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| design team = [[Richard Garfield]]
| design team = [[Richard Garfield]]<br>[[Skaff Elias]]<br>[[Jim Lin]]<br>[[Joel Mick]]<br>[[Chris Page]]<br>[[Dave Pettey]]
| development team = [[Richard Garfield]]<br>[[Joel Mick]]<br>[[Skaff Elias]]
| development team = Richard Garfield<br>Joel Mick<br>Skaff Elias<br>Jim Lin<br>Chris Page<br>Dave Pettey<br>[[Charlie Cateeno]]<br>[[Don Felice]]<br>[[Tom Fontaine]]<br>[[Barry Reich]]<br>[[Bill Rose]]<br>[[Elliott Segal]]
| art director = [[Jesper Myrfors]]
| art director = [[Jesper Myrfors]]
| date_release = April 1994
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The '''Revised Edition''', or '''Revised''' as it is commonly called, is the third edition of the [[Core Set]]s. It was released in April 1994.   
The '''Revised Edition''', or '''Revised''' as it is commonly called, is the third edition of the ''[[Magic]]'' [[Core Set]]s. It was released in April 1994.   
[[File:Revised booster.jpg|thumb|right|Revised booster]]
[[File:Revised booster.jpg|thumb|right|Revised booster]]
==Set details==
==Set details==

Revision as of 04:43, 25 March 2015

Revised Edition
Set Information
Set symbol
Themes and mechanics None new
Keywords/​ability words None new
Set size 306 (75 Common 95 Uncommon 121 Rare)
Expansion code 3ED

The Revised Edition, or Revised as it is commonly called, is the third edition of the Magic Core Sets. It was released in April 1994.

Revised booster

Set details

Revised was the first Core Set to "rotate" some cards out, some of which were considered to be "problem cards," and replace them with other cards from previously printed limited expansions. The expansions available at the time were Arabian Nights and Antiquities. [1]

Due to the printing process, it is possible to get basic land cards in an uncommon or common card slot. The chance is approximately 21.5% for uncommons and 38.02% for commons. This is because the printer put lands on all the uncommon and common sheets.

A production oversight resulted in the "bevel" that framed the cards being cropped off. Also, well-used printing films gave the cards faded colors. Many players complained at the lack of quality of the set; both the card power and the look.

Marketing

Cards were available from mid April 1994 through mid April 1995. The print run is estimated at 500 million cards. The cards were sold in 60-card starter decks and 15-card boosters. The starter deck rulebook has Shivan Dragon on the cover and a checklist on the back and last pages. Revised was the first set that was supplemented with a special Gift Box. The Revised Gift Box (released on November 15, 1994) included two starter decks, 30 glass counters, a flannel bag for storing the counters, an illustrated rulebook and a card collectors' checklist.

Revised was the first set to be published in other languages than English: French, German and Italian.

Rules

As the players' knowledge of the game and its potential developed, so did the knowledge of the designers and developers. Their collaboration led to the first Pocket Players' Guide, which solidified the rules of Magic. However, for later editions the rules would change many times over.

Revised introduced the first tap symbol: A slightly tilted T inside a gray circle. The artifact types Mono and Poly became obsolete, the types were removed from cards that had them and tap symbols were added where they were previously implied by the type. The set also changed references to mana color in card texts to mana symbols. [2]

Cycles

Revised has 5 cycles.

Mirrored pairs

Revised has 23 mirrored pairs.

  • White Knight and Black Knight are both uncommon Knights with a mana cost of CC, power/toughness of 2/2, first strike and protection from the other's color.
  • Deathgrip and Lifeforce are each uncommon enchantments with an activated ability to counter a spell of the other's color for CC.
  • Earthquake and Hurricane are both sorceries that have a mana cost of {X}C and deal X damage to all non-flying or flying creatures and each player.
  • Feedback and Wanderlust are both uncommon Auras that deal 1 damage to the controller of the enchanted permanent during each of their upkeeps.
  • Holy Strength and Unholy Strength are both common Auras with enchant creature that give a mirrored bonus to the enchanted creature's power/toughness.
  • Manabarbs and Power Surge are both rare red enchantments that deal damage to a player based on the number of lands he or she does or does not tap.
  • Smoke and Winter Orb both allow players to only untap one of a type of permanent each turn.
  • Tsunami and Flashfires are both uncommon sorceries that have a mana cost of {3}C and destroy lands of a particular enemy type.

Summer Magic

Summer Magic or Edgar [3] refers to a printing of Revised Edition that was to be destroyed because of numerous errors in the printing. Some of the cards survived and were released, and booster packs from this edition are extremely rare.

In the summer of '94, WotC realized one printing of Revised had severe mistakes, with the art almost too dark to see on many cards. WotC recalled the entire print run and had them almost all destroyed. About four cases (40 display boxes) accidentally made it to the public in the UK and Tennessee. Today a Summer Magic Birds of Paradise is worth well over a thousand dollars. Among the rarest Magic cards in existence, are the blue Hurricanes. [4] [5]

Misprints

Misprinted Serendib Efreet
Misprinted Serendib Efreet

See also

References

  1. Magic Arcana (October 31, 2002). ""Revising" the base set". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
  2. Mark Rosewater (October 04, 2004). "Change For the Better". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
  3. Michael G. Ryan (June 01, 2009). "A Magic History of Time". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
  4. Magic Arcana (June 24, 2003). "Blue Hurricane". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
  5. Brian Tinsman (October 6, 2008). "Ask Wizards". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
  6. Magic Arcana (February 20, 2002). "Plateau(s)". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.

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