Fourth Edition

Fourth Edition (4th Edition) is a Magic core set that was released in April 1995. It is a reprint set.
==Set details==
To create Fourth Edition, 51 cards were removed from Revised Edition, and 122 cards from Arabian Nights, Antiquities, Legends, and The Dark were added. Fourth Edition was the first set to have basic lands printed on a separate print sheet. This freed up room on the common and uncommon card sheets to include more spells, and also allowed boosters to be packaged without lands. It was also the first set to have the same number of commons, uncommons, and rares, a practice which continued for large expansion sets until the release of Mirrodin.
At the time of printing, Wizards policy was that core sets had white borders, but also that a card could not be put into a white-bordered set without first appearing in a black-bordered set in that language. To make Fourth Edition sets uniform, Renaissance sets were printed in German, Italian, and French to create black bordered versions of cards not previously available in those languages. These printings meant Fourth Edition cards in English, French, German, Italian could be printed exclusively with white borders. Japanese, traditional Chinese, Korean, Spanish, and Portuguese Fourth Edition cards were printed with black borders. However, after the black bordered versions were printed, the set was almost immediately reprinted with white borders in Japanese, Spanish, and Portuguese.
*A copyright notice dated 1995 is printed on the bottom of the cards. 
*The beveled frame missing from Revised was restored. The colors were also much more saturated.
*A new white mana symbol () was introduced.
* The other mana symbols were redesigned as well, but less noticeably. Black's skull became more elongated, blue's water drop became slimmer and more symmetrical, red's fireball lost the flame licks coming off of it, and green's tree received different branches and a less thick base.*The tap symbol changed to a curved arrow symbol, with a black rectangle representing the tapping card behind it.
*An Alternate Fourth Edition run was printed by the United States Playing Card Corporation in Cincinnati. Due to a dispute between the two companies, the cards were never officially published.The Wizards Cupboard: 4th Edition alternate starter deck
===Marketing===
Cards were available from May 3, 1995 well past the end of the run in April 1997.Stephen D'Angelo (February 2, 1999) "Card Rulings Summary". Usenet. The print run is estimated at 500 million cards. The cards were sold in 60-card starter decks and 15-card boosters. Boosters included 1 rare, 3 uncommons, and 11 commons. Fourth Edition was the first set with booster packs with foil wrappers and the first with artwork on the wrappers (<c>Brass Man</c>, <c>Hurloon Minotaur</c>, <c>Mana Vault</c>, <c>Mesa Pegasus</c>, and <c>Spirit Link</c>). Starters included 3 rares, 9 uncommons, 26 commons, and 22 land. The package of the starter decks displayed the five mana symbols instead of the five colored stones on previous versions. The set was supplemented with a special Gift Box. The Fourth Edition Gift Box included two starter decks, 30 glass counters, a flannel bag for storing the counters, an illustrated rulebook, and a card collectors' checklist.
===Flavor and Storyline===
Although there is no storyline covering Fourth Edition as a whole, there is one Armada comic that commemorates the reprinting of the <c>Serra Angel</c>.
====Storyline sources====
Title 	Author 	Publishing date	Setting (plane)	Featuring
Serra Angel	Margaret Weis	1996 	Dominaria 	Aldon, Dreygar
===Rules changes===
*The rules concerning fast effects and the batch were solidified, as well as those for phases, activation costs, targets, and damage prevention.
==Cycles==
Fourth Edition has 6 cycles, one of which is a 4 card cycle, and 15 mirrored pairs.
Cycle name 	 	 	 	 	
Circles of protection	 	 	 	 	
Circles of protection	Each of these common white enchantments has a mana cost of and the ability to prevent the all damage from a source of a given color for . 	Each of these common white enchantments has a mana cost of and the ability to prevent the all damage from a source of a given color for . 	Each of these common white enchantments has a mana cost of and the ability to prevent the all damage from a source of a given color for . 	Each of these common white enchantments has a mana cost of and the ability to prevent the all damage from a source of a given color for . 	Each of these common white enchantments has a mana cost of and the ability to prevent the all damage from a source of a given color for .
Laces 	 	 	 	 	
Laces 	Each of these rare instants permanently changes the color of a permanent. 	Each of these rare instants permanently changes the color of a permanent. 	Each of these rare instants permanently changes the color of a permanent. 	Each of these rare instants permanently changes the color of a permanent. 	Each of these rare instants permanently changes the color of a permanent.
