Magic: The Gathering®
Card Reprint Policy

Primary to the value of purchasing Magic® cards is the concept that each card will maintain a reasonable value over time. Because we're sensitive to this issue and to the ramifications of reprinting cards too soon or too often, we try to make decisions that won't negatively affect card collectability over time and that will enhance the value of cards you purchase.

To maintain your confidence in the Magic game as a collectible, we've created this Magic: The Gathering card reprint policy, which we will update periodically. It explains why we reprint cards and how many cards from which expansions you can expect to see reprinted in future Magic products.

Why We Reprint Cards
The Magic TCG has tremendous appeal as both a game and a collectible. For us, however, the Magic game is first and foremost a supreme game of strategy and skill. We choose to reprint cards from limited expansions in products such as the Anthologies™ box set and the Classic™ set because we believe (a) the cards we reprint make for enjoyable game play, and (b) all Magic players deserve an opportunity to play with these cards.

Border-Color Policy
Wizards of the Coast® understands that the Magic TCG appeals to many of you as a collectible as well as a game. It's always been our policy, therefore, to print a new card (one with a new name) with a black border before or at the same time as we print it with a white border. This rule also holds for existing cards reprinted with new illustrations. There are three notable exceptions to this policy:

• The 1999 Starter card set includes a few new white-bordered cards created specifically for this starter-level product.
• Portal Three Kingdoms™ products, which are intended for new players in Asia, contain all white-bordered cards.
• The Fifth Edition™ set contains some white-bordered cards with new art. We felt a set with both black and white borders would be too confusing.

The public opinion about card border color is clear: players greatly prefer black-bordered cards to white-bordered cards for aesthetic reasons. We believe, however, that our collectors and players want to maintain the collectability of older black-bordered cards. The following is a compromise we hope will address both concerns.

As of October 1, 1999, we reserve the right to reprint cards from the Mercadian Masques™ expansion and beyond in black borders with the original art. This new policy will give Magic players what they want-black borders more often-without undermining collectability. Whenever possible, we will attempt to distinguish reprinted cards from their original versions with a different expansion symbol. We take our past commitments seriously, so this new policy will not affect any card printed before the Mercadian Masques expansion. For example, we won't reprint an Ice Age™ uncommon card with the original art in a black border.

To support this new border-color policy, starter- and advanced-level products now have their own expansion symbols. The purpose of these symbols is to make it easy for players to distinguish an original card printed in an expert-level set from its reprint in a starter- or advanced-level set, thereby maintaining the original card's collectability.

Premium Cards
Premium cards have given the Magic TCG even greater appeal as a collectable card product. Premium cards will generally look the same as their regular counterparts, with the exceptions of black-bordered premium versions of white-bordered originals and modifications made for promotional premium cards. Minor differences in the premium card's text, such as the omission of reminder text, will sometimes be necessary.

Reserved Cards
In addition to the limited nature of our black-bordered products, much of a Magic card's collectability is determined by its availability for game play. Accordingly, we have created a list of "reserved" cards that we will never print again in a black or white border in a functionally identical form. A card is considered functionally identical to another card if it has the same rules text, mana cost, power, and toughness as another card. The exclusion of any particular card from the reserved-card list doesn't indicate that we have any plans to reprint that card. The current list of reserved cards includes:

• All Limited Edition™ cards that don't appear in Fourth Edition™ or Ice Age
• All uncommon and rare cards from Arabian Nights® and Antiquities® that don't appear in Revised Edition™, Fourth Edition, or Chronicles™
• All rare cards from Legends®, The Dark®, Fallen Empires™, Ice Age, Homelands™, Alliances™, Mirage™, Visions™ and Weatherlight™ that haven't been reprinted with a white border

A complete list of the reserved cards can be found at the end of this document.

Reprinting Cards from the Urza Block
In accordance with the commitment made in our prior reprint policy, rare cards from Urza's Saga™, Urza's Legacy™, and Urza's Destiny™ that aren't reprinted in Classic Seventh Edition will be added to the reserved-card list. Additionally, we won't reprint more than 25% of the rare cards in these sets.

Non-English Cards
All policies described in this document apply both to English and non-English cards. The only exception arises when printing Magic for the first time in a new language; we may print some cards in that language with white borders (in a starter-level product, for example) without printing them with black borders first.

Wizards of the Coast won't print cards from the Arabian Nights, Antiquities, Legends, or The Dark expansions with black or white borders in any additional languages, although cards from these expansions may be printed in non-English versions of Classic and Chronicles. Subsequent limited-edition expansions may be printed with black borders in additional languages. Wizards will periodically announce when any of these products are being removed from consideration for reprinting in additional languages.

