Shadows over Innistrad/Card comparisons

Cards from Shadows over Innistrad compared to cards from earlier sets.

Strictly better

• Bygone Bishop is strictly better than Alaborn Trooper, Chapel Geist, Keepers of the Faith, Pearled Unicorn, Regal Unicorn, Shadow Glider, Shu Foot Soldiers, Spotted Griffin, Sunspire Griffin, and Wild Griffin.
• Descend upon the Sinful is strictly better than Final Judgment.
• Expose Evil is strictly better than Lead Astray.
• Hound of the Farbogs is strictly better than Dreg Reaver, Mass of Ghouls, Renegade Demon, and Zombie Goliath.
• Incorrigible Youths is strictly better than Thundering Giant.
• Invasive Surgery is strictly better than Envelop.
• Lamplighter of Selhoff is strictly better than Ancient Carp and Armored Cancrix.
• Pick the Brain is strictly better than Night Terrors.
• Quilled Wolf is strictly better than Balduvian Bears, Barbary Apes, Bear Cub, Cylian Elf, Forest Bear, Grizzly Bears, Kraul Warrior, and Runeclaw Bear.
• Stoic Builder is strictly better than Cartographer.
• Tooth Collector is strictly better than Barony Vampire, Headless Horseman, Moriok Reaver, Python, Scathe Zombies, and Warpath Ghoul.
• Topplegeist is strictly better than Aven Skirmisher, Kitesail Scout and Lantern Kami.
• Structural Distortion is strictly better than Melt Terrain and Demolish.
• Wolf of Devil's Breach is strictly better than Earth Elemental, Fire Elemental, Frost Ogre, and Hulking Cyclops.

Strictly worse

• Forsaken Sanctuary is strictly worse than Arcane Sanctum, Sandsteppe Citadel, Nomad Outpost, Scoured Barrens and Scoured Barrens.
• Foul Orchard is strictly worse than Jungle Hollow, Opulent Palace, Sandsteppe Citadel, Savage Lands and Swiftwater Cliffs.
• Highland Lake is strictly worse than Crumbling Necropolis, Frontier Bivouac, Mystic Monastery, Swiftwater Cliffs and Jungle Hollow.
• Stone Quarry is strictly worse than Jungle Shrine, Mystic Monastery, Nomad Outpost, Wind-Scarred Crag and Wind-Scarred Crag.
• Woodland Stream is strictly worse than Frontier Bivouac, Opulent Palace, Seaside Citadel, Thornwood Falls and Thornwood Falls.