Magic the Gathering (MTG) : Other Special Cases :

INTRODUCTION NOTES :

This section of the site contains all the Magic the Gathering : Chronicles Edition(s) & Renaissance Edition(s) :

 

This site shop categorie is separate in 11 sections :

1) Signature Spellbook Series.

2) Premium Deck Serie : Fire & Lightning (PD2).

3) Premium deck Serie : Graveborn (PD3).

4) Premium Deck Serie : Slivers (HO9)).

5) Coldsnap Theme decks (CSI).

6) Hachette French White Borders (Slivers Serie).

7) Hachette French White Borders (Other cards) - Pending.

8) Hachette Italian White borders (only exclusive cards - 2005).

9) Salvat Spanish black borders 2011.

10) Alternate Art cards (mostly S-Chinese).

11) From The Vault Series.

 

- 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: PD2) will gives you all the cards of it.

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1) Magic the Gathering (MTG) Signature Spellbook Series :

 

-Introduced in 2018, the Signature Spellbook Series is the successor to the From the Vault series, but thoses ones are themed around a Planeswalker or legendary character and the spells that define who they are.

-After the release of a spellbook per year on being introduced, there wasn't one in 2021. Their place seemed have been taken by the various Commander Collections which finalized their color pattern.

-Thoses spellbook cards includes Foil cards version as well.

Magic the Gathering (MTG) Premium Deck Series : Fire & Lightning

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2) Magic the Gathering (MTG) : Premium Deck Serie : Fire & Lightning :

*Released November 19, 2010.

-Premium Deck series is a limited box that contains cards in english language only.

-All cards are foil type cards based on Magic history cards that contains bunch of flames, bolts, and beats.

-Each card have a black bordered foil.

-Set symbol is: A flame.

-ISBN (13): 978-0-7869-5566-4 / Product Code: 210530000 57021053000001 EN / UPC: 6 53569 51026 0.

-This box was retailed for $34.99 US.

Magic the Gathering (MTG) Premium Decks series : Graveborn.

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3) Magic the Gathering (MTG): Premium Deck Serie : Graveborn :

-Released November 18, 2011.

Premium Deck series is a limited box that contains cards in english language only.

-All cards are foil type cards based on Magic history cards that works with your graveyard.

-Each card have a black bordered foil.

-Set symbol is: A skull.

-ISBN (13): 978-0-7869-5944-0 / Product Code: 375870000 57037587000001 EN / UPC: 6 53569 66319 5.

-This box was retailed for $34.99 US.

Magic the Gathering (MTG) Premium Deck series Slivers

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4) Magic the Gathering (MTG): Premium Deck Serie : Slivers :

-Released November 20, 2009.

Premium Deck Series: Slivers is a limited box that contains only and mainly slivers theme type cards in english language only.

-All cards are foil type cards of greatest Sliver cards from throughout Magic history, including several that have never been released in foil before.

-Each card have a black bordered foil.

-Set symbol is: A claw of a sliver.

-ISBN (13): 978-0-7869-5539-8 / Product Code: 255250000 57025525000001 EN / UPC: 6 53569 47861 4

-This box was retailed for $34.99 US.

Magic the Gathering (MTG) : Coldsnap Theme decks

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5) Magic the Gathering : Coldsnap Theme Decks Serie :

 

-Thoses decks were released in July 2006, they were a part of the Coldsnap expansion.

-It is considered as the third Ice Age Block expansion, it concluded a much older block.

-Thoses four pre-constructed decks

-Coldsnap theme decks used cards available in the Ice Age block. This created reprints of Ice Age and Alliances cards. These reprints were different from the originals in that they had expansion symbol rarity coloring (in addition to being slightly redesigned), had collector's number, and were printed featuring the new card frame.

-Cards dated 1993-2006.

-Number of cards : 52.

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6) Magic the Gathering  (MTG) : French Hachette white borders 2006 / 2007 (Slivers) Serie : 

Magic Encyclopedia.

*Language : French.

-This section contains all the slivers type creature from the French Hachette encyclopedia published in issue 16 to 20 (Slivers theme deck from 2007).

-Cards are numbered 1/60 to 60/60, often same pic but numbered differently. Some are rarest than rare cards due to the number of quantity prensent only in one issue.

-This encyclopedia was distributed by the Hachette group publishing company and Hasbro, parent company of Wizards of the Coast.

The product was sold with a set of exclusive cards that form theme decks.

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7) Magic the Gathering  (MTG) : French Hachette white borders 2006 / 2007 (Other cards than Slivers) : 

 

Magic Encyclopedia.

All other cards than Slivers listed just above, are listed just down.

PENDING.

Magic the Gathering (MTG) Special Salvat unique Italian pic

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8) Magic the Gathering (MTG) : Hachette Italian white borders 2005 : 

Magic Encyclopedia.

*Language : Italian.

-This section contains the exclusive Italian cards that doesn't appear in the Hachette 2005 Edition as in French, English (only 5 issues) and Spanish language (not the Salvat Black borders edition) and some others regular ones.

-Thoses exclusives cards are mainly issue from the "Beast" and "Cat" theme deck.

-This encyclopedia was distributed by the Hachette group publishing company and Hasbro, parent company of Wizards of the Coast.

-The product was sold with a set of exclusive cards that form theme decks.

Magic the Gathering (MTG) Salvat Spanish BB Cards pic

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9) Magic the Gathering (MTG) Salvat Spanish black borders 2011 (Salvat B.B.) : 

*Magic Encyclopedia. 

*Language : Spanish.

Not the white borders Hachette version from 2005.

-Starting in January 2011 up to 2012. 60 more issues of Salvat new encyclopedia were available. New Salvat cards (2011 version "horse logo") were offered with black borders while the old ones have white borders (2005 version "Pegasus" logo), the cards logos are different, the cards number are not unique.

-12 preconstructed decks for a total of 720 cards, 224 different illustrations (59 Rares, 59 Uncommons, 86 Commons, 20 Basic Lands). Each booster included 12 cards.
At the difference of the first Salvat edition 2005, when a card was used in several decks, it has the same collector number.

-This encyclopedia was distributed in Spain by Salvat. a company of the Hachette group publishing company and Hasbro, parent company of Wizards of the Coast.

The product was sold with a set of exclusive cards that form theme decks.

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10) Magic the Gathering : Alternate Art cards (mostly S-Chinese).

This site section contains the special Simplified-Chinese language cards with alternate art pics (except cards from the 5TH V symbol who's are listed in a another section of the shop).

*Language : usually S-Chinese.

*Notes:

-cards are issu from various MTG ERA (older ones).

-mostly simplified S-Chinese (one or two are Japanese ones).

-in thoses cards often pics of bones and skulls have been changed for the China market.

Magic the Gathering (MTG) From the Vault Series logo pic

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11) Magic the Gathering (MTG) : From The Vault Series :

This section includes the following serie : 

*From the Vault: Dragons. / From the Vault: Exiled / From the Vault: Relics / From the Vault: Legends / From the Vault: Realms / From the Vault: Twenty / From the Vault: Annihilation / From the Vault: Angels / From the Vault: Lore / From the Vault: Transform.

Notes:

-The From the Vault series for Magic: the Gathering was released on an annual basis from 2008 to 2017, usually in late August.

-Each box contained 15 (20 for From The Vault: 20), black-bordered, holographic foil cards with a common theme, some of these cards featured new alternate art.

-It was discontinued in 2018, being replaced by the Signature Spellbook-series.

-MSRP for these sets was US$39.95.