Before the official previews for the upcoming Core Set 2021 kicked off, Magic: The Gathering Head Designer Mark Rosewater revealed a teaser list of card details that describe new and reprinted cards from the upcoming set, and now have know most of those cards thanks to the recent previews.
Most of the cards from Core Set 2021 have been revealed, and here are the answers to Rosewater's clues:
A brand new planeswalker (from a plane we've visited):
Basri Ket
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.)
A character with a Vanguard card and a legendary creature card gets a second of the latter.
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.
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 Sagablock
Demonic Embrace
A nonevergreen enchantment subtype returns
Reprints:
> A popular character first introduced in flavor text.
Ugin, the Spirit Dragon
> A French Vanilla mythic rare.
Baneslayer Angel
Faith's Fetters
> A card with a unique protection
Runed Halo
> Two cards played in tournaments that have been reprinted over twenty times with at least five different pieces of art
1. Duress 2. ?
> 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 Jeskai Elder
Azusa, Lost but Seeking
> A card from the Time Spiraltimeshifted sheet.
Tormod's Crypt
So we just need to know the second card that's "been reprinted over twenty times with at least five different pieces of art." The set will be fully revealed by tomorrow, June 16, so we'll find out soon enough.
Core Set 2021 is set to release on July 3 with Prerelease events scheduled from June 26 to July 2.
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