Murders at Karlov Manor/Trivia

==Maro's Murders at Karlov Manor Teaser==
Mark Rosewater gave his traditional teaser with the following hints.
===First up, here are some things you can expect:===
*White gets a card that lets you play a subset off the top of the deck (creature cards with power 2 or less)
*A new enchantment subtype Case
*A card with four different hybrid symbols in its mana cost ()
*A popular mechanic returns tweaked with a new name Morph as Disguise (The face-down creature now has ward )
*A green sorcery that you can have any number of in your deck 
*A keyword mechanic not printed in a premier set since 2008 returns on a single card Wither on 
*A creature that allows you an alternate nonmana cost for all your spells (Collect evidence 10)
*Some creature tokens in the set: (note that some have abilities) 0/0 green Ooze, 0/0 colorless Thopter (also artifact), 0/1 green Plant, 1/1 black Bat, 1/1 white Dog, 1/1 red Goblin, 1/1 white Human, 1/1 blue Merfolk, 1/1 white and black Spirit, 1/1 colorless Thopter (also artifact), 2/1 black Skeleton, 2/1 black and green Spider, 2/2 white and blue Detective, 2/2 red Imp, and 5/5 green and white Wolf refer to Murders at Karlov Manor Tokens.
*And yes, is in the set.
===Here are snippets of rules text, you’ll see:===
*“Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, if its toughness was less than 1, draw a card.” 
*“Choose any number of target players.” 
*“Creature cards in your graveyard gain ‘You may cast this card from your graveyard’ until end of turn.” 
*“Then sacrifice it if it has five or more bloodstain counters on it.” 
*“You may search your graveyard, hand, and/or library for a card named and/or a card named and put them onto the battlefield.” 
*“Target opponent gains control of any number of target permanents you control.” 
*“If an ability of a creature you control with power 2 or less triggers, that ability triggers an additional time.” 
*“As long as there are no cards in your library,” 
*“If one or more tokens would be created under your control, those tokens plus a Clue token are created instead.” 
*“Whenever you sacrifice a Clue, target opponent gets two poison counters.” 
===Here are some creature type lines from the set:===
*Creature – Vedalken Artificer Detective 
*Creature – Ogre Cleric 
*Artifact Creature – Insect Thopter 
*Creature – Lammasu 
*Creature – Weird Detective 
*Creature – Goblin Bard 
*Creature – Viashino Assassin 
*Artifact Creature – Clue Fish 
*Creature – Elf Crocodile Detective 
*Legendary Creature – Mole God 
===Finally, here are some names in the set:===
* Enchantment — Aura
* Instant
* Sorcery
* Instant
* Creature — Human Detective
* Creature — Goblin Citizen
* Instant
* Creature — Human Rogue
* Creature — Homunculus Detective
* Artifact Land — Clue
==Gavin's Murders at Karlov Manor Commander teaser==
Gavin Verhey gave a teaser with the following hints about the new cards in the four Commander decks. Unlike his standard Commander teasers, he gave fourteen hints rather than twelve. Two of these hints are completely false. Gavin invited anyone who could figure out the phony to receive an additional teaser clue.
#There is a new card with the clash mechanic 
#There is a legend that cares about cards with base power and toughness 2/2 
#There is a new Azra in the set FALSE
#There is one new card that appears in all four decks 
#There is an enchantment that begins "Creatures you control get +X/+X, where X is..." 
#There is a black card in a many-year supercycle 
#There is a card that gives all your Clues a keyword ability 
#There is a new card with the radiance mechanic FALSE
#There is a colorshifted version of a well-known morph card ()
#There is a card that makes all your face-down creatures enter the battlefield with a specific keyword counter 
#There is a card that begins, "If an opponent would begin an extra turn..." 
#There is a new card with the gravestorm mechanic 
#There is a card that checks a condition, "if two or more players have lost the game" 
#There is a creature with an unusual power/toughness combination, where the two numbers are the two LIES on this list. The lower number of the two is its power. 
==Cultural references==
As a murder-mystery set, Murders at Karlov Manor references many crime fiction tropes. The following is a list of cards within the set that reference specific works within the genre.
===Literature===
Card(s) 	Novel/Short story 	Author 	Notes
 	The Murders in the Rue Morgue	Edgar Allan Poe 	An impossible double homicide is found to have been committed by an orange-haired Bornean.
 	Lamb to the Slaughter 	Roald Dahl 	A woman gets away with murdering her husband by using a frozen shank of meat as the murder weapon and cooking it before the police investigate.
 	Murder on the Orient Express 	Agatha Christie 	A murder on a train with many possible suspects is revealed to have been committed by all of them simultaneously.
 	The Maltese Falcon 	Dashiell Hammett	A detective investigating his partner's murder is entangled in a hunt for a falcon statue of priceless value.
<c>Case of the Shattered Pact</c>	The Ravnica Cycle novels. 	Cory J. Herndon 	A detective is brought back from dead for the sole purpose of stopping an ancient vampire in his attempt to bring the last strike against the already fractured Guildpact of Ravnica.
 	The Da Vinci Code 	Dan Brown 	The name and appearance of the card shares the same appearance as an item from the story. The cryptex is an item which is described as "five doughnut-sized disks of marble [that] had been stacked and affixed to one another within a delicate brass framework".
==Miscellaneous==
*Murders at Karlov Manor is the second time a plane has received a fourth return set, after Dominaria. 
*It is the first Ravnican set that was neither preceded nor followed up by another premier Ravnican set, though it was preceded by Ravnica Remastered and followed by Ravnica: Clue Edition.
*The portraits in the background of the art for are (top left) and (bottom right). All three cards were illustrated by Chris Rallis.
*The name, art and flavor text of <c>Meddling Youths</c> are a nod to the recurring unmasking scene in the Scooby-Doo series.
**The Dossier showcase , further plays this up by alluding to a "strangely intelligent hound".
**The card couldn't be named <c>Meddling Kids</c> because that card already existed.
*<c>Alquist Proft, Master Sleuth</c>'s third ability is a reference to and "cracking a Clue" to gain a revelation.
*<c>Buried in the Garden</c> was originally a Great Designer Search 3 card from Jay Treat called "Bought the Farm".
*<c>Coerced to Kill</c> was initially a Great Designer Search card designed by Jeremy Geist but it was heavily modified during the design process.
*<c>Cryptic Coat</c> is the first equipment in a premier set without an equip or reconfigure ability.
*<c>Final-Word Phantom</c> references the famous catchphrase of TV-detective Columbo.
*<c>Hedge Whisperer</c> is the first creature since <c>Rust Tick</c> in 2010 and the first non-artifact since <c>Hisoka's Guard</c> in 2004 to use the "choose not to untap" design in a premier set.
*<c>A Killer Among Us</c> is the first card to use "secretly" in a premier set since <c>Menacing Ogre</c>.
*<c>Hunted Bonebrute</c> refers to the Hunted cycle from the original Ravnica: City of Guilds set.
*'s wither ability makes Murders at Karlov Manor the first premier set ever to feature both +1/+1 counters and -1/-1 counters.
* is only the second time, outside of an Un-set, that a card has shared the same English-language name with another card , the Mystery Booster test card.
**The first one was (Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty Commander decks) / (Battle the Horde Challenge Deck).
** does the same thing with Mystery Booster test card , bringing the total to three.
==References==
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