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2022 May 30 (Adam)

On Twitter yesterday I shared the unfinished scraps of a Sporcle quiz that I couldn’t complete. I still love the concept and I think some of the prompts are really clever, but finding twenty or so at the right level of difficulty was just too much for me alone. I don’t want the quiz to be lost forever deep in my feed, so I’m preserving it here.

There are exactly two cards that fit each of these categories. I’m going to tell you one, and you tell me the other. (The “answer” links go to Scryfall searches that find those two cards.)

  1. A creature with power and toughness 15/15 — NOT Emrakul, the Aeons Torn, the other one. [answer]

  2. An uncommon land from Kaladesh — NOT Aether Hub, the other one. [answer]

  3. A Dragon with the Rampage mechanic — NOT Chromium, the other one. [answer]

  4. A creature with protection from enchantments — NOT Polis Crusher, the other one. [answer]

  5. A white card with Storm — NOT Wing Shards, the other one. [answer]

  6. A (black-bordered) creature with negative base power — NOT Char-Rumbler, the other one. [answer]

  7. An artifact banned in Pioneer — NOT Smuggler’s Copter, the other one. [answer] (This one is probably the most fragile as time goes on, huh?)

  8. A card from Shadows over Innistrad that makes a white and black Human Cleric token — NOT Westvale Abbey, the other one. [answer]

  9. A green card with Delve — NOT Become Immense, the other one. [answer]

  10. A mythic rare Boar creature — NOT Ilharg, the Raze-Boar, the other one. [answer]

  11. A card with XXX in its casting cost — NOT Astral Cornucopia, the other one. [answer]

  12. A card mistakenly left out of Alpha — NOT Volcanic Island, the other one. [answer]

  13. A card from Alara Reborn that was given the old-border treatment in Time Spiral Remastered &mash; NOT Bloodbraid Elf, the other one. [answer]

  14. Lands that start with Q — NOT Quicksand, the other one. [answer]

  15. A vanilla creature with exactly 9 power — NOT Yargle, Glutton of Urborg, the other one. [answer]

Given how long it took me to come up with these, I’d say even 4/15 is an awesome score; some of them are quite obscure!