The Lost Caverns of Ixalan/Trivia

The Lost Caverns of Ixalan/Trivia

 

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Trivia

 

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Maro's Lost Caverns Teaser

Mark Rosewater gave his traditional teaser with the following hints.

First up, here are some things you can expect:

• A new card with the word “three times” in its rules text — Ojer Taq, Deepest Foundation
• A new land subtype — Cave
• An aura card we’ve reprinted numerous times over twenty years appears with a new name and is one mana cheaper — Petrify (Arrest)
• A redone version of a popular mechanic that first premiered in 2009 — Discover, a "fixed" version of cascade
• A new mechanic representing crafting — Craft
• A card capable of animating both artifacts and enchantments — Abuelo's Awakening
• A popular Tempest sorcery returns as an “enter the battlefield” effect — Bringer of the Last Gift (Living Death)
• A new ability word that cares about what is in your graveyard — Descend
• Some counters in the set: bore, chorus, dread, finality, landmark, lore, net, point, stun, and time; one of which is a new deciduous counter — Finality counters are deciduous
• Some creature tokens: 0/1 green Dinosaur Eggs, 1/1 colorless Gnomes, 1/1 white Vampire, 1/1 blue Merfolk, 1/1 black Bat, 1/1 black Fungus, 2/2 black Skeleton Pirate, 3/1 red Dinosaur, 3/2 red and white Spirit, 3/3 green Dinosaur, 4/3 black Vampire Demon, 4/4 white Angel, 4/4 white and blue Golem (note that some of these tokens have additional abilities)

Here are snippets of rules text, you’ll see:

• “As an additional cost to cast this spell, tap four untapped artifacts, creatures, and/or land you control.” — Guardian of the Great Door
• “Until end of turn, target artifact or creature becomes a Dinosaur” — Relic's Roar
• “Then destroy all other creatures if its power is exactly 20.” — Amalia Benavides Aguirre
• “When you <new keyword>, <new keyword> again for the same value.” — Curator of Sun's Creation (the keyword is discover)
• “Whenever you’re dealt combat damage, the attacking player gains control of CARDNAME and untaps it.” — Contested Game Ball
• “Equip – Pay or discard a card.” — Bloodthorn Flail
• “Whenever you cast a permanent spell using mana produced by CARDNAME, up to one other target permanent you control becomes a copy of that spell until end of turn.” — The Myriad Pools (transforms from The Everflowing Well)
• “Skeletons you control get +1/+0 and have haste.” — Corpses of the Lost
• “If a triggered ability of another creature you control of the chosen type triggers, it triggers an additional time.” — Roaming Throne
• “When there are 1,000 or more time counters on CARDNAME, sacrifice it and each opponent loses 1,000 life.” — The Millennium Calendar

Here are some creature type lines from the set:

• Artifact Creature – Dinosaur Gnome — Dinotomaton
• Creature – Salamander Wurm — Frilled Cave-Wurm
• Creature – Merfolk Warrior Scout — Sentinel of the Nameless City
• Legendary Creature – Bat God — Aclazotz, Deepest Betrayal
• Creature – Capybara — Basking Capybara
• Legendary Creature – Skeleton Spirit Pirate — The Grim Captain (transforms from Throne of the Grim Captain)
• Artifact Creature – Nautilus — Hermitic Nautilus
• Creature – Beast Horror Spirit — Chupacabra Echo
• Creature – Fungus Snail — Skullcap Snail
• Creature – Dinosaur Skeleton Horror — Dread Osseosaur

Finally, here are some names in the set:

• Braided Quipu — Artifact (transforms from Braided Net)
• Calamitous Cave-In — Sorcery
• Careening Mine Cart — Artifact — Vehicle
• Chupacabra Echo — Creature — Beast Horror Spirit
• Diamond Pick-Axe — Artifact — Equipment
• Eaten by Piranhas — Enchantment — Aura
• Out of Air — Instant
• Pirate Hat — Artifact — Equipment
• Sovereign’s Macuahuitl — Artifact — Equipment (transforms from Idol of the Deep King)
• Spelunking — Enchantment

Gavin's Lost Caverns of Ixalan Teaser

Gavin Verhey gave a teaser with the following hints about the new cards in the Commander decks:

1. There is a one-mana creature that taps for three mana — Master of Dark Rites
2. There is a card with both populate and proliferate — Xavier Sal, Infested Captain
3. There is a card that is a colorshifted version of a popular commander card from last Ixalan block — Illustrious Wanderglyph (Tendershoot Dryad)
4. There is a card that has an ability that begins, "Whenever you cast a noncreature spell you don’t own..." — Don Andres, the Renegade
5. There is a card named "The Indomitable" — The Indomitable
6. There is a dinosaur with the same exact name as its creature type — Dinosaur Egg
7. There is a legend that puts flood counters on permanents — Xolatoyac, the Smiling Flood
8. There is a card that counts devotion to white and black — March of the Canonized
9. There is a legend with the type human fungus pirate — Xavier Sal, Infested Captain
10. There is a card named Skeleton Crew — Skeleton Crew
11. There is a card with an ability that contains, "Treasures you control are ________ in addition to their other types..." You'll have to figure out the rest — Gemcutter Buccaneer (They're Equipment in addition to their other types)
12. There are a TON of returning mechanics — Coven (Redemption Choir), persist (Dusk Legion Sergeant), proliferate (Xavier Sal, Infested Captain & Ripples of Potential), retrace (Deeproot Historian), partner (Francisco, Fowl Marauder), parley (Storm Fleet Negotiator), boast (Broadside Bombardiers), escape (The Grim Captain's Locker), ascend (Illustrious Wanderglyph), myriad (Scion of Calamity), evolve (Dinosaur Egg), convoke and exalted (Order of Sacred Dusk), Adventure (Promise of Aclazotz), shield counters (Singer of Swift Rivers), mentor (Tributary Instructor), encore (Mist Dancer), and populate (Xavier Sal, Infested Captain & Promise of Aclazotz)

Miscellaneous

• Huatli, Poet of Unity breaks normal formatting rules by using Huatli's personal pronouns, which are reserved for planeswalker cards, rather than the gender-neutral it/its pronouns which are normally used on creature cards. This is likely because the card depicts a desparked planeswalker.
• Just like with Streets of New Capenna, the angels depicted on several cards are otherwise unmentioned in the storyline.
• Diamond Pick-Axe is also a pickaxe variant that can be found within the various Minecraft games. The design of an underground world being linked to the crafting of resources was a younger-generation perspective, of which Minecraft had a large influence.
  • It is the second Magic card to be inspired by Minecraft, after the Markus Persson (Notch) designed Aggressive Mining (Magic 2015).
• Design conceived of Francisco, Fowl Marauder as the pet of either Malcolm Lee or Breeches and modeled his ability after both of their Commander Legends cards.
• The set shares similarities with the mobile game Fate/Grand Order's Lostbelt 7: Golden Sea of Trees Travelogue: Nahui Mictlan, which was released in January 2023. Both share an underground Mayan themed circular world with an internal sun.