Limited Edition Alpha, or 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 sy...
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Limited Edition Alpha, or 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.
Alpha, as with Beta and Unlimited, is known for having extremely powerful cards. The game designers did not expect the game to sell in high quantities to individual players and thus expected copies of rare and powerful cards to be few. Instead, players started collecting powerful cards and putting as many of them as possible in their decks.
In addition, Alpha contained numerous misprints and lacked a standardized wording for card text, which would not appear until 4th...
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