Innistrad/Card comparisons

Cards from Innistrad compared to cards from earlier sets.

Strictly better

 * Altar's Reap, upgrade from Skulltap (Scourge)
 * Bramblecrush, upgrade from Creeping Mold (Visions)
 * Caravan Vigil, upgrade from Lay of the Land (Apocalypse)
 * Dead Weight, upgrade from Enfeeblement (Mirage) and Weakness</c> (Limited Edition)
 * Devil's Play</c>, upgrade from Blaze</c> (Portal)
 * Feeling of Dread</c>, upgrade from Lead Astray</c> (Judgment)
 * Gatstaf Shepherd</c>, upgrade from Balduvian Bears</c> (Ice Age), Barbary Apes</c> (Legends), Bear Cub</c> (Portal Second Age), Forest Bear</c> (Portal Three Kingdoms), and Grizzly Bears</c> (Alpha)
 * Ghoulcaller's Chant</c>, upgrade from Raise Dead</c> (Limited Edition) and Disentomb</c> (Magic 2010)
 * Lantern Spirit</c>, upgrade from Fleeting Image</c>
 * <c>Night Revelers</c>, upgrade from <c>Berserkers of Blood Ridge</c> (Magic 2010)
 * <c>Rebuke</c>, upgrade from <c>Eightfold Maze</c> (Portal Three Kingdoms) and <c>Just Fate</c> (Portal Second Age)
 * <c>Walking Corpse</c>, upgrade from <c>Spineless Thug</c> (Nemesis) and <c>Whipstitched Zombie</c> (Prophecy)

Near-reprints

 * <c>Avacyn's Pilgrim</c> is <c>Llanowar Elves</c> that produces instead of.
 * <c>Devil's Play</c> is a <c>Blaze</c> with flashback, which itself is a <c>Fireball</c> without the option of additional targets.
 * <c>Faithless Looting</c> is a colorshifted <c>Careful Study</c> with flashback.
 * <c>Infernal Plunge</c> is a less effective, red version of <c>Culling the Weak</c>.
 * <c>Memory's Journey</c> functions like a buffed up and colorshifted version of <c>Krosan Reclamation</c>.
 * <c>Parallel Lives</c> is the token-copying half of <c>Doubling Season</c>.
 * <c>Havengul Runebinder</c> is <c>Cemetery Reaper</c> but instead of removing a target creature card as part of the effect, it is part of the cost; instead of giving the Zombie creature token +1/+1 as part of its static ability, Havengul Runebinder puts a +1/+1 counter on it; and instead of being a black Zombie, Havengul Runebinder is a blue Human Wizard.