I wonder how many Magic: The Gathering cards have been printed I in total (including all languages, all editions).
And I don't mean unique different cards, but really actual printed cards.
It must be billions, but exactly how many?
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Sign up to join this communityI wonder how many Magic: The Gathering cards have been printed I in total (including all languages, all editions).
And I don't mean unique different cards, but really actual printed cards.
It must be billions, but exactly how many?
Duelist Magazine released the size of the print runs for Arabian Nights, Antiquities, Legends, The Dark, and Fallen Empires. Between those five sets, there were approximately 429 million individual cards printed. (Those may just be the numbers for English cards, though, I'm not certain.) The print run sizes for those sets increased dramatically going forward from Arabian Nights at 5M to Fallen Empires at 312M.
To my knowledge, no other Magic set has had the print run size explicitly revealed.
Edit – Some searching around has revealed some estimates at the print run sizes for other sets:
(I'm also going to speculate that Renaissance had approximately the the same numbers as Chronicles, since Renaissance was essentially the German/French/Italian version of the English/Japanese Chronicles.)