Fourteen Years is a Long Time Trivia Quiz

Answer: Chalice of the Void

Chalice of the Void is essentially a proactive counterspell as it automatically counters all spells with a specific converted mana cost. It's own mana cost in twice the one it targets (so to counter 2-cost spells, the Chalice needs to be cast for 4) and thus, usually, the opponent can cast some spells of that cost before the Chalice comes down.

However, in a Vintage game, the first player can play her Moxen and/or Lotus (if any) and then play the Chalice for 0, preventing the second player from using his 0-cost mana artifacts.

Answer: Brothers Yamazaki

Brothers Yamazaki is the only legendary permanent to not be limited to one copy in play but rather two. Correspondingly, it exists with two different images, each showing one of the brothers. If you happen to get two copies into play, each of them grows from a somewhat uninspiring 2/1 bushido creature for three mana to a 4/3 with bushido and haste, so you can immediately attack with both Brothers the turn you complete the pair.

Answer: Shocklands

The Ravnica dual lands (later reprinted in Return to Ravnica) are the closest thing to the original dual lands in that a player can not only fetch them via their basic land types but play them untapped and immediately ready for action, provided they are willing to take 2 points of damage.

The name "Shocklands" was inspired by the red Instant Shock that deals 2 damage to target player or creature, because the player essentially chooses to cast a virtual Shock on himself.

Answer: Tarmogoyf

Tarmogoyf is one of the most efficient creatures ever printed. For only two mana, it can come into play as large as 8/9 because its power is the number of different card types in all graveyards. More realistically, Tarmogoyf will often play as a 3/4 or 4/5, which is of course huge for a second or third turn play.

The reminder text of Tarmogoyf was the first mention of the Tribal and Planeswalker types, both of which would be introduced in Lorwyn, the next large set. Tribal ultimately wound up being retired right after the Lorwyn/Shadowmoor year because it was a bit of a failed design, playing not like an actual card type but more like a supertype. Planeswalkers, on the other hand, have become the most iconic card type of the game.

Answer: Nissa (green)

The green Lorwyn planeswalker was Garruk Wildspeaker, later prominently featuring in Innistrad block and moving into black, whose role as the primary face of green was taken over by Nissa Revane. The white one was Ajani Goldmane, a leonine whose place as the primary white planeswalker was later taken by Gideon Jura while Ajani branched out both into the green/white and the red/white color pair.

Like almost all planeswalkers, the first version of each of these characters to be printed gives the first name and last name (Chandra Nalaar, Jace Beleren and Liliana Vess are the other three) while later versions combine the first name with a title.

Answer: Creatures Without Types

The planes of Lorwyn and Shadowmoor are the same place, transformed by a cataclysmic event called the Great Aurora. Lorwyn is in perpetual, bright day while Shadowmoor is in perpetual twilight. The dual flavor of Lorwyn and Shadowmoor was reflected in gameplay by various mechanics representing a twisted, darker version of Lorwyn mechanics: Hybrid cards replace the conventional multicolor cards, the +1/+1 counter theme of Lorwyn is contrasted with a -1/-1 counter one on Shadowmoor and a handful of creatures have untapping them as a cost of a special ability, thus usually requiring that you attack with the creature first to get it tapped. While Lorwyn had changelings - creatures that have all types - the logical opposite of typeless creatures was not a feature of Shadowmoor.

Beyond these gameplay contrasts, the artwork of many Shadowmoor cards, in particular the basic lands, represents the same location as a Lorwyn card, but now in its twisted format and the expansion symbol of the Shadowmoor expansion Eventide is the upside-down version of Lorwyn's companion set Morningtide.

Answer: Esper (white/blue/black)

The Esper shard of Alara was a world dominated by artifice unchecked by green and red, the two colors of magic most associated with artifact hate. In this world, artifacts existed not only as the colorless entities they had previously been known as but also as colored ones - both as single-colored items in blue, white and black as well as two- and three-color combinations of these. In Alara Reborn, the last expansion of the block, the shards came back together and thus we also saw a small number of artifacts with red and green in their costs, all of which were multicolored (two each in black/red, red/green and green/white as well as a single blue/black/red tri-colored card).

Colored artifacts were hinted at as a future mechanic in Future Sight in the form of the blue artifact creature Sarcomite Myr, a card conceptionally from the Mirrodin plane (like all Myr).

