So this post is my truth on 93/94 era print runs. And we can't have people being wrong on the Internet. After re-reading Scott's own (excellent) article on the set, it started to dawn on me how most every resource online that talks about print runs comes back to D'Angelo's estimates, and that so much random stuff we've found over the years cast new light and perhaps better accuracy on some of the "accepted truths". Writing this post was triggered by a comment from Scott Latham on my previous post on Unlimited. The only printed reference to Alpha rares in a Wizard's publication was in The Duelist #3, where they noted 1,400 cards.Ī later (1995) supplement to The Duelist called The Complete Card list would however imply that the number was closer to 1,070 rares. Wonder where the 1,100 estimate of each Alpha rare came from? That gained traction with D'Angelo. He had some very solid estimates, but as the Internet grew D'Angelos numbers somehow got repeated as the singular truth over the web and beyond. But he gathered the information he could find, bundled it together on a webpage, and added a disclaimer at the top noting that he had no inside info and that a lot of it was "almost completely guesswork". Some of these had questionable official numbers, and some had nothing but hints or nods. And wisdom he had.Īpart from his updates on card lists, rules and errata, he took a stab at estimating the print runs for Magic sets. In an era before or The Dojo, there was D'Angelo and his collection of wisdom from the internet and beyond. The D'Angelo Files and Crystal Keep were the go-to sources of Magic information in the early days of the web. It is hard to overstate the impact of Stephen D'Angelo and the Crystal Keep webpage. No inside information was used to build these numbers." -Stephen D'Angelo, Rarity Information at Crystal Keep, circa January 1996 The Gathering is almost completely guesswork. Distribution between starters and boosters for I think I'm in the ballpark,īut don't bet money on it. "Numbers for Revised, Fourth, Ice Age, Chronicles, Homelands and promo cardsĪre guesses based on almost no information.
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