Planar Chaos/Trivia

Most of the cards in Planar Chaos were inspired by cards from Magic's past.

In General

 * Aeon Chronicler refers to Maro and is the only Avatar in Planar Chaos.
 * Aether Membrane is the only Wall in Planar Chaos. Its abilities refer to Whip Vine and Wall of Tears.
 * Akroma, Angel of Fury is the only creature in Planar Chaos with protection from blue or that can't be countered. It refers to Akroma, Angel of Wrath and is the only rare creature in the set with morph.
 * Ana Battlemage refers to Anavolver</c> and Thornscape Battlemage</c>.
 * Auramancer's Guise</c> refers to Rabid Wombat</c>.
 * Battering Sliver</c> refers to Horned Sliver</c>.
 * Big Game Hunter</c> refers to Reprisal</c>, and is the only assassin in Planar Chaos.
 * Blightspeaker</c> refers to Cackling Imp</c> and Defiant Falcon</c>.
 * Body Double</c> refers to Clone</c> and Zombify</c>.
 * Braids, Conjurer Adept</c> refers to Braids, Cabal Minion</c>.
 * <c>Boom</c>//Bust refers to <c>Tremble</c> and <c>Armageddon</c>.
 * <c>Cautery Sliver</c> refers to <c>Goblin Legionnaire</c>.
 * <c>Circle of Affliction</c> refers to <c>Story Circle</c>.
 * <c>Cradle to Grave</c> refers to <c>Dark Banishing</c> and <c>Premature Burial</c>.
 * <c>Crovax, Ascendant Hero</c> refers to <c>Ascendant Evincar</c>. Third ability refers to <c>Selenia, Dark Angel</c>.
 * <c>Darkheart Sliver</c> refers to <c>Dark Heart of the Wood</c>.
 * <c>Dash Hopes</c> refers to <c>Counterspell</c> and <c>Molten Influence</c>.
 * <c>Dawn Charm</c> refers to <c>Holy Day</c>, <c>Death Ward</c> and <c>Gilded Light</c>.
 * <c>Dead</c>//Gone refers to <c>Shock</c> and <c>Unsummon</c>.
 * <c>Deadly Grub</c> refers to <c>Deadly Insect</c>.
 * <c>Deadwood Treefolk</c> refers to <c>Gravedigger</c> and is the only treefolk in Planar Chaos.
 * <c>Detritivore</c> refers to <c>Terravore</c> and <c>Skyshroud War Beast</c>, and is the only lhurgoyf in Planar Chaos
 * <c>Dichotomancy</c> refers to <c>Mimeofacture</c>
 * <c>Dismal Failure</c> refers to <c>Dismiss</c>.
 * <c>Dormant Sliver</c> refers to <c>Jungle Barrier</c>.
 * <c>Dreamscape Artist</c> refers to <c>Harrow</c>.
 * <c>Dust Corona</c> is a mirror of <c>Web</c>.
 * <c>Enslave</c> refers to <c>Control Magic</c>.
 * <c>Erratic Mutation</c> refers to <c>Erratic Explosion</c> and <c>Unstable Mutation</c>.
 * <c>Evolution Charm</c> refers to <c>Lay of the Land</c>, <c>Raise Dead</c> and <c>Flight</c>.
 * <C>Extirpate</c> refers to <c>Eradicate</c> and <c>Word of Command</c> (art).
 * <c>Fatal Frenzy</c> refers to <c>Berserk</c>.
 * <c>Firefright Mage</c> refers to <c>Shriek of Dread</c>.
 * <c>Frenetic Sliver</c> refers to <c>Frenetic Efreet</c>.
 * <c>Fury Charm</c> refers to <c>Shatter</c> and <c>Vitality Charm</c>.
 * <c>Ghost Tactician</c> refers to <c>Scare Tactics</c>.
 * <c>Hammerheim Deadeye</c> refers to <c>Wing Snare</c>.
 * <c>Heroes Remembered</c> refers to <c>Blessed Wind</c>.
 * <c>Hunting Wilds</c> refers to <c>Skyshroud Claim</c>
 * <c>Imp's Mischief</c> refers to <c>Deflection</c> and <c>Withering Boon</c>.
 * <c>Intet, the Dreamer</c> refers to <c>Dromar, the Banisher</c>.
 * <c>Jedit Ojanen of Efrava</c> refers to <c>Jedit Ojanen</c> and <c>Cat Warriors</c>. It is the only card of the Alternate Legendary Creature cycle (see Cycles section on set's page) to be based on a multicolored creature.
 * <c>Jodah's Avenger</c> is the only creature in Planar Chaos with Protection from Red in its text box. It refers to <c>Urza's Avenger</c> and is also the first card to refer to Jodah.
 * <c>Kavu Predator</c> refers to <c>Kavu Titan</c> and is the only Kavu in Planar Chaos.
 * <c>Life and Limb</c> refers to <c>Living Lands</c>.
 * <c>Magus of the Arena</c> refers to <c>Arena</c>.
 * <c>Magus of the Bazaar</c> refers to <c>Bazaar of Baghdad</c>.
