Seventh Edition

Seventh Edition (7th Edition) is a Magic Core Set that was released in April 2001.

Set details
7 IS Your Lucky Number Seventh Edition contains 350 white-bordered cards (110 rare, 110 uncommon, 110 common, and 20 basic lands). It was the first Core Set to include foil cards, which were printed with black borders. As a special feature, each card in Seventh Edition featured new artwork. Old favorites like Serra Angel, Shivan Dragon and Mahamoti Djinn returned in the set. The expansion symbol was a stylized 7. Seventh Edition was the last base set printed in the 'old' card frame and to be released prior to the final expansion of the then-current block.

Marketing
Seventh Edition was sold in 15-card-booster packs, 5 different Theme decks and a 2-Player Starter Set, but not in tournament packs. The boosters feature artwork from:, , , and. The 2-player set was aimed to be an introductory item to playing Magic and hence is similar to Starter 2000. It was also the last Starter-level product released. Seventh Edition was the first Core Set to replace 1 common in booster packs with a basic land card.

In order to comply to strict regulations by the local government, which does not permit illustrations of human skeletons, some cards like Charcoal Diamond received altered art for its Chinese version.

Storyline
Within its art and flavor text, the set narrates events of a war between two bands led by the and  versus the  and the. All four of the paladins have a missing eye. When someone is 'confirmed' as a paladin he trades one of his eyes for a magical gemstone which increases his spell casting ability (see, , and for examples of the replaced eye).

Cycles
Seventh Edition has 4 horizontal cycles, vertical cycle and a four-card cycle as well as 4 mirrored pairs.

Theme decks
Seventh Edition was the first core set to have theme decks:

Core set changes

 * Notable changes
 * Crusade was removed in favor of adding Glorious Anthem which for gives +1/+1 to all of your creatures, not just all white ones (including opponents'). Glorious Anthem remained in core sets through Tenth Edition.