Magic : The Gathering (MTG) (CCG).
Older Expansions :
INTRODUCTION NOTES :
This section of the site contains all the Magic:The Gathering (MTG) : Older Expansions.
This site shop categorie is separate in x sections :
1) Alliances (ALL).
2) Homelands (HML).
3) Ice Age (ICE).
4) Ice Age (ICE Glossy Deck Serie).
5) Fallen Empires (FE).
6) The Dark US & The Dark Italian.
7) Legends US & Legends Italian.
8) Antiquities.
9) Arabian Nights.
10) Mirage.
11) Visions.
12) Weatherlight.
Notes :
- All pics show in the shop are issued from my own data base.
-If you use the search engine usually the code of the expansion or edition (afa: BNG) will gives you all the cards of it.
- All of thoses shop galleries doens't contains more specific rare cards that you can find perhaps in another site section's.
As for example, you'll NOT find here :
Duel Decks, specific cases (afa : Ice Age Glossy, 4th Alternate cards, etc...), promo cards, Special Box set, Premium decks, Commander rares cards, and others expansions listed here for their rares cards and here for the mythic cards, etc.
For all questions, don't hesitate to contact me !
Pour toutes questions, n'hésitez pas à me contacter !
1) Magic : The Gathering (MTG) : Alliances :
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All Rights Reserved. Which has no affiliation with E.M. GAMES.
Alliances is the eighth Magic expansion and was released in June 1996.
-It was the second set and first small expansion in the Ice Age Block.
The set's rarity breakdown is:
55 commons, 43 Uncommons, 46 rares cards.
-The expansion symbol of the set is a banner, or pennant, to reinforce the “alliance” concept.
-The Alliances lands have a unique violet-colored text box and Alliances is the last expansion set to have this feature.
-It was sold in booster packs of twelve cards which included eight commons, three uncommons and one rare.
-This was the last expansion to feature regular multiple artworks on cards. The practice was discontinued to ease the identification of cards by their artwork, which was important to the global community as Magic was beginning to see print in languages other than English.
Alliances was sold as Booster Pack SKU : WOC6520 ISBN : 1-57530-109-1 GTIN : 7 42818 06520 7) and Booster Pack Box SKU : WOC16520 ISBN : 1-57530-110-5 GTIN : 7 42818 16520 4).
Notes about the shop section just down :
I have only listed the rare cards, I don't have listed the U & C cards, in case off, don't hesitate to ask, I can add some in case off. Thanks.
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2) Magic : The Gathering (MTG) : Homelands :
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All Rights Reserved. Which has no affiliation with E.M. GAMES.
Homelands is the seventh Magic expansion and was released in October 1995.
-It was the second expansion of the Ice Age Block.
The set's rarity breakdown is:
46 commons, 69 Uncommons (U3, U1 considered as rares cards).
-Each common card has 2 pieces of art (same artist).
- Each booster bears the same green background image. Homelands was the first simultaneous international release. German, Spanish, French, Portuguese, and Italian versions were being launched around the same time as the English version
-It had several themes, including a large number of real-world creature types, clockwork artifact creatures, Legendary creatures, and several "tribal" effects that enhanced only one creature type.
Homelands explored popular characters including Sengir and Serra and had a strong flavor, meaning that the cards were designed to fill specific roles.
Homelands was sold as Booster Pack (SKU : WOC6508 ISBN : 1-880992-35-3 GTIN : 7 42818 06508 5) and Booster Pack Box (SKU WOC16508 ISBN : 1-880992-36-1 GTIN : 7 42818 16508 2).
Notes about the shop section just down :
I have only listed the rare cards, I don't have listed the U & C cards, in case off, don't hesitate to ask, I can add some in case off. Thanks.
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3) Magic : The Gathering (MTG) : Ice Age :
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All Rights Reserved. Which has no affiliation with E.M. GAMES.
Ice Age is the first set in the Ice Age block. It is the 6th Magic the Gathering expansion.
It was released in early June, 1995.
The set's rarity breakdown is:
Ice Age contained 383 black-bordered cards.
121 rare, 121 uncommon, 121 common, 20 basic lands.
It the first standalone Magic expansion set and the first to use the new white mana symbol.
The expansion symbol of the set is a snowflake, to symbolize the arctic nature of Dominaria at the time.
The print run is estimated at 500 million cards.
The cards were sold in 60-card starter decks and 15-card boosters and Ice Age was the first Magic expansion that was released in French, German, Portuguese, and Spanish languages.
