Modern Horizons

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Modern Horizons
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Set Information
Set symbol
Symbol description	Modern Masters symbol coming up from beyond the horizon
Design	Ethan Fleischer (co-lead) Mark Globus (co-lead) Alli Medwin Nat Moes (hackathon only) Mike Majors Mark Rosewater
Development	Adam Prosak (co-lead) Mark Globus (co-lead) Mike Majors Dan Musser Tom Ross Jules Robins Mike Turian Sam Stoddard
Art direction	Cynthia Sheppard
Release date	June 14, 2019
Plane	Various
Themes and mechanics	Modern power level, hybrid mana, pitch spells, Slivers, snow, the untap symbol
Keywords/​ability words	Battle cry, buyback, cascade, changeling, convoke, cycling, dash, delve, devour, dredge, echo, entwine, evoke, evolve, exalted, exploit, fateful hour, flashback, hellbent, hideaway, kicker, level up, manifest modular, monstrosity, ninjutsu, outlast, overload, persist, proliferate, protection, rebound, replicate, retrace, shroud, splice, storm, suspend, threshold, totem armor, undying, unearth, vanishing
Set size	254 cards +1 Buy-a-Box promo
Expansion code	MH1
Development codename	Contemporary
Straight-to-Modern sets
Modern Horizons Modern Horizons 2 N/A
Magic: The Gathering Chronology
War of the Spark Modern Horizons Signature Spellbook: Gideon

Modern Horizons is a Magic booster set which was released on June 14, 2019. Modern Horizons was the Innovation Product for 2019, and was designed to be drafted.

Set details

The full-art snow lands

Modern Horizons contains 254 cards (5 snow-covered basic lands, 101 commons, 80 uncommons, 53 rares, 15 mythic rares), and includes randomly inserted premium versions of all these cards. In addition, there is a Buy-a-Box card numbered #255/254. This set introduced new cards into Modern without them ever being legal in Standard. It contains 209 new cards and (excepting the snow basics) only reprints which previously weren't legal in Modern. For this, it was rigorously playtested by Play Design. The Buy-a-Box card is also a new-to-Modern reprint. The powerful new card options, some with old mechanics, are mixed with flavorful updates for favorite characters. The snow-covered basic lands appear in the land slot of Modern Horizons boosters.

Modern Horizons was originally dubbed as "Timespiral / Planar Chaos 2" in concept due to set complexity. Mark Rosewater has called it a "love letter" to the Time Spiral block. It isn't an entry level set because of its many returning mechanics. There was no story support for the set.

Marketing

Modern Horizons was sold in slightly larger-than-usual 17-card boosters (one card being a double-faced token, and one being an art card), and in a Draft Pack. The boosters feature horizontal artwork from Ayula, Queen Among Bears, Serra the Benevolent and Urza, Lord High Artificer. The set was printed for as long as demand held. It was released on Magic Online on June 13, with a booster price of $6.99 (regular booster packs cost $3.99). It was not featured on MTG Arena.

Prerelease

Prerelease events took place on June 8–9, 2019.

Promotional cards

• Buy-a-Box: Flusterstorm (non-foil, because it was expected to see tournament play and most tournament players prefer non-foil cards.)
• Preview (prerelease participation promo card): Astral Drift

Tokens / Emblem

The sixteenth card in the boosters is a double-faced token creature card or an emblem: One out of every four tokens is foil (but not double-sided).

1. 2/2 Shapeshifter creature with changeling for Irregular Cohort and Birthing Boughs.
2. 4/4 Angel creature with flying and vigilance for Serra the Benevolent.
3. 1/1 Bird creature with flying for Battle Screech.
4. 1/1 Soldier creature for Recruit the Worthy.
5. 1/1 Illusion creature with flying for Moonblade Shinobi.
6. 20/20 legendary Avatar creature with flying and indestructible named Marit Lage for Marit Lage's Slumber.
7. 2/2 Zombie creature for Rank Officer.
8. 1/1 Elemental creature for Seasoned Pyromancer.
9. 3/1 Elemental creature with trample and haste for Force of Rage.
10. 1/1 Goblin creature for Goblin War Party, Pashalik Mons‎, and Sling-Gang Lieutenant.
11. 2/2 Bear creature for Ayula's Influence and Mother Bear.
12. 3/3 Elephant creature for Generous Gift and Trumpeting Herd.
13. 4/4 Rhino creature with trample for Crashing Footfalls.
14. 1/2 Spider creature with reach for Rotwidow Pack and Twin-Silk Spider.
15. 1/1 Squirrel creature for Deep Forest Hermit and Squirrel Nest.
16. 1/1 Spirit creature with flying for Kaya's Guile.
17. 0/0 Construct artifact creature with "This creature gets +1/+1 for each artifact you control" for Urza, Lord High Artificer.
18. 3/3 Golem artifact creature for Splicer's Skill.
19. 1/1 Myr artifact creature for Mirrodin Besieged.
20. Emblem for Serra the Benevolent.
21. Emblem for Wrenn and Six.

