The Babylon 5 Collectible Card Game ^(TM)
History

What's Changed Here

Premier Edition (1997)

Some booster packs contained a Delenn Transformed card autographed by Mira Furlan.  Though this card didn't have a Precedence seal stamped on it, you can tell if it's a proper signed Delenn Transformed card by comparing the picture on the signed card with the picture on an unsigned one.  The original signed card was from the first pressing, and the image quality was improved before the production run for the Premier set.  You will notice that for a true signed card the image is much darker than it ended up on the unsigned rare card in the booster packs.  However Mira did keep some of the original cards and made some available for sale at conventions.

Some Starter Bundles also contained the Dr.Franklin promo card.

The Shadows (1998)

Some booster packs contained a Mr.Morden card autographed by Ed Wasser.  This card has the Precedence seal stamped over the autograph to identify it from fakes.

In October 1998 Precedence had a promotion to boost the sales of this set.  If you bought 3 boxes of booster packs you got a special Lyta Empowered card signed by Patricia Tallman.

Deluxe Edition (November 1998)

One interesting note is a misprint on the master sheets.  The rare card As It Was Meant To Be had a correction to change it from an Agenda to a Major Agenda.  On the rare master sheet, the card appears twice so that they get 2 of them

There is a special insert Commander Ivonova card signed by Claudia Christian in random packs.

Each box of booster packs contains a sealed Rogue Telepath promo card.

Some cards have been retired:

One Fixed card has been moved to the Common category: Contact With Vorlons

Only certain Fixed cards were reproduced.  Some, such as the Ambassadors and their Aides are not something you need duplicates of, so they weren't reprinted here.  14 Fixed cards were not reprinted.

Great War Expansion

The new Starter Decks came out a couple of weeks after the boosters.
 

Each booster box included a Return to Ideals promo card. 

Stats
Booster Packs	10 cards per pack: 5 Common, 3 Uncommon, 2 Rare $2.49 US per pack 20 packs per box
Starter Decks	50 unique cards per deck 2 decks: Non-Aligned & Opposing Faction $?.?? US per deck
The Set	100 Common 100 Uncommon 100 Rare

Psi Corps Expansion

This set has 3 autographed cards inserted into booster decks:

• Bester (signed by Walter Koenig)
• Byron (signed by Robin Atkin Downes)
• Zathras (signed by Tim Choate)

The autograph cards in this series have one difference over the regular version of the cards.  The fine print at the bottom of each card says "Psi Corps" on the left side for the autograph cards, where it's on the right side for all others.

The "Psi Spies" promo that was supposed to be a mail in offer printed in the last of the Psi Corp Trilogy of books from Del Rey has been pushed back to the first book in the Centauri Trilogy.  The mail in form did not get printed in the PC book by accident.

Severed Dreams

This set has 3 autographed cards inserted into booster decks:

• Sinclair (signed by Michael O'Hare)
• Lennier (signed by Bill Mumy)
• Jane (signed by Maggie Egan)

This set includes alternate versions of your standard ambassadors, the introduction of Night Watch as a force in the Galaxy, some Babylon 4 themed cards,  and several "what if'" senarios.

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Wheel of Fire

Planned autograph cards include Bruce Boxleitner "President Sheridan", Melissa Gilbert-Boxleitner "Anna Sheridan", and Joshua Cox  "Corwin".

The list of cards is available now.  Click here to see it.
 

Each booster box includes a "Flarn" promo card. 

Stats
Booster Packs	9 cards per pack: 5 Common, 3 Uncommon, 1 Rare $2.49 US per pack 24 packs per box
Starter Decks	There is no starter deck.
The Set	50 Common 50 Uncommon 52 Rare (4 are more rare than others)

Crusade Expansion

Autograph cards from Peter Woodward (Galen), David Allen Brooks (Max Eilerson), Marjorie Holden (Dr. Sarah Chambers), and Carrie Dobro (Dureena).  The frequency of autographs is 1 in 48 packs.
 

Each booster box includes a "Junk Food" promo card. 

Stats
Booster Packs	9 cards per pack: 5 Common, 3 Uncommon, 1 Rare $2.99 US per pack 24 packs per box
Starter Decks	There is no starter deck.
The Set	50 Common 50 Uncommon 41 Rare 18 Rare-1 (double rare)

Reference Guide is dead

It would have contained over 200 pages of revised rules, deck strategies, and "killer combos." The Babylon 5 Reference Guide was to be co-written by Men In Black creator Lowell Cunningham and CCG strategist Sandy Clark, best known for his deck building articles in many gaming industry magazines. The planned price was $19.95 US.

It was to include a mail-in offer for the "Spoo" promo card, which is now available only to Zeta Squadron members.

Masterpiece Collection is dead (May 1999 - originally for March)

Since this is the History page, I'll leave the original information here for posterity.

The Masterpiece Collection is a set of 12 specially produced cards.  Here is the press release:
 

See the Precedence web page for more Masterpiece Collection information.

The 12 card names are:

In early April 1999, more delays were announced for the Masterpiece Collection.  The factory contracted to manufacture the Shadow Sentient figures closed down.  As a way of apology to customers, Precedence offered a free signed Lyta Empowered card to anyone who mailed in a copy of their receipt showing prepayment of the Masterpiece Collection of at least 25%.

Here's the announcment of the death of the Collection:
 

Babylon 5 Collector's Set (formerly the Masterpiece Collection)

Rangers

Zeta Squadron

The Hunt For Promos

Links

Precedence's Official Site
B5 Trader (he's a Ranger)
Ileana
Vorlon Space
B5 CCG Extreme News