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These are small folks tales, preserved simply by their retelling through the oral tradition until they were eventually written down and codified then surviving through parallel written versions for many more years, to finally be adapted into Magic: The Gathering

In the story of The Lost Caverns of Ixalan , its hivemind assimilates pirates, very reminiscent of sci-fi entities like the Borg of Star Trek or the Reapers from Mass Effect

Walker of the Grove

These are core to Magic gameplay and balance, and you can expect to see them in every set release

But if there is one consistent thing that WoTC manages to do, it is that you can be generally sure that the card designs will always attempt to be as faithful to the material as they can realistically be, mechanically and art-wise