Secrets of Strixhaven Mystical Archive

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Akroma's Will
Instant

Choose one. If you control a commander as you cast this spell, you may choose both instead.

• Creatures you control gain flying, vigilance, and double strike until end of turn.

• Creatures you control gain lifelink, indestructible, and protection from each color until end of turn.

Angel's Grace
Instant

Split second (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't cast spells or activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.)

You can't lose the game this turn and your opponents can't win the game this turn. Until end of turn, damage that would reduce your life total to less than 1 reduces it to 1 instead.

Armageddon
Sorcery

Destroy all lands.

"Like my creator, I sought perfection. And just as he did, I found only sorrow."

End of Argentum: The Memoirs of Karn, Scion of Urza

Duty Beyond Death
Instant

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.

Creatures you control gain indestructible until end of turn. Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy those creatures.)

Helping Hand
Sorcery

Return target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

"Kindness is a war of its own, and one that must never be lost."

The War-Healer's Treatise

Hop to It
Sorcery

Create three 1/1 white Rabbit creature tokens.

A root is best pulled by many paws.

—Rabbitfolk proverb

Prismatic Ending
Sorcery

Converge — Exile target nonland permanent if its mana value is less than or equal to the number of colors of mana spent to cast this spell.

"Some claim the archaics can die only after Arcavios's demise. Others claim their deaths herald the plane's doom. The truth? Only time will tell."

—Jadzi, Oracle of Arcavios

Repel Calamity
Instant

Destroy target creature with power or toughness 4 or greater.

"Against cinder and maw,

Against the dread Wildsear,

With bright sword in paw,

Repel your own fear."

Song of the Seasons, stanza 24

Reprieve
Instant

Return target spell to its owner's hand.

Draw a card.

"It is our responsibility, as citizens of this world, to reach out with compassion to those who are suffering."

—Margeau, Silverquill dean

Requisition Raid
Sorcery

Spree (Choose one or more additional costs.)

+ — Destroy target artifact.

+ — Destroy target enchantment.

+ — Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature target player controls.

Return to the Ranks
Sorcery

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for or one mana of that creature's color.)

Return X target creature cards with mana value 2 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

"It was not rage that made them fight, but honor."

—Augusta, Lorehold dean

Winds of Abandon
Sorcery

Exile target creature you don't control. For each creature exiled this way, its controller searches their library for a basic land card. Those players put those cards onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Overload (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Brain Freeze
Instant

Target player mills three cards.

Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn. You may choose new targets for the copies.)

"It was so embarrassing. Dean Veyran called on me and I just froze. My mind went blank."

—Overheard in the Archive stacks

Cyclonic Rift
Instant

Return target nonland permanent you don't control to its owner's hand.

Overload (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Daze
Instant

You may return an Island you control to its owner's hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.

Counter target spell unless its controller pays .

"Let their screams of frustration be your victory song."

Tome of Obstructions

Deduce
Instant

Draw a card. Investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with ", Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")

"Do not overlook the unusual, for therein often lie the keys to the unknown."

—Alquist Proft's case journal

Disdainful Stroke
Instant

Counter target spell with mana value 4 or greater.

"The clever mage knows that it does not take strength to overcome the enemy, but creativity and intelligence."

Forces of Negation: A Study in Countermagic

Flusterstorm
Instant

Counter target instant or sorcery spell unless its controller pays .

Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn. You may choose new targets for the copies.)

"We sing of the night the sky fell and the hero who held the vault of heaven aloft."

Legend of the Nomad Sage

Force of Will
Instant

You may pay 1 life and exile a blue card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.

Counter target spell.

"We must be prepared to part with things we hold dear to protect those we love."

A Song of Wartime

Pongify
Instant

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Ape creature token.

"We see here a perfect example of a fundamental principle. Nothing can be 'destroyed.' It is merely catastrophically reorganized."

—Professor Ruxа

Preordain
Sorcery

Scry 2, then draw a card. (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

"Raw power wins battles, but those who choose the shape of the battlefield win the war."

The Pool of Knowledge, opening inscription

Sleight of Hand
Sorcery

Look at the top two cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the other on the bottom of your library.