Ice Age was sold as boosters pack (ISBN : 1-880992-66-3 GTIN : 7 42818 06507 8), Booster Pack Box SKU : WOC16507
ISBN : 1-880992-67-1 GTIN : 7 42818 16507 5), Starter Deck SKU : WOC6506 ISBN : 1-880992-64-7 GTIN : 7 42818 06506 1), in this case 2 versions (see Ice Age Glossy just bellow) and finally Starter Deck Box (SKU : WOC6506 ISBN : 1-880992-65-5 GTIN : 7 42818 16506 8).
Notes about the shop section just down :
I have only listed the rare cards, I don't have listed the U & C cards, in case off, don't hesitate to ask, I can add some in case off. Thanks.
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4) Magic : The Gathering (MTG) : Ice Age (GLOSSY DECK SERIE) :
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All Rights Reserved. Which has no affiliation with E.M. GAMES.
Ice Age (Glossy Pre-release Tournament Deck Serie).
Ice Age glossy Deck Serie are the really first cards printed for the Ice Age Edition.
Note : Find that when I was opening 2 differents Ice Age Tournament deck when I was selling them in store years ago with Carta Mundi return request....
Quality : Glossy (beter than 4Th Alternate) / cards seems to be as well slightly more thick / more easy to recoignize with black color cards : black mana color : more grey/blue), copyright as well more blue / quite easy to recognize when you're used to MTG cards, when you compare two of the same type of card (same card name) and place them next to each other. The glossy edition card stands out directly from the standard edition / there's sometimes (very rare) some manual annotations by the printer on cards (usually in silver or gold colors) / only in english decks.
Tournament-Deck (only) :
Glossy Ice Age tournament deck and standard owns the same ISBN who's : 1-880992-64.7 (WOTC Product WOC6506) but :
-For one, there's the presence of the "old Garfield Games Logo", starter Deck priced USD 7.95 (first printing)
-For the other, no "Garfield Games Logo" and price USD 8.95 (second printing including glossy cards).
This latest version is the hard to find Glossy Ice Age tournament- deck, but not all of them because it seems to be in the early printing deck production (deck with one pull strip close to the top or the other has it further down closer to the middle of the deck).
Dispatch for stores pre-release tournaments.
It's seems that round 5% of thoses total decks are affected with this printing process.
The deck's rarity breakdown is:
Starter deck : 60 cards (3 rare / 9 uncommon / 26 common / 22 basic lands).
So a rare Glossy Ice Age is really rare in a certain way.
Ice Age (Glossy Tournament deck Serie) Explanations :
Ice Age glossy Deck Serie are the really first cards printed for the Ice Age Edition.
This series contains the first Ice Age preconstructed deck printed by Carta Mundi as test print (for the Ice Age Prerelease tournaments).
Before the 4th Edition was printed by Carta Mundi, some test editions were carried out at WOTC's request by another publisher, the United States playing cards Corporation. This series is called Alternate 4th Edition, and can be found at this link.
At the same time, in order to compare the quality of these cards printed by this other publisher, similar tests were also requested from their usual printer, Carta Mundi, but for the Ice Age Edition.
As the production schedule for Ice Age had already been scheduled for June 1995, just after the release of the 4th Edition (April 1995), WOTC needed to be certain of the production schedule defined by this or that publisher.
The aim was therefore to compare the quality printed at the same time by “United States playing cards Corporation” and “Carta Mundi”.
But given the disappointing results of this test printer (USPCC) and the comparative results of Carta Mundi's printing Ice Age tournaments decks (also glossy, but better), it was decided to stop both types of printing.
Despite the withdrawal of 4th Edition decks from the market (4th Edition decks printed by USPCC), some had of course already been distributed on the market.
The same was true of Carta Mundi's first Ice Age tournaments decks, but in much smaller quantities than the 4th Edition Alternate.
This explains why Ice Age tournaments decks have two different kind of layout.
Despite the withdrawal from the market of these decks (4th Alternate) and Ice Age (Glossy by Carta Mundi) just before the start of these pre-releases, some of these decks were already in use before official tournaments.
Quantities of Ice Age decks were much rarer, as they were only distributed to certain national stores taking part in these Ice Age pre-releases.
These decks were therefore returned to Carta Mundi by the participating stores, before being quickly replaced by the normal edition so that the pre-releases could take place on time.
The Ice Age Glossy cards in these decks are therefore much rarer than the 4th alternate, but of better Glossy quality. And to top it all off, some of these cards have hand-encoded annotations from the Carta Mundi printer (usually card number on a printing sheet).
This is probably the most far-fetched story to emerge from MTG's publishing problems.
Notes about the shop section just down :
-I have only listed the rare / U and C cards that I own. Pics show are regular Ice Age ones, if it's notify a number in the title, you'll have a pic of the Ice Age glossy one with this printer manual annotation.
