Magic the Gathering Changes from Fourth Edition to Fifth Edition
Released March 31, 1997 Magic: The Gathering’s Fifth Edition contained 429 cards, not including Basic Land. Fifth Edition was very much an amalgamation of many different sets.
Fifth Edition brought together many sets but was devisive with The Replacements
At its base was Fourth Edition, then 194 additions were made; one card from Arabian Nights, 37 from Chronicles of which eight were reprints from Antiquities, four were reprints from Arabian Nights, were 18 reprints from Legends and seven were reprints from The Dark. 29 were added from Fallen Empires, 29 from Homelands, 89 from Ice Age, five from Legends, two from Revised that were reprints from Antiquities and two from The Dark.
There were 128 cards from Fourth Edition that were not included in Fifth Edition, most notably, many of the then Type II restricted cards; such as Balance, Black Vice, Ivory Tower and Land Tax, to name a few, as well as two notable flyers; Serra Angel and Sengir Vampire.
Additions from Arabian Nights
Wyluli Wolf
Additions from Chronicles
Ashnod’s Transmogrant
Feldon’s Cane
Jalum Tome
Obelisk of Undoing
Urza’s Mine
Urza’s Power Plant
Urza’s Tower
City of Brass
Dandân
Ghazban Ogre
Repentant Blacksmith
Akron Legionnaire
Azure Drake
Boomerang
Cat Warriors
Craw Giant
D’Avenant Archer
Divine Offering
Fallen Angel
Gauntlets of Chaos
Ivory Guardians
Juxtapose
Primordial Ooze
Rabid Wombat
Recall
Remove Soul
Serpent Generator
Shield Wall
Wretched, The
Barl’s Cage
Bog Rats
Dance of Many
Fire Drake
Fountain of Youth
Goblin Digging Team
Scavenger Folk
Additions from Fallen Empires
Brassclaw Orcs
Breeding Pit
Derelor
Dwarven Catapult
Dwarven Hold
Dwarven Ruins
Dwarven Soldier
Ebon Stronghold
Goblin War Drums
Goblin Warrens
Havenwood Battleground
Hollow Trees
Homarid Warrior
Icatian Phalanx
Icatian Scout
Icatian Store
Icatian Town
Initiates of the Ebon Hand
Mindstab Thrull
Necrite
Orcish Captain
Orgg
Ruins of Trokair
Sand Silos
Seasinger
Svyelunite Temple
Thrull Retainer
Vodalian Soldiers
Additions from Homelands
Aether Storm
Ambush Party
An-Havva Constable
Aysen Bureaucrats
Broken Visage
Carapace
Clockwork Steed
Dark Maze
Death Speakers
Feroz’s Ban
Forget
Funeral March
Greater Werewolf
Hungry Mist
Ironclaw Curse
Joven’s Tools
Labyrinth Minotaur
Memory Lapse
Mesa Falcon
Primal Order
Reef Pirates
Sea Sprite
Sengir Autocrat
Serra Bestiary
Serra Paladin
Shrink
Torture
Truce
Additions from Ice Age
Adarkar Wastes
Arenson’s Aura
Armor of Faith
Aurochs
Barbed Sextant
Binding Grasp
Blessed Wine
Blinking Spirit
Brainstorm
Brushland
Caribou Range
Chub Toad
Cloak of Confusion
Conquer
Crown of the Ages
Deflection
Elder Druid
Elkin Bottle
Enervate
Errantry
Flame Spirit
Flare
Foxfire
Fyndhorn Elder
Game of Chaos
Glacial Wall
Heal
Hecatomb
Hipparion
Hydroblast
Ice Floe
Imposing Visage
Incinerate
Infinite Hourglass
Jester’s Cap
Johtull Wurm
Jokulhaups
Justice
Karplusan Forest
Kjeldoran Dead
Kjeldoran Royal Guard
Kjeldoran Skycaptain
Knight of Stromgald
Krovikan Fetish
Krovikan Sorcerer
Leshrac’s Rite
Lhurgoyf
Magus of the Unseen
Mind Ravel
Mind Warp
Mole Worms
Mountain Goat
Nature’s Lore
Necropotence
Orcish Conscripts
Orcish Farmer
Orcish Squatters
Order of the Sacred Torch
Order of the White Shield
Panic
Pentagram of the Ages
Portent
Pox
Prismatic Ward
Pyroblast
Ray of Command
Sabretooth Tiger
Sacred Boon
Scaled Wurm
Sea Spirit
Seraph
Shield Bearer
Sibilant Spirit
Skull Catapult
Soul Barrier
Stampede
Stone Spirit
Stromgald Cabal
Sulfurous Springs
Tarpan
Time Bomb
Touch of Death
Underground River
Updraft
Urza’s Bauble
Wind Spirit
Word of Blasting
Zur’s Weirding
Additions from Legends
Evil Eye of Orms-by-Gore
Force Spike
Greater Realm of Preservation
Wolverine Pack
Additions from Revised
Shatterstorm
Additions from The Dark
Goblin Hero
Fourth Edition Cards Not Printed in Fifth Edition
Aladdin’s Lamp
Ali Baba
Amrou Kithkin
Animate Artifact
Apprentice Wizard
Armageddon Clock
Ashnod’s Battle Gear
Backfire
Balance
Black Mana Battery
Black Vise
Black Ward
Blessing
Blue Elemental Blast
Blue Mana Battery
Blue Ward
Brass Man
Bronze Tablet
Burrowing
Carnivorous Plant
Celestial Prism
Channel
Chaoslace
Clockwork Avian
Conservator
Control Magic
Conversion
Cosmic Horror
Creature Bond
Cursed Rack
Cyclopean Mummy
Deathlace
Dragon Whelp
Earth Elemental
Ebony Horse
El-Hajjaj
Elder Land Wurm
Energy Tap
Erosion
Fire Elemental
Fissure
Fortified Area
Gaea’s Liege
Ghost Ship
Giant Tortoise
Goblin Balloon Brigade
Goblin Rock Sled
Gray Ogre
Greed
Green Mana Battery
Green Ward
Holy Armor
Hurr Jackal
Hypnotic Specter
Immolation
Island Fish Jasconius
Ivory Tower
Jump
Junun Efreet
Kormus Bell
Land Leeches
Land Tax
Lifelace
Lightning Bolt
Magnetic Mountain
Mahamoti Djinn
Mana Short
Marsh Gas
Mind Twist
Mishra’s Factory
Mishra’s War Machine
Morale
Nafs Asp
Northern Paladin
Oasis
Obsianus Golem
Onulet
Osai Vultures
Piety
Power Leak
Power Surge
Psionic Entity
Purelace
Rebirth
Red Elemental Blast
Red Mana Battery
Red Ward
Relic Bind
Royal Assassin
Sandstorm
Savannah Lions
Scavenging Ghoul
Seeker
Sengir Vampire
Serra Angel
Simulacrum
Sindbad
Siren’s Call
Sisters of the Flame
Spirit Shackle
Strip Mine
Sunglasses of Urza
Sunken City
Swords to Plowshares
Tawnos’s Wand
Tempest Efreet
Tetravus
The Rack
Thoughtlace
Timber Wolves
Triskelion
Tunnel
Uncle Istvan
Uthden Troll
Visions
Volcanic Eruption
Wall of Dust
Wall of Ice
Wall of Water
Wall of Wood
Water Elemental
Web
White Mana Battery
White Ward
Will-O’-The-Wisp
Word of Binding
Yotian Soldier