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Preview cards are new cards that are included in a box set, such as Duel Decks and From the Vault, before being released normally in a subsequent expansion set. The first preview card was Hellkite Overlord, printed in From the Vault: Dragons in August 2008 and then released in Shards of Alara in October 2008.

Because they have only features in a supplementary product, preview cards are only tournament legal in Eternal formats until their normal release, when they become Standard-legal.

If a Duel Deck's premium cover card is a preview card, its Duel Deck alternate art replaces the art it features in its normal release, creating the unusual situation of an alternate art card being released before the normal version.

Only cards from a block's first expansion have been previewed.