Mystery Booster 2/Test cards

Packs of Mystery Booster 2 contain a pretend "playtest card". They are called test cards on the cards themselves.
==Description==
The test cards feature black and white card faces that look like they have been stickered on cards with a regular card frame of the appropriate color. The card names are pretended funny placeholders, and the cards lack Collector numbers. Test cards are not meant for Constructed play, but may be used in Chaos Draft. There is a total of 121 test cards.
Test cards are not considered to be “real” cards, nor are they considered Acorn. They are meant as entertainment pieces rather than as game pieces.
===Rulings===
*Playtest cards aren't legal for play in tournaments other than Mystery Booster 2 Limited formats. 
*Playtest cards use a modified version of game symbols, such as {T} and {W}. These modified symbols should be treated as the standard symbols during play.
*Playtest cards often use "CARDNAME" in place of the card's name. This follows the same rules as an object referring to itself by name.
*For many playtest cards, you'll need to make a generous assumption that basic game rules will be updated to allow them to work. 
===Themes and mechanics===
The test cards explore various themes and mechanics, testing out boundaries and mechanics that later might appear in regular sets. Some will be nods to things already coming to print, while some are more nebulous in their influence.
New concepts are colorless Phyrexian mana (), (one mana of any type from a Legendary source), and (a cost that can be payed by giving up a land drop).
New named mechanics are Annihinfect, Assist kicker, Bedtime story, Buddy list, Construct a building, Coststorm, Daunt, Deworded, Equipment swap, Flashforward, Forbidden, Grazing type, Hope, Host, Land casualty, Library ninjutsu, Multicleave, Negamorph, Nimble, Partner with itself, Pass the ball, Planeswalkerwalk, Planet, Positioning, Proliferatelink, Scryfall, Shackle, Sinecure, Spaceship, Tantrum, Teach and Thoughtweft.
====Returning====
Returning mechanics (some with new twists) are: Adventurer card, Ascend, Banding, Changeling, Coin flipping, Companion, Daybound and nightbound, Draw, Devoid, Eternalize, Fear, Flanking, Gunk, Horsemanship, Heroic, Ingest, intimidate, Landwalk (Islandwalk, Plainswalk), Legacy, Level up, Madness, Planeswalk, Poisonous, Rebound, Retrace, Roles, Shroud, Splice, Umbra armor, Vanishing, Wishes, Wither and World Enchantments.
====Named====
The following terms are used for the first time in rules text or reminder text:
Adjacent creatures, Afraid, Back face, Card advantage, Check off, Enchant card in your hand, Enchant zone, Familiar, Gameplay tracker, Double-faced card, Keyword action, Land drop, Monk track, Objective, Playtesting, Points, Production ability, Production phase, Prestige, Resource, Sleeve, Tax, Way behind. Conjure is named on paper cards for the first time.
Beige, Orange, Silver and Purple appear as named colors for the first time. Gold is a returning named color.
====Card types====
Mystery Booster 2 includes the unique card type Building.
New subtypes are Apiary, Armored, Athlete, Champion, Cobbler, Luxior, Omenpath, Quest, Realm, Secret Mission, Shoemaker, Town, Ulamog's, Wainwright and You.
Basic, Poly, Mono and Continuous are returning supertypes, and Conspiracy is a returning card type. Cow, Germ, Licid and Spuzzem are returning creature subtypes.
===Counters===
New counters are: Base power counters, Base toughness counters, Milk counters, Primeval counters and Release counters.
Poison counters return.
