Revised Edition

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Template:Expansion Revised, as it was commonly called, is the third edition of Core Sets, as it is now known. It was released in 1994.

Set details

It 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.

The artifact types Mono and Poly became obsolete, the types were removed from cards that had them.

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 they put lands on all the uncommon and common sheets.

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

Cards were available from mid April 1994 through mid April 1995.

The print run is estimated at 500 million cards.

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.
  • Blue Elemental Blast and Red Elemental Blast are both common instants (formerly interrupts) with a mana cost of C 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 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.

Cards added to Revised Edition

Changes in rarity

Cards removed from Unlimited

Summer Magic

Summer Magic 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.

This printing was mentioned in the Ask Wizards for August 13, 2003:

“  The rarest misprints, and among the rarest Magic cards in existence, are those blue Hurricanes. They're from a printing nicknamed 'Summer Magic.' In the summer of '94, Wizards realized one printing of Revised had severe mistakes, with the art almost too dark to see on many cards. Wizards recalled the entire print run and had them all destroyed. Well, almost all of them. 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.[1]  ”

Misprints

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