Unlimited Edition (3th Basic Edition) :
-December 1993.
-No dates on cards (There's 2 lines around cards Pic (Revised Edition got only 1 line).
-35.000.000 cards printed.
-302 non-foil white-border cards.
-No rarity symbol.
-Almost every instance of the artist Douglas Shuler's name was misspelled as "Schuler".
*Sold as :
Starter Deck (SKU: WOC6000 / GTIN: 7 42818 06100) / Starter Deck Box (SKU: WOC6000
GTIN: 7 42818 16100 8) / Booster Pack (GTIN: 7 42818 06500 9) / Booster Pack Box (SKU: WOC6500
GTIN: 7 42818 16700 0).
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All Rights Reserved. Which has no affiliation with E.M. GAMES.
4) Magic the Gathering (MTG) : Collector's edition 1993 (Domestic & International) :
-Box set cards.
-Limited Box set were released in December 1993.
-Round 9000 sets were printed for the U.S. and Canada called "CE" and 5000 were printed for International release "ICE".
-The set included one of each of the 302 cards from the Limited Edition Beta printing plus an additional 61 basic land cards (duplicated) so a total of 363 cards.
-Rarity : considered as Fixed cards.
-The front are almost identical to the Beta printing, but have square corners. The reverse side has gold borders around the edges and gold printing saying "Collector's Edition" or "International Edition".
-Cards are not tournament legal.
-To not be confound with the 30th Anniversary edition who was a reprint of it in 2022.
*Product : WOC6800, ISBN 4281806800 retailed for US $49.95.
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5) Magic The Gathering (MTG) : Revised Edition (US) :
To not confound with Summer Magic or Unlimited Edition, Foreign BB 1994, Foreign WB 1994 and other cases.
Pics show in the shop are issued from my own data base.
-Released Date 1st April, 1994.
-306 non-foil white-border cards, cards have no dated and no symbol (15 basic lands, 75 commons, 95 uncommons, and 121 rares).
-Sold as :
-boosters Pack (GTIN: 7 42818 06700 3) and Booster Pack Box (SKU: WOC6700 / ISBN 1-880992-26-4 / GTIN: 7 42818 16700 0), Starter Deck (SKU: WOC6100 / GTIN: 7 42818 06100 1), Starter Deck Box (SKU: WOC6100 / GTIN: 7 42818 16100 8) and Gift Box (SKU: WOC6550 / ISBN: 1-880992-52-3 / GTIN: 7 42818 06550 4).
NOTES:
*Cards list are not complete.
*Cards are not classify by alphabetical order.
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REVISED US - BASIC LANDS CARDS
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REVISED US - RARE COLORLESS CARDS
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REVISED US - RARE BLUE CARDS
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REVISED US - RARE BLACK CARDS
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REVISED US - RARE GREEN CARDS
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REVISED US - RARE RED CARDS
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REVISED US - RARE WHITE CARDS
6) Magic the Gathering (MTG) : Revised Italian Edition foreign White Borders (FWB) (Dated 1995 - 3rd Basic Edition).
Pics show in the shop are issued from my own data base, they have been injected in German language but cards are of course .... in Italian language.
Sometimes, Revised Foreign White Border and 4th Edition cards are hard to tell apart.
Revised Edition, except the english version, of course, was also released in Italian, French and German. All had a black-bordered and a white-bordered print run.
In German and Italian cards, the last ones as well as the printings of 4th Edition both show similar frames and the copyright date 1995 in place off 1994. French cards (FBB and FWB) are more distinct: The copyright date on almost all FWB cards is 1994.
The real Italian Revised FWB, except some severals differences, owns a dot back.
That's the most easy tip to recoignize them.
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REVISED FWB : ITALIAN BASIC LANDS
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REVISED FWB : ITALIAN BLACK CARDS
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REVISED FWB : ITALIAN BLUE CARDS
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REVISED FWB : ITALIAN COLORLESS CARDS
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REVISED FWB : ITALIAN GREEN CARDS
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REVISED FWB : ITALIAN RED CARDS
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REVISED FWB : ITALIAN WHITE CARDS
