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Maro's Crimson Vow teaser

Mark Rosewater gave his traditional teaser for Innistrad: Crimson Vow with the following hints.

First up, here are some things you can expect

• The following counter types:
  • Bloodline — Edgar Markov’s Coffin
  • Croak — Grolnok, the Omnivore
  • Invitation — Wedding Announcement
  • Judgment — Faithbound Judge
  • Omen — Soulcipher Board, Foreboding Statue
  • Slime — Toxrill, the Corrosive
  • Suspect — Investigator’s Journal
• A new mechanic that removes something never removed before — Cleave (rules text)
• A popular and powerful creature card from an Innistrad set gets reprinted — Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
• A new artifact token, along the lines of Clue, Food and Treasure — Blood
• A card that makes red Dragon Illusion creature tokens with flying and haste — Manaform Hellkite
• A mechanic that first appeared as a faction mechanic returns — Exploit
• A new legendary creature card that combines two characters that previously each had their own legendary creature card — Halana and Alena, Partners
• A new card that lets you cast certain cards off the top of your library — Cemetery Illuminator
• A new mechanic which is a mirror of an already existing mechanic — Training (Mentor)
• A legendary character returns, but now as a Vampire — Odric (Odric, Blood-Cursed)

Here are snippets of rules text, you’ll see

• “Choose a number between 0 and 13.” — By Invitation Only
• “with mana value less than or equal to the number of Vampires you control” — Dominating Vampire
• “If it’s red, you may cast it this turn.” — Chandra, Dressed to Kill
• “Zombies you control have flying.” — Geralf, Visionary Stitcher
• “At the beginning of your upkeep, any opponent may sacrifice a creature.” — Innocent Traveler
• “Kraken, Leviathan, Octopus, or Serpent” — Krothuss, Lord of the Deep
• “twice that many of those tokens are created instead.” — Kaya, Geist Hunter
• “Whenever a Human you control dies,” — Laid to Rest
• “equal to the number of permanents you control that are Spirits and/or enchantments.” — Katilda, Dawnhart Martyr
• “Then if you control exactly thirteen permanents,” — Stensia Uprising

And finally, here are some creature type lines you’ll see

• Creature – Human Ranger Werewolf — Oakshade Stalker
• Creature – Angel Soldier — Angelic Quartermaster
• Creature – Zombie Scorpion — Fell Stinger
• Creature – Serpent Egg — Biolume Egg
• Creature – Eye Horror — Revealing Eye
• Legendary Creature – Human Peasant — Old Rutstein
• Legendary Creature – Spirit Warlock — Katilda, Dawnhart Martyr
• Legendary Creature – Slug Horror — Toxrill, the Corrosive
• Legendary Creature – Kraken Horror — Krothuss, Lord of the Deep
• Legendary Creature – Vampire Noble — Olivia, Crimson Bride, Edgar, Charmed Groom

Other

• The art of Cartographer's Survey is a callback to Cartographer, which was done by the same artist (Donato Giancola). One of her maps is a Dungeon map.
• Hullbreaker Horror resembles Awoken Horror, with the same power, toughness, creature types, and has the same artist (Svetlin Velinov).
• Ulvenwald Oddity transforms like the Werewolves in Eldritch Moon, but "merely" becomes a Horror rather than an Eldrazi.
• Shattered Sanctum has both parts of its name encapsulated within another card (Sanctum of Shattered Heights), and at 17 characters is one of the longest card names for which this applies.
• The "fang" art for Hauken's Insight (Jonathan Harker) resembles Harker as portrayed by Keanu Reeves in Bram Stoker's Dracula.
• Headless Rider is an ancient folklore figure that also inspired Headless Horseman, most associated with the Legend of Sleepy Hollow.
• Boarded Window is a classic zombie movie trope; it proves more functional as a card than in those films. Spiked Ripsaw represents the classic movie weapon the chainsaw, something slightly more technologically advanced than usual in Magic.