Tavis King Global Sets
Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2016 7:52 am
Organization: List here at the top, Pictures down below
Heroes
. Benalish Hero
. Kjeldoran Warrior
. Infantry Veteran
. Devoted Hero
Samite Healer
Alabaster Kirin
False Prophet
Faeries
. Scryb Sprites
. Uktabi Faerie
Winter Blast
Scavenger Folk
Scaled Wurm
Fireball
Ironclaw Orcs
Mons's Goblin Raiders
Wall of Heat
Nalathni Dragon
Lightning Hounds
Lu Bu, Master-at-Arms
Xenic Poltergeist
Breeding Pit
Initiates of the Ebon Hand
Ashen Ghoul
Aku Djinn
Severed Legion
Blue Blasts
. Blue Elemental Blast
. Hydroblast
Twiddle
Reconstruction
Any Island with the same artwork as Urza's Saga card # 338
Crystal Rod
Cyclopean Tomb
Glasses of Urza
Library of Leng
Beast of Burden
Daredevil Dragster
Faerie Conclave
Forbidding Watchtower
Ghitu Encampment
Spawning Pool
Treetop Village
Heroes
(I've tried to organize these chronologically by release date.)
Magic Alpha Playtesting included Dragon, Forest, Glasses of Urza, Islands, Mountain, Plains, Skeletons, Swamp, and about 80 other card names. I don't know whether Hero existed in Magic Alpha Playtesting. It may or may not have been one of the many new cards introduced in Magic Beta Playtesting.
A print of the original art.
Doug did the artwork for "Hero" & "Superhero". He created one female & one male, but refused to identify which one was "Super".
Someone at WotC assigned this art the "Hero" title. The male art was assigned the "Superhero" title, and became the card Veteran Bodyguard.
More info can be found at this link. http://forum.magiclibrarities.net/forum ... f=6&t=9907
This card was gifted to me by one of Rudy's Alpha Investments subscribers after they saw me show this collection on his YouTube channel.
https://youtu.be/7UkcsVvOrfI
The card stock has a front and back layer with a thin blue layer in the middle, but those layers are not assembled after printing, or even at Carta Mundi. Carta Mundi prints the cards, but they don't make the card stock, they buy it, just like they buy their ink, solvent, & varnish. The cardstock halves are bonded with the blue layer core by the paper manufacturer before Carta Mundi prints anything for Wizards.
The card backs are printed first, and then used as needed for printing the different rarities of fronts.
Because the card is printed clearly and not blurry, we know that the sheet fed through each of the 4 color stages identically, so this is not a simple registration error where the sheet was grabbed wrong by the machine once.
Either the sheet feeders were all identically misaligned (maybe left that way from the previous print job?) Or after the back was printed the sheet changed size (torn or cut) causing it to align improperly with the paper guides.
Here's the crazy part... The card back is usually printed first, so the order of operations here is...
Card backs printed correctly
Sheet edge damaged
Card fronts printed offset
Card cut face up, using the alignment marks on the front.
Yeah, that means the front side which looks normal was printed wrong and cut wrong to match, while the weird looking backside was printed correctly.
Here's another one.
This is a second print run of Revised, which was intended to fix the problems that Revised had. A small amount of it was released in normal Revised booster packaging. This print run did not meet Wizards standards, and was immediately recalled for destruction, making these cards rare and valuable. They can be recognized by their copyright line and dark coloration.
This is a Scolding Benalish Hero from Revised. It was created by Richard Garfield during Cruise Con in 1995, and given to a semi-finalist Daryl Tose at the event. Cruise Con was a convention that took place on a cruise ship which sailed from Miami Florida to Jamaica.
You can tap this card to cancel 1 creatures attack. In todays wording, I think it would work as follows...
Tap: Remove target attacking creature from combat. Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to and dealt by that creature this turn.
The card stock has a front and back layer with a thin blue layer in the middle, but those layers are not assembled after printing, or even at Carta Mundi. Carta Mundi prints the cards, but they don't make the card stock, they buy it, just like they buy their ink, solvent, & varnish. The cardstock halves are bonded with the blue layer core by the paper manufacturer before Carta Mundi prints anything for Wizards.
The card backs are printed first, and then used as needed for printing the different rarities of fronts.
