Beta

Beta is the corrected second printing of the original set, released on October 4, 1993. This archive lists all 302 cards with production figures derived from the same industrial framework as Alpha: identical sheets, identical packaging, three times the volume.

302 unique cards: 117 Rare, 95 Uncommon, 75 Common and 15 Basic Lands (3 art variants per land type).

Production Data & Sheet Logistics

The factory printed exactly 3,025 Rare sheets, 13,590 Uncommon sheets and 48,100 Common sheets — three times the Alpha volume on the same 11×11 layout. Total print run: 7,830,000 cards.

Beta was collated into 209,304 booster packs and 78,300 starter decks, shipped as 5,814 booster boxes of 36 (in master cases of 6 boxes) and 7,830 starter displays of 10 decks. The starter/booster split is identical to Alpha: 59.9% of cards via starter decks, 40.1% via boosters.

Product Composition

Basic lands sit on the three rarity sheets (4 Islands on the Rare sheet, 26 lands on the Uncommon sheet, 46 on the Common sheet), so an average Beta booster contains about 4.86 basic lands. A documented curiosity: some Beta starter decks contain leftover Alpha rares, recognizable by their more rounded corners.

Basic Land Art Variants

Basic lands in Beta exist in three distinct art variants per land type. The total copies per land type are confirmed by the sheet layout; the split between art variants follows an equal-slot allocation on the print sheets, declared as a derived hypothesis. Each basic land page shows copies, pull odds and artwork for every single variant.

All figures follow the industrial framework described in our print run methodology.

Buy Beta Sealed