Special Treatments
Unusual Card Types
Rare Keywords
Unique Cards
Name's the Same: Cards and Mechanics
200
If a card with this Strixhaven special frame is uncommon, it was Standard-legal when it was printed.
What is (the) Mystical Archive?
200
This renamed card type allows noncreature cards to have creature types.
What is kindred? (Formerly tribal.)
200
This time counter-based keyword has only ever been printed on enchantment creatures.
What is impending?
200
Unsurprisingly (and aside from changelings,) this Final Fantasy card is the only Qu creature in Magic: the Gathering.
What is Quina, Qu Gourmet?
200
While the mechanic premiered in 2001, the Secrets of Strixhaven card wouldn’t be printed for another 25 years.
What is Flashback?
400
This sketchy presentation has been used both in-Multiverse and in a Universes Beyond set.
What is Field Notes?
400
Thus far, every card printed with this type has the same subtype.
What is battle?
400
This keyword can only go on planeswalkers, part of why it’s only been used seven times.
What is compleated?
400
This planeswalker is the only one of his type due to his untimely demise during the War of the Spark.
Who is Dack Fayden?
400
This callback to a 2008 mechanic explicitly can’t target the likes of Griselbrand.
What is Persist?
600
This frame's cartouches were criticized for being nearly illegible.
What is Amonkhet Invocations?
600
Some cards of this type have the “ongoing” supertype.
What is scheme?
600
This Saviors of Kamigawa keyword recently got a rework in the form of paradigm.
What is epic?
600
DAILY DOUBLE
What is Invasion of Innistrad?
600
There are many “two”s to this card, whose name and rules text are the same two-word phrase.
What is Manifest Dread?
800
This punny foil treatment features columns of the Phyrexian symbol.
What is Step and Compleat?
800
Cards of this type are kept in the command zone, sometimes face-down.
What is conspiracy?
800
Seen in the same set that introduced flavor words, few realized this was actually an ability word, used on eight different creatures.
What is pack tactics?
800
While its abilities can help it survive, this is still the only creature in the game with negative base toughness.
What is Spinal Parasite?
800
While this mechanic has always been part of the game, it wasn’t made a keyword until the set where this Aura was printed.
What is Vigilance?
1000
This Edge of Eternities bonus sheet also came in versions inspired by mid-century travel posters.
What is Stellar Sights?
1000
DAILY DOUBLE
What is mana source?
1000
This variant of an Alpha keyword has only been printed on one card.
What is trample over planeswalkers?
1000
All but one copy of this card were ceremonially destroyed shortly after they were printed. After all, there can be only one.
What is 1996 World Champion?
1000
This card doesn’t have anything to do with the mechanic, having been printed decades before its draft-focused set.
What is Melee?
