Magic 2011/Changes

Cards added to Magic 2011
The following 136 cards from Magic 2011 were not printed in Magic 2010. A + after the card name indicates a new card that has never been printed before.

• Aether Adept +

• Air Servant +

• Ajani's Mantra +

• Ajani's Pridemate +

• Ancient Hellkite +

• Angelic Arbiter +

• Arc Runner +

• Armored Cancrix +

• Assault Griffin</c> +

• Augury Owl</c> +

• Autumn's Veil</c> +

• Azure Drake</c>

• Back to Nature</c> +

• Barony Vampire</c> +

• Blood Tithe</c> +

• Bloodcrazed Goblin</c> +

• Bloodthrone Vampire</c>

• Bog Raiders</c>

• Brindle Boar</c> +

• Brittle Effigy</c> +

• Call to Mind</c> +

• Captivating Vampire</c> +

• Chandra's Outrage</c> +

• Chandra's Spitfire</c> +

• <c>Cloud Crusader</c> +

• <c>Cloud Elemental</c>

• <c>Combust</c> +

• <c>Condemn</c>

• <c>Conundrum Sphinx</c> +

• <c>Corrupt</c>

• <c>Crystal Ball</c> +

• <c>Cultivate</c> +

• <c>Cyclops Gladiator</c> +

• <c>Dark Tutelage</c> +

• <c>Day of Judgment</c>

• <c>Demolish</c>

• <c>Demon of Death's Gate</c> +

• <c>Destructive Force</c> +

• <c>Diminish</c> +

• <c>Dryad's Favor</c> +

• <c>Duskdale Wurm</c>

• <c>Earth Servant</c> +

• <c>Elixir of Immortality</c> +

• <c>Ember Hauler</c> +

• <c>Fauna Shaman</c> +

• <c>Fire Servant</c> +

• <c>Fling</c>

• <c>Foresee</c>

• <c>Frost Titan</c> +

• <c>Gaea's Revenge</c> +

• <c>Gargoyle Sentinel</c> +

• <c>Garruk's Companion</c> +

• <c>Garruk's Packleader</c> +

• <c>Goblin Balloon Brigade</c>

• <c>Goblin Tunneler</c>

• <c>Goldenglow Moth</c>

• <c>Grave Titan</c> +

• <c>Greater Basilisk</c> +

• <c>Harbor Serpent</c> +

• <c>Hoarding Dragon</c> +

• <c>Hornet Sting</c> +

• <c>Hunters' Feast</c> +

• <c>Incite</c> +

• <c>Infantry Veteran</c>

• <c>Inferno Titan</c> +

• <c>Inspired Charge</c> +

• <c>Jace's Erasure</c> +

• <c>Jace's Ingenuity</c> +

• <c>Jinxed Idol</c>

• <c>Juggernaut</c>

• <c>Knight Exemplar</c> +

• <c>Leyline of Anticipation</c> +

• <c>Leyline of Punishment</c> +

• <c>Leyline of the Void</c>

• <c>Leyline of Sanctity</c> +

• <c>Leyline of Vitality</c> +

• <c>Liliana's Caress</c> +

• <c>Liliana's Specter</c> +

• <c>Mana Leak</c>

• <c>Manic Vandal</c> +

• <c>Maritime Guard</c> +

• <c>Mass Polymorph</c> +

• <c>Merfolk Spy</c> +

• <c>Mighty Leap</c> +

• <c>Mitotic Slime</c> +

• <c>Mystifying Maze</c> +

• <c>Nantuko Shade</c>

• <c>Necrotic Plague</c> +

• <c>Nether Horror</c> +

• <c>Nightwing Shade</c> +

• <c>Obstinate Baloth</c> +

• <c>Overwhelming Stampede</c> +

• <c>Phantom Beast</c> +

• <c>Phylactery Lich</c> +

• <c>Plummet</c> +

• <c>Preordain</c> +

• <c>Primal Cocoon</c> +

• <c>Primeval Titan</c> +

• <c>Pyretic Ritual</c> +

• <c>Quag Sickness</c> +

• <c>Reassembling Skeleton</c> +

• <c>Redirect</c> +

• <c>Reverberate</c> +

• <c>Roc Egg</c> +

• <c>Rotting Legion</c> +

• <c>Sacred Wolf</c> +

• <c>Scroll Thief</c> +

• <c>Serra Ascendant</c> +

• <c>Shiv's Embrace</c>

• <c>Sorcerer's Strongbox</c> +

• <c>Spined Wurm</c>

• <c>Squadron Hawk</c> +

• <c>Stabbing Pain</c> +

• <c>Steel Overseer</c> +

• <c>Stone Golem</c> +

• <c>Stormtide Leviathan</c> +

• <c>Sun Titan</c> +

• <c>Sword of Vengeance</c> +

• <c>Sylvan Ranger</c> +

• <c>Temple Bell</c> +

• <c>Thunder Strike</c> +

• <c>Time Reversal</c> +

• <c>Tireless Missionaries</c> +

• <c>Triskelion</c>

• <c>Vengeful Archon</c> +

• <c>Viscera Seer</c> +

• <c>Volcanic Strength</c> +

• <c>Voltaic Key</c>

• <c>Vulshok Berserker</c>

• <c>Wall of Vines</c> +

• <c>War Priest of Thune</c> +

• <c>Warlord's Axe</c> +

• <c>Water Servant</c> +

• <c>Wild Evocation</c> +

• <c>Wild Griffin</c>

• <c>Yavimaya Wurm</c>

Changes in rarity
The following cards changed rarity from their last printing to Magic 2011.


 * <c>Act of Treason</c> was an uncommon in Magic 2010 and is now a common.
 * <c>Azure Drake</c> was an uncommon in 9th Edition and is now a common.
 * <c>Goblin Balloon Brigade</c> was an uncommon in 9th Edition and is now a common.
 * <c>Protean Hydra</c> was a mythic rare in Magic 2010 and is now a rare.

