The Dark was the eighth Magic: The Gathering set and the fourth expert level set, released in August 1994. The set continued the story begun in Antiquities and recounted the aftermath of the events of that set.
The 119-card set had a dark, sacrificial theme, though unlike its predecessor Legends it did not add any new keywords.
This set, as well as the next sets, Fallen Empires and Homelands, are widely considered by players to be the weakest Magic sets.

Legends was the seventh Magic: The Gathering set and the third expert level set, released in June 1994. It was the first expansion set to be sold in packs of 15 (previous expansions had been sold in packs of 8). The set, like Antiquities, was created by the group of students at the University of Pennsylvania that had helped Richard Garfield design the original game. The expansion symbol for Legends was the capital of a column.
There was one notable printing error with Legends: Each booster box contained only half of the uncommon cards in the set. This along with the limited number of cards available made collecting the entire 310-card set very difficult.

Revised Edition:The Revised Edition of Magic: The Gathering (also simply known as Revised) was the sixth set and third core set released for the game. Like previous core sets, it had no expansion symbol, and had just the artist credit at the bottom left. The set was released in April 1994 and contained 302 cards, like Limited and Unlimited before it. It was the first base set to contain cards from black-bordered sets other than Alpha and Beta. Twenty Revised cards were originally in the Arabian Nights expansion, and another nineteen were originally in the Antiquities expansion. Thirty-five cards that were in Unlimited were not in Revised, including the Power Nine. A few of the cards that were removed from the base set reappeared in later sets. Most notably, Icy Manipulator would be reprinted in Ice Age, and a few others would be reprinted in …

Antiquities was the fifth Magic: The Gathering set and the second expert level expansion set. It was the first set to have an original backstory and explore the mythos of the Magic universe. The set was created by the group of students at the University of Pennsylvania that had helped Richard Garfield design the original game. The expansion symbol for Antiquities was an anvil.

Arabian Nights was the fourth Magic: The Gathering set and the first expert level expansion set, featuring completely new cards.. Ali Baba, djinns, deserts, and King Suleiman joined the Magic world on the plane of Rabiah with cards inspired by the themes and characters of the Thousand and One Arabian Nights. The expansion symbol for Arabian Nights was a scimitar.

Unlimited: Unlimited Edition was the second Magic: The Gathering set. It was printed after Beta had sold out as quickly as Alpha had; this time the run was 35 million cards, the largest yet. It contains the same cards as Beta, though with white borders instead of black, setting the precedent for all successive printings of the basic set, until the 2007 release of Tenth Edition, which returns to black borders. Unlimited cards are worth less than their Limited Edition counterparts, both because the print run was larger and because players generally prefer black borders to white.

Beta: Limited Edition Beta or just Beta for short was the second part, after revisions, of the first print run of the first Magic: The Gathering set. It was released only a few months after Limited Edition Alpha’s publication to correct some minor problems in the rules and to make up for the fact that the first run had completely sold out. Clarifications were made to the rulebook, and Richard Garfield’s short fiction “Worzel’s Tale” was removed to make room. Like Alpha it had no expansion symbol, and the text on the bottom left consisted of only the artist credit. Although many players speak of them as different sets, officially they are the same set.

Alpha: Limited Edition Alpha, or Alpha for short, was the first Magic: The Gathering card set. It premiered in a limited release at Origins Game Fair in 1993, with a general release that August. Its print run of 2.6 million cards sold out very quickly and was replaced by Limited Edition’s Beta print run. The Alpha and Beta runs are officially both part of Limited Edition. Limited Edition cards have no expansion symbol, no copyright date, no trademark symbols, although they do list the art credits at the bottom of the card.

Magic: The Gathering (colloquially “Magic”, “MTG”, or “Magic Cards”) is a collectible card game created by mathematics professor Richard Garfield and introduced in 1993 by Wizards of the Coast. Magic is the first example of the modern collectible card game genre and still thrives today, with an estimated six million players in over seventy countries. Magic can be played by two or more players each using a deck of printed cards or a deck of virtual cards through the Internet-based Magic: The Gathering Online or third-party programs.