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Magic: the Gathering - The Core Sets

Magic the Gathering Core or Base Sets presents Magic in its truest form. This painstakingly crafted compilation acts as a "greatest hits" collection of previous sets, a foundation to start building your own collection for beginners, a reliable place to find some of the most powerful tournament-defining cards for experts, and a practical guide to the fundamentals of the game.

The different editions of the base set, which have varied in size from 295 to 449 cards, contain cards which have all been printed before, with the exception of Alpha, which was the game's first set.

Core sets were released every two years (4th edition through 11th edition) while expansion sets are typically released every 4 months. In 2010 the format was changed to have a core set released every year, using the naming conventions, of Magic 2010 and Magic 2011, which for the first time since alpha, also began issuing new cards which were never before printed in previous sets.

Magic 2011

Magic 2011

Magic 2011 was released on July 16, 2010 and is was the twelfth core set for Magic: the Gathering. Designed similar to its predecessor, Magic 2010, the set has new cards in it, but to a lesser extent.

Notable Cards:
Titan cycle - The cycle of titans featured creatures with converted mana cost 6 of each color: Frost Titan, Inferno Titan, Grave Titan, Primeval Titan, and Sun Titan. Check them out below.
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11th Edition Rumors and Speculation



Official news regarding 11th edition was released by wizards of the coast here.

Highlights include:


  • 11th edition will be called M10 (Magic 2010)

  • 249 Cards

  • Planeswalkers will be included - the original 5 from Lorwyn

  • Brand New Cards - never before done in a core set, half the cards will be new

  • New core set released every year instead of every two

  • Mythic Rares

  • Because of the influx of new cards, many cards that have been in every core set so far are leaving. As of Magic 2010, there will be only eight cards that have appeared in every core set, down from sixteen as of Tenth Edition.

  • There has been some speculation as to which set of existing dual lands will be in the next core set, and the answer may surprise: none of them. Sorry, no painlands, fetchlands, and Ravnica duals. The new Duel Lands are said to be awesome and will have no loss of life!

  • Of the fifteen mythic rares in the set, nine are reprints (five are planeswalkers) and six are brand new.


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10th Edition

Wizards of the Coast released its tenth core set for the trading card game Magic the Gathering on July 14, 2007. In celebration of this monumentious event it was announced that July 14th as the first Magic Game Day. Local shops all over the world will held special DCI sanctioned tournaments.

Prizes varied by store but many offered a FOIL Raya Dawnbringer - here's a a picture

Tenth Edition Packs and Decks

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10th Edition Card List

Here is a partial card list for Magic the Gathering newest core set. See the entire card list here Magic the Gathering Tenth Edition Card List

White - 62/62
1. Ancestor's Chosen U
2. Angel of Mercy U
3. Angelic Blessing C
4. Angelic Chorus R

Blue - 62/62
63. Academy Researchers U
64. Air Elemental U
65. Ambassador Laquatus R
66. Arcanis the Omnipotent R

Black - 62/62
125. Afflict C
126. Agonizing Memories U
127. Ascendant Evincar R
128. Assassinate C
129. Beacon of Unrest R

187. Anaba Bodyguard C
188. Arcane Teachings U
189. Beacon of Destruction R
190. Blaze U
191. Bloodfire Colossus R

Green - 62/62
249. Abundance R
250. Aggressive Urge C
251. Avatar of Might R
252. Birds of Paradise R

Artifact - 36/36
311. Angel's Feather U
312. Bottle Gnomes U
313. Chimeric Staff R

Land - 37/37
All ten Painlands

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Magic the Gathering: Core Set - Tenth - 10th - Edition Theme Deck - Kamahl's Temper (Red)

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Magic the Gathering: Core Set - Tenth - 10th - Edition Theme Deck - Evincar's Tyranny (Black)

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Magic the Gathering: Core Set - Tenth - 10th - Edition Theme Deck - Molimo's Might (Green)

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Magic the Gathering: Core Set - Tenth - 10th - Edition Theme Deck - Arcanis's Guile (Blue)

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Magic the Gathering: Core Set - Tenth - 10th - Edition Theme Deck - Cho-Manno's Resolve (White)

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9th Edition

Magic 2011

9th Edition was released on July 25, 2005 and contained 359 cards. Ninth Edition features many cards from older base sets and expansions. Notable changes included a re- designed fatpack.
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8th Edition - Magic: The Gathering

Eighth Edition was set to be released to coincide with the 10th Anniversary of Magic's original release, so the creators took a different approach to the base set. Every previous expansion had at least one card reprinted in Eighth that had not been reprinted in the base set before, with a series of votes on the Wizards website deciding what got reprinted. Eighth was also the first base set with a pre-release card (though some claim it was a 10th Anniversary card, not a pre-release). Eighth features many cards from older base sets and expansions. While many of these cards were very powerful during their original print run, some are not quite as powerful in newer tournament settings.
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Core Sets Or Expansions Sets

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Do you prefer core sets or expansion packs?