"Confounding an enemy can be as effective as disarming them."

The Trickster's Guide to Staying Alive

Spell Pierce
Instant

Counter target noncreature spell unless its controller pays .

"One does not need to be stronger than their opponent. You need only force them to play their hand before you've shown your own."

Forces of Negation: A Study in Countermagic

Stock Up
Sorcery

Look at the top five cards of your library. Put two of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

"Knowledge is infinite, but life is not. Use your time wisely."

The Biblioplex: An Introduction

Ad Nauseam
Instant

Reveal the top card of your library and put that card into your hand. You lose life equal to its mana value. You may repeat this process any number of times.

"Some areas are off limits for the preservation of the books. Others for the preservation of the students."

—Isabough, Biblioplex archivist

Bitter Triumph
Instant

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card or pay 3 life.

Destroy target creature or planeswalker.

"Ambition can bring you great power or great sorrow, but few prepare for when it brings you both."

Leadership and Its Consequences

Culling the Weak
Instant

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.

Add .

"Great power awaits those who can stomach its cost."

The Season of Loss, chapter one

Dismember
Instant

( can be paid with either or 2 life.)

Target creature gets -5/-5 until end of turn.

"Strip away pain, struggle, impurity, fear, flesh. Surrender the pieces and be blessed as one."

Phyrexian Scriptures

Feed the Swarm
Sorcery

Destroy target creature or enchantment an opponent controls. You lose life equal to that permanent's mana value.

"You cannot fight the Hunger Tide. You can only run, hide—and pray."

—Entry in a tattered journal

Living End
Sorcery

Suspend 3

Each player exiles all creature cards from their graveyard, then sacrifices all creatures they control, then puts all cards they exiled this way onto the battlefield.

"Mortality is a gift. There is a comfort in knowing that the end is coming."

Vess's Cautions in Necromancy

Locust Spray
Instant

Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.

Cycling (, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

"A suit of armor is only as good as its seams."

Vanity Lost: A Knight's Folly

Sheoldred's Edict
Instant

Choose one —

• Each opponent sacrifices a nontoken creature of their choice.

• Each opponent sacrifices a creature token of their choice.

• Each opponent sacrifices a planeswalker of their choice.

Smallpox
Sorcery

Each player loses 1 life, discards a card, sacrifices a creature of their choice, then sacrifices a land of their choice.

"One plane's poison is another's miracle cure. One plane's deadly plague is another's common cold. An interplanar medical body could save an unfathomable number of lives."

—Lisette, Witherbloom dean

Stargaze
Sorcery

Look at twice X cards from the top of your library. Put X cards from among them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard. You lose X life.

"I stay away from poems about the night. It's beautiful, yes, but somehow it always feels just a little bit hungry."

—Abigale

Vampiric Tutor
Instant

Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card on top. You lose 2 life.

"The only true immortality comes in the passage of knowledge. Mold one mind and you can live in thousands more."

The Sanguine Influence

Zombify
Sorcery

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

"Calling the dead isn't difficult. Commanding them once they answer, however, is a different story."

—Professor Vess

Abrade
Instant

Choose one —

• Abrade deals 3 damage to target creature.

• Destroy target artifact.

"We learn so much from the relics we find. What might we have learned from the relics we lost?"

—Kirol

Big Score
Instant

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card.

Draw two cards and create two Treasure tokens. (They're artifacts with ", Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Brotherhood's End
Sorcery

Choose one —

• Brotherhood's End deals 3 damage to each creature and each planeswalker.

• Destroy all artifacts with mana value 3 or less.

"Two strong wills, one wake of destruction."

The Antiquities War

Bulk Up
Instant

Double target creature's power until end of turn.

Flashback (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

"My teeth to bite and break, my claws to rip and rend, my heart with fury quakes, to madness I ascend."

Kathorran War Chants, vol. 1

Burst Lightning
Instant

Kicker (You may pay an additional as you cast this spell.)

Burst Lightning deals 2 damage to any target. If this spell was kicked, it deals 4 damage instead.

"May the storm yield only when your last enemy has fallen."