Lucky charms 	 	 	 	 	
Lucky charms 	Each of these uncommon artifacts has a triggered ability that allows the controller pay to gain 1 life when a spell of a given color resolves. 	Each of these uncommon artifacts has a triggered ability that allows the controller pay to gain 1 life when a spell of a given color resolves. 	Each of these uncommon artifacts has a triggered ability that allows the controller pay to gain 1 life when a spell of a given color resolves. 	Each of these uncommon artifacts has a triggered ability that allows the controller pay to gain 1 life when a spell of a given color resolves. 	Each of these uncommon artifacts has a triggered ability that allows the controller pay to gain 1 life when a spell of a given color resolves.
Mana batteries 	 	 	 	 	
Mana batteries 	Uncommon artifacts with a casting cost of and the two activated abilities ", : Put a charge counter on [this]" and ", Remove any number of charge counters from [this]: Add M, then add an additional M for each charge counter removed this way," where M is a specific color of mana.	Uncommon artifacts with a casting cost of and the two activated abilities ", : Put a charge counter on [this]" and ", Remove any number of charge counters from [this]: Add M, then add an additional M for each charge counter removed this way," where M is a specific color of mana.	Uncommon artifacts with a casting cost of and the two activated abilities ", : Put a charge counter on [this]" and ", Remove any number of charge counters from [this]: Add M, then add an additional M for each charge counter removed this way," where M is a specific color of mana.	Uncommon artifacts with a casting cost of and the two activated abilities ", : Put a charge counter on [this]" and ", Remove any number of charge counters from [this]: Add M, then add an additional M for each charge counter removed this way," where M is a specific color of mana.	Uncommon artifacts with a casting cost of and the two activated abilities ", : Put a charge counter on [this]" and ", Remove any number of charge counters from [this]: Add M, then add an additional M for each charge counter removed this way," where M is a specific color of mana.
Wards 	 	 	 	 	
Wards 	Uncommon white Auras with enchant creature that grant protection from a color. 	Uncommon white Auras with enchant creature that grant protection from a color. 	Uncommon white Auras with enchant creature that grant protection from a color. 	Uncommon white Auras with enchant creature that grant protection from a color. 	Uncommon white Auras with enchant creature that grant protection from a color.
===Four-card cycles===
Cycle name 	 	 	 	
Classic Elementals	 	 	 	
Classic Elementals	These four uncommon Elemental creature are based on the traditional four Elements.	These four uncommon Elemental creature are based on the traditional four Elements.	These four uncommon Elemental creature are based on the traditional four Elements.	These four uncommon Elemental creature are based on the traditional four Elements.
===Pairs===
Mirrored Pairs	Mirrored Pairs	Description
 	 	Rare enchantments with a converted mana cost of 2 and an effect to give all creatures of its color +1/+1.
 	 	Uncommon knights with a mana cost of MM, power/toughness of 2/2, first strike and protection from the other's color.
 	 	Common instants (formerly interrupts) with a mana cost of M and with a modal ability to either destroy a permanent of the other's color or counter a spell of the other's color.
 	 	Uncommon enchantments with an activated ability to counter a spell of the other's color for MM.
 	 	Common auras with enchant creature that give a mirrored bonus to the enchanted creature's power/toughness.
 	 	Rare lords that give +1/+1 and landwalk of its color to its creature type.
 	 	1/1 common creatures with creature types that are affected by their respective lords (e.g., Goblin King and Lord of Atlantis).
 	 	Uncommon 4/4 flying creatures with a mana cost of MM and a combat-related ability.
 	 	0/5 walls illustrated by Richard Thomas with a silhouetted figure behind a wall and the activated ability "M: [this] gets +1/+0 until end of turn."
 	 	1/1 creatures with banding and a mana cost of M.
 	 	Uncommon enchantments with a cost of 3M. Oriflame give +1/0 for attacking creatures and Castle gives +0/2 for defending (untapped) creatures.
 	 	Sorceries that have a mana cost of M and deal damage to all non-flying or flying creatures and each player.
 	 	Uncommon Auras that deal 1 damage to the controller of the enchanted permanent during each of their upkeeps.
 	 	Uncommon sorceries that have a mana cost of M and destroy lands of a particular enemy type.
 	 	Walls with regeneration and a mana cost of M and a combined power/toughness of 5.
==Core set changes==
;Notable changes
*The dual lands were removed from the core sets.
==Misprints==
* The card name is misspelled as "Gaea's Leige" once in the text box.
* The quotation in the flavor text is from Job 41:1, not Job 40:25 (although it is Job 40:25 in the original Hebrew text). This error was corrected in Fifth Edition.
==References==
==External links==
*Fourth Edition Official Page (old)
*Fourth Edition Product Information (new)
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