Also beginning with Alliances in June 1996, expansion sets were released in a regular pattern: the base sets were released in October with the small expansion sets being released in February and June (Alliances was originally the third set of the block; it was retroactively made a second set with the release of Coldsnap in 2006).
Än en gång med start i Alliances började expansioner ges ut i bestämda mönster: de större seten gavs ut i oktober och de mindre i februari och juni (Alliances var från början de tredje setet i blocket; det gjordes retroaktivt om till ett andra set i och med utgåvan av Coldsnap 2006).