What you see on this card is a printing error. When the front of the card was printed, it didn't properly align with the printing which had already occurred on the back side.
This card was opened at the first Misprint Con, Buffalo New York, 2018.
Some common & uncommon 4th Edition cards were accidentally cut using the same corner rounding die that had been used to make Alpha cards.
Italian 4th Edition looks a lot like Italian 2nd Edition. The most noticeable difference is the marks above the lowercase i in the card name.
Italian 4th Edition looks a lot like Italian 2nd Edition. The most noticeable difference is the marks above the lowercase i in the card name.
Except for the change to white borders, most cards in this set are identical to the French Limited Edition printing, even including the 1994 copyright date. However, 11 cards in this set were updated and do have a 1995 copyright date. More info can be found at this link. http://forum.magiclibrarities.net/forum ... f=6&t=9063
German 4th Edition looks a lot like German Unlimited Edition. The most noticeable difference is the marks above the lowercase i in the card name.
Italian 4th Edition looks a lot like Italian 2nd Edition. The most noticeable difference is the marks above the lowercase i in the card name.
Italian 4th Edition looks a lot like Italian 2nd Edition. The most noticeable difference is the marks above the lowercase i in the card name.
9 cards in this set look a lot like French Unlimited Edition. Info on how to tell them apart can be found at this link. http://forum.magiclibrarities.net/forum ... f=6&t=9063
German 4th Edition looks a lot like German Unlimited Edition. The most noticeable difference is the marks above the lowercase i in the card name.
This card belonged to the mother of my friend Geoff. She played back in the 1990's, and eventually gave her old cards to her son. Geoff was the judge at my Local Game Store. He identified the card as Alternate 4th Edition, and I acquired it from him in 2013. This ignited my interest in rarities and oddities, as I'd previously only collected normal cards. It also began this Benalish Hero global set project, which was my second global set. My first global set was Wall of Heat, which I assembled in 1996.
Alternate 4th Edition was made by the United States Playing Card Corporation in the USA. It was printed with a stochastic process instead of halftone like normal cards. The cards were considered to be marked cards, and Wizards ordered them to be destroyed. Many of them escaped destruction. The easiest ways to recognize them are by the different shading on the upper right corner of the "A" in "MAGIC" on the card back, or by using a black light. Alternate 4th Edition has a UV resistant coating, so it doesn't glow under a black light like regular cards do.
The card stock has a front and back layer with a thin blue layer in the middle, but those layers are not assembled after printing, or even at Carta Mundi. Carta Mundi prints the cards, but they don't make the card stock, they buy it, just like they buy their ink, solvent, & varnish. The cardstock halves are bonded with the blue layer core by the paper manufacturer before Carta Mundi prints anything for Wizards.
The card backs are printed first, and then used as needed for printing the different rarities of fronts.
What you see on this card is a printing error. When the front of the card was printed, it didn't properly align with the printing which had already occurred on the back side.
Traditional Chinese 4th Edition was made by Shepard Poorman in the USA, using black core cardstock.
Traditional Chinese 4th Edition was made by Shepard Poorman in the USA, using black core cardstock.
Korean 4th Edition was made by Shepard Poorman in the USA, using black core cardstock.
You may be wondering why Infantry Veteran is in my Hero global set. As I was searching for Hero playtest cards, I discovered that some of the Hero playtest cards I'd acquired, were for a set named Menagerie. Menagerie grew to be such a large playtest set, that it was eventually split into two sets named Mirage and Visions. The Banding ability that Benalish Hero has, was originally called Stacking. Originally, the way Stacking worked was that you'd simply add the power / toughness of the creature with Stacking, to the creature it was Stacking with. Since Hero was a 1/1 creature, this effectively gave another creature +1/+1. Infantry Veteran's ability is closer to the original Stacking ability than the Banding ability it became, but Infantry Veteran is descended from the Hero playtest card. Since I had the playtest card, I decided to go ahead and collect Infantry Veterans.
Italian Visions Infantry Veteran
French Visions Infantry Veteran
German Visions Infantry Veteran
Spanish Visions Infantry Veteran
Portuguese Visions Infantry Veteran
Japanese Visions Infantry Veteran
Traditional Chinese Visions Infantry Veteran
Korean Visions Infantry Veteran
Note: Benalish Hero was not included in Simplified Chinese 5th Edition. Simplified Chinese 5th only has 350 cards instead of 449 like the other languages.
