Innistrad: Midnight Hunt/Trivia

==Maro's Midnight Hunt teaser==
Mark Rosewater gave his traditional teaser with the following hints.
===First up, here are some things you can expect:===
* three popular mechanics previously seen on Innistrad return Flashback, Transform, and Investigate.
* a new drawback for creature tokens that lets us create them cheaper Decayed
* a white card that could potentially draw you a card each turn 
* a popular Innistrad card gets reprinted <c>Delver of Secrets</c>
* a curse that transforms into a creature <c>Curse of Leeches</c> (<c>Leeching Lurker</c>)
* two permanents that can double something every turn <c>Unnatural Growth</c> (Power/Toughness), (Life total)
* a mythic cycle with “you may pay [COST] any number of times” <c>Intrepid Adversary</c>, <c>Spectral Adversary</c>, <c>Tainted Adversary</c>, <c>Bloodthirsty Adversary</c>, <c>Primal Adversary</c> 
* a four mana blue aura with “You control enchanted creature.” <c>Grafted Identity</c>
* A popular tournament card in multiple formats gets reprinted with its fifth piece of art. 
* a character from Innistrad once mentioned in a short story finally gets a card in an Innistrad set <c>Liesa, Forgotten Archangel</c>
===Here are snippets of rules text, you’ll see:===
* “If your life total would be reduced to 0 or less,” 
* “This spell costs 1 less to cast for each creature you attacked with this turn.” <c>Search Party Captain</c>
* “As [CARDNAME] enters the battlefield, note your life total.” 
* “put a slime counter on up to one other target creature.” <c>Sludge Monster</c>
* “Creature tokens you control lose all abilities and have base power and toughness 3/3.” 
* “Each instant and sorcery card in your graveyard has” 
* “Instants and sorcery spells you cast cost X less to cast, where X is [CARDNAME]’s power.” 
* “put that many +1/+1 counters on [CARDNAME], then create twice that many 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens” <c>Tainted Adversary</c>
* “At the beginning of your end step, if you have exactly 13 life,” 
* “You may cast any number of the copies without paying their mana costs.” <c>Bloodthirsty Adversary</c>
===And finally, here are some creature type lines you’ll see:===
* Creature – Hippogriff Spirit <c>Soul-Guide Gryff</c> and <c>Waildrifter</c>
* Creature – Human Soldier Werewolf 
* Creature – Dragon Egg <c>Smoldering Egg</c>
* Creature – Leech Horror <c>Leeching Lurker</c>
* Creature – Fungus Horror <c>Deathbonnet Hulk</c>
* Creature – Plant Horror 
* Creature – Drake Horror <c>Storm Skreelix</c>
* Creature – Demon Dog <c>Dreadhound</c>
* Legendary Creature - Ooze 
* Legendary Creature – Vampire Noble <c>Florian, Voldaren Scion</c>
==Other==
=== Card references ===
*<c>Croaking Counterpart</c> is a play on . It seems to be copying .
* is a mirror to , both being draw-two-discard-twos.
* refers to , but with the gameplay reversed; while both will likely attack as 3-mana 4/3s, Briarbridge Tracker will prefer to trade off before using the Clue, being more aggressive, the Tireless Tracker will accrue value with other lands and wants the Clues to be activated before getting into combat.
* resembles , as two-mana 0/4 Defenders that encourage spellslinging. The style of spellslinging are opposites, however.
* naturally refers to , granting flying, lifelink, and a toned-down version of the card-drawing ability.
* is a dark mirror to , whose stand at the Parish ended in a massacre. Both are rare one-mana 1/1s that gain +1/+1 counters when a creature of their tribe enters the battlefield.
* is a Hippogriff with a confurcated maw similar to , showing Emrakul's passive influence from the moon.
* gives an alternate win condition a la .
=== Cultural references ===
*The art and card name of <c>Can't Stay Away</c> seems to be inspired by The Cat Came Back, a comic song written by Harry S. Miller.
*The art of <c>Rotten Reunion</c> takes reference from American Gothic, a painting by Grant Wood.
* has artwork reminiscent of a famous Bigfoot photograph, as seen on its main Wikipedia article.
*While Innistrad used 19th century Gothic horror and Shadows over Innistrad used early-20th century Eldritch horror literature, Midnight Hunt used more mid-to-late 20th century horror films.
**<c>Fleshtaker</c> is inspired by the Slasher movie genre.
** could refer to the Candyman series of films, though the folklore goes back to the Bloody Mary legend.
** refers to the 1928 film of the same name.
** refers to the Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise.
***While on the surface the face-wearing of is like Leatherface and his real-life inspiration Ed Gein, it may be a closer reference to the memetic film Face/Off with the two leads actors swapping characters, justified by their characters undergoing facial transplants.
** refers to the 1958 film The Blob.
** refers to the 1954 film Them!.
==References==
Category:Magic set trivia