The first printing of Alpha contains the Power 9 exceptionally important cards. Beta Card was released before long Alpha was already sold out in the market. Alpha also contained the first printings of the Dual Lands (minus the Volcanic Island of course). Originally, Alpha cards could not be played with other printings because of the different shaped corners.The first printing of Magic: The Gathering was Alpha, which was released last July 1993. The 9 Dual Lands printed in Alpha are: Scrubland, Bayou, Tundra, Tropical Island, Taiga, Plateau, Savannah, Underground Sea, and Badlands. The total number of Alpha was around 2. Black Lotus, Mox Pearl, Mox Sapphire, Mox Jet, Timetwister, Time Walk, Mox Emerald, and Mox Ruby are considered the Power 9 cards of Magic: The Gathering. Unlike Beta, or any following Magic: The Gathering set, Alpha had distinctly rounded corners on all of the cards. These were then corrected in the following printing of Beta, including those numbers of misprints. On the other hand the 9 Dual Lands Cultured pearls printed in Alpha are the following: Badlands, Undergrounds Sea, Savannah, Plateau, Taiga, Tropical Island, Tundra, Bayou and Scrubland.
Type I players and card collectors value Alpha a lot. Then again, Alpha is considered unique because of its noticeably rounded corners on all of the cards unlike any other Magic: The Gathering set. The Power 9 include: Black Lotus, Mox Jet, Mox Pearl, Mox Sapphire, Mox Emerald, Mox Ruby, Time Walk, Ancestral Recall and Timetwister. Now with colored and graphic sleeves, the different corners can be concealed, allowing fair play with Alpha cards. However there are 2 missing cards that were unintentionally left out the final printing, this Circle of Protection: Black and Volcanic IslandYou should delete all of this text and replace it with text of your own. You can modify any text on your page with the Text formatting tools at the top of the page. To add other content, use the Media and Add-ons tabs. If you'd like to change your style template click on Styles. To add or remove pages use the Pages tab..