Because this is an expansion set, it bears an expansion-set symbol, which is located near the top right corner of the card to the right of the lore and below the destiny number. The symbol for this set is the planet Hoth.
This set was sold in 15-card expansion packs and 36-pack expansion boxes. Each pack include one rare card, four uncommon cards, and ten common cards. Although starter decks were never produced for this set, an The Empire Strikes Back Introductory Two-Player Game featuring cards from the Hoth expansion was released shortly after. The set went out of print in September of 1998 when the Hoth Revised Unlimited set came out (an almost identical set with some minor revisions to game text and with white borders instead of black). A Japanese-text set was released for this expansion set in Japan.
This set was the original source for the names of many characters from Episode V. These include Echo Base personnel Toryn Farr, Tigran Jamiro, Tamizander Rey, Cal Alder, Shawn Valdez and several others. Also named are protocol droids K-3PO and R-3PO. The set identified the Star Destroyer hit by the base's ion cannon in the film as the Tyrant, and its captain and first officer as Lennox and Cabbel.
The characters Romas Navander and Wyron Serper are first indentified in the set, but the images used to represent them are actually shots of the same actor — Burnell Tucker — from two different scenes in the film. Tucker appeared in Episode IV as Rebel technician Del Goren, who was named in the previous A New Hope Limited card set.
The set also introduced Rebel pilot Kesin Ommis, but it was later confirmed that the modified photo used for the card was one of actor John Morton as already-established character Dak Ralter. This error was finally corrected in the Rogues Gallery feature in Star Wars Insider 146, released in December 2013, but not before many previous Legends sources identified the film character as Ommis as well.