Modern Horizons Art Series

Mox Tantalite art card

Back side of the art card

The seventeenth card in the boosters is an art card with horizontal full art from one of the regular cards in the set. The card back is mostly blank, with some collector's info. There are 54 different art cards.

Themes and mechanics

There are no new mechanics in Modern Horizons. Instead, the set features more than forty non-evergreen returning mechanics. R&D decided that the set could use any mechanic already in Modern up to Dragons of Tarkir.

A major mechanic is changeling, used to make a cohesive set (like it was used in Lorwyn previously). Snow is also a major mechanic.

With Splicer's Skill and Everdream, the set introduces a long-awaited variant from "splice onto Arcane" with "splice onto instant or sorcery" (As you cast an instant or sorcery spell, you may reveal this card from your hand and pay its splice cost. If you do, add this card’s effects to that spell.).

Other returning mechanics are: anchor words, battle cry, buyback, cascade, convoke, cycling, dash, delve, devour, dredge, echo, entwine, evoke, evolve, exalted, exploit, fateful hour, flashback, hellbent, hideaway, hybrid mana, kicker, level up, manifest, modular, monstrosity, morbid, ninjutsu, outlast, overload, persist, pitch spells, proliferate, protection, rebound, replicate, retrace, shroud, storm, suspend, threshold, totem armor, undying, unearth, the untap symbol, and vanishing.

Like in Future Sight before, the set features some "Mix-and-Match" cards, combining two different non-evergreen keywords on the same card: Feaster of Fools, Hogaak, Arisen Necropolis and Throes of Chaos.

Modern Horizons features the following limited archetypes:

• : Blink (Soulherder)
• : Ninjas (Ingenious Infiltrator)
• : Goblins (Munitions Expert)
• : "Lands in graveyard" matters (Ruination Rioter)
• : "Creaturefall" (Good-Fortune Unicorn)
• : Changelings (Etchings of the Chosen)
• : "Drawing two cards" matters (Thundering Djinn)
• : Graveyard (Rotwidow Pack)
• : Slivers (Lavabelly Sliver)
• : Snow (Abominable Treefolk)

Card types

• Modern Horizons introduces the Serra and Wrenn planeswalker types.
• Slivers are a major tribe. They are depicted in their pre-M14 form.
• Rare types like Coward, Goat and Trilobite get new support (Pyrophobia, Goatnap, Scuttling Sliver), reinforced by the changeling mechanic. Ninjas see a return as a draft archetype, as well as goblins.

Cycles

Modern Horizons has nine cycles, two of which are double cycles.

Single cycles

Cycle name
Forces	Force of Virtue	Force of Negation	Force of Despair	Force of Rage	Force of Vigor
	Each of these rare spells (four instants and an enchantment with flash) has an alternate casting cost that includes exiling a card of its color if it is not the player's turn.
Slivers	First Sliver's Chosen	Scuttling Sliver	Dregscape Sliver	Hollowhead Sliver	Tempered Sliver
	One monocolored uncommon Sliver of each color.
Legendary creatures	Sisay, Weatherlight Captain	Urza, Lord High Artificer	Yawgmoth, Thran Physician	Pashalik Mons	Ayula, Queen Among Bears
	Each of these monocolored legendary creatures represents a character in Magic lore.
Cycling lands	Secluded Steppe	Lonely Sandbar	Barren Moor	Forgotten Cave	Tranquil Thicket
	Each of these uncommon cycling lands enters the battlefield tapped, taps for one mana of a color, and has cycling for one mana of that color. They were reprinted from Onslaught.
Snow-covered lands	Snow-Covered Plains	Snow-Covered Island	Snow-Covered Swamp	Snow-Covered Mountain	Snow-Covered Forest
	Each of these basic lands has the snow supertype. They were reprinted from Ice Age and Coldsnap.
Cycle name
Horizon lands	Silent Clearing	Fiery Islet	Nurturing Peatland	Sunbaked Canyon	Waterlogged Grove
	Each of these rare pain lands can be sacrificed to draw a card by paying . They form an enemy colored cycle mirroring Horizon Canopy from Future Sight.
Talismans	Talisman of Hierarchy	Talisman of Creativity	Talisman of Resilience	Talisman of Conviction	Talisman of Curiosity
	Each of these uncommon artifacts costs to cast. They form an enemy cycle mirroring the talismans from Mirrodin.

