Thanks for your feedback on this @rentmoney. We do not plan to have alpha edition cards have any advantage in gameplay over the same beta edition card. The value for alpha cards over later editions is simply in their scarcity. In this way they are very similar to gold foil cards (which are also no more powerful in gameplay). As mentioned in the post it will also be possible to have alpha edition only tournaments giving added utility to these cards.

Do you plan on releasing another version of these cards after Beta is over ? If so how many versions are planned?

I don't think we want to make a decision on that at this point since we don't know how things will look that far into the future and want to make the best decision at that time.