Wilds of Eldraine/Trivia

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Maro's Wilds of Eldraine Teaser

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

First up, here are some things you can expect:

Next, here are some rules text that will be showing up on cards:

  • “If a permanent entering the battlefield causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time.” — Virtue of Knowledge
  • “Look at the top twenty cards of your library.” — Thunderous Debut
  • “It produces three times as much of that mana instead.” — Virtue of Strength
  • “Sacrifice all Reflections you control.” — The Apprentice's Folly
  • “Creatures you control with +1/+1 counters on them have all activated abilities of all creature cards exiled with CARDNAME.” — Agatha’s Soul Cauldron
  • “Have base power and toughness 4/4 and flying.” — Archon of the Wild Rose
  • “exile up to one other non-Fox creature” — Werefox Bodyguard
  • “Land creatures you control” — Blossoming Tortoise
  • “Whenever you tap an untapped creature an opponent controls,” — Hylda of the Icy Crown
  • “X is 2 plus the number of cards in your graveyard that are instant cards, sorcery cards, and/or have an Adventure.” — Frantic Firebolt

Here are some creature type lines from the set:

Finally, here are some names in the set:

Cultural references

Cards throughout Wilds of Eldraine reference the Arthurian legend of Camelot on the one hand and Grimms' Fairy Tales on the other. Other fairy tales, not especially compiled by the Grimm brothers, are also referenced. The following is a list of specific analogs and references in cards within the set.

Fairy tales

Card(s) Fairytales and stories Notes
Agatha of the Vile Cauldron Hansel and Gretel The evil witch.
Agatha's Champion Little Red Riding Hood The Wolf.[2]
Ash, Party Crasher Cinderella Cinderella (re-imagined as a knight rather than a princess)
Asinine Antics The Adventures of Pinocchio Turning boys into donkeys.
Beluna Grandsquall Jack and the Beanstalk The Giant.
Beseech the Mirror Snow White The Magic Mirror.
Besotted Knight Beauty and the Beast The Beauty and the Beast (role reversal)
Break the Spell Various True love's kiss
Candy Trail Hansel and Gretel The trail of breadcrumbs.
Curiosity (Enchanting Tales) The Little Mermaid The mermaid's fascination with the world above.
Cursed Courtier and the Cursed Role The Frog Prince The prince.[3]
Devouring Sugarmaw Alice's Adventures in Wonderland "Eat Me!" cake (role reversal)
Doubling Season (Enchanting Tales, #81) The Goose that Laid the Golden Eggs The prodigious goose.
Eriette of the Charmed Apple Snow White The Wicked Queen.
Eriette's Tempting Apple Snow White The poisoned apple.
Faunsbane Troll Three Billy Goats Gruff The troll.
Feral Encounter Little Red Riding Hood Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf.
Gingerbrute The Gingerbread Man The Gingerbread Man.
Glass Casket Snow White Snow White's glass coffin.
Greta, Sweettooth Scourge Hansel and Gretel Gretel.
Gruff Triplets Three Billy Goats Gruff The three billy goats gruff.
Hylda of the Icy Crown The Snow Queen The Snow Queen.
Johann, Apprentice Sorcerer The Sorcerer's Apprentice The apprentice.
Johann's Stopgap The Sorcerer's Apprentice The apprentice tries to rectify the problem spell.
Liberated Livestock Town Musicians of Bremen The aging domestic animals.[4]
Lord Skitter, Sewer King The Nutcracker and the Mouse King The Mouse King.
Monstrous Rage Little Red Riding Hood “My, what big paws y—”
Neva, Stalked by Nightmares Snow White Snow White.
Rat Out The Pied Piper of Hamelin The Pied Piper's Revenge.
Ruby, Daring Tracker Little Red Riding Hood Little Red Riding Hood.
Smothering Tithe (Enchanting Tales, #13) Rumpelstiltskin Spinning straw into gold.
Song of Totentanz The Pied Piper of Hamelin The music of the Pied Piper.
Stroke of Midnight Cinderella Cinderella's deadline for the festivities.
Sweettooth Witch Hansel and Gretel The witch, and the fate of Hansel.
Syr Armont, the Redeemer Beauty and the Beast Beauty
Talion, the Kindly Lord Sleeping Beauty A take on the Wicked fairy / Maleficent.
The Apprentice's Folly The Sorcerer's Apprentice The apprentice multiplying the broom.
The End Fairy tales (several) The usual conclusion of a fairytale.
The Goose Mother Tales of Mother Goose Mother Goose.
The Huntsman's Redemption Little Red Riding Hood The Huntsman (cf. Garruk, Cursed Huntsman).
The Princess Takes Flight Rapunzel Rapunzel escapes
Three Bowls of Porridge Goldilocks and the Three Bears Everything in three. "Too hot, too cold, just right".[5]
Totentanz, Swarm Piper The Pied Piper of Hamelin The Pied Piper.
Tough Cookie The Gingerbread Man The Gingerbread Man.
Troyan, Gutsy Explorer Jack and the Beanstalk Jack.
The Goose that Laid the Golden Eggs The golden egg.
Up the Beanstalk Jack and the Beanstalk The beanstalk.
Werefox Bodyguard Beauty and the Beast The Beast (role reversal)