-Grading on Ice Age Glossy cards is SPECIFIC due to the glossy type card.
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5) Magic : The Gathering (MTG) : Fallen Empires :
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All Rights Reserved. Which has no affiliation with E.M. GAMES.
Fallen Empires is the fifth Magic expansion and was released in November 1994.
-It is not considered part of any block.
The set's rarity breakdown is :
35 commons, 31 Uncommons, 36 Rares.
-Each common card has 3 or 4 pieces of art (each with a different flavor text)
This results in 120 unique commons (and 187 total unique cards in the set).
The expansion symbol of the set is a crown, to symbolize the concept of empire.
The Fallen Empires lands have a unique red-tinted text box.
Fallen Empires was the last set to use the tilted-T tap symbol.
Fallen Empires was sold as boosters pack (GTIN : 7 42818 06505 4) and boosters Pack Box (SKU : WOC6505
ISBN : 1-880992-39-6 GTIN : 7 42818 16505 1).
Notes about the shop section just down :
I have only listed the rare cards, I don't have listed the U & C cards, in case off, don't hesitate to ask, I can add some in case off. Thanks.
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6) Magic : The Gathering (MTG) : The Dark US (English) & Italian (called "L'Oscurità" (dated 1995)) :
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All Rights Reserved. Which has no affiliation with E.M. GAMES.
To be not counfound with Chronicles dated 1995 with white borders.
-The Dark is the fourth Magic expansion and was released on August 8, 1994. It is not part of any block.
-The Dark was printed on sheets of 121 cards. This expansion contains 119 unique cards. The set's rarity breakdown is: 41 commons and 78 uncommons. Due to the printing process some uncommon cards are considered as rare.
-The expansion symbol of the set is a thin crescent moon.
-Sold as :
-boosters Pack (GTIN : 7 42818 06504 7) and Booster Pack Box (SKU : WOC6504 / ISBN : 1-880992-30-2 / GTIN : 7 42818 06504 7).
-Cards are dated 1994 and non-foil black-border cards.
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7) Magic : The Gathering (MTG) : Legends US & LEGENDS IT (Italian) :
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All Rights Reserved. Which has no affiliation with E.M. GAMES.
Must be not counfound with Legends Italian Edition dated 1995 or Chronicles dated 1995 with white borders.
-Legends is the seventh MTG set and the third expansion set, released in June 1994. It is not part of any block.
-The set's rarity breakdown is : 75 commons, 114 uncommon and121 rares (a total of 310 cards)
-The expansion symbol for Legends is the capital of a column.
-Sold as :
-boosters Pack (GTIN : 7 42818 06503 0) and Booster Pack Box (SKU : WOC6503 / GTIN : 7 42818 16503 7).
-Cards are dated 1994 and non-foil black-border cards.
NOTES :
Not all existing cards have been created.
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8) Magic : The Gathering (MTG) : Antiquities :
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All Rights Reserved. Which has no affiliation with E.M. GAMES.
Antiquities is the second Magic : The Gathering expansion and was released on March 4, 1994. It is not part of any Block. The set was constructed around an artifact theme and told the story of the Brothers' War between Mishra and Urza.
-It was printed on sheets of 121 cards.
-The expansion symbol is an anvil.
-100 non-foil black-border cards.
*Sold as :
-boosters Pack (GTIN : 7 42818 06502 3) and Booster Pack Box (SKU : WOC6502 GTIN: 7 42818 16502 0).
-No dates on cards.
Notes :
Pics show in the shop are issued from my own data base, it's not specially the card itself.
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9) Magic : The Gathering (MTG) : Arabian Nights :
© 1993-2025 Wizards of the Coast LLC, a subsidiary of Hasbro, Inc.
All Rights Reserved. Which has no affiliation with E.M. GAMES.
Arabian Nights was the first MTG expansion that used a expansion symbol, it was released in December 1993 (printed on sheets of 121 cards).
-93 non-foil black-border cards.
*Sold as :
boosters Pack (GTIN : 7 42818 06501 6) and Booster Pack Box (SKU : WOC6501).
-Due to production difficulties 15 common cards have both light and dark variants.
-No dates on cards.
-No rarity symbols (old printing process).
Notes :
Pics show in the shop are issued from my own data base, it's not specially the card itself.
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10) Magic : The Gathering (MTG) : Mirage :
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All Rights Reserved. Which has no affiliation with E.M. GAMES.
Mirage is the ninth MTG expansion, it was released in October 1996.
Its the first expansion of the Mirage block including of course Visions and Weatherlight.
