Core Set 2021/Changes

Core Set 2021/Changes

 

Card comparisons

 

Changes

 

Arena Starter Kit

 

Planeswalker decks

 

Trivia

 

Welcome booster

 

Comparison to Core Set 2020

Core Set 2021 contains 236 cards that were not printed in Core Set 2020, including 183 cards that had never been printed before.

Apart from the basic lands, there are 103 reprints. The only cards that were also in Core Set 2020 are:

White

• Concordia Pegasus

Black

• Duress
• Mind Rot
• Skeleton Archer
• Walking Corpse

Red

• Shock

Green

• Thrashing Brontodon
• Titanic Growth

Artifact

• Prismite

Lands

• Temple of Epiphany
• Temple of Malady
• Temple of Mystery
• Temple of Silence
• Temple of Triumph
• Bloodfell Caves
• Blossoming Sands
• Dismal Backwater
• Jungle Hollow
• Rugged Highlands
• Scoured Barrens
• Swiftwater Cliffs
• Thornwood Falls
• Tranquil Cove
• Wind-Scarred Crag

Other reprints

These are the other reprints, originally printed in the set indicated. A + after the card name indicates a card that has never been in a core set before, a ! indicates a card that hasn't been Modern legal before and a @ indicates new artwork. § indicates that the new artwork only appears on the borderless version.

White

• Baneslayer Angel (Magic 2010)
• Containment Priest (Commander 2014) +!§
• Concordia Pegasus (Return to Ravnica)
• Defiant Strike (Khans of Tarkir) +
• Dub (Dominaria) +
• Faith's Fetters (Ravnica: City of Guilds) +
• Feat of Resistance (Khans of Tarkir) +
• Glorious Anthem (Urza's Saga)
• Legion's Judgment (Ixalan) +
• Makeshift Battalion (War of the Spark) +
• Revitalize (Core Set 2019)
• Runed Halo (Shadowmoor) +
• Vryn Wingmare (Magic Origins)

Blue

• Cancel (Time Spiral)
• Capture Sphere (Guilds of Ravnica) +
• Frost Breath (Magic 2012)
• Jeskai Elder (Khans of Tarkir) +
• Opt (Invasion) +
• Rain of Revelation (Modern Horizons) +
• Rewind (Urza's Saga)
• Riddleform (Hour of Devastation) +
• Unsubstantiate (Eldritch Moon) +
• Vodalian Arcanist (Dominaria) +
• Wall of Runes (War of the Spark) +
• Wishcoin Crab (Guilds of Ravnica) +

Black

• Deathbloom Thallid (Dominaria) +
• Fetid Imp (Magic Origins)
• Grasp of Darkness (Scars of Mirrodin) +
• Grim Tutor (Starter 1999) +!@
• Infernal Scarring (Magic Origins)
• Kitesail Freebooter (Ixalan) +
• Massacre Wurm (Mirrodin Besieged) +§
• Skeleton Archer (Core Set 2019)
• Tavern Swindler (Return to Ravnica) +
• Walking Corpse (Innistrad)

Red

• Battle-Rattle Shaman (Rise of the Eldrazi) +
• Burn Bright (Ravnica Allegiance) +
• Crash Through (Hour of Devastation)
• Destructive Tampering (Aether Revolt) +
• Furious Rise (Theros Beyond Death) +
• Furor of the Bitten (Innistrad) +
• Goblin Arsonist (Rise of the Eldrazi)
• Onakke Ogre (Core Set 2019)
• Pitchburn Devils (Innistrad)
• Scorching Dragonfire (Throne of Eldraine) +
• Shock (Stronghold)
• Spellgorger Weird (War of the Spark) +
• Sure Strike (Battle for Zendikar)
• Tavern Swindler (Return to Ravnica) +
• Thrill of Possibility (Throne of Eldraine)
• Turn to Slag (Scars of Mirrodin)
• Turret Ogre (War of the Spark) +
• Volcanic Geyser (Mirage)

Green

• Azusa, Lost but Seeking (Champions of Kamigawa) +
• Colossal Dreadmaw (Ixalan)
• Cultivate (Magic 2011) §
• Fierce Empath (Scourge) +!
• Heroic Intervention (Aether Revolt) +
• Life Goes On (Hour of Devastation) +
• Portcullis Vine (Guilds of Ravnica) +
• Quirion Dryad (Planeshift)
• Ranger's Guile (Innistrad)
• Return to Nature (War of the Spark) +
• Scavenging Ooze (Commander) §
• Snarespinner (War of the Spark) +
• Setessan Training (Theros Beyond Death) +
• Titanic Growth (Magic 2012)

Multicolored

• Lorescale Coatl (Alara Reborn) +

Colorless

• Ugin, the Spirit Dragon (Fate Reforged) +§

Artifacts

• Epitaph Golem (Shadows over Innistrad) +
• Meteorite (Magic 2015)
• Palladium Myr (Scars of Mirrodin) +
• Short Sword (Dominaria) +
• Silent Dart (Guilds of Ravnica) +
• Skyscanner (Core Set 2019)
• Solemn Simulacrum (Mirrodin) §
• Tormod's Crypt (The Dark)

Lands

• Fabled Passage (Throne of Eldraine) +
• Radiant Fountain (Magic 2015)

Shifts in rarity

Shifted from the set mentioned in parenthesis.

Rare to uncommon

• Quirion Dryad (Magic 2013)
• Vryn Wingmare (Magic Origins)

Uncommon to common

• Grasp of Darkness (Oath of the Gatewatch)

Common to uncommon

• Cultivate (Commander 2020)
• Faith's Fetters (Ultimate Masters)
• Rain of Revelation (Modern Horizons)

Rare to mythic rare

• Grim Tutor (Starter 1999)