Other references

Card(s) Influence Notes
Agatha of the Vile Cauldron
Eriette of the Charmed Apple
Hylda of the Icy Crown
Three Witches (Macbeth) The weird sisters trope.
Decadent Dragon Fáfnir (Sigurd's Saga and Nibelunglied) A hoarding dragon from German and Norse mythology.
Ingenious Prodigy The Once and Future King "Wizard who Ages Backwards".[6][7]
Karmic Justice (Enchanting Tales) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. The conclusion of the story.
Korvold and the Noble Thief Robin Hood Korvold is robbed.
Moonshaker Cavalry Wild Hunt A ghostly host from European mythologies.
Mosswood Dreadknight Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Arthurian reference: the Green Knight.[8]
Regal Bunnicorn Monty Python and the Holy Grail The Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog
Regal Bunnicorn Jackalope A mythical jackrabbit with antelope horns.
Song of Totentanz Danse Macabre. An artistic genre of allegory of the Late Middle Ages on the universality of death.
Tangled Colony Rat king. A collection of rats whose tails are intertwined and bound together in some way.
Three Blind Mice Three Blind Mice. Nursery rhyme.
The Irencrag The Sword in the Stone. Arthurian reference: Excalibur.

Miscellaneous

References

  1. Mark Rosewater (August 7, 2023). "Maro’s Teaser for Wilds of Eldraine". Blogatog. Tumblr.
  2. Jason Engle (August 18, 2023). "Agatha's Champion, for MTG Wilds of Eldraine. The big bad wolf of the story, her cursed thrall and dark guardian.". Twitter.
  3. Mark Rosewater (September 10, 2023). "Did you guys choose not to include the Princess and the Frog for Eldraine for a reason or was there just no room?". Blogatog. Tumblr.
  4. Jeremy Geist (August 26, 2023). "Liberated Livestock is a reference to The Town Musicians of Bremen.". Twitter.
  5. Mark Rosewater (September 11, 2023). "Wilds Blue Yonder, Part 1". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
  6. Chris Mooney (August 18, 2023). "While WOE is mostly focused on fairy tales, we did want to make sure we hit a few Arthurian references we didn't get last time.". Twitter.
  7. Merlin Sickness. TV Tropes. Retrieved on September 4, 2023.
  8. Chris Mooney (August 23, 2023). "The Green Knight is one of the few Arthurian legends players asked us for after Throne of Eldraine.". Twitter.
  9. Blake Rasmussen, Max McCall, Zakeel Gordon (February 13, 2024). "Epilogue on Epilogue (Video)". Magic: The Gathering. YouTube.
  10. Chris Mooney (August 20, 2023). "Though the Virtues changed many times, the core concept came from vision design.". Twitter.
  11. Jeremy Geist (August 29, 2023). "Timber Paladin was originally a top-down Pinocchio card.". Twitter.
  12. Mark Rosewater & Roy Graham (September 22, 2023). "Drive to Work 1071: Wilds of Eldraine Story with Roy Graham"