Prerelease Tournament Cards

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Prerelease tournaments are held two weeks prior to the release of a new Magic set in selected card stores all over the world. Participants play a Sealed Deck tournament, using cards from a number of booster packs from the new expansion plus a few boosters and a tournament pack from preceding expansions of the current expansion block. Winners of the tournament receive additional boosters and sometimes other Magic products at the discretion of the tournament organizer. In addition, since the release of Tempest, all participants are awarded a promotional prerelease card which is an altered version of a rare card from the new expansion set.

The Rukh Egg is different from the other prerelease cards, previewing not only the release of the Eighth Edition card set, but also commemorating the tenth anniversary of Magic itself. Consequently, all Eighth Edition prerelease tournaments were named Global Celebration tournaments and were held in card stores around the world on the weekend before the official release of Eighth Edition.

The Ass Whuppin' is a promotional card to celebrate the release of Unhinged and was given out to the first 32 participants of the global Unhinged Release Events on the weekend prior to the official release of Unhinged.

 

 Internal Links  External Links
Prerelease Tournament Life Counters Prerelease FAQs
Eighth Edition Card Set Magic Arcana (Prerelease card)
Unhinged Card Set Magic Arcana (Scourge Prerelease card)
Prophecy Card Set Magic Arcana (Promo premium Rukh Egg)
Planeshift Card Set Magic Arcana (First prerelease card)
Magic Arcana (Mirrodin Prerelease card)
Magic Arcana (The first foil prerelease card)

 

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Buy Prerelease Tournament Cards from Magic Arsenal
STANDARD PRERELEASE TOURNAMENT CARDS
   

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001 Dirtcowl Wurm Dan Frazier Tempest prerelease participation bonus 1997-10-04
002 Revenant Terese Nielsen Stronghold prerelease participation bonus 1998-02-21
003 Monstrous Hound Dermot Power Exodus prerelease participation bonus 1998-06-06
004 Lightning Dragon Ron Spencer Urza's Saga prerelease participation bonus 1998-09-26
005 Beast of Burden Ron Spears Urza's Legacy prerelease participation bonus 1999-02-06
006 False Prophet Eric Peterson Urza's Destiny prerelease participation bonus 1999-05-29
007 Overtaker Clyde Caldwell Mercadian Masques prerelease participation bonus 1999-09-25
008 Rathi Assassin Dana Knutson Nemesis prerelease participation bonus 2000-01-29
009 Avatar of Hope rk post Prophecy prerelease participation bonus 2000-05-27
010 Kavu Furens
 (Raging Kavu)		 Arnie Swekel Invasion prerelease participation bonus 2000-09-23
011 Όπλανώμενος Φελδδαγρίφος
(Questing Phelddagrif)		 Matt Cavotta Planeshift prerelease participation bonus 2001-01-27
012 फंगल्शम्ब्लर्
(Fungal Shambler)		 Jim Nelson Apocalypse prerelease participation bonus 2001-05-26
013

باسل ليسك —  الحجر واللسان
 (Stone-Tongue Basilisk)

 Wayne England Odyssey prerelease participation bonus 2001-09-22
014 Воин Лакватуса
(Laquatus's Champion)		 Greg Staples Torment prerelease participation bonus 2002-01-26
015

תהילה
 (Glory)

 Donato Giancola Judgment prerelease participation bonus 2002-05-18
016 Silent Specter Daren Bader Onslaught prerelease participation bonus 2002-09-28
017 Feral Throwback Carl Critchlow Legions prerelease participation bonus 2003-01-25
018 Soul Collector Matthew D. Wilson Scourge prerelease participation bonus 2003-05-17
019 Sword of Kaldra Donato Giancola Mirrodin prerelease participation bonus 2003-09-20
020 Shield of Kaldra Donato Giancola Darksteel prerelease participation bonus 2004-01-24
021 Helm of Kaldra Donato Giancola Fifth Dawn prerelease participation bonus 2004-05-22
022 Ryusei, the Falling Star  Nottsuo  Champions of Kamigawa prerelease participation bonus 2004-09-18
SPECIAL PRERELEASE TOURNAMENT CARDS
   

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DATE
001 Lu Bu, Master-at-Arms Gao Jianzhang Portal Three Kingdoms prerelease participation bonus in Japan 1999-04-29
002 Lu Bu, Master-at-Arms     Gao Jianzhang Portal Three Kingdoms prerelease participation bonus in Singapore 1999-07-04
003 Rukh Egg Mark Zug Eighth Edition Global Celebration tournament participation bonus 2003-07-26
004     Ass Whuppin'     Don Hazeltine   Unhinged Release Event participation bonus   2004-11-20