The Base Set Unlimited edition of Magic: The Gathering, released in 1993 as a reprint of the original Alpha and Beta sets, contains **302 cards in total**. Among these, the cards that have **no rarity symbol** are primarily the **basic land cards**. In the Unlimited Base Set, all basic lands—Plains, Island, Swamp, Mountain, and Forest—do not have any rarity symbol printed on them. This is consistent with the design of early Magic sets, where rarity symbols were not yet introduced or used on basic lands.
To clarify:
– The **Base Set Unlimited** is a reprint of the original Base Set but printed on white-bordered cards instead of black-bordered ones.
– It contains **302 cards**, including 5 basic lands.
– The **basic lands** in this set have **no rarity symbol**.
– Other cards in the set do have rarity indicators, but these were not printed as symbols on the cards in the earliest sets; the rarity was determined by the frequency of the cards in booster packs rather than a printed symbol.
– The concept of printed rarity symbols (common, uncommon, rare) was introduced later in Magic sets, starting with the **Ice Age** expansion in 1995.
Therefore, in the Base Set Unlimited, the cards with no rarity symbol are essentially the **basic land cards**, which number five unique cards. All other cards in the set have no printed rarity symbol either because the set predates the use of rarity symbols on cards, but the lands are the only cards officially recognized as having no rarity symbol and are considered common for deck-building purposes.
This means the **number of Base Set Unlimited cards with no rarity symbol is five**, corresponding to the five basic land types.
Regarding medical or authoritative sources, since this is a collectible card game topic, the most authoritative sources are Wizards of the Coast official publications and the Magic: The Gathering comprehensive databases and encyclopedias such as the official Magic website and well-documented community resources like the Magic Wiki and Wikipedia. These sources confirm the card counts and rarity details for the Base Set Unlimited edition[1][3][4].
No medical information is relevant to this topic, so no medical sources are applicable here.
