Outlaws of Thunder Junction/Trivia

==Maro's Outlaws of Thunder Junction Teaser==
Mark Rosewater gave his traditional teaser with the following hints.
===First off, here are some things you can expect:===
*A new batch of five related creature types Outlaw batches Assassins, Mercenaries, Pirates, Rogues, and Warlocks.
*A card capable of returning three different card types from the graveyard to the battlefield 
*A mechanic players have been asking us to do for many years gets made as the setting was the perfect place to finally do it Saddle
*Dual lands with a land subtype that has never been on dual lands before Desert on the "crime Desert" cycle.
*A new modal mechanic that introduces something different to think about Spree
*A card that can swap/exchange control of up to three different card types (creature, artifact, and enchantment)
*A new creature token that has an ability no creature token has ever had before 1/1 Mercenary creature with ": Target creature you control gets +1/+0 until end of turn. Activate only as a sorcery."
*A typal card for Skeletons and Zombies 
*Creature tokens in the set: (some might have abilities) 1/1 white Sheep, 1/1 blue Bird, 1/1 black Vampire Rogue, 1/1 red Mercenary, 2/1 green Varmint, 2/2 white Ox, 2/2 white Spirit, 2/2 blue and black Zombie, 3/1 red Dinosaur, 3/3 white Angel, 3/3 green Elk, 4/4 red Scorpion Dragon, X/X green Elemental, */* Blue Ox See Tokens
*Some of the planes with legendary Villains in this set: Dominaria, Eldraine, Fiora, Innistrad, Ixalan, Kaladesh, Kaldheim, Kamigawa, New Capenna, and Ravnica See Thunder Junction#Planeswalkers and other visitors
===Next, here are some rules text that will be showing up on cards:===
*"Then repeat this process X more times." 
*"...if it wasn't cast or no mana was spent to cast it." 
*"Plotting cards from your hand costs less." 
*"You can't cast this spell during your first, second, or third turns of the game." 
*"That card gains flashback " 
*"Target creature becomes a white Rabbit with base power and toughness 0/1." 
*"When you win that flip, copy that spell." 
*"If a triggered ability of a legendary creature you control would trigger, that ability triggers an additional time." 
*"...you get that many additional upkeep steps after this phase." 
*"Oxen you control have double strike." 
===Here are some creature type lines from the set:===
*Creature — Armadillo 
*Creature — Shark Rogue 
*Creature — Plant Bard 
*Creature — Coyote 
*Creature — Homarid Mercenary 
*Creature — Rhino Brawler ("Brawler" was a typo and should have been Warrior.)
*Creature — Ox Angel 
*Creature — Porcupine Mount 
*Legendary Creature — Kor Advisor 
*Legendary Creature — Giant Scout 
===Finally, here are some names in the set:===
* 3/3 Rabbit Mercenary
* Sorcery 
* Instant
* Instant with Spree
* Enchantment
* Instant
* Enchantment - Aura
* 2/2 Bird
* Instant
* Instant
==Gavin's Outlaws of Thunder Junction Teaser==
Gavin Verhey released a teaser with the following hints about the new cards in the Commander decks:
#There is a new card that creates Sand Warrior tokens 
#There is a two-drop creature that taps for two mana, with a restriction (only to cast spells you don't own)
#There is a new card with storm 
#There is a card that cares specifically about (tutors Command Tower to your hand)
#There is a card that is a sly reference to a blue rare from Odyssey block ()
#There is a card that does something for "each time you've cast your commander from the command zone this game" 
#There is a card named 8/8 Plant Elemental for 
#There is an 8-mana black board sweeper 
#There is a new creatureland 
#There is a card that does something "for each mana from a Desert spent to cast this spell" (creates a Treasure)
#There is Magic's 13th ever mono-black "enchant land" Aura 
#There is a new Ninja with ninjutsu and one other returning ability (Manifest)
==Cultural references==
Outlaws of Thunder Junction references many Wild West tropes, movies and songs. The following is a list of cards within the set that reference specific works within the genre.
Card(s)	Reference 	Notes
and 	Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox	A giant lumberjack and folk hero from American and Canadian folklore.
and 	A Fistful of Dollars (1964) 	Spaghetti Western that introduced the Man with No Name, as portrayed by Clint Eastwood.
 	The Oregon Trail (1985) 	A popular educational game designed to teach about life during the period of the Oregon Trail. It's also the source of the "You have died of dysentery" meme.
 	Home on the Range 	Classic cowboy song, sometimes called the "unofficial anthem" of the American West.
 	The Magnificent Seven (1960) 	American Western, in turn inspired by Akira Kurosawa's 1954 Japanese film Seven Samurai.
 	Runaway Train (1985) 	The film that the Runaway Train trope is named after.
 	The Great Train Robbery (1903) 	Silent film that follows a gang of outlaws who hold up and rob a steam locomotive at a station in the American West.
 	High Noon (1952) 	Western starring Gary Cooper.
 	3:10 to Yuma (1957) 	Western starring Glenn Ford and Van Heflin. It was inducted into the National Film Registry in 2012.
 	These Boots Are Made for Walkin'	Song by Nancy Sinatra.
and 	The Road Runner Show 	American Saturday morning animated series produced between 1949 and 1964, featuring Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner.
 	I Shot the Sheriff 	1973 song by Bob Marley and the Wailers
 	(Ghost) Riders in the Sky 	Often covered Country song, written by Stan Jones.
 	The Western Code (1932) 	Western that featured the first known instance of the phrase "This town ain't big enough for the both of us" in popular media.
==Miscellaneous==
* is a literal interpretation of the name for a person who offers loans at extremely high interest rates.
*Similarly, is the literal depiction of a well known exclamation of surprise.
* is a wordplay on the prickly pear cactus fruit.
* shares her epithet with .
*The Oxen in the art for include (left), (center, as Bruse's mount) and (right).
*<c>Roxanne, Starfall Savant</c> creates <c>Meteorite</c>s.
*'s unusual color palate is a reference to scorpions' fluorescence.
* is a reference to the Ancient Greek Trojan Horse and a call-back to being used a second time on a plane where nobody is aware of the first use.
*<c>Jace Reawakened</c> has a collector number of 271 (despite being a monocolored card) and is the second planeswalker of the set. This is because he was meant to be from the canceled Outlaws of Thunder Junction Aftermath set and was deemed important enough of a character reveal to port into the set; his place was swapped with <c>Grand Abolisher</c>.
**When the set was released on Magic: The Gathering Arena, the art for the borderless featured the Phyrexian probes that Jace had acquired while undergoing phyresis. These details were not included in the art of the physical card.
*Although not originally designed as such, The Big Score is the first and only Standard-legal set to feature only one rarity. All cards in the set are mythic rare; there are no common, uncommon or rare cards.
*The Commander printing of uses the card's original art, featuring the old Cat Demon representation of a Rakshasa, even though Khans of Tarkir's digital release had for cultural sensitivity only three months prior.
* is a callback to , a card that was banned in standard shortly after its release due to combo potential. Both are 5-mana artifacts that can be tapped and removed to make each player "draw" seven cards for a turn and compared to Jar, Vessel inverts which cards are exiled and put into your hand. To mitigate the combos that lead to Jar being banned, it exiles itself so it can't recur, does away with forced discard, and allows opponents to use their seven cards until the start of the owner's next turn instead of until the end of the current turn to even out card advantage.
==References==
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