Revised Edition

Revised Edition

 

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Revised Edition
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Set Information
Set symbol
Design	Richard Garfield with contributions from Charlie Cateeno Skaff Elias Don Felice Tom Fontaine Jim Lin Joel Mick Chris Page Dave Pettey Barry "Bit" Reich Bill Rose Elliott Segal
Development	Same as design
Art direction	Jesper Myrfors
Release date	April 1994
Plane	Multiverse
Set size	306 cards (75 commons, 95 uncommons, 121 rares, 15 basic lands)
Expansion code	3ED
Core sets
Unlimited Edition Revised Edition Fourth Edition
Magic: The Gathering Chronology
Antiquities Revised Edition Legends

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

Revised booster

Set details

Advertisement in Duelist #1, announcing gray borders

Wizards of the Coast made multiple attempts to print an improved version of the Core Set before finally getting Revised out the door. Revised consisted of 306 cards. The set was originally designed without a visible marker of rarity as Wizards of the Coast wished for the specific rarity of each card to remain hidden; however, with the eventual inclusion of rarity on the card face, they retroactively determined the rarity of each card in the set (15 Basic lands, 75 Common, 95 Uncommon, 121 Rare). 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.

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.

An early advertisement in The Duelist #1 stated that Revised cards would be gray-bordered, but they ultimately became white-bordered like the Unlimited Edition. 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. All had a black-bordered and a white-bordered print run.

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 Magic: The Gathering Pocket Player's 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.

Cycles

Revised has 5 cycles.

Cycle name
Circles of protection	Circle of Protection: White	Circle of Protection: Blue	Circle of Protection: Black	Circle of Protection: Red	Circle of Protection: Green
	Each of these common white enchantments has a mana cost of and the ability to prevent the all damage from a source of a given color for .
Laces	Purelace	Thoughtlace	Deathlace	Chaoslace	Lifelace
	Each of these rare instants permanently changes the color of a permanent.
Lucky charms	Ivory Cup	Crystal Rod	Throne of Bone	Iron Star	Wooden Sphere
	Each of these uncommon artifacts has a triggered ability that allows the controller pay to gain 1 life when a spell of a given color resolves.
Wards	White Ward	Blue Ward	Black Ward	Red Ward	Green Ward
	Uncommon white auras with enchant creature that grant protection from a color.
Enemy Color Hate	Karma, Conversion (Revised Edition)	Lifetap, Volcanic Eruption (Revised Edition)	Death Grip, Gloom (Revised Edition)	Magnetic Mountain, Flashfires (Revised Edition)	Lifeforce, Tsunami (Revised Edition)
	Each color contains two cards that each attack one of that color's two enemy colors.

Double cycles

Cycle name
Dual lands	Tundra	Underground Sea	Badlands	Taiga	Savannah	Scrubland	Volcanic Island	Bayou	Plateau	Tropical Island
	Rare nonbasic lands that each produce two colors of mana.

Four-card cycle

Cycle name
Classic Elementals	Air Elemental	Water Elemental	Fire Elemental	Earth Elemental
	These four uncommon Elemental creature are based on the traditional four Elements.

Pairs

Revised has 8 mirrored pairs.

Mirrored Pairs
Crusade ()	Bad Moon ()	Rare enchantments with a converted mana cost of 2 and an effect to give all creatures of its color +1/+1.
White Knight ()	Black Knight ()	Uncommon knights with a mana cost of MM, power/toughness of 2/2, first strike and protection from the other's color.
Blue Elemental Blast ()	Red Elemental Blast ()	Common instants (formerly interrupts) with a mana cost of M and with a modal ability to either destroy a permanent of the other's color or counter a spell of the other's color.
Deathgrip ()	Lifeforce ()	Uncommon enchantments with an activated ability to counter a spell of the other's color for MM.
Holy Strength ()	Unholy Strength ()	Common auras with enchant creature that give a mirrored bonus to the enchanted creature's power/toughness.
Lord of Atlantis ()	Goblin King ()	Rare lords that give +1/+1 and landwalk of its color to its creature type.
Mons's Goblin Raiders ()	Merfolk of the Pearl Trident ()	1/1 common creatures with creature types that are affected by their respective lords (e.g., Goblin King and Lord of Atlantis).
Wall of Water ()	Wall of Fire ()	0/5 walls illustrated by Richard Thomas with a silouetted figure behind a wall and the activated ability "M: [this] gets +1/+0 until end of turn."

Summer Magic

When the Revised Edition was in production in 1994, a number of problems with the set became apparent. The colors were washed out, the picture for Serendib Efreet was wrong, and there was a growing concern with the Satanic images on some of the cards. The solution was to print a fixed version of the Revised Edition, code-named "Edgar", which has since come to be known as Summer Magic because it was printed in the summer of 1994. The cards were distributed in regular Revised Edition boosters – no Summer edition starters were produced.

Despite its intended function as a fixed Revised Edition, there were many problems with the printing. On some cards, the colors were too dark. Serendib Efreet had its artwork corrected, but the artist credit was not. The artist name for Plateau was not corrected. Hurricane was printed with a blue border and became the most famous and most desired Summer Magic card of all. Because of all these flaws, the entire print run was recalled for destruction which led to the great Revised Edition shortage of 1994. However, about four cases (40 booster boxes) of "Edgar" survived and were shipped to locations in the U.S. and the UK. Probable locations include Tennessee, Texas, and Ireland.

Summer Magic cards can best be recognized by their prominent 1994 copyright date (a feature missing in Revised), as well as their richer colors. 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.

Notable cards

• At the time of its reprinting, the common Atog was the card that had more copies in existence than any other.

Misprints

Misprinted Serendib Efreet

French version

• Ivory Tower — Margaret Organ-Kean's name is misspelled "Margaret Organ-Keen".
• Onulet — Incorrect artist is listed; it should be Anson Maddocks, not Kerstin Kaman.
• Plateau — Incorrect artist is listed, it should be Cornelius Brudi, not Drew Tucker.
• Serendib Efreet — Printed with a green background and the picture of the Ifh-Bíff Efreet. It still has the proper casting cost and text, however.
  • The French version (printed with the correct background and picture) has flavor text that is missing on the English card.

External links

• Revised Product Page (old)
• Revised product information page — Wizards of the Coast (new)
• Usenet post describing Wizards response