Anthologies Infantry Veteran
6th Edition Infantry Veteran
Italian
French
German
Spanish
Portuguese
Japanese
Traditional Chinese
Simplified Chinese
Battle Royal Infantry Veteran
9th Edition Infantry Veteran
English Foil
Italian
Italian Foil
French
French Foil
German
German Foil
Spanish
Spanish Foil
Portuguese
Portuguese Foil
Japanese
Japanese Foil
Simplified Chinese
Simplified Chinese Foil
Russian
Russian Foil
M11 Infantry Veteran
M11 Foil
Italian
Italian Foil
French
French Foil
German
German Foil
Spanish
Spanish Foil
Portuguese
Portuguese Foil
Japanese
Japanese Foil
Traditional Chinese
Traditional Chinese Foil
Simplified Chinese
Simplified Chinese Foil
Russian
Russian Foil
Duel Decks Elspeth vs Tezzeret Infantry Veteran
Italian
French
German
Spanish
Japanese
Duel Decks Speed vs Cunning Infantry Veteran
Japanese
Iconic Masters Infantry Veteran
Iconic Masters Foil
Japanese
Japanese Foil
Simplified Chinese
Simplified Chinese Foil
Mystery Booster Infantry Veteran
Here is a list of rare items that probably existed, but I've never seen any of them.
Menagerie pink with Menagerie back playtest card
Large white playtest card with Menagerie name
Possibly later styles of Mirage or Visions playtest cards
small grey Ice Age playtest card
large white Ice Age playtest card
Kjeldoran Warrior Italian Ice Age Artist Proof
Kjeldoran Warrior French Ice Age Artist Proof
Kjeldoran Warrior Spanish Ice Age Artist Proof
Kjeldoran Warrior Portuguese Ice Age Artist Proof
Portal Playtest Card 2nd Generation card number HA cw01 (unknown card name, but it became Devoted Hero)
Portal Playtest Card 3rd Generation card number V2.0 HA cw01 (unknown card name, but it became Devoted Hero)
Devoted Hero English Portal Artist Proof
Heroes
. Benalish Hero
. Kjeldoran Warrior
. Infantry Veteran
. Devoted Hero
Samite Healer
Alabaster Kirin
False Prophet
Faeries
. Scryb Sprites
. Uktabi Faerie
Winter Blast
Scavenger Folk
Scaled Wurm
Fireball
Ironclaw Orcs
Mons's Goblin Raiders
Wall of Heat
Nalathni Dragon
Lightning Hounds
Lu Bu, Master-at-Arms
Xenic Poltergeist
Breeding Pit
Initiates of the Ebon Hand
Ashen Ghoul
Aku Djinn
Severed Legion
Blue Blasts
. Blue Elemental Blast
. Hydroblast
Twiddle
Reconstruction
Any Island with the same artwork as Urza's Saga card # 338
Crystal Rod
Cyclopean Tomb
Glasses of Urza
Library of Leng
Beast of Burden
Daredevil Dragster
Faerie Conclave
Forbidding Watchtower
Ghitu Encampment
Spawning Pool
Treetop Village
Heroes
(I've tried to organize these chronologically by release date.)
Magic Alpha Playtesting included Dragon, Forest, Glasses of Urza, Islands, Mountain, Plains, Skeletons, Swamp, and about 80 other card names. I don't know whether Hero existed in Magic Alpha Playtesting. It may or may not have been one of the many new cards introduced in Magic Beta Playtesting.
A print of the original art.
Doug did the artwork for "Hero" & "Superhero". He created one female & one male, but refused to identify which one was "Super".
Someone at WotC assigned this art the "Hero" title. The male art was assigned the "Superhero" title, and became the card Veteran Bodyguard.
More info can be found at this link. http://forum.magiclibrarities.net/forum ... f=6&t=9907
This card was gifted to me by one of Rudy's Alpha Investments subscribers after they saw me show this collection on his YouTube channel.
https://youtu.be/7UkcsVvOrfI
The card stock has a front and back layer with a thin blue layer in the middle, but those layers are not assembled after printing, or even at Carta Mundi. Carta Mundi prints the cards, but they don't make the card stock, they buy it, just like they buy their ink, solvent, & varnish. The cardstock halves are bonded with the blue layer core by the paper manufacturer before Carta Mundi prints anything for Wizards.
