Fourth Edition

Fourth Edition is a Core Set that was released in 1995.

Set details

Fifty-one cards were removed from the Revised Edition and 122 cards from previous expansions (Legends and The Dark) were added.

Cards were available from May 3, 1995 well past the end of the run in April 1997.

The print run is estimated at 500 million cards.

Card Changes

• A copyright notice '©' now appears on the bottom.
• The tap symbol changed to a curved arrow symbol, with a black rectangle representing the tapping card behind it.

Cycles

• Circles of protection: These are each common white enchantments with the ability to prevent the next damage from a source of a color for 1 mana — Circle of Protection: White, Circle of Protection: Blue, Circle of Protection: Black, Circle of Protection: Red and Circle of Protection: Green.

• Laces: Rare instants (formerly interrupts) that permanently change the color of a permanent to a color — Purelace, Thoughtlace, Deathlace, Chaoslace and Lifelace.

• Lucky charms: Uncommon artifacts with a triggered ability that allows the controller pay 1 mana to gain 1 life when a spell of a color resolves — Ivory Cup, Crystal Rod, Throne of Bone, Iron Star and Wooden Sphere.

• Mana Batteries: Uncommon artifacts with a casting cost of and the two activated abilities ", : Put a charge counter on [this]" and ", Remove any number of charge counters from [this]: Add C to your mana pool, then add an additional C to your mana pool for each charge counter removed this way," where C is a specific color of mana. — White Mana Battery, Blue Mana Battery, Black Mana Battery, Red Mana Battery, and Green Mana Battery.

• Wards: Uncommon white Auras with enchant creature that grant protection from a color — White Ward, Blue Ward, Black Ward, Red Ward and Green Ward.

Cards added to 4th Edition

The following cards from 4th Edition were not printed in Revised.

Abomination Alabaster Potion Ali Baba Amrou Kithkin Amulet of Kroog Angry Mob Apprentice Wizard Ashes to Ashes Ashnod's Battle Gear Backfire Ball Lightning Battering Ram Bird Maiden Black Mana Battery Blight Blood Lust Blue Mana Battery Bog Imp Brainwash Bronze Tablet Brothers of Fire Carnivorous Plant Carrion Ants Cave People

Circle of Protection: Artifacts Clay Statue Clockwork Avian Colossus of Sardia Coral Helm Cosmic Horror Crimson Manticore Cursed Rack Cyclopean Mummy Detonate Diabolic Machine Divine Transformation Elder Land Wurm Erosion Eternal Warrior Fellwar Stone Fissure Flood Fortified Area Gaseous Form Ghost Ship Giant Strength Giant Tortoise Goblin Rock Sled

Grapeshot Catapult Greed Green Mana Battery Hurr Jackal Immolation Inferno Ironclaw Orcs Junun Efreet Killer Bees Kismet Land Leeches Land Tax Leviathan Lost Soul Mana Clash Marsh Gas Marsh Viper Mind Bomb Mishra's Factory Morale Murk Dwellers Nafs Asp Osai Vultures Piety

Pikemen Pit Scorpion Pradesh Gypsies Psionic Entity Pyrotechnics Radjan Spirit Rag Man Rebirth Red Mana Battery Relic Bind Sandstorm Seeker Segovian Leviathan Shapeshifter Sindbad Sisters of the Flame Spirit Link Spirit Shackle Strip Mine Sunken City Sylvan Library Tawnos's Wand Tawnos's Weaponry Tempest Efreet

Tetravus The Brute Time Elemental Triskelion Tundra Wolves Uncle Istvan Untamed Wilds Urza's Avenger Vampire Bats Venom Visions Wall of Dust Wall of Spears Whirling Dervish White Mana Battery Winds of Change Winter Orb Word of Binding Xenic Poltergeist Yotian Soldier Zephyr Falcon

Changes in rarity

The following cards changed rarity from their last printing to 4th Edition.

• Apprentice Wizard was a rare in The Dark and is now a common.
• Ashes to Ashes was an common in The Dark and is now an uncommon.
• Black Mana Battery was an uncommon in Legends and is now a rare.
• Blood Lust was an uncommon in Legends and is now a common.
• Blue Mana Battery was an uncommon in Legends and is now a rare.
• Brothers of Fire was an uncommon in The Dark and is now a common.
• Carrion Ants was a rare in Legends and is now an uncommon.
• Divine Transormation was a rare in Legends and is now an uncommon.
• Elven Riders was a rare in Legends and is now an uncommon.
• Eternal Warrior was an uncommon in Legends and is now a common.
• Flood was an uncommon in The Dark and is now a common.
• Fortified Area was an uncommon in Legends and is now a common.
• Ghost Ship was a common in The Dark and is now an uncommon.
• Green Mana Battery was an uncommon in Legends and is now a rare.
• Hurr Jackal was a common in Arabian Nights and is now a rare.
• Junun Efreet was a rare in Arabian Nights and is now an uncommon.
• Killer Bees was a rare in Legends and is now an uncommon.
• Land Tax was an uncommon in Legends and is now a rare.
• Mind Bomb was a rare in The Dark and is now an uncommon.
• Mishra's Factory was a rare in Antiquities and is now an uncommon.
• Osai Vultures was a common in Legends and is now an uncommon.
• Pradesh Gypsies was an uncommon in Legends and now a common.
• Pyrotechnics was a common in Legends and is now an uncommon.
• Red Mana Battery was an uncommon in Legends and is now a rare.
• Relic Bind was an uncommon in Legends and is now a rare.
• Shapeshifter was a rare in Antiquities and is now an uncommon.
• Sisters of the Flame was an uncommon in The Dark and is now a common.
• Spirit Shackle was a common in Legends and is now an uncommon.
• Sylvan Library was an uncommon in Legends and is now a rare.
• Wall of Spears was an uncommon in Antiquities and is now a common.
• White Mana Battery was an uncommon in Legends and is now a rare.
• Winds of Change was an uncommon in Legends and is now a rare.
• Winter Blast was a rare in Legends and is now an uncommon.
• Xenic Poltergeist was an uncommon in Antiquities and is now a rare.

Cards removed from Revised Edition

The following cards from Revised did not get reprinted in 4th Edition.

Atog Badlands Basalt Monolith Bayou Braingeyser Clone Contract from Below Copy Artifact Darkpact Demonic Attorney

Demonic Hordes Demonic Tutor Dwarven Weaponsmith Earthbind Farmstead Fastbond Fork Granite Gargoyle Guardian Angel Jandor's Ring

Juggernaut Kird Ape Kudzu Lance Living Wall Mijae Djinn Nettling Imp Plateau Reconstruction Regrowth

Resurrection Reverse Polarity Roc of Kher Ridges Rock Hydra Rocket Launcher Sacrifice Savannah Scrubland Sedge Troll Serendib Efreet

Shatterstorm Sol Ring Taiga Tropical Island Tundra Underground Sea Vesuvan Doppleganger Veteran Bodyguard Volcanic Island

Misprints

• Gaea's Liege — refers to itself as Leige once in the text box.
• Segovian Leviathan — The flavor text lists Job 40:25, there is no Job 40:25. It was corrected in 5th Edition to read Job 41:1.

External Links

4th Edition Official Page