Shadows over Innistrad/Card comparisons

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

Strictly better

• Deathcap Cultivator is strictly better than Leaf Gilder.
• 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.
• Obsessive Skinner is strictly better than Ironshell Beetle, Satyr Grovedancer, and Timberland Guide.
• Pick the Brain is strictly better than Night Terrors.
• Stoic Builder is strictly better than Cartographer.
• Structural Distortion is strictly better than Melt Terrain and Demolish.
• Tooth Collector is strictly better than Eyeblight Assassin.
• Traverse the Ulvenwald is strictly better than Lay of the Land.
• Village Messenger is strictly better than Raging Goblin.
• 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.