Double cycles

Cycle name
Uncommon signposts	Soulherder	Ingenious Infiltrator	Munitions Expert	Ruination Rioter	Good-Fortune Unicorn	Etchings of the Chosen	Thundering Djinn	Rotwidow Pack	Lavabelly Sliver	Abominable Treefolk
	Ten uncommon spells, each one a signpost for its respective draft archetype.
Rare spells	Unsettled Mariner	Fallen Shinobi	Lightning Skelemental	Reap the Past	Eladamri's Call	Kaya's Guile	Collected Conjuring	Hogaak, Arisen Necropolis	Cloudshredder Sliver	Ice-Fang Coatl
	Ten rare spells, one for each color pair.

Pairs

Modern Horizons has one mirrored pair.

Mirrored Pairs		Description
Ranger-Captain of Eos ()	Seasoned Pyromancer ()	Two mythic rare creatures with the cost of 1MM and have self-removal abilities that grant benefits. Both cards are future versions of already-printed creatures, Ranger of Eos and Young Pyromancer, respectively.

Mega-mega cycles

The Mirran swords mega-mega cycle gets its first allied colored additions. Though, the cycle is not complete with Modern Horizons.

• Sword of Truth and Justice
• Sword of Sinew and Steel

The Morphlings mega-mega cycle was completed.

• Endling

Reprints

About 15% of the cards in the set (45 total + 1 Buy-a-Box) are reprints. Except for the 5 basic snow lands these cards are Modern legal for the first time.

Functional reprints

• Phantom Ninja is a functional reprint of Phantom Warrior, save for creature types.

Notable cards

Modern Horizons was a set that completely shifted the meta of eternal formats especially in modern and slightly in legacy. This included the banning of both older and newer cards which led to the collapse of several older decks that were part of the main modern meta.

• Morophon, the Boundless has a five-color color identity, and can be used as a commander for various tribal Commander decks.
• Ayula, Queen Among Bears is a bear lord that is a prototype bear.
• King of the Pride is a cat lord.
• Throes of Chaos is a sorcery with no spell ability.
• Force of Negation is a powerful three-mana blue spell that was an attempt to port the popular Force of Will from Legacy into Modern. Initially, it was little used (mostly in Azorius control decks and Infect decks) and through most of 2020 actually saw more play in Commander than modern. However, the card is still a powerful sideboard card in both modern and legacy, acting as extra Force copies in unfair matches and a serviceable Negate variant in fair ones.
• Urza, Lord High Artificer is an incredibly powerful artifact-based payoff card that spawned and revived several long-form artifact-based decks (unlike Affinity). It originally started with a variation on the Thopter Foundry-Sword of the Meek combo deck which began to put up large wins especially in a meta test with no Hogaak. Despite the Mox Opal ban the deck still could function perfectly well, given Urza's combo with Whir of Invention getting lock pieces. Urza still stands as one of the stronger foundations of Modern decks, and only with the bannings of Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath and Arcum's Astrolabe has its share been lowered.

Banned and Restricted cards

• Wrenn and Six is the second, much more successful attempt to print a balanced two-mana planeswalker, limiting its abilities to rebuying lands and pinging. While successful in Modern, as it revived Midrange Jund as a deck while not being overwhelming, access to repeatable Wasteland was enough to warrant its ban in Legacy by November 2019.
• Hogaak, Arisen Necropolis, is a unique creature that can only be cast via the usage of the delve and convoke mechanics and may also be cast from the graveyard. As it turned out, two creatures and five cards in the graveyard was so trivial in Modern that a second-turn Hogaak was a little over a third to occur per game. This resulted in the event know as Hogaak Summer around the time of Mythic Championship IV whereby the Hogaak Bridgevine decks (using Vengevine, Bloodghast, and Bridge from Below) completely dominated the modern meta. Banning Bridge from Below simply forced superior tuning of the deck, and while it was underrepresented in the Top 8 it was known to be a victim of its own success. It ultimately also took a ban shortly after, in August 2019.
• Arcum's Astrolabe is one of the only Snow-casting spells in Magic, designed to support Snow decks in draft formats by filtering off-color Snow land mana into any color. Ported to Constructed, however, it let four-color mana-bases run Blood Moon without any hesitation, turning formats into "four-color soup" decks, and its Artifact typing enabled various ways to abuse it in any format. It was hence banned in October 2019 (Pauper), July 2020 (Modern), and February 2021 (Legacy).

