Innistrad: Midnight Hunt/Trivia

Innistrad: Midnight Hunt/Trivia

 

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Maro's Midnight Hunt teaser

Mark Rosewater gave his traditional teaser with the following hints.

First up, here are some things you can expect:

• three popular mechanics previously seen on Innistrad return — Flashback, Transform, and Investigate.
• a new drawback for creature tokens that lets us create them cheaper — Decayed
• a white card that could potentially draw you a card each turn — Sigarda's Splendor
• a popular Innistrad card gets reprinted — Delver of Secrets
• a curse that transforms into a creature — Curse of Leeches (Leeching Lurker)
• two permanents that can double something every turn — Unnatural Growth (Power/Toughness), Angelic Enforcer(Life total)
• a mythic cycle with “you may pay [COST] any number of times” — Bloodthirsty Adversary, Intrepid Adversary, Primal Adversary Spectral Adversary, Tainted Adversary
• a four mana blue aura with “You control enchanted creature.” — Grafted Identity
• A popular tournament card in multiple formats gets reprinted with its fifth piece of art. — Pithing Needle
• a character from Innistrad once mentioned in a short story finally gets a card in an Innistrad set — Liesa, Forgotten Archangel

Here are snippets of rules text, you’ll see:

• “If your life total would be reduced to 0 or less,” — Enduring Angel
• “This spell costs 1 less to cast for each creature you attacked with this turn.” — Search Party Captain
• “As [CARDNAME] enters the battlefield, note your life total.” — Sigarda's Splendor
• “put a slime counter on up to one other target creature.” — Sludge Monster
• “Creature tokens you control lose all abilities and have base power and toughness 3/3.” — Poppet Factory
• “Each instant and sorcery card in your graveyard has” — Lier, Disciple of the Drowned
• “Instants and sorcery spells you cast cost X less to cast, where X is [CARDNAME]’s power.” — Vadrik, Astral Archmage
• “put that many +1/+1 counters on [CARDNAME], then create twice that many 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens” — Tainted Adversary
• “At the beginning of your end step, if you have exactly 13 life,” — Jerren, Corrupted Bishop
• “You may cast any number of the copies without paying their mana costs.” — Bloodthirsty Adversary

And finally, here are some creature type lines you’ll see:

• Creature – Hippogriff Spirit — Soul-Guide Gryff and Waildrifter
• Creature – Human Soldier Werewolf — Brutal Cathar
• Creature – Dragon Egg — Smoldering Egg
• Creature – Leech Horror — Leeching Lurker
• Creature – Fungus Horror — Deathbonnet Hulk
• Creature – Plant Horror — Rootcoil Creeper
• Creature – Drake Horror — Storm Skreelix
• Creature – Demon Dog — Dreadhound
• Legendary Creature - Ooze — Slogurk, the Overslime
• Legendary Creature – Vampire Noble — Florian, Voldaren Scion

Other

• Croaking Counterpart is a play on Cackling Counterpart (Innistrad). It seems to be copying Rem Karolus, Stalwart Slayer.
• Faithful Mending is a mirror to Faithless Looting.
• Waildrifter has a confurcated maw similar to Wretched Gryff, despite Emrakul's influence being lessened.
• The art and card name of Can't Stay Away seems to be inspired by The Cat Came Back, a comic song written by Harry S. Miller.
• The art of Rotten Reunion takes reference from American Gothic, a painting by Grant Wood.
• While Innistrad used 19th century Gothic horror and Shadows over Innistrad used early-20th century Eldritch horror literature, Midnight Hunt used more mid-to-late 20th century horror films.
  • Fleshtaker is inspired by the Slasher movie genre.
  • Heirloom Mirror could refer to the Candyman series of films, though the folklore goes back to the Bloody Mary legend.
  • Phantom Carriage refers to a 1928 film of the same name.
  • The Meathook Massacre refers to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise.
  • Consuming Blob refers to the 1958 film The Blob.
  • Rise of the Ants refers to the 1954 film Them.