Multiverse Gift Box

The Multiverse Gift Box was a seasonal Magic: The Gathering gift package released in November 1996.

Contents

The Multiverse Gift Box contained a French Homelands booster, an Italian Alliances booster, a German Renaissance booster, a Japanese Chronicles booster, and two English Visions boosters. This was months before Visions was released, so these weren't standard boosters; rather, they contained 15 cards out of a possible 25. These boosters had a different wrapper, and said they were a Special Edition on the back of the wrapper. This was the first time that Magic cards were sold in product before their official release, and explains why the copyright date on Visions cards is 1996 even though the official release was in 1997.

Card list

The 25 preview cards are:

• Gossamer Chains (C)
• Jamuraan Lion (C)
• Peace Talks (U) *
• Warrior's Honor (C)
• Knight of the Mists (C)
• Ovinomancer (U) *
• Shrieking Drake (C)
• Undo (C)
• Dark Privilege (C) *
• Necrosavant (R) *
• Urborg Mindsucker (C) *
• Vampirism (U) *
• Wicked Reward (C) *
• Goblin Recruiter (C)
• Lightning Cloud (R)
• Rock Slide (C)
• Talruum Champion (C)
• Viashino Sandstalker (U)*
• Bull Elephant (C) *
• Feral Instinct (C)
• Giant Caterpillar (C)
• King Cheetah (C) *
• Lichenthrope (R)
• Tempest Drake (U)
• Undiscovered Paradise (R)

(*) Slightly different from regular Visions cards

Differences from regular Visions cards

For the official release, WotC made minor changes to many of the Visions cards released in the gift box. Dark Privilege, Peace Talks, and Necrosavant have differently cropped art. The preview version of King Cheetah does not have the card name capitalized in the flavor text. Viashino Sandstalker has a similar lack of capitalization of Sandstalker in the flavor text. The text "{Tap}: ... owner's hand:" is on one line on the preview Ovinomancer. The second line of text on the the preview Peace Talks ends with "...an attack". All the black cards (Dark Privilege, Necrosavant, Urborg Mindsucker, Vampirism, and Wicked Reward) have slightly longer copyright lines on the preview versions than the final versions.