===Card list===
Card name 	Color	Stickered on	Notes 	Artist
 	 	 	References a semi-popular card concept among custom Magic card designers. Combos with . 	Drew Moss
 	 	 	Introduces Annihinfect and colorless Phyrexian mana. 	Will Liu
 	 	 	Introduces the Secret Mission subtype for Conspiracy cards. Each birthday surprise condition is something Marchesa would approve. 	Maru Ferreira
 	 	 	The first basic creature. The card lives up to its omnipresent nature by functionally acting as every named card. 	Francois Dery
 	 	 	Ensures that all attacks the player makes are made even. 	Stephanie Bouchard
 	 	 	Collects each of the New Phyrexian Praetors that appeared during the Phyrexian Arc and plays on the fact that <c>Ebon Praetor</c> is the earliest non-Phyrexian Praetor. Name references "Who's that Pokémon?" from the Pokémon anime. First printed as an Unknown Event card at MagicCon: Philadelphia 2023. 	Thomas Ricci
 	 	 	Allows players to create their own faithful companions. The name references the novel and film A Boy and His Dog by Harlan Ellison. 	Sara Pitre-Durocher
 	 	 	Makes fun of Eurogames with many meeples (eg. Catan). Introduces Sinecure (This creature can occupy a space two spaces higher on the Monk track higher than its power). Equals odd-numbered production phases with the color beige. You may spend sheep for constructing a building. Also references buildings, prestige, apiary, cobbler, shoemaker and wainwright.	Jair Medina
 	 	 	The first card to use Equipment swap, an equipment version of Aura swap. The name references , which debuted Aura swap. 	Kevin Soler
 	 	 	Introduces the Shackle mechanic. Makes fun of the widely criticized flavor text of . 	Olga Kharyton
 	 	 	Introduces Nimble (This creature can't be blocked by creatures with power 3 or greater) and thoughtweft, representing the Kithkin trait of the same name (a creature with thoughtweft has all printed keyword abilities of other creatures you control with thoughtweft). 	Alina Marica
 	 	 	Keywords the unreleased "fellowship" mechanic designed for Bloomburrow as Buddy list. The card's name and second ability is a pun on and Bloomburrow's planar animal-shifting magic. 	Sara Pitre-Durocher
 	 	 	Introduces Positioning (As this creature enters, lock your creatures in order from left to right for as long as you control a creature with positioning. Each time a creature enters or comes under your control, position it to the left or right of another creature you control.) 	Marika Lord
 	 	 	The first emblem with a mana cost and that can be cast. It's also the first card to be cast directly into the Command zone. The illustration approximates the art design used for Planeswalker emblem tokens. Name and effect reference . 	Lucas Firmino
 	 	 	Introduces Coststorm. The card's name is a play on <c>Fireball</c>. 	Marc-André Dupont
 	 	 	Changes all creatures into tokens, including their cease-to-exist clause. Name references . 	Marisa Oh
 	 	 	Introduces the Athlete creature type and uses Rebound as a reference to Basketball. 	Oscar Camacho
 	 	 	The card creates an official definition of being "way behind". 	Sandy Lee
 	 	 	A play on the tendency of Muragandan cards to care about vanilla creatures (e.g. ). Introduces both Deworded and Primeval counters. 	Jair Medina
 	 	 	Recreates as it worked before the Sixth Edition rules changes. 	Florin Petre Bostan
 	 	 	The card is based on the homophone of "Noble Ox" and "no blocks". It is the first card printed with the "can block any number of creatures" ability since in 2016. 	Marianne Martin
 	 	 	Combines the homonyms of Plain, planeswalker, planeswalk and plainswalk. Introduces Planeswalkerwalk as a riff on plainswalk. The feet of the Kithkin are formed as the planeswalker symbol. 	Marika Lord
 	 	 	Introduces hope to Magic: The Gathering. 	Carol Azevedo
 	 	 	Rewards you for taxing your opponents with Treasure. 	Marc-André Dupont
 	 	 	World enchantment that introduces resources, the Planet keyword and flavor word Trade Routes. 	Thomas Ricci
 	 	 	Allows players to make their own modal double-faced cards, by putting two cards back-to-back in a sleeve. 	Sergei Ryzhov
 	 	 	A twist on that uses the Forbidden mechanic. This card was originally designed for Avacyn Restored but was discarded when the Forbidden mechanic was removed from the set design. In Mystery Booster 2, the art references the original card and the use of Forbidden pokes fun at the fact that that card is on the Reserved List. 	David Borba