Special-Purpose Reprints
All policies described in this document apply only to standard, non-premium, tournament-legal Magic cards. Wizards has and may continue to print special versions of cards not meant for regular game play, such as factory sets and oversized cards.

Reserved-Card List 9-28-99

Limited Edition Ancestral Recall Badlands Basalt Monolith Bayou Berserk Black Lotus Blaze of Glory Braingeyser Camouflage Chaos Orb Clone Consecrate Land Contract from Below Copper Tablet Copy Artifact Cyclopean Tomb Darkpact Demonic Attorney Demonic Hordes Demonic Tutor Dwarven Demolition Team Earthbind False Orders Farmstead Fastbond Forcefield Fork Gauntlet of Might Granite Gargoyle Guardian Angel Ice Storm Illusionary Mask Invisibility Jade Statue Juggernaut Kudzu Lance Lich Living Wall Mox Emerald Mox Jet Mox Pearl Mox Ruby Mox Sapphire Natural Selection Nettling Imp Plateau (Brudi) Plateau (Tucker) Psionic Blast Raging River Regrowth Resurrection Roc of Kher Ridges Rock Hydra Sacrifice Savannah Scrubland Sedge Troll Sinkhole Sol Ring Taiga Time Vault Time Walk Timetwister Tropical Island Tundra Two-Headed Giant of Foriys Underground Sea Vesuvan Doppelganger Veteran Bodyguard Volcanic Island Wheel of Fortune Word of Command Arabian Nights Ali from Cairo Bazaar of Baghdad City in a Bottle Diamond Valley Drop of Honey Elephant Graveyard Guardian Beast Ifh-Bíff Efreet Island of Wak-Wak Jihad Juzám Djinn Khabál Ghoul King Suleiman Library of Alexandria Merchant Ship Old Man of the Sea Pyramids Ring of Ma'rûf Sandals of Abdallah Serendib Djinn Shahrazad Singing Tree Ydwen Efreet Antiquities Argivian Archaeologist Candelabra of Tawnos Citanul Druid Damping Field Gaea's Avenger Gate to Phyrexia Golgothian Sylex Haunting Wind Martyrs of Korlis Mightstone Mishra's Workshop Power Artifact Powerleech Su-Chi Tawnos's Coffin Transmute Artifact Urza's Miter Weakstone Legends The Abyss Acid Rain Adun Oakenshield Al-abara's Carpet Alchor's Tomb All Hallow's Eve Angus Mackenzie Bartel Runeaxe Boris Devilboon Caverns of Despair Chains of Mephistopheles Cleanse Disharmony Divine Intervention Elder Spawn Eureka Falling Star Field of Dreams Firestorm Phoenix Forethought Amulet Gosta Dirk Gravity Sphere Gwendlyn Di Corci Halfdane Hazezon Tamar Hellfire Imprison In the Eye of Chaos Infinite Authority Invoke Prejudice Jacques le Vert Jovial Evil Knowledge Vault Kobold Overlord Lady Caleria Lady Evangela Land Equilibrium Life Matrix Lifeblood Living Plane Livonya Silone Mana Matrix Master of the Hunt Mirror Universe Moat Mold Demon Nether Void North Star Nova Pentacle Pixie Queen Planar Gate Quarum Trench Gnomes Ragnar Ramses Overdark Rapid Fire Rasputin Dreamweaver Reverberation Ring of Immortals Rohgahh of Kher Keep Spinal Villain Spiritual Sanctuary Storm World Sword of the Ages The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale Telekinesis Tetsuo Umezawa Thunder Spirit Tuknir Deathlock Typhoon Ur-Drago Willow Satyr Wood Elemental

