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PublisherWizards of the Coast
Set Size449 cards
Retail Price 60 card starter decks (3 rare, 9 uncommon, 26 common, 22 land, rulebook) for $8.95. 12 decks per box.

15 card booster packs (1 rare, 3 uncommon, 11 common) for $2.95. 36 packs per box.

Print Run800 million cards (estimated)
Starter box
Booster pack Booster pack Booster pack Booster pack Booster pack

Overview

The Fifth Edition was released in order to rotate the contents of the basic set. The rulebook was updated to include more rules and to be more detailed, while at the same time streamlining the old rules. The cards still have white borders and no expansion symbol and "copyright 1997" is on the base of the cards. Cards were available from March 1997 through well after the end of the print run in April 1999.

The 449 card set's breakdown by rarity looks like this:
132 Rares
132 Uncommons
165 Commons
20 Lands

128 cards were removed from the set and 199 cards were added bringing the set size up to 449 cards. Mostly cards from Fallen Empires, Ice Age, Chronicles, and Homelands were rotated in. Basic lands appear in starter decks and not in booster packs.

Card Lists

These lists and others can also be found on the lists page.

Fancy PDF (178k)Oct 1997
Fancy PS (183k)Oct 1997
Fancy LJ2 (54k)Oct 1997
Text (27k)July 1998
Text Spoiler (100k)July 1998
Text (60k) - Errata for Eighth Edition rulesOct 2003
Word (148k) - Errata for Eighth Edition rulesOct 2003

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