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Core Sets

Deadicated says:

Core and the first couple of expansions.

Neoglitch says:

Core sets are the best way to get started in the game, in my opinion. For newbies, getting a Core set fat pack or a Deckbuilder's toolkit is better than just getting an intro pack. Then once you have an already established collection, get booster packs from expansion sets!

Expansion Sets

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7th Editiion

7th Edition was a Magic: The Gathering set printed in 2001. It is the only core set since Alpha to have introduced all-new art for every card. A white-bordered set, it was first available on April 2, 2001. The set contained 350 cards. The expansion symbol was a stylized 7
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6th Edition

The Sixth Edition core set of Magic: The Gathering, also known as Classic, was released on April 27, 1999. It contains 350 cards, with reprints of cards from previous core sets, as well as some new reprints from expansion sets through the Weatherlight expansion.
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Fifth Edition

The Fifth Edition was the seventeenth Magic: The Gathering set and fifth core set, a revision of the base set released in March of 1997. It contained 449 cards, counting multiple illustrations of basic lands, making it the largest card set in the game's history. It was the first edition of the core set to reprint cards from Fallen Empires, Ice Age, and Homelands.
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Fourth Edition of Magic: The Gathering

The Fourth Edition of Magic: The Gathering was the tenth set released for the game, and the fourth base set (or "core set"). The set was released in April 1995 and contained 378 cards. It was the first set to reprint cards from the expansions Legends and The Dark with white borders.

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Revised

The set was released in April 1994 and contained 306 cards. It was the first base set to contain cards from black-bordered sets other than Alpha and Beta. Twenty Revised cards were originally in the Arabian Nights expansion, and another nineteen were originally in the Antiquities expansion. Thirty-five cards that were in Unlimited were not in Revised, including the Power Nine. A few of the cards that were removed from the base set reappeared in later sets. Most notably, Icy Manipulator would be reprinted in Ice Age, and a few others would be reprinted in 8th Edition to celebrate the game's 10th anniversary.

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Unlimited Edition

Unlimited Edition was the second Magic: The Gathering set. It was released on December 1, 1993, after Beta had sold out as quickly as Alpha had; this time the run was 40 million cards, the largest yet. It contains exactly the same cards as Beta, though with white borders instead of black, setting the precedent for all successive printings of the basic set, until the 2007 release of Tenth Edition, which returned to black borders.

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Beta

Limited Edition Beta or just Beta for short was the second part, after revisions, of the first print run of the first Magic: The Gathering set. It was released only a few months after Limited Edition Alpha's publication to correct some minor problems in the rules and to make up for the fact that the first run had completely sold out. Clarifications were made to the rulebook, and Richard Garfield's short fiction "Worzel's Tale" was removed to make room. Like Alpha it had no expansion symbol, and the text on the bottom left consisted of only the artist credit. Although many players speak of them as different sets, officially they are the same set.

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Limited Edition Alpha

Limited Edition Alpha, or just Alpha for short, was the first Magic: The Gathering card set. It premiered in a limited release at Origins Game Fair in 1993, with a general release that August. Its print run of 2.6 million cards sold out very quickly and was replaced by Limited Edition's Beta print run. The Alpha and Beta runs are officially both part of Limited Edition. Limited Edition cards have no expansion symbol, no copyright date, no trademark symbols, although they do list the art credits at the bottom of the card.
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    Magic the Gathering Core or Base Sets presents Magic in its truest form.
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  • Neoglitch May 8, 2011 @ 8:05 pm | delete
    Well, I must say this was an interesting and informative lens. Long live to Magic and the Core Sets!! :D
  • thedan1984 Jan 19, 2011 @ 9:11 pm | delete
    Some great memories of MTG in this lens. Was nice seeing some of the price tags on the cards today, really makes you question people's priorities
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