Otarian Battle Cries

Crackle with Power
Sorcery

Crackle with Power deals five times X damage to each of up to X targets.

"Lift up the very land and unleash its fury upon your enemies."

Secrets of the Feradorn Sorcerers

Empty the Warrens
Sorcery

Create two 1/1 red Goblin creature tokens.

Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn.)

"When engaging goblins in combat, assume that the number underground is at least double that of those you can see."

Terrain Tactics and Environmental Magics

Jeska's Will
Sorcery

Choose one. If you control a commander as you cast this spell, you may choose both instead.

• Add for each card in target opponent's hand.

• Exile the top three cards of your library. You may play them this turn.

"Even in death, her legend burns bright."

—Quintorius Kand

Monstrous Rage
Instant

Target creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn. Create a Monster Role token attached to it. (If you control another Role on it, put that one into the graveyard. Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and has trample.)

"There is no limit to the ways that anger can twist and break us."

Revenge and Its Manifestations

Pyretic Ritual
Instant

Add .

"Alone, we are but the heat, the air, and the kindling. Together, we are the ever-spreading flame."

The Sisters of Flame

Return the Favor
Instant

Spree (Choose one or more additional costs.)

+ — Copy target instant spell, sorcery spell, activated ability, or triggered ability. You may choose new targets for the copy.

+ — Change the target of target spell or ability with a single target.

Subterranean Tremors
Sorcery

Subterranean Tremors deals X damage to each creature without flying. If X is 4 or more, destroy all artifacts. If X is 8 or more, create an 8/8 red Lizard creature token.

"There is one beast that makes even titans quail and quake in fear. We shall not name it here, for to name it is to call it."

A History of Ruinations

Awaken the Woods
Sorcery

Create X 1/1 green Forest Dryad land creature tokens. (They're affected by summoning sickness.)

"We woke the forest against the Phyrexian threat, and it's refused to go back to sleep."

—Willowdusk

Berserk
Instant

Cast this spell only before the combat damage step.

Target creature gains trample and gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is its power. At the beginning of the next end step, destroy that creature if it attacked this turn.

Crop Rotation
Instant

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a land.

Search your library for a land card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

"Life comes at a cost, but steward it well and you will be repaid manyfold."

—Lisette, Witherbloom dean

Giant Growth
Instant

Target creature gets +3/+3 until end of turn.

"If you make a mistake when calculating your spell's output, please use the emergency spelltrap nets."

—Posting inside Quandrix spell labs

Glimpse of Nature
Sorcery

Whenever you cast a creature spell this turn, draw a card.

"In the acorn, find the oak; in the cub, find the pride-king. In all living things, great or small, find not what they are, but what they can become."

The Nature of Infinity, vol. 1

Knockout Maneuver
Sorcery

Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control, then it deals damage equal to its power to target creature an opponent controls.

"Who do you think would win in a fight: a lion or a unicorn?"

—Sanar, to Kirol

Pick Your Poison
Sorcery

Choose one —

• Each opponent sacrifices an artifact of their choice.

• Each opponent sacrifices an enchantment of their choice.

• Each opponent sacrifices a creature with flying of their choice.

Royal Treatment
Instant

Target creature you control gains hexproof until end of turn. Create a Royal Role token attached to that creature. (If you control another Role on it, put that one into the graveyard. Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and has ward .)

Shamanic Revelation
Sorcery

Draw a card for each creature you control.

Ferocious — You gain 4 life for each creature you control with power 4 or greater.

"The beasts she commanded let loose a deafening roar that presaged the silence of death."

Multiversal Metahistories

Shared Roots
Sorcery — Lesson

Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

"Awed by the strength of their love, the Dawn Prince bound them together for eternity, and around them a great forest grew."

Tales of the Fae

Triumph of the Hordes
Sorcery

Until end of turn, creatures you control get +1/+1 and gain trample and infect. (Creatures with infect deal damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)

Veil of Summer
Instant

Draw a card if an opponent has cast a blue or black spell this turn. Spells you control can't be countered this turn. You and permanents you control gain hexproof from blue and from black until end of turn. (You and they can't be the targets of blue or black spells or abilities your opponents control.)