Magic 2012/Changes

Cards added to Magic 2012

The following 153 cards from Magic 2012 were not printed in Magic 2011. A + after the card name indicates a new card that has never been printed before.

New cards

The following 100 cards have never been printed before.

Adaptive Automaton Aegis Angel Alabaster Mage Amphin Cutthroat Angelic Destiny Arachnus Spinner Arachnus Web Arbalest Elite Archon of Justice Armored Warhorse Aven Fleetwing Azure Mage Belltower Sphinx Benalish Veteran Blood Ogre Bloodlord of Vaasgoth Bloodrage Vampire Bonebreaker Giant Buried Ruin Carnage Wurm

Chandra, the Firebrand Chandra's Phoenix Chasm Drake Circle of Flame Crimson Mage Crown of Empires Crumbling Colossus Dark Favor Devouring Swarm Divine Favor Doubling Chant Drifting Shade Druidic Satchel Dungrove Elder Duskhunter Bat Frost Breath Furyborn Hellkite Garruk, Primal Hunter Garruk's Horde Gideon's Avenger

Gideon's Lawkeeper Gladecover Scout Goblin Bangchuckers Goblin Fireslinger Gorehorn Minotaurs Grand Abolisher Greatsword Griffin Rider Guardians' Pledge Hideous Visage Hunter's Insight Jace, Memory Adept Jace's Archivist Jade Mage Kite Shield Lord of the Unreal Lurking Crocodile Manalith Master Thief Merfolk Mesmerist

Mind Unbound Monomania Onyx Mage Peregrine Griffin Personal Sanctuary Phantasmal Bear Phantasmal Dragon Phantasmal Image Pride Guardian Primordial Hydra Rune-Scarred Demon Rusted Sentinel Scepter of Empires Scrambleverse Skinshifter Skywinder Drake Sorin's Thirst Sorin's Vengeance Sphinx of Uthuun Spirit Mantle

Stave Off Stingerfling Spider Stonehorn Dignitary Stormblood Berserker Sundial of the Infinite Swiftfoot Boots Taste of Blood Tectonic Rift Throne of Empires Timely Reinforcements Titanic Growth Tormented Soul Trollhide Turn to Frog Vampire Outcasts Vengeful Pharaoh Visions of Beyond Wall of Torches Warstorm Surge Wring Flesh

Returning cards

These 53 cards are reprints, but were not in Magic 2011. A + after the card name indicates a card that has never been in a core set before. A ! after the card name indicates a card that hasn't been Modern legal before.

Angel's Mercy Auramancer !+ Blood Seeker + Bountiful Harvest Brink of Disaster + Call to the Grave !+ Cemetery Reaper Consume Spirit Coral Merfolk Demystify Distress

Divination Djinn of Wishes Firebreathing Flameblast Dragon + Flight Gideon Jura + Goblin Arsonist + Goblin Grenade !+ Goblin War Paint + Griffin Sentinel Grim Lavamancer !+

Incinerate Levitation Lifelink Lightning Elemental Lure Manabarbs Merfolk Looter Mesa Enchantress Oblivion Ring + Overrun Pentavus+

Ponder + Quicksilver Amulet !+ Rampant Growth Reclaim Rites of Flourishing + Sengir Vampire Shock Slaughter Cry + Smallpox + Solemn Simulacrum + Sorin Markov +

Stampeding Rhino Sutured Ghoul !+ Thran Golem Vastwood Gorger + Volcanic Dragon !+ Warpath Ghoul Worldslayer + Zombie Goliath Zombie Infestation !+

Changes in rarity

The following cards changed rarity from their last printing to Magic 2012.

Sengir Vampire was rare in Torment and subsequent printings, though it was an uncommon before. It is now uncommon again. Volcanic Dragon was rare in Starter 1999 and is now uncommon. Thran Golem was rare in Urza's Destiny and 9th Edition and is now uncommon. Oblivion Ring was common in Shards of Alara and Lorwyn and is now uncommon.