Strictly better

 * <c>Air Servant</c> is strictly better than <c>Coastal Hornclaw</c>.
 * <c>Ajani's Mantra</c> is strictly better than <c>Convalescence</c>, <c>Farmstead</c> and <c>Spiritual Sanctuary</c>.
 * <c>Ajani's Pridemate</c> is strictly better than <c>Fresh Volunteers</c>, <c>Glory Seeker</c>, <c>Knight Errant</c>, <c>Pearled Unicorn</c>, <c>Silvercoat Lion</c> and <c>Squire</c>.
 * <c>Augury Owl</c> is strictly better than <c>Sea Eagle</c>.
 * <c>Back to Nature</c> is strictly better than <c>Tranquility</c>.
 * <c>Barony Vampire</c> is strictly better than <c>Headless Horseman</c>, <c>Mindless Null</c>, <c>Python</c> and <c>Scathe Zombies</c>.
 * <c>Call to Mind</c> is strictly better than <c>Déjà Vu</c>, <c>Relearn</c> and <c>Sage's Knowledge</c>.
 * <c>Chandra's Spitfire</c> is strictly better than <c>Bird Maiden</c> and <c>Goblin Sky Raider</c>.
 * <c>Conundrum Sphinx</c> is strictly better than <c>Air Elemental</c>, <c>Fighting Drake</c>, <c>Hoverguard Observer</c>, <c>Living Tsunami</c>, <c>Stronghold Zeppelin</c>, <c>Thought Devourer</c>, <c>Troublesome Spirit</c>, <c>Vaporous Djinn</c> and <c>Waterspout Djinn</c>.
 * <c>Fauna Shaman</c> is strictly better than <c>Balduvian Bears</c>, <c>Barbary Apes</c>, <c>Bear Cub</c>, <c>Cylian Elf</c>, <c>Forest Bear</c>, <c>Grizzly Bears</c>, <c>Runeclaw Bear</c> and <c>Scarwood Goblins</c>.
 * <c>Frost Titan</c> is strictly better than <c>Deep-Sea Serpent</c> and <c>Sea Monster</c>.
 * <c>Garruk's Packleader</c> is strictly better than <c>Durkwood Boars</c>.
 * <c>Grave Titan</c> is strictly better than <c>Mold Demon</c>.
 * <c>Inferno Titan</c> is strictly better than <c>Axegrinder Giant</c> and <c>Barktooth Warbeard</c>.
 * <c>Leyline of Sanctity</c> is strictly better than <c>Ivory Mask</c>.
 * <c>Liliana's Caress</c> is strictly better than <c>Megrim</c>.
 * <c>Liliana's Specter</c> is strictly better than <c>Cackling Fiend</c>.
 * <c>Manic Vandal</c> is strictly better than <c>Goblin Hero</c>, <c>Gray Ogre</c> and <c>Raging Bull</c>.
 * <c>Maritime Guard</c> is strictly better than <c>Vodalian Soldiers</c>.
 * <c>Merfolk Spy</c> is strictly better than <c>Fugitive Wizard</c>, <c>Grayscaled Gharial</c>, <c>Merfolk of the Pearl Trident</c> and <c>Wandering Ones</c>.
