There is a significant player-based economy behind MTG. Players and Collectorsįirst, you need to look at the logistics behind paper play.
It doesn’t concern any new set releasesĪt all, so why do we still have it? Well, there’s a couple of reasons. They announced this revision in March of 2010 stating that no cards on the reserved list would be have tournament-legal reprints in either premium or non-premium form starting in 2011. Inevitably they were forced to revise their policy. Many people saw this as WotC going back on its promise through a loophole. The Coalition and From the Vault: Relics but was very much not welcomed by players. This policy was applied to Duel Decks: Phyrexia vs. However, before 2010, reserved cards could be reprinted as premium-exclusive cards. Non-English cards were no longer exceptions to the policy.Common and uncommon cards from Limited Edition were removed from the reserved list.No cards from Mercadian Masques or any future sets would be added to the reserved list.Rares from Ice Age along with select rares from Tempest, Stronghold, Exodus, Urza’s Saga, Urza’s Legacy, and Urza’s Destiny were added to the reserved list.This was the first set that wasn’t protected by Wizards’ “reprint policy” and in 2002, they announced the following changes to the reserved list/reprint policy: All rare cards from Legends and The Dark that hadn’t been reprinted with a white borderĪfterwards, more and more cards were added to the reserved list until Mercadian Masques was released in 1999.All uncommon and rare cards from Arabian Nights and Antiquities that hadn’t been reprinted with a white border (i.e., that weren’t reprinted in Revised, Fourth Edition, or Chronicles).All cards from Alpha and Beta that weren’t reprinted in Fourth Edition or Ice Age, including the iconic Power 9.
This brought them to what ended up being their solution for the whole debacle: the reserved list. At this point, they realized that they needed to keep their cards’ value high or people wouldn’t collect them at all. WotC released too many-no, seriously, too many-cards in a short period of time.
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Since these sets were printed in small numbers, players had been able to boast about their collection, and it really was impressive if you managed to get a hold of a decent chunk of these sets.īut soon after Chronicles was released, the market was full of reprinted cards and their value subsequently plummeted. In this case, that meant the Arabian Nights, Antiquities, Legends, and The Dark expansions.
Being a compilation set meant that it included no new cards and instead was made up entirely of cards from previous sets. But little did they know that releasing these would cause uproar.Ĭhronicles, which was the first compilation set ever released for MTG, almost made some players quit the game altogether. That’s why WotC occasionally reprints some cards from older sets and includes them in new releases-check out our Standard Rotation article for a quick definition on reprints if you’re not familiar.īack in 1995, Wizards decided that some players were missing out on cards from older sets, so they released Fourth Edition and another expansion, Chronicles. Alexander GregoryĪs I said before, people want to have their expensive cards stay rare, but some are just too balanced or useful to be left in older sets. What are you going to do when you want a card like Contract from Below? You hit the secondary markets.Ĭursed Scroll | Illustration by D. Sure, you can buy booster packs but that doesn’t work for two reasons first, you have count on your luck to get the card you want, and second, it’s impossible to get booster packs for older sets and formats. If you want to collect Magic cards, you usually have to either trade with other players or scour the secondary market to get your hands on the cards you want. Today we’re going to steer away from the digital world and talk about something entirely different: the MTG reserved list. Millions of players around the world have found themselves playing it ever since its release in 1993.Īnd though WotC has been trying to find its place in digital gaming through MTG Arena, there are plenty of people who can’t resist the allure of paper play. When it comes to collectible card games, MTG just might be the most renowned of them all. Black Lotus (Vintage Masters) | Illustration by Chris Rahn
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