Callbacks

Card	Inspired by	Notes
Answered Prayers	Angel's Tomb	Both cards are 3-mana permanents that can transform into a 3/3 Angel creature with flying whenever a creature enters the battlefield under their controller's control.
Archmage's Charm	Cryptic Command	The art also resembles Cancel (Amonkhet). Archmage's Charm is one mana and one ability less than Cryptic Command, can also counter target spell or draw cards, and shares its iconic cost.
Aria of Flame	Torch Song	And other growing enchantments using verse counters from Urza's Saga. Aria of Flame has the same cost as Torch Song.
Astral Drift	Astral Slide	Astral Drift serves as a self-functioning version of Astral Slide that can cycle itself to gain its effect.
Ayula's Influence	Seismic Assault	Colorshifted from red to green. Both cards are enchantments that cost three of the same colored mana and have the ability to discard a land to produce an effect with the number 2 on it.
Bazaar Trademage	Bazaar of Baghdad, Serendib Efreet	Its flavor text references Squandered Resources and the story of Aladdin, with Aladdin's Ring, Aladdin's Lamp, and Flying Carpet. Being a 3/4 Flying for references Serendib Efreet, a stand-in for the Genie. Bazaar Trademage's enter-the-battlefield ability is one activation of Bazaar of Baghdad's ability.
Cabal Therapist	Cabal Therapy	Both cards cost . Cabal Therapist enables one to repeatedly "cast" Cabal Therapy for its flashback cost through its pre-combat main phase ability.
Changeling Outcast	Tormented Soul	Changeling Outcast is a changeling Tormented Soul with similar art.
Chillerpillar	Giant Caterpillar	Both creatures are 3/3 insects that cost 3M (where M is the colored mana). Both also have the ability to grant themselves flying.
Cloudshredder Sliver	Skyknight Legionnaire	Cloudshredder Sliver's artwork is similar to Skynight Legionnaire's first artwork. Both creatures have flying and haste.
Collected Conjuring	Collected Company	Both cards cost 4 mana. Collected Conjuring is Collected Company except as a sorcery, is multicolored, and does the same free casting effect for sorceries instead.
Collector Ouphe	Brown Ouphe and Null Rod	Collector Ouphe is Brown Ouphe with Null Rod. In other words, a 2/2 Brown Ouphe with the mana value and ability of Null Rod.
Cordial Vampire	Indulgent Aristocrat	Both 1/1 Vampire creatures add a +1/+1 counter to the controller's Vampires whenever a creature dies - one as a trigger, the other as an activated ability
Crashing Footfalls	Hypergenesis, etc.	As Hypergenesis is the only "costless suspend" card of the cycle banned, Crashing Footfalls re-completes the cycle.
Deep Forest Hermit	Deranged Hermit	Both creatures are 1/1 elves with the same costs. Their enters-the-battlefield abilities create four 1/1 green Squirrel creature tokens and grant Squirrel creatures +1/+1. Both also have an ability that makes their stay on the battlefield temporary.
Defile	Mutilate	Defile is a -cost Mutilate that only targets a single creature.
Dregscape Sliver	Dregscape Zombie	A Sliver living on Grixis that grants Unearth, but with the cost made colorless.
Echo of Eons	Time Spiral and Timetwister	Echo of Eons has the same ability as both Time Spiral and Timetwister. Echo of Eons also has a mana cost the same as Time Spiral and a flashback cost the same as Timetwister. The flashback ability also imitates Time Spiral's self-exiling ability.
Endling	Morphling	Last card of the Morphling mega-mega cycle.
Everdream	Evermind, Think Twice	Everdream has a mana cost the same as Evermind's splice cost and its splice cost is the same as Think Twice's flashback cost. The three cards have the same ability to draw a card. Everdream's artwork is also similar to Evermind.
Excavating Anurid		References the Anurids of Otaria, and references Turg.
First-Sphere Gargantua	Phyrexian Rager and Phyrexian Gargantua	References the First Sphere of the original Phyrexia. First-Sphere Gargantua has the same mana cost as Phyrexian Gargantua and its unearth cost is the same as Phyrexian Rager. When cast twice, First-Sphere Gargantua imitates Phyrexian Gargantua's enter-the-battlefield ability.
