Thought you’d be interested in the following
announcement regarding the new Magic: The Gathering game and Magic’s 10th
anniversary…
IN 10TH ANNIVERSARY TRIBUTE, NEW MAGIC: THE GATHERING® CORE SET WILL FEATURE
CARDS FROM EVERY MAGIC® SET EVER INTRODUCED
www.magicthegathering.com offers sneak-peek
June 9, 2003 (Renton, Wash.) – Magic: The Gathering® players will get to relive
some of the greatest moments in the trading card game’s 10-year history with
this summer’s release of the new Magic: The Gathering—Eighth Edition™ Core Set.
Celebrating the 10th anniversary of its premier trading card game, Wizards of
the Coast today announced that the new core set will include one
never-before-reprinted card from every expansion since the Magic® game was first
published, in 1993.
Wizards of the Coast has selected one card from every Magic set beginning with
the originally released Magic: The Gathering base set, called Alpha™, all the
way through and including the latest Magic expansion, Scourge. For those keeping
track, this includes (from most recent to oldest): Scourge™, Legions™,
Onslaught™, Judgment™, Torment™, Odyssey™, Apocalypse™, Planeshift™, Invasion™,
Prophecy™, Nemesis™, Mercadian Masques™, Starter 99™, Urza’s Destiny™, Portal
Three Kingdoms™, Urza’s Legacy™, Urza’s Saga™, Portal Second Age™, Exodus™,
Stronghold™, Tempest™, Portal™, Weatherlight™, Visions™, Mirage™, Alliances™,
Homeland™, Ice Age™, Fallen Empires™, The Dark™, Legends™, Antiquities™, Arabian
Nights™ and Alpha.
In all, 350 cards will be reprised in the new core set. Some of the cards will
be those nominated by fans in last summer’s “Selecting Eighth Edition”
promotion.
Coinciding with today’s announcement, Wizards of the Coast will launch the
“Unveiling Eighth Edition” promotion on www.magicthegathering.com. Each day
between June 9 and July 28, when the new core set officially release worldwide,
Wizards will reveal a selection of Eighth Edition cards on magicthegathering.com.
Celebrating its 10th anniversary in 2003, the Magic: The Gathering game was
created by award-winning game designer Richard Garfield and is published by
Wizards of the Coast. Over the past 10 years, more than 6,000 distinct Magic
cards have been created. The Magic game is available in 52 countries and nine
languages, with more than 100,000 official tournaments sanctioned each year by
the DCI® players’ organization.
Wizards of the Coast, Inc., a subsidiary of Hasbro, Inc. (NYSE: HAS), is the
worldwide market share leader in the trading card game and tabletop roleplaying
game categories. A leading developer and publisher of game-based entertainment
products, the company holds an exclusive patent on the play mechanic of trading
card games. For more information visit www.magicthegathering.com or
www.wizards.com.
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Magic: The Gathering, Magic, DCI, Scourge, Legions, Onslaught, Judgment,
Torment, Odyssey, Apocalypse, Planeshift, Invasion, Prophecy, Nemesis, Mercadian,
Masques, Starter 99, Urza’s Destiny, Portal Three Kingdoms, Urza’s Legacy,
Urza’s Saga, Portal Second Age, Exodus, Stronghold, Tempest, Portal,
Weatherlight, Visions, Mirage, Alliances, Homeland, Ice Age, Fallen Empires, The
Dark, Legends, Antiquities, Arabian Nights and Alpha are trademarks of Wizards
of the Coast Inc., a subsidiary of
Hasbro Inc. ©2003 Wizards.