Portal/2-Player Starter Set

The Portal 2-Player Starter Set was a Magic starter-level box set released in 1997, as part of the Portal product range.

Description
This 2-Player Starter Set was part of Wizards of the Coast's first major attempt at a set catering to prospective and newer players. It was designed to provide them a format with simpler rules than a core set or an expansion set. It was released in several languages. A Gift Box edition featured additional content.

Contents

 * Two 35 Card preconstructed decks
 * 2 Playmats (paper)
 * A Play Guide to walk you through the sample game using the decks
 * A Rule Book
 * 1 Portal booster pack

Gift Box
The Gift Box is actually a bigger box that packages the regular box product with additional content.
 * 1 extra Portal booster pack
 * 2 score-keeping beads
 * A checklist of all the cards in the Portal set

Decklists
 Creatures 1 Devoted Hero 1 Armored Pegasus 1 Regal Unicorn 1 Spotted Griffin 1 Venerable Monk 1 Anaconda 1 Gorilla Warrior 1 Grizzly Bears 1 Fire Imp 1 Hill Giant 1 Hulking Goblin 1 Lizard Warrior 1 Raging Goblin

Sorceries 1 Defiant Stand 1 Sacred Nectar 1 Warrior's Charge 1 Untamed Wilds 1 Blaze 1 Lava Axe 1 Volcanic Hammer

Lands 6 Plains 6 Mountain 3 Forest

  Creatures 1 Craven Knight 1 Feral Shadow 1 Gravedigger 1 Muck Rats 1 Skeletal Crocodile 1 Coral Eel 1 Ingenious Thief 1 Snapping Drake 1 Storm Crow 1 Elite Cat Warrior 1 Panther Warriors 1 Rowan Treefolk

Sorceries 1 Hand of Death 1 Mind Rot 1 Vampiric Touch 1 Cloak of Feathers 1 Command of Unsummoning 1 Time Ebb 1 Touch of Brilliance 1 Monstrous Growth

Lands 6 Swamp 6 Island 3 Forest 

Variant printings
Seven of the cards from these boxed sets were printed with either flavor or reminder text different than their booster pack counterparts. Those cards are: Anaconda, Blaze, Elite Cat Warrior, Hand of Death, Monstrous Growth, Raging Goblin, and Warrior's Charge</c>.