The Lost Caverns of Ixalan/Card comparisons

The Lost Caverns of Ixalan/Card comparisons

 

Commander decks

 

Card comparisons

 

Box Toppers

 

Trivia

 

Art Series

 

Cards from The Lost Caverns of Ixalan as compared to cards from earlier sets.

Strictly better

• Acrobatic Leap is strictly better than Alarum and Defiant Stand.
• Ancestral Reminiscence is strictly better than Mystic Meditation.
• Another Chance is strictly better than Death's Duet, Dutiful Return, March of the Returned, Morbid Plunder, and Soul Salvage.
• Bonehoard Dracosaur is strictly better than Hulking Cyclops.
• Brackish Blunder is strictly better than Drown in Shapelessness.
• Broodrage Mycoid is strictly better than Highborn Vampire.
• Burning Sun Cavalry is strictly better than Tilonalli's Knight.
• Captivating Cave is strictly better than Shimmering Grotto and Unknown Shores.
• Colossadactyl is strictly better than Grazing Whiptail, Ferocious Zheng, Rumbling Baloth, and Tangle Mantis.
• Compass Gnome is strictly better than Campus Guide.
• Confounding Riddle is strictly better than Convolute and Glimpse the Future.
• Cosmium Blast is strictly better than Impeccable Timing.
• Deep-Cavern Bat is strictly better than Brain Maggot.
• Defossilize is strictly better than Rise Again.
• Dire Flail is strictly better than Jackhammer.
• Eaten by Piranhas is strictly better than Kasmina's Transmutation and Frogify.
• Earthshaker Dreadmaw is strictly better than Cowl Prowler, Kessig Dire Swine, Brambleweft Behemoth, and Colossal Dreadmaw.
• Family Reunion is strictly better than Glorious Charge.
• Fanatical Offering is strictly better than Altar's Reap, Costly Plunder and Skulltap.
• Huatli, Poet of Unity is strictly better than Borderland Ranger and Civic Wayfinder.
• In the Presence of Ages is strictly better than Relentless Pursuit.
• Intrepid Paleontologist is strictly better than Druid of the Anima, Golden Hind, Harvester Druid, Leaf Gilder, Naga Vitalist, Orochi Sustainer, Quirion Elves, Quirion Explorer, Sylvok Explorer, Utopia Tree, Wirewood Elf and Woodland Mystic.
• Ironpaw Aspirant is strictly better than Backup Agent.
• Malamet Battle Glyph is strictly better than Prey Upon.
• Malicious Eclipse is strictly better than Infest, Malicious Malfunction and Flaying Tendrils.
• Molten Collapse is strictly better than Dreadbore.
• Petrify is strictly better than Arrest, Fog on the Barrow-Downs, Hold for Ransom, Luminous Bonds, Pacifism, Realmbreaker's Grasp, Stasis Cocoon, and Trapped in the Tower.
• Poison Dart Frog is strictly better than Druid of the Anima, Quirion Elves, Quirion Explorer, Sylvok Explorer, and Woodland Mystic.
• Quicksand Whirlpool is strictly better than Excoriate and Expel.
• Rampaging Ceratops is strictly better than Shatterskull Recruit.
• Ruin-Lurker Bat is strictly better than Healer's Hawk.
• Staggering Size is strictly better than Awaken the Bear, Crash the Ramparts, Fanatical Fever, and Tread Upon.
• Sunbird Standard is strictly better than Manalith, the Shards of Alara obelisks (e.g. Obelisk of Naya) and the Invasion cameos (e.g. Bloodstone Cameo).
• Unlucky Drop is strictly better than Misleading Motes.

Vanillas and French vanillas

• Frilled Cave-Wurm is strictly better than Ancient Carp, Armored Cancrix, and Wishcoin Crab.

Strictly worse

• Ancestral Reminiscence is strictly worse than Rain of Revelation.
• Chart a Course is strictly worse than Ancestral Recall.
• Out of Air is strictly worse than Counterspell.
• Petrify is strictly worse than Planar Disruption.
• Tectonic Hazard is strictly worse than End the Festivities.
• Unlucky Drop is strictly worse than Run Aground.

Functional reprints

• Acrobatic Leap is a functional reprint of Escape from Orthanc and Wings of the Cosmos.
• Ancestors' Aid is a functional reprint of Sudden Breakthrough.
• Ancestral Reminiscence is a functional reprint of Sift.
• Captivating Cave is a functional reprint of Cave of Temptation, except for land type.
• Cosmium Blast is a functional reprint of Divine Arrow, Gideon's Reproach, and Wanderer's Intervention.
• Huatli's Final Strike is a functional reprint of Ambuscade.
• Promising Vein is a functional reprint of Shire Terrace, except for land type.
• Staggering Size is a functional reprint of Predator's Strike.

Colorshifted

• River Herald Scout is a colorshifted version of Seeker's Squire, save for race type.
• Ironpaw Aspirant is a colorshifted version of Kujar Seedsculptor, save for creature types.