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. — Baneslayer Angel
• A popular aura that started as part of a cycle.
• A card with unique protection — Sparkhunter Masticore (protection from planeswalkers)
• 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. — Could refer to Jeskai Elder
• A card from the Time Spiral timeshifted sheet.
Core Set 2021 has a lot of cards with amazing flavor