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
• A card that can activate to copy enchantments —
• Adventures on a new permanent type —
• An artifact that has two different artifact subtypes normally associated with artifact tokens —
• A creature type from Alpha gets a draft archetype — Rat in
• Fairy tale Sagas — Three Blind Mice
• Multiple legendary Foods — 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.” —
• “Look at the top twenty cards of your library.” — Thunderous Debut
• “it produces three times as much of that mana instead.” —
• “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.” —
• “have base power and toughness 4/4 and flying.” —
• “exile up to one other non-Fox creature” —
• “Land creatures you control” — Blossoming Tortoise
• “Whenever you tap an untapped creature an opponent controls,” —
• “X is 2 plus the number of cards in your graveyard that are instant cards, sorcery cards, and/or have an Adventure.” —

Here are some creature type lines from the set:

• Creature – Mouse — Raging Battle Mouse
• Creature – Rabbit Unicorn —
• Creature – Faerie Shapeshifter —
• Creature – Elf Fox Knight —
• Creature – Giant Archer — Skybeast Tracker
• Creature – Plant Wurm —
• Creature – Elemental Raccoon —
• 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
• Charming Scoundrel
• Food Fight
• Protective Parents
• Scream Puff
• Stroke of Midnight
• A Tale for the Ages
• Three Blind Mice
• Three Bowls of Porridge
• Up the Beanstalk

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
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
Eriette of the Charmed Apple	Snow White	The Wicked Queen
Feral Encounter	Little Red Riding Hood	Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf
Greta, Sweettooth Scourge	Hansel and Gretel	Gretel
Hylda of the Icy Crown	The Snow Queen	The Snow Queen
Lord Skitter, Sewer King	The Nutcracker and the Mouse King	The Mouse King
Ruby, Daring Tracker	Little Red Riding Hood	Little Red Riding Hood
Scream Puff	The Three Little Pigs	"Then I'll huff, and I'll puff, and I'll blow your house down."
Song of Totentanz	The Pied Piper of Hamelin	The music of the Pied Piper
Stroke of Midnight	Cinderella	Cinderella's deadline for the festivities.
Talion, the Kindly Lord	Sleeping Beauty	A take on the Wicked fairy / Maleficent
The End	Fairy tales (several)	The usual conclusion of a fairytale.
Three Bowls of Porridge	Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Tough Cookie	The Gingerbread Man	The Gingerbread Man
Troyan, Gutsy Explorer	Jack and the Beanstalk	Jack
Up the Beanstalk	Jack and the Beanstalk	The beanstalk

Other references

Card(s)	Influence	Notes
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
Agatha of the Vile Cauldron Eriette of the 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
Moonshaker Cavalry	Wild Hunt	A ghostly host from European mythologies
The Apprentice's Folly	The Sorcerer's Apprentice	The apprentice multiplying the broom.

Miscellaneous

• 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.
• 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 prior to 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).
• 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.