Wilds of Eldraine/Trivia

Wilds of Eldraine/Trivia

 

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Trivia

 

Maro's Wilds of Eldraine Teaser

Mark Rosewater gave his traditional teaser with the following hints.

First up, here are some things you can expect:

• A new type of token (at least done as a cohesive theme) — Roles: aura enchantment tokens
• A card that can activate to copy enchantments — Yenna, Redtooth Regent
• Adventures on a new permanent type — Enchantments - Virtue of Loyalty//Ardenvale Fealty; Virtue of Knowledge//Vantress Visions; Virtue of Persistence//Locthwain Scorn; Virtue of Courage//Embereth Blaze; Virtue of Strength//Garenbrig Growth
• An artifact that has two different artifact subtypes normally associated with artifact tokens — Candy Trail, a Food Clue
• A creature type from Alpha gets a draft archetype — Rat in
• Fairy tale Sagas — The Apprentice's Folly; The Princess Takes Flight; Three Blind Mice; The Witch's Vanity
• Multiple legendary Foods — Eriette's Tempting Apple; Syr Ginger, the Meal Ender
• A new card with a lobotomy effect — The End
• A creature with two triggers, one for artifacts entering the battlefield and one for enchantments — Elvish Archivist
• A new mechanic that batches together three items that have been in the game since Alpha but never batched before — Bargain: artifact, enchantment, and token.

Next, here are some rules text that will be showing up on cards:

• “If a permanent entering the battlefield causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time.” — Virtue of Knowledge
• “Look at the top twenty cards of your library.” — Thunderous Debut
• “It produces three times as much of that mana instead.” — Virtue of Strength
• “Sacrifice all Reflections you control.” — The Apprentice's Folly
• “Creatures you control with +1/+1 counters on them have all activated abilities of all creature cards exiled with CARDNAME.” — Agatha’s Soul Cauldron
• “Have base power and toughness 4/4 and flying.” — Archon of the Wild Rose
• “exile up to one other non-Fox creature” — Werefox Bodyguard
• “Land creatures you control” — Blossoming Tortoise
• “Whenever you tap an untapped creature an opponent controls,” — Hylda of the Icy Crown
• “X is 2 plus the number of cards in your graveyard that are instant cards, sorcery cards, and/or have an Adventure.” — Frantic Firebolt

Here are some creature type lines from the set:

• Creature – Mouse — Armory Mice; Cheeky House-Mouse; Pests of Honor; Raging Battle Mouse
• Creature – Rabbit Unicorn — Regal Bunnicorn
• Creature – Faerie Shapeshifter — Likeness Looter
• Creature – Elf Fox Knight — Werefox Bodyguard
• Creature – Giant Archer — Skybeast Tracker
• Creature – Plant Wurm — Beanstalk Wurm
• Creature – Elemental Raccoon — Bramble Familiar
• Legendary Creature – Rat Noble — Lord Skitter, Sewer King
• Legendary Creature – Vedalken Scout — Troyan, Gutsy Explorer
• Legendary Creature – Human Warlock Bard — Totentanz, Swarm Piper

Finally, here are some names in the set:

• Candy Grapple — Instant
• Charming Scoundrel — Creature — Human Rogue
• Food Fight — Enchantment
• Protective Parents — Creature — Human Peasant
• Scream Puff — Creature — Horror
• Stroke of Midnight — Instant
• A Tale for the Ages — Enchantment
• Three Blind Mice — Enchantment — Saga
• Three Bowls of Porridge — Artifact — Food
• Up the Beanstalk — Enchantment

Cultural references

Cards throughout Wilds of Eldraine reference the Arthurian legend of Camelot on the one hand and Grimms' Fairy Tales on the other. Other fairy tales, not especially compiled by the Grimm brothers, are also referenced. The following is a list of specific analogs and references in cards within the set.

