Core Set 2021/Trivia

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Maro's Core 2021 Teaser

Mark Rosewater gave his traditional teaser with the following hints.[1]

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. — Barrin with Barrin, Tolarian Archmage
  • A card with thirty-one different options. — Sublime Epiphany
  • A card that gains all activated abilities of a certain subset of cards in a place it’s never done it before. — Conspicuous Snoop
  • 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”. — Idol of Endurance
  • An aura inspired from a cycle from Urza's Saga block. — Demonic Embrace (the Embraces from Urza's Saga).
  • A nonevergreen enchantment subtype returns. — Shrine from Champions of Kamigawa.

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. — Faith's Fetters
  • A card with unique protection. — Runed Halo
  • Two cards played in tournaments that have been reprinted over twenty times with at least five different pieces of art.— Duress and Shock
  • 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. — Tormod's Crypt

New cards with flavor inspired by familiar planes

Alara

Amonkhet

Dominaria

Eldraine

Ikoria

Innistrad

Ixalan

Kamigawa

Kaladesh

Mirrodin

Ravnica

Regatha

Tarkir

Theros

Zendikar

Unknown planes

Allusions

References

  1. Mark Rosewater (June 1, 2020). "Maro's Core 2021 Teaser". Blogatog. Tumblr.
  2. a b c d e Paul Scott Canavan (June 15, 2020). "Nine Lives dropped!". Twitter.