 * <c>Magus of the Coffers</c> refers to <c>Cabal Coffers</c>.
 * <c>Magus of the Library</c> refers to <c>Library of Alexandria</c>.
 * <c>Magus of the Tabernacle</c> refers to <c>The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale</c>.
 * <c>Mantle of Leadership</c> refers to <c>Herd Gnarr</c>.
 * <c>Midnight Charm</c> refers to <c>Feast of Flesh</c>, <c>Hope Charm</c>, and <c>Ivory Charm</c>.
 * <c>Mire Boa</c> refers to <c>River Boa</c> and is the only Snake in Planar Chaos.
 * <c>Mirri the Cursed</c> refers to <c>Mirri, Cat Warrior</c> and is the only Vampire in Planar Chaos.
 * <c>Muck Drubb</c> refers to <c>Blood Pet</c> (art only).
 * <c>Necrotic Sliver</c> refers to <c>Vindicate</c>.
 * <c>Needlepeak Spider</c> refers to <c>Giant Spider</c> and is the only Spider in Planar Chaos.
 * <c>Numot, the Devastator</c> refers to <c>Darigaaz, the Igniter</c>.
 * <c>Oros, the Avenger</c> refers to <c>Treva, the Renewer</c>.
 * <c>Pallid Mycoderm</c> is the first white Fungus.
 * <c>Pongify</c> refers to <c>Afterlife</c> and also depicts a <c>Torchling</c>-like barbarian as the subject of the spell.
 * <c>Poultice Sliver</c> refers to <c>Crypt Sliver</c>.
 * <c>Pouncing Wurm</c> refers to <c>Pouncing Kavu</c>.
 * <c>Radha, Heir to Keld</c> is the only legendary creature in Planar Chaos to not be part of a cycle.
 * <c>Rebuff the Wicked</c> refers to <c>Avoid Fate</c> and <c>Shelter</c>.
 * <c>Reflex Sliver</c> refers to <c>Heart Sliver</c>.
 * <c>Retether</c> refers to <c>Replenish</c>.
 * <c>Ridged Kusite</c>'s name is an anagram of the spell it shapes, <c>Guided Strike</c>, which is appropriate given that it is the creature featured on the original Weatherlight version of that card.
 * <c>Riftmarked Knight</c> is the only creature in Planar Chaos with Protection from Black or flanking. It refers to <c>White Knight</c> and <c>Black Knight</c>.
 * <c>Roiling Horror</c> is the only black card with Suspend in Planar Chaos. It refers to <c>Serra Avatar</c>.
 * <c>Saltblast</c> refers to <c>Desert Twister</c>.
 * <c>Saltfield Recluse</c> refers to <c>Sanctum Custodian</c>.
 * <c>Serra's Boon</c> is a mirror of <c>Phyrexian Boon</c>.
 * <c>Shade of Trokair</c> refers to <c>Hoar Shade</c> and is the only Shade in Planar Chaos.
 * <c>Sophic Centaur</c>'s ability is a colorshifted <c>Gerrard's Wisdom</c> and is the only Centaur in Planar Chaos.
 * <c>Spellshift</c> refers to <c>Polymorph</c>; whereas Polymorph affects creatures, Spellshift affects instant and sorcery spells.
 * <c>Spitting Sliver</c> refers to <c>Talon Sliver</c>.
 * <c>Stingscourger</c> refers to <c>Man-o'-War</c>.
 * <c>Synchronous Sliver</c> is the only member of the common Sliver cycle (see Cycles section on set's page) to have an ability not appearing on a Sliver from a past expansion.
 * <c>Temporal Extortion</c> refers to <c>Time Walk</c>.
 * <c>Teneb, the Harvester</c> refers to <c>Crosis, the Purger</c>.
 * <c>Timbermare</c> refers to <c>Thundermare</c>. Timbermare was made as a tribute to the wife of longtime Magic writer Jamie Wakefield who had sadly passed away from cancer. Jamie always referred to her as his “lovely Mare”.
 * <C>Torchling</c> refers to <c>Morphling</c>.
 * <c>Treacherous Urge</c> refers to <c>Threaten</c>.
 * <c>Truth or Tale</c> refers to <c>Fact or Fiction</c>.
 * <c>Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth</c> is the only colorless card and only land in Planar Chaos. Its ability is a reference to <c>Blanket of Night</c>.
 * <c>Utopia Vow</c> refers to <c>Pacifism</c> and <c>Utopia Tree</c>.
 * <c>Venarian Glimmer</c> refers to <c>Distress</c> and <c>Venarian Gold</c>.
 * <c>Voidstone Gargoyle</c> refers to <c>Meddling Mage</c> and <c>Pithing Needle</c>.
 * <c>Vorosh, the Hunter</c> refers to <c>Rith, the Awakener</c>.

