Wilds of Eldraine/Trivia

==Maro's Wilds of Eldraine Teaser==
Mark Rosewater gave his traditional teaser with the following hints.
===First up, here are some things you can expect:===
*A new type of token (at least done as a cohesive theme) Roles: aura enchantment tokens
*A card that can activate to copy enchantments 
*Adventures on a new permanent type Enchantments - ; ; ; ; 
*An artifact that has two different artifact subtypes normally associated with artifact tokens , a Food Clue
*A creature type from Alpha gets a draft archetype Rat in 
*Fairy tale Sagas ; ; ; 
*Multiple legendary Foods ; 
*A new card with a lobotomy effect 
*A creature with two triggers, one for artifacts entering the battlefield and one for enchantments 
*A new mechanic that batches together three items that have been in the game since Alpha but never batched before Bargain: artifact, enchantment, and token.
===Next, here are some rules text that will be showing up on cards:===
*“If a permanent entering the battlefield causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time.” — 
*“Look at the top twenty cards of your library.” — 
*“It produces three times as much of that mana instead.” — 
*“Sacrifice all Reflections you control.” — 
*“Creatures you control with +1/+1 counters on them have all activated abilities of all creature cards exiled with CARDNAME.” — 
*“Have base power and toughness 4/4 and flying.” — 
*“exile up to one other non-Fox creature” — 
*“Land creatures you control” — 
*“Whenever you tap an untapped creature an opponent controls,” — 
*“X is 2 plus the number of cards in your graveyard that are instant cards, sorcery cards, and/or have an Adventure.” — 
===Here are some creature type lines from the set:===
*Creature – Mouse — ; ; ; 
*Creature – Rabbit Unicorn — 
*Creature – Faerie Shapeshifter — 
*Creature – Elf Fox Knight — 
*Creature – Giant Archer — 
*Creature – Plant Wurm — 
*Creature – Elemental Raccoon — 
*Legendary Creature – Rat Noble — 
*Legendary Creature – Vedalken Scout — 
*Legendary Creature – Human Warlock Bard — 
===Finally, here are some names in the set:===
*<c>Candy Grapple</c> — Instant
*<c>Charming Scoundrel</c> — Creature Human Rogue
*<c>Food Fight</c> — Enchantment
*<c>Protective Parents</c> — Creature Human Peasant
*<c>Scream Puff</c> — Creature Horror
*<c>Stroke of Midnight</c> — Instant
*<c>A Tale for the Ages</c> — Enchantment
*<c>Three Blind Mice</c> — Enchantment Saga
*<c>Three Bowls of Porridge</c> — Artifact Food
*<c>Up the Beanstalk</c> — Enchantment
==Cultural references==
Cards throughout Wilds of Eldraine reference the Arthurian legend of Camelot on the one hand and Grimms' Fairy Tales on the other. Other fairy tales, not especially compiled by the Grimm brothers, are also referenced. The following is a list of specific analogs and references in cards within the set.
===Fairy tales===
Card(s) 	Fairytales and stories 	Notes
<c>Agatha of the Vile Cauldron</c> 	Hansel and Gretel 	The evil witch.
<c>Agatha's Champion</c> 	Little Red Riding Hood 	The Wolf.
<c>Ash, Party Crasher</c> 	Cinderella 	Cinderella (re-imagined as a knight rather than a princess)
<c>Asinine Antics</c> 	The Adventures of Pinocchio 	Turning boys into donkeys.
<c>Beluna Grandsquall</c> 	Jack and the Beanstalk 	The Giant.
<c>Beseech the Mirror</c> 	Snow White 	The Magic Mirror.
<c>Besotted Knight</c> 	Beauty and the Beast 	The Beauty and the Beast (role reversal)
<c>Break the Spell</c> 	Various 	True love's kiss
<c>Candy Trail</c> 	Hansel and Gretel 	The trail of breadcrumbs.
 	The Little Mermaid 	The mermaid's fascination with the world above.
<c>Cursed Courtier</c> and the Role	The Frog Prince 	The prince.
<c>Devouring Sugarmaw</c> 	Alice's Adventures in Wonderland 	"Eat Me!" cake (role reversal)
 	The Goose that Laid the Golden Eggs	The prodigious goose.
<c>Eriette of the Charmed Apple</c> 	Snow White 	The Wicked Queen.
<c>Eriette's Tempting Apple</c> 	Snow White 	The poisoned apple.
<c>Faunsbane Troll</c> 	Three Billy Goats Gruff 	The troll.
<c>Feral Encounter</c> 	Little Red Riding Hood 	Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf.
<c>Gingerbrute</c> 	The Gingerbread Man 	The Gingerbread Man.
 	Snow White 	Snow White's glass coffin.
<c>Greta, Sweettooth Scourge</c> 	Hansel and Gretel 	Gretel.
<c>Gruff Triplets</c> 	Three Billy Goats Gruff 	The three billy goats gruff.
<c>Hylda of the Icy Crown</c> 	The Snow Queen 	The Snow Queen.
<c>Johann, Apprentice Sorcerer</c> 	The Sorcerer's Apprentice 	The apprentice.
<c>Johann's Stopgap</c> 	The Sorcerer's Apprentice 	The apprentice tries to rectify the problem spell.
<c>Liberated Livestock</c> 	Town Musicians of Bremen 	The aging domestic animals.
<c>Lord Skitter, Sewer King</c> 	The Nutcracker and the Mouse King 	The Mouse King.
<c>Monstrous Rage</c> 	Little Red Riding Hood 	“My, what big paws y—”
<c>Neva, Stalked by Nightmares</c> 	Snow White 	Snow White.