Fists of Flame		First ever mentioning of Jared Carthalion (the Shadow Mage) in the flavor text.
Force of Despair	Force of Will and Cradle to Grave	Force of Despair is Cradle to Grave with Force of Will's similar alternate casting cost and naming scheme.
Force of Negation	Force of Will and Negate	Force of Negation is an exiling Negate with Force of Will's similar alternate casting cost and naming scheme.
Force of Rage	Force of Will and Spark Elemental	Force of Rage is two Spark Elementals with Force of Will's similar alternate casting cost and naming scheme.
Force of Vigor	Force of Will and Naturalize	Force of Vigor is a doubled Naturalize with Force of Will's similar alternate casting cost and naming scheme.
Force of Virtue	Force of Will and Glorious Anthem	Force of Virtue is a Glorious Anthem with flash and Force of Will's similar alternate casting cost and naming scheme.
Frostwalla	Rootwalla	Frostwalla is a snow Rootwalla that has an activated ability costing one snow mana instead.
Generous Gift	Beast Within	Colorshifted green to white except for creature types.
Geomancer's Gambit	Ghost Quarter	Geomancer's Gambit first ability is the same as Ghost Quarter's second activated ability.
Giver of Runes	Mother of Runes	Both are creatures with the ability to to give protection from a chosen color. The Giver loses the ability to protect itself in exchange for increased toughness and having colorless as a listed option.
Glacial Revelation	Kruphix's Insight	Both are sorceries that look at the top six cards of one's library and selects for a certain type and puts the rest into the graveyard. Kruphix's Insight only picks three, while Glacial Revelation can be any number.
Gluttonous Slug	Morkrut Necropod	Both are Slug Horror creatures with Menace and flavor text referencing improbable amounts of salt.
Goatnap	Goatnapper	Goatnapper's top-down ability was intended only for Changelings in Lorwyn, now reimagined to work on any creature but has an added bonus if it used on Changelings (and actual Goats).
Goblin Engineer	Goblin Welder	Both are Goblin Artificers that can swap out artifacts from the graveyard and battlefield, but the Engineer has a new templating.
Goblin Oriflamme	Orcish Oriflamme (Alpha#Misprints)	Also has a quote from the Sarpadian Empires in its flavor text. Orcish Oriflamme famously had a misprint at , which is what Goblin Oriflamme is.
Good Fortune Unicorn	Juniper Order Ranger	Both are creatures that give a +1/+1 counter to your later-entering creatures.
Graveshifter	Gravedigger	Graveshifter is a Changeling Gravedigger with similar art to the latter's Tempest art.
Hall of Heliod's Generosity	Academy Ruins and Volrath's Stronghold	Third in a cycle of legendary lands that for 1M can put a target card of a particular card type from your graveyard on top of your library.
Headless Specter	Hypnotic Specter	References Hymn to Tourach in the flavor text.
Iceberg Cancrix	Hedron Crab	Crabs that mill with entry triggers.
Ice-Fang Coatl	Baleful Strix and Winged Coatl	1/1 Flying Blue creatures that draw a card upon entry. Both Coatls have deathtouch, but Ice-Fang Coatl needs three snow permanents to gain it.
Impostor of the Sixth Pride	Blade of the Sixth Pride	A Blade of the Sixth Pride with Changeling
King of the Pride	Savannah Lions	References the The Love Song of Night and Day in the flavor text. King of the Pride is a 2/1 cat lord that doubles the stats of Savannah Lions.
Knight of Old Benalia	Knight of New Benalia	Human Knights from different ages of Benalia. Use of suspend suggests that the Old Knight came from the past long after the New Knight as printed.
Lancer Sliver	Talon Sliver	White Slivers granting First Strike. The flavor text of Lancer Sliver suggests that Gerrard's order of polearms in the Talon Sliver flavor text was futile.
Lesser Masticore	Masticore	A Masticore where effectively everything is halved; cost, power, toughness, ability efficiency, survivability, but also the discard cost.
Lightning Skelemental	Ball Lightning and Blightning	A Ball Lightning that causes discard upon hitting the player. Plays on the homophonic names - could also be known as "Ball Blightning".
