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Redemption Program Cards (Japanese)
Index | 1996
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The Redemption Program is created by Wizards of the Coast to appease customers in case a major product flaw occurs. This program has been invoked seventh times : Both Arabian Nights and Antiquities had serious collation problems due to WotC not understanding Cartamundi's sorting process. Players complained about the color imbalance and excess duplication. So WotC launched a program where players could send in up to 500 Antiquities cards. The players could choose whether to receive 20 cents per card or replacement cards with the same rarity. Specific cards could be requested but not guaranteed. 20 cents per card was above the MSRP value of the cards so the program was badly abused and WotC received over 201,000 cards (over 1% of the entire print run). Their customer service department was overwhelmed and after a few days of sorting cards they just started piling the cards in the corner of one of the meeting rooms and mailing everyone checks. It is unclear what happened to the returned cards. While not confirmed, this is a likely source of the Antiquities cards that were included in every issue of The Duelist Magazine Issue 17. Due to a sorting error in June 1994, prior to packaging, all uncommon Legends cards were divided into two groups. As a result, whole booster boxes were filled with duplicates of only one group of uncommon cards. In response, Wizards of the Coast published a list of all affected cards in The Duelist magazine issue #2 and offered to replace sent-in cards from one group with the same amount of cards from the other group, chosen by the customer. No more than two copies of a card could be sent in, and the offer was limited to 100 cards per person. Caused by a printing error in October 1996, the Japanese Mirage set was missing the card Flood Plain. In its place an extra Crystal Vein was printed. Wizards of the Coast offered a replacement: For two sent-in Japanese Crystal Veins, the customer received one Japanese Crystal Vein and a Japanese Flood Plain. Additionally a Japanese Nalathni Dragon was added as a bonus card. The Nalathni Dragon also exists in English. In a similar case in September 1999, the Spanish Mercadian Masques set was missing the card Eye of Ramos. In its place an additional Worry Beads card was printed. As a method of redemption, Wizards of the Coast offered to replace sent-in Spanish Worry Beads with Spanish Eye of Ramos cards. Because of the high quantity of banned cards in the Standard tournament environment during the Tempest and Urza's Saga block area, in March 1999 Wizards of the Coast activated their Redemption Program for the fourth time. Customers could send in all banned rare cards of both expert level blocks, in specific Earthcraft, Dream Halls, Mind over Matter, Recurring Nightmare, Fluctuator, Time Spiral, Tolarian Academy, Windfall and Memory Jar, and, received one booster pack of the same set the banned card originated from per card. It was launched along with the B&R list which was released March 1st. It was a reaction to combo winter. Players would receive sealed booster packs for each card mailed in. Rath cycle cards were accepted through November 1st 1999 and Urza block cards were accepted through November 1st 2000. When the Legions Elvish Rage Preconstructed Deck was released in February 2003, in place of Taunting Elf was Snarling Undorak, which was rather unusual having a Beast card in an Elvish theme deck. Wizards of the Coast apologized about that and said that if you send Snarling Undorak with a receipt of the deck you bought, they would send you two free Taunting Elf. After the Coldsnap Theme Decks arrived on the shelves in July 2006, the Kjeldoran Cunning deck did not have all three Brainstorm cards in their deck and instead had one Essence Flare (which is also printed in the Snowscape theme deck). Due to that issue, Wizards of the Coast allowed you to send in those cards with a receipt of the deck you bought and they will send you a coupon for a discount when they restocked that deck with the correct cards. OTHER CASES THAT WEREN'T PART OF THE REDEMPTION PROGRAM During the release of Dragon's Maze (May 2013), 10 cards weren't possible to get in foil from booster packs in those four languages: French, Italian, German and Russian. Booster packs of Dragon's Maze in the four languages mentioned contained foil shocklands of Return to Ravnica and Gatecrash. In order to fix that mistake WotC issued special very limited sealed clear booster packs, containing these 10 foils, that were sent to WPN stores (2 per shop in France). this is the list of the 10 missing Rare cards: AEtherling Blood Scrivener Pontiff of Blight Possibility Storm Pyrewild Shaman Renegade Krasis Renounce the Guilds Scion of Vitu-Ghazi Skylasher Trait Doctoring For Theros Beyond Death (January 2020), the Buy-a-Box promo included two cards—one foil Athreos, Shroud-Veiled, and one foil full-art "Nyx" Land, both packaged inside an opaque sleeve. Due to a production error, the lands in these packs were non-foil. A reprint with proper foil treatment took place, and the replacement lands were shipped after or around Prerelease in a sealed clear booster pack with 12 foil lands.  Antiquities booster pack.  Legends English booster pack.  Mirage Japanese booster pack. Illustration Jungle Troll by John Bolton.    Tempest booster pack. Illustration Auratog by Jeff Miracola. Stronghold booster pack. Illustration Warrior Angel by Brom. Exodus booster pack. Illustration Exalted Dragon by Matthew D. Wilson.    Urza's Saga booster pack. Illustration Herald of Serra by Matthew D. Wilson. Urza's Legacy booster pack. Illustration Beast of Burden by Ron Spears. Urza's Destiny booster pack. Illustration Emperor Crocodile by Kev Walker.  Mercadian Masques Spanish booster pack. Illustration Squee, Goblin Nabob by David Monette.  Elvish Rage Preconstructed Deck from Legions. Illustration Wirewood Hivemaster by Darrell Riche.  Kjeldoran Cunning Preconstructed Deck from Coldsnap. Illustration Darien, King of Kjeldor by Michael Phillippi.  Dragon's Maze sealed clear Russian booster containing the missing 10 Foil rares.   Legends Exchange Program on Page 6 of the Duelist #2 magazine (Summer 1994).  Card Redemption Program paper. ART  Nalathni Dragon Original Art by Michael Whelan. EXTERNAL LINKS - ALL FIXED Make No Mistake; Making Magic Make No Mistake; Making Magic - February 1, 2012 - Wayback Machine 25 Random Things About Magic; Making Magic Broken Link 25 Random Things About Magic; Making Magic - February 16, 2009 - Wayback Machine A Brief History of the Standard Banned List; Magic Arcana Broken Link A Brief History of the Standard Banned List; Magic Arcana - July 13, 2015 - Wayback Machine Theros Beyond Death Production Error; News Broken Link Theros Beyond Death Production Error; News - December 17, 2019 - Wayback Machine Duelist Magazine #2 - Summer 1994; Internet Archive INTERNAL LINKS English Nalathni Dragon Missing foil cards from Dragon's Maze; Magiclibrarities forum |
| SET | NUM | CARDNAME | ARTIST | SOURCE | DATE | INFO | ||
| 001 | ナラスニ・ドラゴン Nalathni Dragon | Michael Whelan | Redemption Program bonus card. | 1996-10 | YES | |||