<c>Rat Out</c> 	The Pied Piper of Hamelin 	The Pied Piper's Revenge.
<c>Ruby, Daring Tracker</c> 	Little Red Riding Hood 	Little Red Riding Hood.
 	Rumpelstiltskin 	Spinning straw into gold.
<c>Song of Totentanz</c> 	The Pied Piper of Hamelin 	The music of the Pied Piper.
<c>Stroke of Midnight</c> 	Cinderella 	Cinderella's deadline for the festivities.
<c>Sweettooth Witch</c> 	Hansel and Gretel 	The witch, and the fate of Hansel.
<c>Syr Armont, the Redeemer</c> 	Beauty and the Beast 	Beauty
<c>Talion, the Kindly Lord</c> 	Sleeping Beauty 	A take on the Wicked fairy / Maleficent.
<c>The Apprentice's Folly</c> 	The Sorcerer's Apprentice 	The apprentice multiplying the broom.
<c>The End</c> 	Fairy tales (several) 	The usual conclusion of a fairytale.
<c>The Goose Mother</c> 	Tales of Mother Goose 	Mother Goose.
<c>The Huntsman's Redemption</c> 	Little Red Riding Hood 	The Huntsman (cf. <c>Garruk, Cursed Huntsman</c>).
 	Rapunzel 	Rapunzel escapes
<c>Three Bowls of Porridge</c> 	Goldilocks and the Three Bears 	Everything in three. "Too hot, too cold, just right".
<c>Totentanz, Swarm Piper</c> 	The Pied Piper of Hamelin 	The Pied Piper.
<c>Tough Cookie</c> 	The Gingerbread Man 	The Gingerbread Man.
<c>Troyan, Gutsy Explorer</c> 	Jack and the Beanstalk 	Jack.
<c>Troyan, Gutsy Explorer</c> 	The Goose that Laid the Golden Eggs	The golden egg.
<c>Up the Beanstalk</c> 	Jack and the Beanstalk 	The beanstalk.
<c>Werefox Bodyguard</c> 	Beauty and the Beast 	The Beast (role reversal)
===Other references===
Card(s) 	Influence 	Notes
<c>Agatha of the Vile Cauldron</c><c>Eriette of the Charmed Apple</c><c>Hylda of the Icy Crown</c>	Three Witches (Macbeth) 	The weird sisters trope.
 	Fáfnir (Sigurd's Saga and Nibelunglied)	A hoarding dragon from German and Norse mythology.
 	The Once and Future King 	"Wizard who Ages Backwards".
 	Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. 	The conclusion of the story.
 	Robin Hood 	Korvold is robbed.
 	Wild Hunt 	A ghostly host from European mythologies.
 	Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. 	Arthurian reference: the Green Knight.
<c>Regal Bunnicorn</c> 	Monty Python and the Holy Grail 	The Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog
<c>Regal Bunnicorn</c> 	Jackalope 	A mythical jackrabbit with antelope horns.
<c>Song of Totentanz</c> 	Danse Macabre. 	An artistic genre of allegory of the Late Middle Ages on the universality of death.
<c>Tangled Colony</c> 	Rat king. 	A collection of rats whose tails are intertwined and bound together in some way.
<c>Three Blind Mice</c> 	Three Blind Mice. 	Nursery rhyme.
<c>The Irencrag</c> 	The Sword in the Stone. 	Arthurian reference: Excalibur.
==Miscellaneous==
*Throne of Eldraine and Wilds of Eldraine's four-year gap is the shortest turnaround for a plane's full return since the 54-month gap between Innistrad and Shadows over Innistrad if one disregards the heavy use of Dominaria before 2006. The median gap for first returns is six or seven years due to the block structure, and Throne was the first post-block set (if one treats Guilds of Ravnica block as a block).
*<c>Moonshaker Cavalry</c> takes multiple design cues from <c>Craterhoof Behemoth</c>; 5MMM cost Mythic Rare creatures that give a scaling pump and evasion effect to all one's creatures.
* // creature card with an adventure is a callback to the iconic from the original Throne of Eldraine. Mechanically, it's a combination of and .
*<c>Spell Stutter</c> refers to <c>Spellstutter Sprite</c>, exchanging mana value scaling for mana tax scaling. Both are two-mana counterspells that scale with the number of Faeries controlled. Similarly, <c>Dream Spoilers</c> is a near-reprint of <c>Dreamspoiler Witches</c> with a slight change in templating.
* depicts the Chain Veil, marking it specifically a call back to Garruk's story in Throne rather than anything from fairy tale lore.
*The art of is a callback to Unhinged's Donkey-folk.
*<c>Stingblade Assassin</c> is the first card to be a functional reprint of a digitally rebalanced card (<c>A-Manticore</c>).
* was the top rated card in the set, based on player feedback.
*<c>Throne of Eldraine</c> refers to the unreturned Adamant mechanic and is another card named after a set.
*The art for each of the Mythic rare Virtues cycle depicts the uncommon Knight from the Throne of Eldraine's Syrs cycle.
*<c>Timber Paladin</c> was originally a top-down Pinocchio card that gained the Human type when enough Auras were attached to it.
*As originally conceived in Vision Design, all ten of the draft archetype fairytales would have connected to the main Wilds of Eldraine storyline. It quickly became apparent that this would pull the story in too many directions and over-complicate the storytelling so it was paired back to just five of the ten archetypes.
*The song played in the Anime trailer of this set is "Twin Fates" by Hiroyuki Sawano · Awich referencing the battle between Will and Rowan as well as the manipulation of Ashiok and Eriette during the wicked slumber and the deaths of the King and Queen.
==References==
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