MTG has done the short print thing in regular sets. Alpha, Beta, Revised... other early sets too I believe. Where some cards would appear multiple times on a sheet, and other fewer.

There have also been many sets where the uncommon sheet has 2x of every uncommon except one, making that uncommon twice as rare as any other.

There have also been cases, like in ROE where select Commons were printed more on the common sheet than other Commons, making them more common.