 * <c>Mitotic Slime</c> is strictly better than <c>Durkwood Boars</c>.
 * <c>Nightwing Shade</c> is strictly better than <c>Battlefield Percher</c>.
 * <c>Preordain</c> is strictly better than <c>Opt</c> and <c>Reach Through Mists</c>.
 * <c>Primordial Titan</c> is strictly better than <c>Craw Wurm</c>, <c>Jerrard of the Closed Fist</c>, <c>Rootbreaker Wurm</c>, <c>Torsten Von Ursus</c> and <c>Yavimaya Wurm</c>.
 * <c>Sacred Wolf</c> is strictly better than <c>Pincher Beetles</c>.
 * <c>Squadron Hawk</c> is strictly better than <c>Royal Falcon</c>.
 * <c>Stormtide Leviathan</c> is strictly better than <c>Benthic Behemoth</c>.
 * <c>Stone Golem</c> is strictly better than <c>Venser's Sliver</c>.
 * <c>Sun Titan</c> is strictly better than <c>Jedit Ojanen</c>.
 * <c>Viscera Seer</c> is strictly better than <c>Muck Rats</c>.
 * <c>Volcanic Strength</c> is strictly better than <c>Cave Sense</c> and <c>Giant Strength</c>.
 * <c>Wall of Vines</c> is strictly better than <c>Wall of Wood</c>.
 * <c>War Priest of Thune</c> is strictly better than <c>Fresh Volunteers</c>, <c>Glory Seeker</c>, <c>Knight Errant</c>, <c>Monk Realist</c>, <c>Pearled Unicorn</c>, <c>Silvercoat Lion</c> and <c>Squire</c>.

Strictly worse

 * <c>Aether Adept</c> is strictly worse than <c>Man-o'-War</c>.
 * <c>Armored Cancrix</c> is strictly worse than <c>Belltower Sphinx</c> and <c>Sky Ruin Drake</c>.
 * <c>Assault Griffin</c> is strictly worse than <c>Galepowder Mage</c>.
 * <c>Barony Vampire</c> is strictly worse than <c>Nirkana Cutthroat</c>.
 * <c>Jace's Ingenuity</c> is strictly worse than <c>Ancestral Recall</c>.
 * <c>Maritime Guard</c> is strictly worse than <c>Aquamoeba</c>, <c>Fathom Seer</c>, <c>Halimar Excavator</c> and <c>Lighthouse Chronologist</c>.
 * <c>Nether Horror</c> is strictly worse than <c>Smoldering Butcher</c>.
 * <c>Stone Golem</c> is strictly worse than <c>Su-Chi</c>.
 * <c>Time Reversal</c> is strictly worse than <c>Timetwister</c>.
 * <c>Tireless Missionaries</c> is strictly worse than <c>Angel of Mercy</c> and <c>Shu Soldier-Farmers</c>.
 * <c>Warlord's Axe</c> is strictly worse than <c>Vulshok Battlegear</c>.

