Portal/2-Player Starter Set

The Portal 2-Player Starter Set was a Magic starter-level box set released in 1997, as part of the Portal product range. 
==Description==
This 2-Player Starter Set was part of Wizards of the Coast's first major attempt at a set catering to prospective and newer players. It was designed to provide them a format with simpler rules than a core set or an expansion set. It was released in several languages. A Gift Box edition featured additional content. 
==Contents==
* Two 35 Card preconstructed decks
* 2 Playmats (paper)
* A Play Guide to walk you through the sample game using the decks
* A Rule Book
* 1 Portal booster pack 
===Gift Box===
The Gift Box is actually a bigger box that packages the regular box product with additional content.
* 1 extra Portal booster pack 
* 2 score-keeping beads
* A checklist of all the cards in the Portal set
==Decklists==
<d title="Preconstructed deck 1">
Creatures 
1 Devoted Hero
1 Armored Pegasus
1 Regal Unicorn
1 Spotted Griffin
1 Venerable Monk
1 Anaconda
1 Gorilla Warrior
1 Grizzly Bears
1 Fire Imp
1 Hill Giant
1 Hulking Goblin
1 Lizard Warrior
1 Raging Goblin
Sorceries
1 Defiant Stand
1 Sacred Nectar
1 Warrior's Charge
1 Untamed Wilds
1 Blaze
1 Lava Axe
1 Volcanic Hammer
Lands
6 Plains
6 Mountain
3 Forest
</d>
<d title="Preconstructed deck 2">
Creatures
1 Craven Knight
1 Feral Shadow
1 Gravedigger
1 Muck Rats
1 Skeletal Crocodile
1 Coral Eel
1 Ingenious Thief
1 Snapping Drake
1 Storm Crow
1 Elite Cat Warrior
1 Panther Warriors
1 Rowan Treefolk
Sorceries
1 Hand of Death
1 Mind Rot
1 Vampiric Touch
1 Cloak of Feathers
1 Command of Unsummoning
1 Time Ebb
1 Touch of Brilliance
1 Monstrous Growth
Lands
6 Swamp
6 Island
3 Forest 
</d>
==Variant printings==
Seven of the cards from these boxed sets were printed with either flavor or reminder text different than their booster pack counterparts. Those cards are: <c>Anaconda</c>, <c>Blaze</c>, <c>Elite Cat Warrior</c>, <c>Hand of Death</c>, <c>Monstrous Growth</c>, <c>Raging Goblin</c>, and <c>Warrior's Charge</c>.