The card backs are printed first, and then used as needed for printing the different rarities of fronts.
Because the card is printed clearly and not blurry, we know that the sheet fed through each of the 4 color stages identically, so this is not a simple registration error where the sheet was grabbed wrong by the machine once.
Either the sheet feeders were all identically misaligned (maybe left that way from the previous print job?) Or after the back was printed the sheet changed size (torn or cut) causing it to align improperly with the paper guides.
Here's the crazy part... The card back is usually printed first, so the order of operations here is...
Card backs printed correctly
Sheet edge damaged
Card fronts printed offset
Card cut face up, using the alignment marks on the front.
Yeah, that means the front side which looks normal was printed wrong and cut wrong to match, while the weird looking backside was printed correctly.
Here's another one.
This is a second print run of Revised, which was intended to fix the problems that Revised had. A small amount of it was released in normal Revised booster packaging. This print run did not meet Wizards standards, and was immediately recalled for destruction, making these cards rare and valuable. They can be recognized by their copyright line and dark coloration.
This is a Scolding Benalish Hero from Revised. It was created by Richard Garfield during Cruise Con in 1995, and given to a semi-finalist Daryl Tose at the event. Cruise Con was a convention that took place on a cruise ship which sailed from Miami Florida to Jamaica.
You can tap this card to cancel 1 creatures attack. In todays wording, I think it would work as follows...
Tap: Remove target attacking creature from combat. Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to and dealt by that creature this turn.
The card stock has a front and back layer with a thin blue layer in the middle, but those layers are not assembled after printing, or even at Carta Mundi. Carta Mundi prints the cards, but they don't make the card stock, they buy it, just like they buy their ink, solvent, & varnish. The cardstock halves are bonded with the blue layer core by the paper manufacturer before Carta Mundi prints anything for Wizards.
The card backs are printed first, and then used as needed for printing the different rarities of fronts.
What you see on this card is a printing error. When the front of the card was printed, it didn't properly align with the printing which had already occurred on the back side.
This card was opened at the first Misprint Con, Buffalo New York, 2018.
Some common & uncommon 4th Edition cards were accidentally cut using the same corner rounding die that had been used to make Alpha cards.
Italian 4th Edition looks a lot like Italian 2nd Edition. The most noticeable difference is the marks above the lowercase i in the card name.
Italian 4th Edition looks a lot like Italian 2nd Edition. The most noticeable difference is the marks above the lowercase i in the card name.
Except for the change to white borders, most cards in this set are identical to the French Limited Edition printing, even including the 1994 copyright date. However, 11 cards in this set were updated and do have a 1995 copyright date. More info can be found at this link. http://forum.magiclibrarities.net/forum ... f=6&t=9063
German 4th Edition looks a lot like German Unlimited Edition. The most noticeable difference is the marks above the lowercase i in the card name.
Italian 4th Edition looks a lot like Italian 2nd Edition. The most noticeable difference is the marks above the lowercase i in the card name.
Italian 4th Edition looks a lot like Italian 2nd Edition. The most noticeable difference is the marks above the lowercase i in the card name.
9 cards in this set look a lot like French Unlimited Edition. Info on how to tell them apart can be found at this link. http://forum.magiclibrarities.net/forum ... f=6&t=9063
German 4th Edition looks a lot like German Unlimited Edition. The most noticeable difference is the marks above the lowercase i in the card name.
This card belonged to the mother of my friend Geoff. She played back in the 1990's, and eventually gave her old cards to her son. Geoff was the judge at my Local Game Store. He identified the card as Alternate 4th Edition, and I acquired it from him in 2013. This ignited my interest in rarities and oddities, as I'd previously only collected normal cards. It also began this Benalish Hero global set project, which was my second global set. My first global set was Wall of Heat, which I assembled in 1996.
Alternate 4th Edition was made by the United States Playing Card Corporation in the USA. It was printed with a stochastic process instead of halftone like normal cards. The cards were considered to be marked cards, and Wizards ordered them to be destroyed. Many of them escaped destruction. The easiest ways to recognize them are by the different shading on the upper right corner of the "A" in "MAGIC" on the card back, or by using a black light. Alternate 4th Edition has a UV resistant coating, so it doesn't glow under a black light like regular cards do.