Cards removed from Magic 2010
The following 136 cards from Magic 2010 did not get reprinted in Magic 2011.

• <c>Acolyte of Xathrid</c>

• <c>Air Elemental</c>

• <c>Angel's Mercy</c>

• <c>Ant Queen</c>

• <c>Ball Lightning</c>

• <c>Bog Wraith</c>

• <c>Bogardan Hellkite</c>

• <c>Borderland Ranger</c>

• <c>Bountiful Harvest</c>

• <c>Bramble Creeper</c>

• <c>Burning Inquiry</c>

• <c>Burst of Speed</c>

• <c>Capricious Efreet</c>

• <c>Captain of the Watch</c>

• <c>Cemetery Reaper</c>

• <c>Centaur Courser</c>

• <c>Coat of Arms</c>

• <c>Consume Spirit</c>

• <c>Convincing Mirage</c>

• <c>Coral Merfolk</c>

• <c>Craw Wurm</c>

• <c>Darksteel Colossus</c>

• <c>Deadly Recluse</c>

• <c>Disorient</c>

• <c>Divination</c>

• <c>Divine Verdict</c>

• <c>Djinn of Wishes</c>

• <c>Dragon Whelp</c>

• <c>Dread Warlock</c>

• <c>Drudge Skeletons</c>

• <c>Earthquake</c>

• <c>Elvish Piper</c>

• <c>Elvish Visionary</c>

• <c>Emerald Oryx</c>

• <c>Enormous Baloth</c>

• <c>Entangling Vines</c>

• <c>Essence Scatter</c>

• <c>Fabricate</c>

• <c>Firebreathing</c>

• <c>Gargoyle Castle</c>

• <c>Glorious Charge</c>

• <c>Goblin Artillery</c>

• <c>Gorgon Flail</c>

• <c>Great Sable Stag</c>

• <c>Griffin Sentinel</c>

• <c>Guardian Seraph</c>

• <c>Harm's Way</c>

• <c>Hive Mind</c>

• <c>Horned Turtle</c>

• <c>Howl of the Night Pack</c>

• <c>Howling Mine</c>

• <c>Hypnotic Specter</c>

• <c>Ignite Disorder</c>

• <c>Illusionary Servant</c>

• <c>Indestructibility</c>

• <c>Inferno Elemental</c>

• <c>Jackal Familiar</c>

• <c>Jump</c>

• <c>Kalonian Behemoth</c>

• <c>Kelinore Bat</c>

• <c>Kindled Fury</c>

• <c>Levitation</c>

• <c>Lifelink</c>

• <c>Lightning Elemental</c>

• <c>Lightwielder Paladin</c>

• <c>Looming Shade</c>

• <c>Lurking Predators</c>

• <c>Magebane Armor</c>

• <c>Manabarbs</c>

• <c>Master of the Wild Hunt</c>

• <c>Megrim</c>

• <c>Merfolk Looter</c>

• <c>Mesa Enchantress</c>

• <c>Might of Oaks</c>

• <c>Mind Shatter</c>

• <c>Mind Spring</c>

• <c>Mirror of Fate</c>

• <c>Mist Leopard</c>

• <c>Mold Adder</c>

• <c>Nightmare</c>

• <c>Oakenform</c>

• <c>Open The Vaults</c>

• <c>Overrun</c>

• <c>Panic Attack</c>

• <c>Phantom Warrior</c>

• <c>Pithing Needle</c>

• <c>Planar Cleansing</c>

• <c>Polymorph</c>

• <c>Ponder</c>

• <c>Raging Goblin</c>

• <c>Rampant Growth</c>

• <c>Razorfoot Griffin</c>

• <c>Regenerate</c>

• <c>Rhox Pikemaster</c>

• <c>Righteousness</c>

• <c>Rod of Ruin</c>

• <c>Sage Owl</c>

• <c>Sanguine Bond</c>

• <c>Seismic Strike</c>

• <c>Serpent of the Endless Sea</c>

• <c>Shatter</c>

• <c>Shivan Dragon</c>

• <c>Siege-Gang Commander</c>

• <c>Snapping Drake</c>

