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Revised Edition

Printing Information
The Revised Edition was released in order to clean up a number of rules problems that the Limited Edition and Unlimited Edition rules had.

The cards still had white borders and no expansion symbol, but the fake 3-D beveling was removed, and the art was lightened up considerably.

Revised Edition cards can be told from the Unlimited Edition ones because the Unlimited Edition cards used a fake 3-D look to the edge of the card (a bevel). The Revised Edition cards use just a single thin black line. In addition the color of Revised Edition cards looks washed out.

The 306 card set's breakdown by rarity looks like this:
121 Rares
95 Uncommons
75 Commons
15 Land
Note: Due to the printing process, it is possible to get 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. You never get a land in a rare slot.

Note: Due to a printing error, the Serendib Efreet was printed with a green background and the picture of the Ifh-Biff Efreet. It still has the proper casting cost and text, however.

35 of the cards in the Unlimited Edition were retired. These cards are:
Black LotusCopper TabletNatural Selection
Chaos OrbIcy ManipulatorBerserk
Cyclopean TombJade StatueCamouflage
ForcefieldLichIce Storm
Gauntlet of MightWord of CommandRaging River
Illusionary MaskSinkholeTwo-Headed Giant of Foriys
Mox EmeraldAncestral RecallDwarven Demolition Team
Mox JetTimetwisterFalse Orders
Mox PearlTime WalkIronclaw Orcs
Mox RubyPsionic BlastBlaze of Glory
Mox SapphireInvisibilityConsecrate Land
Time VaultTwiddle4 Rare Islands

39 cards from the Arabian Nights and Antiquities expansions were added. These cards are:
Aladdin's Lamp(AN)Onulet(AQ)Reconstruction(AQ)
Aladdin's Ring(AN)Primal Clay(AQ)Unstable Mutation(AN)
Armageddon Clock(AQ)Rocket Launcher(AQ)Titania's Song(AQ)
Bottle of Suleiman(AN)Brass Man(AN)Crumble(AQ)
Dancing Scimitar(AN)Ornithopter(AQ)Desert Twister(AN)
Dragon Engine(AQ)The Rack(AQ)Magnetic Mountain(AN)
Ebony Horse(AN)El Hajjaj(AN)Mijae Djinn(AN)
Flying Carpet(AN)Sorceress Queen(AN)Dwarven Weaponsmith(AQ)
Ivory Tower(AQ)Erg Raiders(AN)Shatterstorm(AQ)
Jandor's Ring(AN)Hurkyl's Recall(AQ)Atog(AQ)
Jandor's Saddlebags(AN)Island Fish Jasconius(AN)Kird Ape(AN)
Millstone(AQ)Serendib Efreet(AN)Eye for an Eye(AN)
Mishras War Machine(AQ)Energy Flux(AQ)Reverse Polarity(AQ)

About half of the 306 cards in this set had text or formatting changes when released in this edition.

This set introduced the idea of a "tap" symbol. It was a letter 'T' turned 45 degrees to the side. This symbol was replaced in Fourth Edition with a rotating arrow because the 'T' did not work in other languages.

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

The print run is estimated at 500 million cards.

Rules
Revised Edition included updated rules for the game.

Packaging Information
60 card starter decks (2 rare, 13 uncommon, 45 common, rulebook) originally retailed for $7.95. 10 decks per box.

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

During the last part of the printing, starter decks had 3 rare, 9 uncommon, and 48 common. Land cards could appear in the common and uncommon, but not the rare slots.


Other Products
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Card Lists
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Fancy PDF (108k)May 1995
Text (18k)July 1998
Text Spoiler (75k)July 1998
Text (39k) - Oracle ErrataJan 2008

Images
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