 	 	 	A modal creature. 	Nadezhda Tikhomirova
 	 	 	Apparently inspired by a Twitter/X exchange between Gavin Verhey and April King in 2022. The name is designed as a joke for younger players who don't know what the DCI was. 	Pedro Maia
 	 	 	A stab at the Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game and partial reference to a phrase from the anime: "Heart of the cards". 	Drew Moss
 	 	 	When all objectives are checked off, you can create a <c>Lorthos, the Tidemaker</c> token. Introduces the Quest enchantment subtype, originally designed for Zendikar and Throne of Eldraine. 	Francois Dery
 	 	 	Features Bedtime story, which flavorfully moves the Saga turn-based action to the end step as a way of represent reading a story to a child at bed time. 	Ashlea Kelly
 	 	 	When this card is in your opening hand, it can influence your mulligan. 	Marco Wulfr
 	 	 	Combines the extreme rules oddness of with the strike-from-nowhere ability of Ninjutsu to form Library ninjutsu. 	David Giraud
 	 	 	Introduces the Scryfall ability word. References Scryfall, the most popular Magic card database and search engine. 	Gonçalo Pereira
 	 	 	A Goyf that cares about non-creature subtypes. 	Nadezhda Tikhomirova
(split card) 	 	 	A split card Lesson in English grammar. First instant with the Lesson subtype. 	Marika Lord
 	 	 	Introduces base power counters and base toughness counters in reference to the two inch by four inch rectangular cross section of a piece of lumber. 	Sam Denmark
 	 	 	This is the original design for Kai Budde's Magic Invitational card. It was deemed too powerful at the time and was not a creature, so R&D worked with Kai to design the card that would go on to see print . 	Ashlea Kelly
 	 	 	Allows players to Wish any spells from their sideboard and turn modal spells into commands. 	Christine Couture
 	 	 	A reprint of the Astral card from the 1997 MicroProse game Magic: The Gathering (aka Shandalar). 	Alex Tarca
 	 	 	Introduces Multicleave (You may pay an additional any number of times as you cast this spell. For each time you do, choose a paired set of squared brackets and remove the word in between.). Art shows a cleaver chopping square brackets in half. 	Drew Moss
 	 	 	Pokes fun at Design's regular use of a four mana black removal spell with a set-specific twist at common rarity. 	Michele Esposito
 	 	 	Introduces the afraid batch (An opponent is afraid of you if a Horror, Nightmare, enchantment, or face-down creature you control entered the battlefield or attacked them this turn). 	Marika Lord
 	 	 	An inverse version of the card <c>Doubling Season</c>. First printed as an Unknown Event card at MagicCon: Chicago 2024. 	Drew Moss
 	 	 	References Duel Masters. 	David Giraud
 	 	 	Brings back the Splice mechanic but on a creature. 	Andréa Blouin
(double-faced)	 	 	References the Liliana Vess made with Nicol Bolas and her resulting life lesson. Introduces the Planeswalker type You. 	Barbara Witkowska
 	 	 	A magus for <c>Chains of Mephistopheles</c>. The flowchart in the art is a slightly modified version of the one created by judge Charlotte Sable to help guide players through using the card. 	Will Liu
 	 	 	A version of that grants mostly discontinued abilities. 	Carol Azevedo
 	 	 	The card is named after the fan-voted name for the scorpion that appeared on the Amonkhet playmat during the open beta release of Magic: The Gathering Arena. It is the first non-digital card to use the Conjure mechanic. 	Drew Moss
 	 	 	"TL;DR" is internet slang for "too long; didn't read" and is a joke at some players refusing to read cards that contain too many words. 	Sergei Ryzhov
 	 	 	References Belzenlok and how he stole credit for many of the events and titles from Dominaria's past (head of the Cabal, wielder of Blackblade, etc.) 	Maru Ferreira
 	 	 	Introduces the concept of card advantage into an ability. Toofer's name is a play on the concept of "two-for-one". 	Oscar Camacho
 	 	 	A riff on . 	Tiago Sousa
 	 	 	Sets your maximum life total at 10. Adds costly filtering and card advantage. 	Jean-Christophe Drolet
 	 	 	Play on soccer strikers. Introduces assist kicker and pass the ball. 	Marika Lord
 	 	 	A Duel Masters card, changed to fit Magic rules and abilities. Introduces the Armored creature type. The card was added to honor Duel Masters as that game's Black Box product served as inspiriation for the original Mystery Booster. 	Marco Espenosa
