Aetherdrift/Trivia

==MaRo's Aetherdrift Teaser==
Mark Rosewater gave his traditional teaser with the following hints.
===First up, here are some things you can expect:===
*13/13 Vehicle with Crew 2 that costs one mana to cast 
*Mechanic called Start your engines!
*Three planeswalkers native to one of the worlds visited and one non-native gets a desparked legendary creature version
**Native: Basri Ket (); Samut ()
**Non-native: Daretti (); Mu Yanling ()
*Cycle of vanilla legendary creatures (), (), (), (), ()
*Cat and Dog Mounts , (cat); (dog)
* An old God returns and new Gods are introduced Hazoret (old); Ketramose, Sab-Sunen (new)
*New Lotus 
*Cycle of multicolored Gearhulks (), (), (), (), ()
*Numerous mechanics from the worlds visited get cameos Embalm (); Exert ()
*New Vehicle artifact token 3/2 Vehicle artifact with crew 1 for <c>Chandra, Spark Hunter</c>.
===Here are snippets of rules text you’ll see:===
*“This creature saddles Mounts and crews Vehicles using its toughness rather than its power.” 
*“Whenever you draw a card, each opponent mills two cards.” (at max speed)
*“Other Dinosaurs you control get +1/+1.” 
*“Whenever a player casts a spell they don’t own,” 
*“: Add for each Goblin you control.” 
*“During turns other than yours, this Vehicle is an artifact creature.” 
*“Whenever you activate an exhaust ability, draw a card.” 
*“Put any number of permanent cards from your hand onto the battlefield.” 
*“Whenever you attack, if a Pirate and a Vehicle attacked this combat,” 
*“Creatures you control have base power and toughness 6/6 and are Oozes in addition to their other types.” 
===Here are some creature type lines from the set:===
*Creature – Seal Pirate 
* Creature – Lizard Berserker 
*Creature – Insect Archer 
*Creature – Kor Pilot 
*Artifact Creature – Robot Turtle 
*Creature – Ape Druid and 
*Creature – Zombie Cat Knight 
*Creature – Vedalken Ranger 
*Creature – Dinosaur Dragon Mount 
*Legendary Creature – Aetherborn Rogue 
===Finally, here are some names in the set:=== 
* Minotaur Pilot
* Enchantment — Aura
* Vampire Rogue
* Instant
* Instant
* Instant
* Enchantment — Aura
* Demon
* Instant
* Instant
==Miscellaneous==
===Set===
*During vision design the initial three planes chosen for the set were Avishkar, Amonkhet, and Ikoria.
** The Arc Planning team had a cool idea for Ikoria in a future set and requested the plane be swapped out of Aetherdrift.
*Design considers Aetherdrift to be a bottom-up set deign.
*Despite being first printed in Outlaws of Thunder Junction, the Saddle mechanic and Mounts were first designed for Aetherdrift as a way to represent the racing teams using non-vehicle modes of transport.
**The original version was a variant of crew called "crew steed".
===Worldbuilding===
*The names "Captain Howler" and "Endriders" were initially just placeholder names written into the set's worldbuilding guide by Miguel Lopez. The creative team decided to keep them through to print.
* is an in-universe memorial to Wrenn, who became famous as the savior of the Multiverse after her sacrifice.
*Race announcer Vnwxt was originally designed as the tutorial guide for Magic SpellSlingers.
===Cards===
* is the first eternal-legal Planeswalker card to have a second card type printed on its type line Artifact. 
**This was hinted at with the Mystery Booster 2 test card .
* is the first eternal-legal card to be both a Vehicle and an Equipment.
**This was hinted at with the Mystery Booster test card .
*The five Gearhulks expand on the Gearhulk Cycle from Kaladesh.
*The binary code flavor text of the borderless translates to "fly".
* is a twist on but does not share its evoke functionality as does.
* is a colorshifted for artifacts.
* is a vehicular version of .
* is a reference to and .
* and its Exhaust ability is a reference to .
*Each of 's exhaust abilities is a reference to one of the Limited Edition Alpha boons, hinting at Loot's significant age and power.
** is a reference to . It has been colorshifted to be appropriate in the modern color pie, and is more similar in function to .
** is a reference to .
** is a reference to .
*<c>Sab-Sunen, Luxa Embodied</c> alternates between drawing two cards and being able to attack, recalling how <c>Bounty of the Luxa</c> alternates between drawing a card and adding mana.
*'s name, art and ability is a reference to , with flavor text suggesting his death and mummification made him more lenient.
* is a new addition to the mage mega-mega cycle (e.g. ).
*<c>Unstoppable Plan</c> casts <c>Dramatic Reversal</c> every end step. Jace Beleren features in the art again, but with a new series of backing characters.
*<c>Guardian Sunmare</c> has the same markings as <c>Crested Sunmare</c>.
*<c>Spikeshell Harrier</c> is a blue, spiny Turtle that targets Vehicles and slows the player has the highest speed: all qualities of the iconic Mario Kart item Blue Shell.
*<c>Valor's Flagship</c>'s cycling ability is reminiscent of <c>Decree of Justice</c>'s.
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