Core Set 2021/Trivia
The new core set has a lot of exciting new cards, including: • A brand new planeswalker (from a plane we’ve visited) — Basri Ket (Amonkhet) • A card that lets you draw half of your library. — Peer into the Abyss • A +1/+1 tribal lord for a creature type that’s never had one. (A creature type with over fifty cards already in print.) — Pack Leader (Dogs) • A character with a Vanguard card and a legendary creature card gets a second of the latter. • A card with thirty-one different options. • A card that gains all activated abilities of a certain subset of cards in a place it’s never done it before. • A card that uses a nonevergreen named ability over twenty years old. — Teferi, Master of Time (phasing) • A card with the words “battlefield”, “cast”, “creature”, “converted mana cost”, “end of turn”, “exile”, “graveyard” and “mana cost”. • An aura inspired from a cycle from Urza’s Saga block • A nonevergreen enchantment subtype returns
Core 2021 also has a number of fun reprints, including:
• A popular character first introduced through flavor text. — Ugin, the Spirit Dragon • A French Vanilla mythic rare. • A popular aura that started as part of a cycle. • A card with unique protection.— Baneslayer Angel • Two cards played in tournaments that have been reprinted over twenty times with at least five different pieces of art • A card that’s never previously appeared in a premier set. — Grim Tutor • A card that’s never been reprinted before which has a 2, 3, 5, and 6 all appear on the card. — Massacre Wurm • A Human Monk. — Azusa, Lost but Seeking • A card from the Time Spiral timeshifted sheet.
New cards with art inspired by familiar planes
Amonkhet
- Basri Ket — a devoted warrior of the God Oketra
- Basri's Aegis — shows some survivors of the city of Naktamun after the events of the Hour of Devastation
Dominaria
- Teferi, Master of Time who tries to repair the time rifts of Dominaria
- Liliana, Waker of the Dead — the art is inspired by Liliana, Heretical Healer // Liliana, Definant Necromancer
- Island — Teferi's Showcase Island
- Historian of Zhalfir
- Mangara, the Diplomat
- Teferi's Protege a wizard for Tolarian Academy
- Llanowar Visionary — Llanowar
- Plunge — referring to Kaervek, antagonist of the Mirage storyline
- Peer into the Abyss — refers to Braids
- Mangara, the Diplomat
Ixalan
- Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose — an acolyte of Elenda, the Dusk Rose
- Primal Might — refers to Ghalta, Primal Hunger
Mirrodin
Ravnica
- Playhem Devil — Rakdos guild Demons