
Unlimited Magic The Gathering Cards
Unlimited Edition was the second Magic: The Gathering set. It was
printed after Beta had sold out as quickly as Alpha had; this time the
run was 35 million cards, the largest yet. It contains the same cards
as Beta, though with white borders instead of black, setting the
precedent for all successive printings of the basic set, until the 2007
release of Tenth Edition, which returns to black borders. Unlimited
cards are worth less than their Limited Edition counterparts, both
because the print run was larger and because players generally prefer
black borders to white.
The printing of Unlimited was somewhat rushed on the part of
Wizards of the Coast and numerous errors crept into the text and rules.
Unlimited was the first set to be officially titled as something
other than just Magic: The Gathering. The "Unlimited Edition" label
appears on the booster boxes, decks, and booster packs.
Unlimited was also the last set to feature the so-called "Power
Nine" cards, as well as the last set to contain all of the original set
of cards. It was the original intent of the game designers for this
basic set to always be in print thus the name Unlimited but the
presence of cards such as the "Power Nine" made that impossible, and
the Revised edition would soon replace Unlimited.