Llanowar Tribe	Llanowar Elves	Three Llanowar Elves stuck together, with all that entails.
Marit Lage's Slumber	Dark Depths	Another way to create a Marit Lage token, but noticeably less easy to cheat out.
Martyr's Soul	Nantuko Shaman	Colorshifted green to white. Both 3/2 creatures cost 2M (where M is the colored mana) with abilities that activate if they enter the battlefield without any tapped lands. Both also have keyworded abilities that would guarantee that criteria.
Mind Rake	Mind Rot	Mind Rake is a Mind Rot with overload that costs cheaper than its mana cost.
Mirrodin Besieged	Monastery Siege, etc.	Call back to the Mirrodin Besieged set where Mirrans and Phyrexians fought over the dominance of Mirrodin. One of the few cards to share its name with a set. The artwork depicts Jin-Gitaxias, the Phyrexian praetor who is the same color as the card. Mirrodin Besieged has the same cost as Monastery Siege as well as similar titles.
Mist-Syndicate Naga	Spawnwrithe	Creatures that copy themselves upon dealing damage to a player. Both have abilities that guarantee that criteria.
Mother Bear	Grizzly Fate	Mother Bear's graveyard ability and its cost are similar to Grizzly Fate's mana cost and flashback ability.
Mox Tantalite	Lotus Bloom and Mox Opal	And other Moxen
Munitions Expert	Volley Veteran	Goblins that deal damage equal to the number of controlled Goblins to creatures. Both flavor texts and arts suggest the throwing of anything and everything available.
Nature's Chant	Naturalize and Disenchant	Colorshifted from green and white to hybridcolored. The name is a portmanteau of both previous cards.
On Thin Ice	Chained to the Rocks	Land Auras that imprison opposing creatures into one's land.
Pashalik Mons	Mons's Goblin Raiders	A vanity card.
Phantom Ninja	Phantom Warrior	A Ninja reprint of the classic unblockable Warrior.
Plague Engineer	Engineered Plague, Carrier creatures	An Engineered Plague on a 2/2 Deathtouch Carrier, a mechanical type based around giving creatures -X/-X. The flavor text is quoted from Phyrexian progress notes on their biological weapon.
Planebound Accomplice	Sneak Attack	A Sneak Attack for Planeswalkers.
Pondering Mage	Ponder	A 3/4 creature that casts Ponder upon entry.
Pyrophobia		Refers to famed "coward" Norin the Wary in quote, and Boldwyr Intimidator.
Prismatic Vista	Terramorphic Expanse and the Onslaught Fetch land cycle	A fetch land that merges the two designs - only gets basics, but gets them untapped by paying 1 life.
Ranger-Captain of Eos	Ranger of Eos	A Bant Soldier that searches for 1-drop creatures. Ranger-Captain of Eos shows the promotion of Ranger of Eos.
Ransack the Lab	Strategic Planning	Colorshifted blue to black.
Ravenous Giant	Juzám Djinn	Colorshifted black to red.
Rotwidow Pack	Spider Spawning and Ishkanah, Grafwidow	Rotwidow Pack's ability is a singular version of Spider Spawning, then activates Ishkanah's ability.
Savage Swipe	Savage Punch	A Fight spell that can grant +2/+2 depending on power. Savage Punch famously depicts a bear being hit, while the reverse happens for Savage Swipe.
Scale Up	Craw Wurm	Turns target creature into a Craw Wurm in stats and creature type. Can turn all creatures into Craw Wurms for the cost of a Craw Wurm
Scour All Possibilities	Preordain	A Preordain with Flashback.
Scuttling Sliver	Horseshoe Crab	Scuttling Sliver grants an untapping activated ability at the cost of 2 generic mana instead of 1 colored mana. The Trilobite subtype is a nod to the scientific inaccuracy of labelling a Horseshoe Crab a crab, though labelling it a trilobite is not any more accurate. Nevertheless, horseshoe crabs are also described as living fossils.
Seasoned Pyromancer	Young Pyromancer	Red Human Shamans that create 1/1 Elemental tokens - the art suggests a Young Pyromancer grown up and experienced.
Segovian Angel	Segovian Leviathan	References Segovia, and Worzel and Thomil in the flavor text. The art and abilities also resembles Serra Angel (Ninth Edition) and has The Hippodrome in the background. The plane of Gargantikar was created exclusively to set up a joke for this card.