The Dark City of Shadows Cleansing Eternal Flame Exorcist Frankenstein's Monster Goblin Wizard Grave Robbers Hidden Path Knights of Thorn Lurker Mana Vortex Martyr's Cry Nameless Race Niall Silvain Preacher Psychic Allergy Scarwood Bandits Season of the Witch Sorrow's Path Stone Calendar Tracker Worms of the Earth Wormwood Treefolk Fallen Empires Aeolipile Balm of Restoration Conch Horn Delif's Cube Draconian Cylix Dwarven Armorer Ebon Praetor Elven Lyre Elvish Farmer Fungal Bloom Goblin Flotilla Hand of Justice Homarid Shaman Icatian Lieutenant Icatian Skirmishers Implements of Sacrifice Rainbow Vale Ring of Renewal River Merfolk Spirit Shield Thelon's Curse Thelonite Monk Thrull Champion Tourach's Gate Vodalian Knights Vodalian War Machine Zelyon Sword Homelands An-Zerrin Ruins Anaba Ancestor Anaba Spirit Crafter Apocalypse Chime Autumn Willow Aysen Crusader Aysen Highway Baki's Curse Baron Sengir Beast Walkers Black Carriage Chain Stasis Daughter of Autumn Didgeridoo Dwarven Pony Dwarven Sea Clan Faerie Noble Feroz's Ban Grandmother Sengir Hazduhr the Abbot Heart Wolf Koskun Falls Leeches Mammoth Harness Marjhan Mystic Decree Narwhal Reveka, Wizard Savant Rysorian Badger Serra Aviary Soraya the Falconer Timmerian Fiends Veldrane of Sengir Wall of Kelp Willow Priestess Winter Sky Alliances Ashnod's Cylix Balduvian Trading Post Chaos Harlequin Dystopia Fatal Lore Floodwater Dam Gargantuan Gorilla Gustha's Scepter Heart of Yavimaya Helm of Obedience Ivory Gargoyle Kaysa Keeper of Tresserhorn Kjeldoran Outpost Krovikan Horror Lake of the Dead Lodestone Bauble Lord of Tresserhorn Misfortune Nature's Wrath Omen of Fire Phantasmal Sphere Phelddagrif Phyrexian Devourer Phyrexian Portal Ritual of the Machine Rogue Skycaptain Royal Decree Sheltered Valley Soldevi Digger Soldevi Excavations Splintering Wind Sustaining Spirit Sworn Defender Thawing Glaciers Thought Lash Tidal Control Tornado Varchild's War-Riders Wandering Mage Winter's Night Mirage Acidic Dagger Afiya Grove Amulet of Unmaking Asmira, Holy Avenger Auspicious Ancestor Barreling Attack Bazaar of Wonders Benthic Djinn Bone Mask Brushwagg Cadaverous Bloom Canopy Dragon Carrion Catacomb Dragon Chaosphere Circle of Despair Cycle of Life Discordant Spirit Divine Retribution Emberwilde Caliph Emberwilde Djinn Energy Bolt Energy Vortex Forsaken Wastes Frenetic Efreet Grim Feast Hakim, Loreweaver Hall of Gemstone Harbinger of Night Hivis of the Scale Jabari's Influence Jungle Patrol Kukemssa Pirates Leering Gargoyle Lion's Eye Diamond Lure of Prey Malignant Growth Mangara's Tome Mindbender Spores Misers' Cage Mist Dragon Natural Balance Null Chamber Paupers' Cage Phyrexian Dreadnought Phyrexian Purge Phyrexian Tribute Political Trickery Preferred Selection Prismatic Lace Purgatory Purraj of Urborg Rashida Scalebane Razor Pendulum Reflect Damage Reparations Rock Basilisk Sawback Manticore Seeds of Innocence Shallow Grave Shauku, Endbringer Shimmer Sidar Jabari Soul Echo Spectral Guardian Spirit of the Night Subterranean Spirit Tainted Specter Taniwha Teeka's Dragon Teferi's Imp Teferi's Isle Telim'Tor Telim'Tor's Edict Tombstone Stairwell Torrent of Lava Unfulfilled Desires Ventifact Bottle Warping Wurm Wellspring Yare Zirilan of the Claw Zuberi, Golden Feather

Visions Aku Djinn Anvil of Bogardan Bogardan Phoenix Breathstealer's Crypt Chronatog City of Solitude Corrosion Diamond Kaleidoscope Elkin Lair Equipoise Eye of Singularity Femeref Enchantress Firestorm Hellkite Flooded Shoreline Forbidden Ritual Griffin Canyon Guiding Spirit Kaervek's Spite Katabatic Winds Kookus Lichenthrope Lightning Cloud Ogre Enforcer Phyrexian Marauder Pillar Tombs of Aku Pygmy Hippo Quirion Druid Rainbow Efreet Retribution of the Meek Righteous War Sands of Time Squandered Resources Suleiman's Legacy Teferi's Realm Three Wishes Tithe Triangle of War Undiscovered Paradise Viashivan Dragon Zhalfirin Crusader Weatherlight Abeyance Aboroth Ancestral Knowledge Avizoa Bone Dancer Bösium Strip Bubble Matrix Debt of Loyalty Dwarven Thaumaturgist Ertai's Familiar Firestorm Fungus Elemental Gallowbraid Goblin Bomb Heart of Bogardan Heat Stroke Infernal Tribute Inner Sanctum Liege of the Hollows Lotus Vale Mana Web Maraxus of Keld Morinfen Mwonvuli Ooze Null Rod Paradigm Shift Peacekeeper Pendrell Mists Psychic Vortex Scorched Ruins Thran Tome Tolarian Entrancer Tolarian Serpent Urborg Justice Urborg Stalker Wave of Terror Well of Knowledge Winding Canyons Xanthic Statue

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