• <c>Soul Bleed</c>

• <c>Soul Warden</c>

• <c>Sparkmage Apprentice</c>

• <c>Spellbook</c>

• <c>Sphinx Ambassador</c>

• <c>Stampeding Rhino</c>

• <c>Stone Giant</c>

• <c>Telepathy</c>

• <c>Tempest of Light</c>

• <c>Tendrils of Corruption</c>

• <c>Time Warp</c>

• <c>Trumpet Blast</c>

• <c>Twincast</c>

• <c>Undead Slayer</c>

• <c>Underworld Dreams</c>

• <c>Vampire Aristocrat</c>

• <c>Vampire Nocturnus</c>

• <c>Veteran Armorsmith</c>

• <c>Veteran Swordsmith</c>

• <c>Viashino Spearhunter</c>

• <c>Wall of Bone</c>

• <c>Wall of Faith</c>

• <c>Wall of Fire</c>

• <c>Warp World</c>

• <c>Warpath Ghoul</c>

• <c>Weakness</c>

• <c>Wind Drake</c>

• <c>Windstorm</c>

• <c>Xathrid Demon</c>

• <c>Yawning Fissure</c>

• <c>Zephyr Sprite</c>

• <c>Zombie Goliath</c>

Cards in every core set up to Magic 2011
The following 2 cards have appeared in all core sets from Alpha to Magic 2011.


 * <c>Giant Growth</c>
 * <c>Giant Spider</c>

The 6 cards that appeared in all core sets up until Magic 2011 are: <c>Air Elemental</c>, <c>Bog Wraith</c>, <c>Drudge Skeletons</c>, <c>Howling Mine</c>, <c>Nightmare</c> and <c>Rod of Ruin</c>.

Functional reprints
Magic 2011 has 6 functional reprints:


 * <c>Barony Vampire</c> is a functional reprint of <c>Warpath Ghoul</c> from Magic 2010, save for creature type.
 * <c>Cloud Crusader</c> is a functional reprint of <c>Skyhunter Patrol</c> from 10th Edition, save for creature type.
 * <c>Cultivate</c> is a functional reprint of <c>Kodama's Reach</c> from Champions of Kamigawa, save for subtype.
 * <c>Maritime Guard</c> is a functional reprint of <c>Lumengrid Warden</c> from 10th Edition, <c>Straw Soldiers</c> from Portal: Three Kingdoms and <c>Talas Merchant</c> from Portal Second Age, save for creature type.
 * <c>Nether Horror</c> is a functional reprint of <c>Giant Cockroach</c> from 9th Edition, save for creature type.
 * <c>Pyretic Ritual</c> is a functional reprint of <c>Desperate Ritual</c> from Champions of Kamigawa, save for subtype - although it is not an arcane and therefore does not have splice onto arcane.

Colorshifted

 * <c>Assault Griffin</c> is a colorshifted version of <c>Jagwasp Swarm</c> from Worldwake, <c>Snapping Drake</c> from Magic 2010 and <c>Talas Air Ship</c> from Portal Second Age, save for creature type.
 * <c>Manic Vandal</c> is a colorshifted version of <c>Uktabi Orangutan</c> from Sixth Edition and <c>Viridian Shaman</c> from Tenth Edition, save for creature type.
 * <c>Reverberate</c> is a colorshifted version of <c>Twincast</c> from Magic 2010. It is also a near-functional reprint of <c>Fork</c> except it does not turn the spell red.