On Planeshifted cards

 * <c>Blood Knight</c> is a mirror of <c>Black Knight</c>; it also refers to <c>White Knight</c>. Blood Knight was the placeholder name for the Scourge set's <c>Silver Knight</c>.
 * <c>Calciderm</c> is the only timeshifted member of the vanishing cycle (see cycles section on the set page); it is a colorshifted <c>Blastoderm</c>.(with Vanishing 4 rather than Fading 3, usually producing about the same lifespan).
 * <c>Damnation</c> refers to <c>Wrath of God</c> in art, artist, and mechanics.
 * <c>Essence Warden</c> refers to <c>Soul Warden</c> in art.
 * <c>Fa'adiyah Seer</c> refers to <c>Sindbad</c>. Its name refers to Fa'adiyah the forest on the plane of Rabiah.
 * <c>Hedge Troll</c> is a mirror of <c>Sedge Troll</c>.
 * <c>Keen Sense</c> refers to <c>Curiosity</c>. Keen Sense represents a moment in the Exodus storyline that could only have occurred had things transpired between Mirri, Crovax, and the dark angel Selenia very differently.
 * <c>Ovinize</c> refers to <c>Humble</c>. The sheep art also refers to <c>Ovinomancer</c>, who has the ability to turn creatures into sheep.
 * <c>Piracy Charm</c> is the only timeshifted member of the Charm cycle (see Cycles section on set's page) and refers to <c>Funeral Charm</c>.
 * <c>Porphyry Nodes</c> refers to <c>Drop of Honey</c>. Porphyry Nodes is a near-anagram of "<c>Drop of Honey</c>." This hearkens back to a time when Magic names used near-anagrams more often. For example, "<c>Onulet</c>" is a near-anagram of "<c>Soul Net</c>," so named because of its life-gain ability.
 * <c>Primal Plasma</c> refers to <c>Plasma Elemental</c> in art and <c>Primal Clay</c> in mechanics and is the only card timeshifted from an artifact.
 * <c>Prodigal Pyromancer</c> refers to <c>Prodigal Sorcerer</c> in ability and flavor text.
 * <c>Riptide Pilferer</c> refers to <c>Headhunter</c>. Riptide Pilferer depicts a merfolk spy lurking under the docks of the Riptide Project, the wizards' laboratory off the coast of Otaria where cephalid and human mages traded secrets and replicated slivers.
 * <c>Seal of Primordium</c> refers to <c>Seal of Cleansing</c> (mechanic, artist, flavor text) and <c>Gauntlet of Power</c> (art).
 * <c>Vampiric Link</c> refers to <c>Spirit Link</c> in mechanic, artist, and art.