 	 	 	Introduces Flashforward, a reverse of Flashback. 	Marika Lord
 	 	 	Introduces , a cost that can be payed in lieu of a land drop. Name references 	Marika Lord
 	 	 	Produces <c>Mana Confluence</c> tokens. 	Marika Lord
 	 	 	A Licid that bestows Flanking on creatures. Originally designed by Mark Rosewater for the 1998 Magic Invitational. 	Nikolai Maslakov
 	 	 	A colorshifted <c>Dryad Arbor</c>. 	Anik Sikder
 	 	 	Introduces the Realm enchantment type and related keyword Host. 	Thomas Ricci
 	 	 	Turns a creature into a Planeswalker. It's a planeswalker version of from the original Mystery Booster. 	Guga Baraldi
 	 	 	Introduces a variant of Cipher for Lessons called Teach. 	Marika Lord
 	 	 	Alternate win condition referencing the “snap” mechanic of Marvel Snap. 	Will Liu
 	 	 	Introduces tantrum (It's like trample but for blocking). 	Mélanie Bouregeois
 	 	 	Introduces Spaceship, a keyworded variant of the Clockwork creature mechanic. It also introduces new templating for static abilities that turn on or off based on the creature's power. 	Hélio Frazão
 	 	 	<c>Chaos Warp</c> but for cards in the sideboard, Wish-style. 	Sam Denmark
 	 	 	Enchants Zones. 	Will Liu
 	 	 	Legacy (keyword) allowing you to build a creature with Bear stats. 	Bogdan Marica
 	 	 	Legendary creature that may turn all creatures you cast into s. First printed as an Unknown Event card at MagicCon: Barcelona 2023. 	Marika Lord
 	 	 	A real-life version of the ProZD Magic: The Gathering parody card game. The original sketch was a paid advertisement by Wizards of the Coast for Magic: The Gathering Arena. Introduces Grazing type and Milk counters, and uses the acorn Cow creature type instead of Ox. 	Andréa Blouin
 	 	 	Introduces Negamorph, a mirror opposite to Megamorph, which puts a -1/-1 counter on the creature when it is turned face-up. 	Drew Moss
 	 	 	Is the first land to have a mana cost, requiring additional mana to be paid to play the card as a land drop. The card's name uses the player slang for spells that increase (pump) the power and toughness of one or more creatures. 	Christine Couture
(adventurer) 	 	 	Introduces as a cost ( can be paid with one mana from a legendary source). 	Elliot Stevens
 	 	 	Grants the ability of the to enchanted creature. 	Hung Nguy
 	 	 	First card that can remove emblems and other gameplay trackers (Monarch, Dungeons, City's Blessing). The art is a reverse version of , with the sword's hilt transforming and the blade remaining. 	Marika Lord
 	 	 	Turns enchanted creature into penumbra creature, and has umbra armor. 	Bogdan Marica
 	 	 	Introduces Proliferatelink. 	Drew Moss
(double-faced)	 	 	Simulates waiting for a tree to grow from a seed. 	Lucas Firmino
 	 	 	Creates a unique Role (Questing Role) that gives the enchanted creature all the abilities of <c>Questing Beast</c>. First printed as an Unknown Event card at MagicCon: Las Vegas 2023. 	Gabriela Birchal
 	 	 	A reference to the printed wording of ’s ability, where it (the card) would choose which artifact to destroy. Uses the obsolete Spuzzem creature type rather than Elemental. 	Alex Tarca
 	 	 	References non-player characters, characters in a role-playing or video game that a player cannot control. Turn all creatures in your hand into adventurer cards. 	Pedro Maia
 	 	 	Planar Chaos-style planeshifted version of . 	Mélanie Bouregeois
 	 	 	Allows players to create their own double-faced were-creature by exiling a card. 	Marco Espinoza
 	 	 	A play on Wrenn's tendency to name her Treefolk hosts in order of their acquisition. Introduces Land planeswalker as a type combination. 	Marianne Marten
 	 	 	"Quad team up" of with as a play on the team up Legendary cards of March of the Machine. First printed as an Unknown Event card at MagicCon: Minneapolis 2023. 	Marika Lord
 	 	 	References the owner of the . 	Marco Wulfr
 	 	 	Creates the Familiar batch (Bats, Birds, Cats, Dragons, Faeries, Foxes, Frogs, Imps, Lizards, and Spiders are familiars, as well as any creature with “Familiar” in its name.) 	Stephanie Bouchard
 	 	 	Allows players to create their own Maro. The card is an exclusive promo for Festival in a Box: Las Vegas 2024 and is not found in Mystery Booster 2 boosters. 	Mark Rosewater
 	 	 	Introduces the ability to enchant cards in a player's hand. 	Jean-Christophe Drolet
