Chronicles

Chronicles was the twelfth Magic: The Gathering set and was released in July 1995. It was the first reprint set. It was not considered an official expansion, but an extension of the 4th Edition core set.

All cards in the set were from the Arabian Nights (14 cards), Antiquities (21 cards), Legends (71 cards), and The Dark (19 cards) expansions. Each card was white-bordered, whereas the cards in their original sets were black-bordered. Also, each card carried the expansion symbol from the set it was originally printed in.

Note that the Japanese printing of Chronicles was black-bordered as this was the first time that these cards had been printed in the Japanese language.

Chronicles was printed so that new players, and other players who were unable to buy the sets originally due to their quick sellouts, would be able to have their own cards from those sets. Chronicles was sold in booster packs of twelve cards (9 from the commons print sheet and 3 from the uncommons print sheet). It was released in early August 1995 and went out of print in December 1996. It is estimated that about 180 million cards were produced. The set was printed in English and Japanese only, but a similar set called Renaissance was released into German, French and Italian markets.

Languages: English, Japanese