Magic The Gathering (MTG) : Alpha, Beta, Unlimited and Collector's Editions :
INTRODUCTION NOTES :
This section of the site contains all the Magic the Gathering : Revised Editions.
It is separate in 3 sections :
1) Alpha Edition & Beta Edition 1993.
2) Unlimited Edition 1993.
3) Collector's Editions Domestic & International.
- All pics show in the shop are issued from my own data base.
- If you use the search engine usually the code of the expansion or edition (afa: BETA) will gives you all the cards of it.
© 1993-2025 Wizards of the Coast LLC, a subsidiary of Hasbro, Inc.
All Rights Reserved. Which has no affiliation with E.M. GAMES.
Alpha Edition (First print-run - Limited Print-run).
Notes:
*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).
Beta Edition (Second print-run - Limited Print-run).
Notes:
*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).
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© 1993-2025 Wizards of the Coast LLC, a subsidiary of Hasbro, Inc.
All Rights Reserved. Which has no affiliation with E.M. GAMES.
Unlimited Edition (3th Basic Edition - December 1993).
Notes:
*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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© 1993-2025 Wizards of the Coast LLC, a subsidiary of Hasbro, Inc.
All Rights Reserved. Which has no affiliation with E.M. GAMES.
Collector's edition 1993 (Domestic & International) Box set careds.
Notes:
*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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