I have had an example of the replacement card boxes for each edition of Catan for a long time. They are not rare and have been available for Base since 2002, and for C&K and T&B since 2007.

What I had not realised until recently is that there were different reprints of these boxes, sometimes yearly. For English Catan I collect not only an example of each product by edition, I also collect any reprints within each edition where the box design, contents or copyright date changes. Finding that the replacement card boxes also have many reprints opens up a new aspect of Catan to find and collect.

 

So far I have found four different boxes for the 5th edition of C&K. The copyright on these four boxes are 2015, 2020, 2021 and 2022. Add this to the 2007 4E box and the 2025 5E box (which I don't have yet) and this means there are at least 6 boxes with the possibility of more.

Equally for the base set replacement cards I have found five different boxes across 4 editions and suspect there are quite a few more. I have 2002, 2007, 2015, 2025 and have seen but don't own 2021. Given all the C&K releases I am sure there are other years out there.

For Traders and Barbarians I have found three boxes - one for each edition since its release with 4E. As a lesser used expansion it may not have additional reprints, but it will be fun searching to find out if this is the case.

If anyone has a replacement card box with any year not listed below I would love to get a photo please. Thank you.

• Base 2002, 2007, 2015, 2021 and 2025
• C&K 2007, 2015, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2025
• T&B