Fairy tales

Card(s)	Fairytales and stories	Notes
Agatha of the Vile Cauldron	Hansel and Gretel	The evil witch.
Agatha's Champion	Little Red Riding Hood	The Wolf.
Ash, Party Crasher	Cinderella	Cinderella (re-imagined as a knight rather than a princess)
Asinine Antics	The Adventures of Pinocchio	Turning boys into donkeys.
Beluna Grandsquall	Jack and the Beanstalk	The Giant.
Beseech the Mirror	Snow White	The Magic Mirror.
Besotted Knight	Beauty and the Beast	The Beauty and the Beast (role reversal)
Break the Spell	Various	True love's kiss
Candy Trail	Hansel and Gretel	The trail of breadcrumbs.
Curiosity (Enchanting Tales)	The Little Mermaid	The mermaid's fascination with the world above.
Cursed Courtier and the Cursed Role	The Frog Prince	The prince.
Devouring Sugarmaw	Alice's Adventures in Wonderland	"Eat Me!" cake (role reversal)
Doubling Season (Enchanting Tales, #81)	The Goose that Laid the Golden Eggs	The prodigious goose.
Eriette of the Charmed Apple	Snow White	The Wicked Queen.
Eriette's Tempting Apple	Snow White	The poisoned apple.
Faunsbane Troll	Three Billy Goats Gruff	The troll.
Feral Encounter	Little Red Riding Hood	Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf.
Gingerbrute	The Gingerbread Man	The Gingerbread Man.
Glass Casket	Snow White	Snow White's glass coffin.
Greta, Sweettooth Scourge	Hansel and Gretel	Gretel.
Gruff Triplets	Three Billy Goats Gruff	The three billy goats gruff.
Hylda of the Icy Crown	The Snow Queen	The Snow Queen.
Johann, Apprentice Sorcerer	The Sorcerer's Apprentice	The apprentice.
Johann's Stopgap	The Sorcerer's Apprentice	The apprentice tries to rectify the problem spell.
Liberated Livestock	Town Musicians of Bremen	The aging domestic animals.
Lord Skitter, Sewer King	The Nutcracker and the Mouse King	The Mouse King.
Monstrous Rage	Little Red Riding Hood	“My, what big paws y—”
Neva, Stalked by Nightmares	Snow White	Snow White.
Rat Out	The Pied Piper of Hamelin	The Pied Piper's Revenge.
Ruby, Daring Tracker	Little Red Riding Hood	Little Red Riding Hood.
Smothering Tithe (Enchanting Tales, #13)	Rumpelstiltskin	Spinning straw into gold.
Song of Totentanz	The Pied Piper of Hamelin	The music of the Pied Piper.
Stroke of Midnight	Cinderella	Cinderella's deadline for the festivities.
Sweettooth Witch	Hansel and Gretel	The witch, and the fate of Hansel.
Syr Armont, the Redeemer	Beauty and the Beast	Beauty
Talion, the Kindly Lord	Sleeping Beauty	A take on the Wicked fairy / Maleficent.
The Apprentice's Folly	The Sorcerer's Apprentice	The apprentice multiplying the broom.
The End	Fairy tales (several)	The usual conclusion of a fairytale.
The Goose Mother	Tales of Mother Goose	Mother Goose.
The Huntsman's Redemption	Little Red Riding Hood	The Huntsman (cf. Garruk, Cursed Huntsman).
The Princess Takes Flight	Rapunzel	Rapunzel escapes
Three Bowls of Porridge	Goldilocks and the Three Bears	Everything in three. "Too hot, too cold, just right".
Totentanz, Swarm Piper	The Pied Piper of Hamelin	The Pied Piper.
Tough Cookie	The Gingerbread Man	The Gingerbread Man.
Troyan, Gutsy Explorer	Jack and the Beanstalk	Jack.
	The Goose that Laid the Golden Eggs	The golden egg.
Up the Beanstalk	Jack and the Beanstalk	The beanstalk.
Werefox Bodyguard	Beauty and the Beast	The Beast (role reversal)

Other references

Card(s)	Influence	Notes
Agatha of the Vile Cauldron Eriette of the Charmed Apple Hylda of the Icy Crown	Three Witches (Macbeth)	The weird sisters trope.
Decadent Dragon	Fáfnir (Sigurd's Saga and Nibelunglied)	A hoarding dragon from German and Norse mythology.
Ingenious Prodigy	The Once and Future King	"Wizard who Ages Backwards".
Karmic Justice (Enchanting Tales)	Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.	The conclusion of the story.
Korvold and the Noble Thief	Robin Hood	Korvold is robbed.
Moonshaker Cavalry	Wild Hunt	A ghostly host from European mythologies.
Mosswood Dreadknight	Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.	Arthurian reference: the Green Knight.
Regal Bunnicorn	Monty Python and the Holy Grail	The Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog
Regal Bunnicorn	Jackalope	A mythical jackrabbit with antelope horns.
Song of Totentanz	Danse Macabre.	An artistic genre of allegory of the Late Middle Ages on the universality of death.
Tangled Colony	Rat king.	A collection of rats whose tails are intertwined and bound together in some way.
Three Blind Mice	Three Blind Mice.	Nursery rhyme.
The Irencrag	The Sword in the Stone.	Arthurian reference: Excalibur.

Miscellaneous

• Throne of Eldraine and Wilds of Eldraine's four-year gap is the shortest turnaround for a plane's full return since the 54-month gap between Innistrad and Shadows over Innistrad if one disregards the heavy use of Dominaria before 2006. The median gap for first returns is six or seven years due to the block structure, and Throne was the first post-block set (if one treats Guilds of Ravnica block as a block).
• Moonshaker Cavalry takes multiple design cues from Craterhoof Behemoth; 5MMM cost Mythic Rare creatures that give a scaling pump and evasion effect to all one's creatures.
• Questing Druid // Seek the Beast creature card with an adventure is a callback to the iconic Questing Beast from the original Throne of Eldraine. Mechanically, it's a combination of Quirion Dryad and Reckless Impulse.
• Spell Stutter refers to Spellstutter Sprite, exchanging mana value scaling for mana tax scaling. Both are two-mana counterspells that scale with the number of Faeries controlled. Similarly, Dream Spoilers is a near-reprint of Dreamspoiler Witches with a slight change in templating.
• The Huntsman's Redemption depicts the Chain Veil, marking it specifically a call back to Garruk's story in Throne rather than anything from fairy tale lore.
• The art of Asinine Antics is a callback to Unhinged's Donkey-folk.
• Stingblade Assassin is the first card to be a functional reprint of a digitally rebalanced card (A-Manticore).
• Syr Ginger, the Meal Ender was the top rated card in the set, based on player feedback.
• Throne of Eldraine refers to the unreturned Adamant mechanic and is another card named after a set.
• The art for each of the Mythic rare Virtues cycle depicts the uncommon Knight from the Throne of Eldraine's Syrs cycle.
• Timber Paladin was originally a top-down Pinocchio card that gained the Human type when enough Auras were attached to it.
• As originally conceived in Vision Design, all ten of the draft archetype fairytales would have connected to the main Wilds of Eldraine storyline. It quickly became apparent that this would pull the story in too many directions and over-complicate the storytelling so it was paired back to just five of the ten archetypes.