 	 	 	Features the return of Gunk cards, as designed by Richard Garfield. First seen on <c>Gunk Slug</c> in the original Mystery Booster. 	Sara Leal
 	 	 	The card's abilities make Glimpse untargetable and unable to be chosen which reflects a player being unable to think of Glimpse through the mechanics of Magic: The Gathering. The card name is a play on , but with a comma to make it a legendary creature with an epithet. 	Lena Zykova
 	 	 	Ingredients for a Modern Jund deck. The name is a catchphrase from the LoadingReadyRun channel on YouTube. 	Drew Moss
 	 	 	References the errata of Naga to Snakes, but also incorporates Serpents. Mark Rosewater doesn’t expect the latter any time soon, as Serpents are used for sea monsters. 	Marco Dotti
 	 	 	Lutri but designed for the Pauper format. Introduces colored text in the text box, referencing the colors of uncommon, rare, mythic rare and Timeshifted expansion symbols. 	Will Liu
 	 	 	The card's name and ability are all references to <c>Doran, the Siege Tower</c>. It is one of only six cards, and the only multicolored card, to have the Plant subtype and not include green in its casting cost. 	Sara Leal
 	 	 	Swaps the actions of dice rolling with flipping a coin and vice versa. 	David Borba
 	 	 	References Drake Stone and the tie-in cards for The Sorcerer's Apprentice movie. 	Raluca Marinescu
 	 	 	"Terrapin" is North-American colloquialism for small freshwater turtles. 	Harpreet Rattan
 	 	 	Features an Alternate-win condition that is virtually impossible to meet. 	Tiago Sousa
 	 	 	Parodies . Features Partner with itself as a response to the long-standing player demand that they be able to use both as Commanders. 	Marika Lord
 	 	 	Dogs are Cats and Cats are Dogs too. 	Giacomo Galloni
 	 	 	<c>Wrath of God</c>, but free. Depicts and refers to Jon Finkel as this is the original design for his Magic Invitational card. It was deemed too powerful at the time and R&D worked with Jon to design the card that would go on to see print . Leknif is Finkel spelled backwards. 	Marion Kivits
 	 	 	References Luxior. Introduces Artifact planeswalker as a type combination, Luxior as a planeswalker type, and is an Equipment. 	Alexandre Breton
 	 	 	Allows players to examine their library and turn a card in their graveyard into a Germ (but not the Phyrexian kind). Originally designed by Jeremy Geist for Murders at Karlov Manor. 	Alina Marica
 	 	 	First printed as an Unknown Event card at MagicCon: Philadelphia 2023. 	Dan Frazier
 	 	 	Reintroduces the Poly Artifact. Turns all other artifacts into Mono and Continuous as per the original Limited Edition Comprehensive Rules. 	Drew Moss
 	 	 	References Legends of Runeterra. Instead of taking turns as normal, players take their phases sequentially. Introduces Champion as a creature type. 	Kevin Dubell
 	 	 	A dual land that enters tapped if it was played from your hand, making it an ideal target for fetch lands. 	Sophie Rochon
 	 	 	First land card to have Eternalize. Represents the lazotep-covered Eternals of Nicol Bolas' Dreadhorde. 	Will Liu
 	 	 	First land card to have Madness. The name is a play on <c>Badlands</c> and the tendency of players to name tapland cycles after their mechanical gimmick. 	Véronique Chabot
 	 	 	Brings Casualty to lands in the form of Land casualty. The card also hints at the fate of the Maestros in the Streets of New Capenna storyline. 	Gonçalo Pereira
 	 	 	Introduces the Omenpath nonbasic land type. 	Sandy Lee
 	 	 	Features Ulamog's as a nonbasic land type and callback to the Urza's subtype. 	Thomas Ricci
 	 	 	A quirky take on creature lands, where the player needs to figure out how to "wake up" the land. 	Kevin Dubell
 	 	 	A land with Ascend as a joke on elevators transporting people up (and down) buildings. 	Marika Lord
 	 	 	The card name is a reference to the Moon of Innistrad and the flavor text of and . The ability references Emrakul's current status and Innistrad's association with the number thirteen. Introduces release counters. 	Kevin Dubell
 	 	 	A Level up land. 	Kevin Dubell
(adventurer) 	 	 	The card name is a reference to the chorus of the 1980 song Funkytown by Lipps Inc. Introduces the Town land type. 	Hélio Frazão
 This card is speculated to be underneath the playtest "sticker" but has not been confirmed.
==Reused names==
Test cards are not considered true Magic cards so their names are not exclusive and can be reused in traditional Magic sets.
==References==
Category:Test cards