markrosewater:

The new core set has a lot of exciting new cards, including:

• A brand new planeswalker (from a plane we’ve visited)

• A card that lets you draw half of your library.

• A +1/+1 tribal lord for a creature type that’s never had one. (A creature type with over fifty cards already in print.)

• A character with a Vanguard card and a legendary creature card gets a second of the latter.

• A card with thirty-one different options.

• A card that gains all activated abilities of a certain subset of cards in a place it’s never done it before.

• A card that uses a nonevergreen named ability over twenty years old.

• A card with the words “battlefield”, “cast”, “creature”, “converted mana cost”, “end of turn”, “exile”, “graveyard” and “mana cost”.

• An aura inspired from a cycle from Urza’s Sagablock

• A nonevergreen enchantment subtype returns

Core 2021also has a number of fun reprints, including:

• A popular character first introduced in flavor text.

• A French Vanilla mythic rare.

• A popular aura that started as part of a cycle.

• A card with a unique protection.

• Two cards played in tournaments that have been reprinted over twenty times with at least five different pieces of art

• A card that’s never previously appeared in a premier set.

• A card that’s never been reprinted before which has a 2, 3, 5 and 6 all appear on the card.

• A Human Monk.

• A card from the Time Spiraltimeshifted sheet.

Have fun speculating!