Serra the Benevolent	Serra Aviary, Serra Angel, and Worship	Serra's first, second, and third abilities refer to the three Serra-related cards respectively.
Shenanigans		Art resembles the destruction of a Chromatic Lantern.
Sisay, Weatherlight Captain	Captain Sisay	Two incarnations of Sisay that both tutor for Legendary permanents.
Sling-Gang Lieutenant	Siege-Gang Commander	A Goblin leader that sacrifices its fellow tokens to cause damage.
Smiting Helix	Lightning Helix, Essence Drain	Refers to how Essence Drain is on-color in . Thus, Smiting Helix is a cheaper Essence Drain with a flashback cost equal to Lightning Helix's mana cost.
Soul-Strike Technique	Soul Summons	cards that Manifest.
Spell Snuff	Cancel	Spell Snuff is Cancel with a fateful hour ability that draws a card.
Spiteful Sliver	Spitemare	"Spiting" Red cards that hurt others the same scale it was hurt.
Splicer's Skill	Sensor Splicer, Splice cards	Plays off the homonymic Splice mechanic with the New Phyrexia Splicer creatures, with art specifically referencing Sensor Splicer and Phyrexian Splicer
Springbloom Druid	Harrow	A 1/1 creature that casts Harrow upon entry.
Stream of Thought	Stream of Consciousness, Dampen Thought, and Train of Thought	A reference to the Champions of Kamigawa Arcane Mill draft strategy, using Replicate in lieu of Splice.
String of Disappearances	Chain Lightning	Colorshifted red to blue. Both cost M mana and cost the target's controller MM to copy.
Tempered Sliver	Slith Predator	A metalized Sliver living on New Phyrexia. The Sliver's flavor text refers to the Predator's ability to adapt as well as granting other Slivers' the Predator's ability.
Thundering Djinn		References Brainstorm and Lightning Bolt in the flavor text.
Thornado	Tornado	Similar names.
Tribute Mage	Trinket Mage, Treasure Mage, and Trophy Mage	Depicts the Sword of the Meek and is the fourth in the line of mana value artifact tutors.
Trumpeting Herd	Call of the Herd	Sorceries that create a 3/3 green Elephant creature token as well as an ability to repeat that ability again.
Twisted Reflection	Twisted Image	Power/toughness switchers, both with the same Drake over a watery reflection in the artwork. A reference to the oft-cited combination of how power reduction and P/T switching, both mono-blue abilities, can combine to a kill spell.
Umezawa's Charm	Umezawa's Jitte	A Charm that mimics a single activation of the Jitte.
Undead Augur	Corpse Augur	Zombie Wizards that draws cards upon death.
Urza, Lord High Artificer	Temporal Aperture and Tolarian Academy	Karn, Scion of Urza (Urza's creation) produces the same artifact tokens. Urza's non-mana ability is the same as activating the Aperture, and tapping one's artifacts for is similar to tapping to generate a for each artifact.
Venomous Changeling	Giant Scorpion	A Giant Scorpion with Changeling.
Vesperlark	Reveillark	A smaller White flier with Evoke that can reanimate small creatures - the evening counterpart (Vespers) to the morning (Reveille).
Viashino Sandsprinter	Viashino Sandstalker	Hasty Viashino Warriors for that return themselves to their owner's hands.
Wall of One Thousand Cuts	Wall of Swords	A 3/5 Flying Wall that can now attack.
Watcher for Tomorrow	The hideaway lands from Lorwyn.	A new use of Hideaway, which brings with it the oddity that the creature also must enter tapped, a consequence of Hideaway needing too much space to fit its rules text.
Weather the Storm	Grapeshot and Tendrils of Agony	A specifically anti-storm card that allows one to survive the first round of Tendrils of Agony.
Webweaver Changeling	Mammoth Spider	A 3/5 Reach creature shaped like a Spider. Webweaver Changeling also has an extra ability at the cost of having a slightly more complex mana cost.
Winding Way	Mulch	A Mulch that now can choose creatures.
Winds of Abandon	Path to Exile and Cyclonic Rift	A Path to Exile with Overload - the name keeps the weather motif.
Zhalfirin Decoy	Master Decoy	Features a quote by Sidar Jabari, and is riding a Zebra Unicorn. Human Warriors that tap creatures.