Answer: Jace, the Mind Sculptor

Out of the seven versions of Jace printed up to Shadows of Innistrad, Worldwake's is by far the most powerful, strong enough to become banned in Modern and to be a frequently played card in Vintage and Legacy. His most valuable ability duplicates the spell Brainstorm, one of the most efficient card filtering tools, by drawing three cards and then putting two back on top of the library.

The ability can be used once per turn and does not carry a cost; its loyalty cost is zero. Jace, the Mind Sculptor can also double as a slow win condition in a control deck by exiling the opponent's library, however this use requires at least five turns of preparation, using Jace's +2 loyalty ability each turn, unless you have an alternate method of putting additional loyalty counters on him.

Answer: Mox Opal

Beyond the famous five moxen of Alpha edition, five additional cards were printed with Mox in the name. Two of them - Jack-in-the-Mox and Mox Lotus - were printed in the non-tournament-legal Un-sets while the other three are all frequently played in their respective formats. Mox Diamond, from the Stronghold set, requires the player to discard a land card as an additional cost to play, the original Mirrodin's Chrome Mox requires imprinting a card which then determines the colors it can produce and Mox Opal, the only legendary Mox, requires the player to have a total of three artifacts in play before it can be used.

Answer: Garruk Relentless

Corrupted by the influence of the Chain Veil, Garruk Wildspeaker turned from a protector of nature into a savage able to unleash the darker side of the creatures he controlled. After the events of Innistrad, Garruk was twice more seen as his green self (in the Magic 2013 and Magic 2014 core sets) and finally in a black-green incarnation that actively hunts down other planeswalkers. All six versions of Garruk have at least one loyalty ability that makes a token creature.

Answer: Two large sets, followed by a small set

The original Ravnica block was built in the standard large-small-small configuration with the first set featuring four of Ravnica's ten guilds and the other two having three each. Return to Ravnica did not want to duplicate this format, instead opting for two large sets each with five guilds and then a small supplement with a few cards each for all ten guilds.

This third set, Dragon's Maze, however proved quite unpopular as the small number of cards available for each guild and strategy just could not make any significant impact.

Answer: Xenagos (red/green)

The pantheon of Theros consists of the five greater gods, each representing one color as well as ten lesser gods (or demigods), each representing one of the ten color pairs. However, only fourteen gods actually existed when the story began, with red/green not having a current god.

The planeswalker Xenagos ascended to godhood as the God of Revels but proved to be destructive enough that Helios, the Sun God sent his champion, the planeswalker Elspeth, to Nyx, the realm of the dead, to eliminate Xenagos once and for all, at the cost of her own life and essence.

Answer: Tasigur, the Golden Fang

Tasigur was the teenage heir to the Sultai Brood, who however did not care about actually leading his clan, instead living only for pleasure and cruelty. After he managed to offend the Rakshasa and the Naga, both important supporting races of the clan, he fell to Silumgar, the later dragonlord of what had been the Sultai territories, as a slave and trophy and later, dead, as the centerpiece of Silumgar's necklace depicted on the Dragonlord Silumgar card.

Answer: Expeditions

The original Zendikar set contained randomly inserted cards from the earliest expansions, including original dual lands and even the Power Nine, as ultra-rare so-called hidden treasures. In order to provide something similar for the revisit of the plane, Wizards of the Coast designed the Zendikar expeditions, reprints of mostly powerful lands including all ten fetchlands and shocklands with new art and frames as well as a special, extra reflective, foil treatment previously seen in the short-lived Premium Deck series and the annual From the Vault boutique products.

Inserted at a rate of less than one card per four display boxes, Zendikar Expeditions command very high secondary market prices.

Answer: Avacyn

Created by the white/black vampire planeswalker Sorin as a protector for the plane of Innistrad, Avacyn was a pure being until the events of Shadows over Innistrad brought madness to many of the denizens of the plane. While she still saw herself as the protector, she became more of an avenger, indiscriminately attacking those she perceived as enemies, including Jace and her own creator.

In a dramatic showdown, Sorin undid his own creation, but in the process also removed her last remaining protective influence. Akroma is another angel that exists in both a white and a red version (the latter from the alternate-reality Planar Chaos expansion) while Razia is the red/white leader of the Boros guild in Ravnica. Radiant is the only of these archangels that, so far, exists only as a purely white card.