Chronicles (Magic: The Gathering)
| Chronicles | ||
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| [[Image:|200px|Expansion Logo]] | ||
| Expansion Symbol | [[Image:|50px|]] | |
| Release Date | July 1995 | |
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| Makeup | 116 cards/ 125 cards (counting diff. artwork) | |
| Magic: The Gathering Chronology | ||
| Ice Age | Chronicles | Homelands |
Chronicles was the twelfth Magic: The Gathering set, released in July, 1995.
The set is notable for being the only tournament-legal non-core set that introduced no new cards. All cards in the set were from the Arabian Nights, Antiquities, Legends, and The Dark expansions. Each card was white-bordered, while the cards in their original sets were black-bordered. Also, each card carried the expansion symbol from the set it was originally printed in.
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. The set collaborators were careful not to put the extra-powerful cards (like Arabian Nights's Juzam Djinn) into the set, so that those cards' market values would not be affected. Nonetheless, many popular cards (like Legends's Elder Dragon Legends) were included. Also, some cards in the set would prove to become powerful as more players experimented with them. Arabian Nights's Erhnam Djinn, reprinted in Chronicles, proved to be exceptionally useful in concert with the core set's Armageddon, and a powerful deck arose from this combination.
A similar set called Renaissance was released into German, French and Italian markets. The German and French versions of the black-bordered set are the same, and contained all the cards that rotated into 4th Edtition from the expansion sets. This was due to company policy that stated that a card could not be put into a white-bordered set without first appearing in a black-bordered set in that language. The Italian version of Renaissance contained the same cards as the German and French versions, plus cards that would be in Chronicles that were in Arabian Nights and Antiquities (as the first expansion set printed in Italian was Legends). All foreign-language Chronicles sets were black-bordered, except the Italian version, which was white-bordered.
| Magic: The Gathering sets | |||
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| Core sets: Alpha, Beta, Unlimited, Revised, 4th Edition, 5th Edition, 6th Edition, 7th Edition, 8th Edition, 9th Edition | |||
| DCI Sanctioned Sets | |||
| Arabian Nights, Antiquities, Legends, The Dark, Fallen Empires, Chronicles | Urza Block: Urza's Saga, Urza's Legacy, Urza's Destiny | Onslaught Block: Onslaught, Legions, Scourge | |
| Ice Age Block: Ice Age, Homelands, Alliances | Masques Block: Mercadian Masques, Nemesis, Prophecy | Mirrodin Block: Mirrodin, Darksteel, Fifth Dawn | |
| Mirage Block: Mirage, Visions, Weatherlight | Invasion Block: Invasion, Planeshift, Apocalypse | Kamigawa Block: Champions of Kamigawa, Betrayers of Kamigawa, Saviors of Kamigawa | |
| Rath Cycle: Tempest, Stronghold, Exodus | Odyssey Block: Odyssey, Torment, Judgement | Portal: Portal, Portal: Second Age, Portal: Three Kingdoms | |
| Non-DCI Sanctioned Sets | Forthcoming Blocks | ||
| Unglued: Unglued, Unhinged |
Ravnica Block: Control (Ravnica, City of Guilds), Alt (Guildpact), Delete - 2005-2006 | ||