Strictly better

• Angelic Destiny is strictly better than Divine Transformation.
• Lurking Crocodile is strictly better than Pale Bears.
• Sorin's Thirst is strictly better than Vicious Hunger.
• Spirit Mantle is strictly better than Seeker.
• Titanic Growth is strictly better than Monstrous Growth.

Strictly worse

• Greatsword is strictly worse than Butcher's Cleaver, Loxodon Warhammer, Sunforger and Vulshok Battlegear.
• Kite Shield is strictly worse than Accorder's Shield.
• Manalith is strictly worse than Chromatic Lantern, Coalition Relic, Darksteel Ingot and Spectral Searchlight.
• Wall of Torches is strictly worse than Wall of Razors.

Cards removed from Magic 2011

The following 153 cards from Magic 2011 did not get reprinted in Magic 2012.

Air Servant Ajani Goldmane Ajani's Mantra Ajani's Pridemate Ancient Hellkite Angelic Arbiter Arc Runner Armored Ascension Armored Cancrix Assassinate Augury Owl Awakener Druid Azure Drake Back to Nature Baneslayer Angel Barony Vampire Berserkers of Blood Ridge Black Knight Blinding Mage Blood Tithe Bloodcrazed Goblin Bloodthrone Vampire Bog Raiders Brittle Effigy Call to Mind Canyon Minotaur Captivating Vampire Chandra Nalaar Chandra's Spitfire Clone Cloud Crusader

Cloud Elemental Condemn Conundrum Sphinx Corrupt Crystal Ball Cultivate Cyclops Gladiator Dark Tutelage Demolish Demon of Death's Gate Destructive Force Diminish Dryad's Favor Duress Duskdale Wurm Earth Servant Ember Hauler Excommunicate Fauna Shaman Fire Servant Foresee Gaea's Revenge Gargoyle Sentinel Garruk Wildspeaker Garruk's Packleader Giant Growth Goblin Balloon Brigade Goldenglow Moth Haunting Echoes Hoarding Dragon Holy Strength

Hornet Sting Howling Banshee Hunters' Feast Incite Infantry Veteran Inspired Charge Jace Beleren Jace's Ingenuity Jinxed Idol Juggernaut Knight Exemplar Leyline of Anticipation Leyline of Punishment Leyline of Sanctity Leyline of the Void Leyline of Vitality Lightning Bolt Liliana Vess Liliana's Caress Liliana's Specter Magma Phoenix Maritime Guard Mass Polymorph Merfolk Sovereign Merfolk Spy Mitotic Slime Mystifying Maze Nantuko Shade Nature's Spiral Necrotic Plague Nether Horror

Nightwing Shade Obstinate Baloth Ornithopter Overwhelming Stampede Palace Guard Phantom Beast Phylactery Lich Platinum Angel Preordain Primal Cocoon Prized Unicorn Prodigal Pyromancer Protean Hydra Pyretic Ritual Pyroclasm Quag Sickness Relentless Rats Rise from the Grave Rotting Legion Safe Passage Scroll Thief Serra Ascendant Shiv's Embrace Sign in Blood Silence Silvercoat Lion Sleep Solemn Offering Sorcerer's Strongbox Spined Wurm

Squadron Hawk Stabbing Pain Steel Overseer Stone Golem Stormtide Leviathan Sword of Vengeance Sylvan Ranger Temple Bell Terramorphic Expanse Thunder Strike Tireless Missionaries Tome Scour Traumatize Triskelion Unholy Strength Vengeful Archon Viscera Seer Volcanic Strength Voltaic Key Vulshok Berserker Wall of Frost Wall of Vines War Priest of Thune Warlord's Axe Water Servant Whispersilk Cloak White Knight Wild Evocation Wild Griffin Yavimaya Wurm

Cards in every core set up to Magic 2012

After the removal of Giant Growth, was Giant Spider the only card that had appeared in all core sets from Alpha to Magic 2012.