The card stock has a front and back layer with a thin blue layer in the middle, but those layers are not assembled after printing, or even at Carta Mundi. Carta Mundi prints the cards, but they don't make the card stock, they buy it, just like they buy their ink, solvent, & varnish. The cardstock halves are bonded with the blue layer core by the paper manufacturer before Carta Mundi prints anything for Wizards.
The card backs are printed first, and then used as needed for printing the different rarities of fronts.
What you see on this card is a printing error. When the front of the card was printed, it didn't properly align with the printing which had already occurred on the back side.
Traditional Chinese 4th Edition was made by Shepard Poorman in the USA, using black core cardstock.
Traditional Chinese 4th Edition was made by Shepard Poorman in the USA, using black core cardstock.
Korean 4th Edition was made by Shepard Poorman in the USA, using black core cardstock.
You may be wondering why Infantry Veteran is in my Hero global set. As I was searching for Hero playtest cards, I discovered that some of the Hero playtest cards I'd acquired, were for a set named Menagerie. Menagerie grew to be such a large playtest set, that it was eventually split into two sets named Mirage and Visions. The Banding ability that Benalish Hero has, was originally called Stacking. Originally, the way Stacking worked was that you'd simply add the power / toughness of the creature with Stacking, to the creature it was Stacking with. Since Hero was a 1/1 creature, this effectively gave another creature +1/+1. Infantry Veteran's ability is closer to the original Stacking ability than the Banding ability it became, but Infantry Veteran is descended from the Hero playtest card. Since I had the playtest card, I decided to go ahead and collect Infantry Veterans.
Italian Visions Infantry Veteran
French Visions Infantry Veteran
German Visions Infantry Veteran
Spanish Visions Infantry Veteran
Portuguese Visions Infantry Veteran
Japanese Visions Infantry Veteran
Traditional Chinese Visions Infantry Veteran
Korean Visions Infantry Veteran
Note: Benalish Hero was not included in Simplified Chinese 5th Edition. Simplified Chinese 5th only has 350 cards instead of 449 like the other languages.
Anthologies Infantry Veteran
6th Edition Infantry Veteran
Italian
French
German
Spanish
Portuguese
Japanese
Traditional Chinese
Simplified Chinese
Battle Royal Infantry Veteran
9th Edition Infantry Veteran
English Foil
Italian
Italian Foil
French
French Foil
German
German Foil
Spanish
Spanish Foil
Portuguese
Portuguese Foil
Japanese
Japanese Foil
Simplified Chinese
Simplified Chinese Foil
Russian
Russian Foil
M11 Infantry Veteran
M11 Foil
Italian
Italian Foil
French
French Foil
German
German Foil
Spanish
Spanish Foil
Portuguese
Portuguese Foil
Japanese
Japanese Foil
Traditional Chinese
Traditional Chinese Foil
Simplified Chinese
Simplified Chinese Foil
Russian
Russian Foil
Duel Decks Elspeth vs Tezzeret Infantry Veteran
Italian
French
German
Spanish
Japanese
Duel Decks Speed vs Cunning Infantry Veteran
Japanese
Iconic Masters Infantry Veteran
Iconic Masters Foil
Japanese
Japanese Foil
Simplified Chinese
Simplified Chinese Foil
Mystery Booster Infantry Veteran
Here is a list of rare items that probably existed, but I've never seen any of them.
Menagerie pink with Menagerie back playtest card
Large white playtest card with Menagerie name
Possibly later styles of Mirage or Visions playtest cards
small grey Ice Age playtest card
large white Ice Age playtest card
Kjeldoran Warrior Italian Ice Age Artist Proof
Kjeldoran Warrior French Ice Age Artist Proof
Kjeldoran Warrior Spanish Ice Age Artist Proof
Kjeldoran Warrior Portuguese Ice Age Artist Proof
Portal Playtest Card 2nd Generation card number HA cw01 (unknown card name, but it became Devoted Hero)
Portal Playtest Card 3rd Generation card number V2.0 HA cw01 (unknown card name, but it became Devoted Hero)
Devoted Hero English Portal Artist Proof