-The set contains 350 non-foil black-border cards (110 commons, 110 uncommons, 110 rares, 20 basic lands).
Fifth Edition rules were introduced in Mirage, although Fifth Edition wasn't released until March 1997. The Mirage expansion symbol is a palm tree, symbolizing the tropical aspects of Jamuraa.
Mirage non-basic lands have a dull green text box, which they share with Visions non-monocolor lands.
*Sold as :
boosters Pack (SKU : WOC6522 ISBN : 1-57530-113-X), Booster Pack Box (SKU : WOC16522 ISBN : 1-57530-114-8 GTIN : 7 42818 16522 8), Starter Deck (SKU : WOC6521 ISBN : 1-57530-111-3 GTIN : 7 42818 06521 4) and finally Starter Deck Box SKU : WOC16521 ISBN : 1-57530-112-1 GTIN : 7 42818 16521 1).
-Cards are datred 1996.
-The print run is estimated at 400 million cards.
Mirage had two significant different printings : one dark print with a rough finish, and one light print with a smooth finish. The dark Mirage was printed in US, the light one in Belgium at Carta Mundi.
-No rarity symbols (old printing process).
Notes :
Pics show in the shop are issued from my own data base, it's not specially the card itself.
I have only listed the rare cards, I don't have listed the U & C cards, in case off, don't hesitate to ask, I can add some in case off. Thanks.
© 1993-2025 Wizards of the Coast LLC, a subsidiary of Hasbro, Inc.
All Rights Reserved. Which has no affiliation with E.M. GAMES.
11) Magic : The Gathering (MTG) : Visions :
Visions is the tenth MTG expansion, it was released in February 1997.
Its the first expansion of the Mirage block including of course Mirage and Weatherlight.
-The set contains 167 non-foil black-border cards (62 commons, 55 uncommons, 50 rares).
The Mirage expansion symbol is the "Triangle of War", a Zhalfirin symbol, inset with a “V” for Visions.
Visions was the start of increasing the speed of red decks.
*Sold as :
boosters Pack (SKU : WOC6523 ISBN : 1-57530-221-7 GTIN : 7 42818 06523 8), Booster Pack Box (SKU : WOC16523
ISBN : 1-57530-222-5 GTIN: 7 42818 16523 5) and a Preview Booster Pack (SKU: WOC6573 ISBN : 1-57530-227-6 GTIN : 7 42818 06573 3).
-Cards are datred 1996.
The Visions non-monocolor lands share the same dull green text box color that Mirage has, and the monocolored lands still had text box frames of that same color. From Fifth Edition on, land text box color was standardized.
-More alternate art versions of Visions cards were published in the Multiverse Gift Box.
-No rarity symbols (old printing process).
Notes :
Pics show in the shop are issued from my own data base, it's not specially the card itself.
I have only listed the rare cards, I don't have listed the U & C cards, in case off, don't hesitate to ask, I can add some in case off. Thanks.
© 1993-2025 Wizards of the Coast LLC, a subsidiary of Hasbro, Inc.
All Rights Reserved. Which has no affiliation with E.M. GAMES.
12) Magic : The Gathering (MTG) : Weatherlight :
Visions is the eleventh MTG expansion, it was released in June 1997.
as the third set and second small expansion of the Mirage block. Weatherlight also marked the beginning of the Weatherlight Saga, the most important Magic storyline, which continued through 2001.
-The set contains 167 non-foil black-border cards (62 commons, 55 uncommons, 50 rares).
The expansion symbol is the Thran Tome, an important artifact of the Legacy whose contents change depending on who reads it. Among the information contained in the Tome are the components and intended operation of the Legacy itself
*Sold as :
boosters Pack (SKU : WOC6526 ISBN : 1-57530-266-7 GTIN : 7 42818 06526 9), Booster Pack Box (SKU : WOC16526
ISBN : 1-57530-267-5 GTIN : 7 42818 16526 6).
-Cards are datred 1997.
The set was sold in booster packs containing 15 cards (1 rare, 3 uncommon, and 11 common). All boosters featured the same artwork from the card Steel Golem. While previous sets only included allusions to an overarching story, Weatherlight was the first set to explicitly tell an ordered narrative focused on developed, archetypical characters. The new approach to designing and marketing Magic proved to be a huge success both popularly and commercially. Weatherlight also set the stage for the books of the Rath Cycle storyline.
-No rarity symbols (old printing process).
Notes :
Pics show in the shop are issued from my own data base, it's not specially the card itself.
I have only listed the rare cards, I don't have listed the U & C cards, in case off, don't hesitate to ask, I can add some in case off. Thanks.