Blue Hurricane understandably dominates every conversation about Summer Magic, but it wasn't the only card affected by the print run's problems. Several other documented errors exist across the same small pool of surviving cards.
None of the others carry quite the same visual shock value as a green card printed with a blue border, but each one tells its own part of the story about what Wizards of the Coast was actually trying to fix, and where those fixes went wrong.
This guide covers the other confirmed Summer Magic misprints, so you know exactly what you're looking at if you come across one.
Understanding the full picture also makes Summer Magic a much richer collecting category than just chasing a single famous card.
Revised Edition's original Demonic Tutor artwork included a pentagram symbol on the central figure's forehead and chest. Summer Magic's print run was meant to tone down these kinds of demonic imagery details, and it successfully removed the pentagram from the figure's head.
The pentagram on the figure's chest, however, was left completely untouched, making this an incomplete rather than a total fix. It's a subtler error than Blue Hurricane, but a well-documented one among collectors of the set.
Revised Edition's original printing of Serendib Efreet used the wrong artwork entirely, mistakenly sourced from a card called Ifh-Biff Efreet. Summer Magic's print run successfully corrected the artwork back to the right image.
What it failed to correct was the artist credit line, which still referenced the wrong artist rather than being updated to match the corrected artwork. This mismatch between correct art and incorrect credit is a distinctive, well-known Summer Magic detail.
Revised Edition's biggest complaint was washed-out, pale card colors. Summer Magic's print run corrected this, but reportedly overcorrected in the opposite direction, producing cards with noticeably oversaturated coloring compared to a standard Revised printing.
This oversaturation affects the entire print run rather than any single card, making it more of a set-wide identifying trait than an individual misprint in the traditional sense.
Summer Magic's print run was also the first to add copyright information to the bottom of every card, a detail Revised Edition's original printing hadn't yet included. While not technically an error, this addition is a genuinely useful identifying detail for anyone trying to confirm a card's specific origin.
Combined with the color and artist-credit differences, this copyright line rounds out a fairly complete checklist for identifying a genuine Summer Magic single.
While none of these other misprints command anywhere near Blue Hurricane's headline prices, each one is genuinely useful for authentication purposes, since a real Summer Magic card should show the specific, documented quirks tied to its particular printing.
Collectors focused on the full Summer Magic story, rather than just its single most famous card, often find these smaller errors just as interesting as a broader illustration of what went wrong during the print run.
Chasing Demonic Tutor and Serendib Efreet alongside Blue Hurricane gives a more complete picture of the set's actual production issues than focusing on one card alone. Each of the three illustrates a genuinely different type of printing mistake, from color errors to incomplete art corrections to credit mismatches.
Given how few Summer Magic cards exist in total, building out even a small collection spanning several of these documented errors is a genuinely ambitious, long-term project.
As you research more Summer Magic cards, it becomes clear the set's issues fall into a small number of repeating categories: color and coloring errors, incomplete art corrections, and credit mismatches. Sorting new discoveries into these categories, rather than treating each one as a completely isolated event, makes the set's history much easier to hold in your head.
That kind of organized approach also makes it far easier to spot when a listing's claimed error doesn't actually match any documented category at all, which is often the fastest sign that something is worth investigating further before buying.
Its pentagram was removed from the head but left on the chest.
Correct artwork, but an uncorrected artist credit.
No, it affects the entire print run's coloring.
A copyright line at the bottom of the card.
Chasing several documented misprints means handling multiple high-value vintage cards at once. Standard sleeves like EVORETRO Matte Card Sleeves are a smart first layer of protection for any newly acquired single.
A Magnetic One Touch Card Holder is worth the upgrade once you've confirmed a card's authenticity.
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