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What's Happening with TSR Kobold Token?
The full token list for Timespiral Remastered was just posted here: https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/card-preview/tokens-time-spiral-remastered-2021-03-05
Here is the Kobold Token: https://media.wizards.com/2021/tsr/en_6xVxuucno4.png. Notice that the name of this one is just "Kobold." Now, [[Kher Keep]] says: "{1}{R}, {T}: Create a 0/1 red Kobold creature token named Kobolds of Kher Keep." So, since this token is in Timespiral remastered due to Kher Keep being in the set, I would assume the token has the name on the token. The only other time we've seen a Kobold token be printed is in M25 with a [[Prossh, Skyraider of Kher]] reprint. Prossh also makes tokens named "Kobolds of Kher Keep" rather than just "Kobold" (https://c1.scryfall.com/file/scryfall-cards/large/front/d/f/dfc03591-1114-4e36-a397-0bb3db8a153c.jpg?1562702392). What exactly is happening here?
Edit: I've been doing some digging on scryfall, and so far I haven't found any occurrences of a card creating a token but the printed token having a different name than the one stated on the card.
Edit 2: There are also examples of cards creating tokens that share a name with another card. Ajani Strength of the Pride creates tokens named and printed with the name Ajani's Pridemate. Llanowar Mentor does the same with tokens named Llanowar Elves, and this example is from TSR.
Wizards Community Team
Hey everyone! We've chatted with some of the production and rules folks today for clarification here.
The name of the "Kobolds of Kher Keep" token was unfortunately printed as "Kobold" instead. For gameplay and rules purposes "Kobolds of Kher Keep" is the correct name. On that note, "Kobold" isn't the name of a Magic card, so it couldn't be named if a player is asked to choose a card name.