As a part of maintaining this Sporcle quiz on MtG creature types, I often find a few fun facts that may be worth sharing.
Humans are still the most dominant creature type in Magic, but not on Kaladesh. That honor actually belongs to artificer. There are 27 of them in Kaladesh, launching them from the 49th to the 34th most prevalent creature type.
Dwarves are back! 13 of them, actually. They go from 70th to 53rd.
Kaladesh introduces three new creature types: aetherborn, pilot and monkey.
Speaking of monkeys, three creatures that were previously apes have received errata and are now monkeys. Those three are Ravenous Baboons, Tree Monkey and Zodiac Monkey. Still though, Wily Bandar is, technically, MtG's first monkey. It's definitely the first cat monkey.
Fox and snake each have a single card in Kaladesh, and they're both artifact creatures.
Kaladesh is full of one-off creatures. Some of the more interesting ones that haven't been seen in years include camel, hyena and assembly-worker.
There are zero wizards or golems in Kaladesh.
The top 5 creature types in Kaladesh are:
Artificer (27)
Human (24)
Construct (15)
Dwarf (13)
Elf (12)
I'm RxPhantom, and these have been your useless fun facts for the day.
Edited to fix my ignorance when it comes to gremlins.
For the quiz, I just compile the data myself after the spoiler comes out, then double check on Gatherer once it's there just in case I missed a reprint. No zombies on Kaladesh either, and none of the twelve elves have any tribal functions. If you're curious about elves on Kaladesh though, you could do a quick gatherer search. I tried to post the link, but the brackets messed it up.
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The top 5 creature types in Kaladesh are:
I'm RxPhantom, and these have been your useless fun facts for the day.
Edited to fix my ignorance when it comes to gremlins.
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Well, no, they're not. Apes are Old World primates, but not monkeys.
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