Innistrad/Card comparisons

Cards from Innistrad compared to cards from earlier sets.
==Strictly better==
*<c>Altar's Reap</c>, upgrade from <c>Skulltap</c> (Scourge)
*<c>Bramblecrush</c>, upgrade from <c>Creeping Mold</c> (Visions)
*<c>Caravan Vigil</c>, upgrade from <c>Lay of the Land</c> (Apocalypse)
*<c>Dead Weight</c>, upgrade from <c>Enfeeblement</c> (Mirage) and <c>Weakness</c> (Limited Edition)
*<c>Devil's Play</c>, upgrade from <c>Blaze</c> (Portal)
*<c>Feeling of Dread</c>, upgrade from <c>Lead Astray</c> (Judgment)
*<c>Gatstaf Shepherd</c>, upgrade from <c>Balduvian Bears</c> (Ice Age), <c>Barbary Apes</c> (Legends), <c>Bear Cub</c> (Portal Second Age), <c>Forest Bear</c> (Portal Three Kingdoms), and <c>Grizzly Bears</c> (Alpha)
*<c>Ghoulcaller's Chant</c>, upgrade from <c>Raise Dead</c> (Limited Edition) and <c>Disentomb</c> (Magic 2010)
*<c>Lantern Spirit</c>, upgrade from <c>Fleeting Image</c>
*<c>Night Revelers</c>, upgrade from <c>Berserkers of Blood Ridge</c> (Magic 2010)
*<c>Rebuke</c>, upgrade from <c>Eightfold Maze</c> (Portal Three Kingdoms) and <c>Just Fate</c> (Portal Second Age)
*<c>Walking Corpse</c>, upgrade from <c>Spineless Thug</c> (Nemesis) and <c>Whipstitched Zombie</c> (Prophecy)
==Near-reprints==
*<c>Avacyn's Pilgrim</c> is <c>Llanowar Elves</c> that produces instead of .
*<c>Devil's Play</c> is a <c>Blaze</c> with flashback, which itself is a <c>Fireball</c> without the option of additional targets.
*<c>Faithless Looting</c> is a colorshifted <c>Careful Study</c> with flashback.
*<c>Bump in the Night</c> is a colorshifted <c>Lava Spike</c> with flashback.
*<c>Rally the Peasants</c> is a less conditional, white version of <c>Trumpet Blast</c>.
*<c>Infernal Plunge</c> is a less effective, red version of <c>Culling the Weak</c>.
*<c>Memory's Journey</c> functions like a buffed up and colorshifted version of <c>Krosan Reclamation</c>.
*<c>Parallel Lives</c> is the token-copying half of <c>Doubling Season</c>.
*<c>Havengul Runebinder</c> is <c>Cemetery Reaper</c> but instead of removing a target creature card as part of the effect, it is part of the cost; instead of giving the Zombie creature token +1/+1 as part of its static ability, Havengul Runebinder puts a +1/+1 counter on it; and instead of being a black Zombie, Havengul Runebinder is a blue Human Wizard.
*<c>Avacynian Priest</c> is nearly a functional reprint of <c>Benalish Trapper</c> and <c>Master Decoy</c>, except it only non-Human creatures and its activated ability costs instead of .
*<c>Bonds of Faith</c> is <c>Pacifism</c> on non-Human creatures and a simple +2/+2 enchantment on Humans (later printed as <c>Knight's Pledge</c>.
*<c>Cobbled Wings</c> is <c>Neurok Hoversail</c> but with the casting cost and equip costs swapped.
==Strictly worse==
*<c>Butcher's Cleaver</c> is strictly worse than <c>Loxodon Warhammer</c>, as it only gives lifelink to Humans and it doesn't give trample at all.
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