Core Set 2021/Trivia

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Maro’s Core 2021 Teaser

Mark Rosewater gave his traditional teaser with the following hints. 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.— Baneslayer Angel (Sparkhunter Masticore is not a reprint)
• 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 flavor 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 — Mangara
• Teferi's Protege — a wizard of the Tolarian Academy
• Llanowar Visionary — Llanowar
• Plunge — referring to Kaervek, antagonist of the Mirage storyline
• Peer into the Abyss — refers to Braids

Innistrad

• Indulging Patrician — a Voldaren vampire

Ixalan

• Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose — an acolyte of Elenda, the Dusk Rose
• Primal Might — refers to Ghalta, Primal Hunger

Mirrodin

• Chromatic Orrery — The Moons of Mirrodin

Ravnica

• Playhem Devil — Rakdos guild Demons

Regatha

• Keral Keep Disciples — Keral Keep