Strixhaven Mystical Archive

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Approach of the Second Sun
Sorcery

If this spell was cast from your hand and you've cast another spell named Approach of the Second Sun this game, you win the game. Otherwise, put Approach of the Second Sun into its owner's library seventh from the top and you gain 7 life.

Day of Judgment
Sorcery

Destroy all creatures.

"This must not become common knowledge. The consequences of such a spell are too great. Lock it away in the restricted archive, and destroy its record in the catalog."

—Director Taiva, to Isabough

Defiant Strike
Instant

Target creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

Draw a card.

"For twelve days and twelve nights, Somat assailed the monster's shell. On the thirteenth morning, it cracked with the dawn."

Heroics: A Book of Fables

Divine Gambit
Sorcery

Exile target artifact, creature, or enchantment an opponent controls. That player may put a permanent card from their hand onto the battlefield.

"Evil is to be unshackled, not slain. Unlock your foe and release the miracle within."

—Keevan, docent of Kollema Hall

Ephemerate
Instant

Exile target creature you control, then return it to the battlefield under its owner's control.

Rebound (If you cast this spell from your hand, exile it as it resolves. At the beginning of your next upkeep, you may cast this card from exile without paying its mana cost.)

Gift of Estates
Sorcery

If an opponent controls more lands than you, search your library for up to three Plains cards, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle.

"We asked for a home and received the world."

Scroll of Nine Blessings

Gods Willing
Instant

Target creature you control gains protection from the color of your choice until end of turn. (It can't be blocked, targeted, dealt damage, enchanted, or equipped by anything of that color.)

Scry 1.

Mana Tithe
Instant

Counter target spell unless its controller pays .

"The tyrant's bellow of rage trailed off into a whimper as the last of his fortune escaped his grasp."

The Dethroner's Grimoire

Revitalize
Instant

You gain 3 life.

Draw a card.

"Knight Kathryn closed her eyes, bracing herself for the end. When she opened them again, she stood triumphant over her foe."

—Thadus the Healer, Memoirs

Swords to Plowshares
Instant

Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.

"The blademaster turned his fury to his new foes: root rot and cabbage slugs."

Myths and Miracles, Vol. VII

Teferi's Protection
Instant

Until your next turn, your life total can't change and you gain protection from everything. All permanents you control phase out. (While they're phased out, they're treated as though they don't exist. They phase in before you untap during your untap step.)

Exile Teferi's Protection.

Blue Sun's Zenith
Instant

Target player draws X cards. Shuffle Blue Sun's Zenith into its owner's library.

"Five suns! Can you even imagine how complicated the orbital calculations must be? What I wouldn't give to tackle an equation like that!"

—Zimone, Quandrix mage-student

Brainstorm
Instant

Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order.

"Infinite ideas flow through the Multiverse, waiting for an open mind."

The Biblioplex: An Introduction

Compulsive Research
Sorcery

Target player draws three cards. Then that player discards two cards unless they discard a land card.

"Every Planeswalker remembers the first time their mind touched the staggering vastness of the Multiverse."

—Kasmina

Counterspell
Instant

Counter target spell.

"One need not know the specific details of a spell to suppress its effect. Simply rearrange the rules of the reality within which the spell operates."

—Imbraham, Quandrix dean

Memory Lapse
Instant

Counter target spell. If that spell is countered this way, put it on top of its owner's library instead of into that player's graveyard.

"Where do our forgotten thoughts go? I knew once, but I can't remember."

—Director Taiva, journal entry

Mind's Desire
Sorcery

Shuffle your library. Then exile the top card of your library. Until end of turn, you may play that card without paying its mana cost.

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

Negate
Instant

Counter target noncreature spell.

"Shatter your opponent's spell with enough force, and you'll shatter their confidence with it."

Tome of Obstructions, marginalia

Opt
Instant

Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Draw a card.

"The wish most often granted is the wish to choose one's own destiny."

Aethershrine, inscription

Strategic Planning
Sorcery

Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.

"I can offer only information, young one. What path you choose is up to you."

—Jadzi, Oracle of Arcavios

Tezzeret's Gambit
Sorcery

( can be paid with either or 2 life.)

Draw two cards, then proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Time Warp
Sorcery

Target player takes an extra turn after this one.

"Chronomancers have a rather different definition of living in the moment."

The Millennium Tome

Whirlwind Denial
Instant

For each spell and ability your opponents control, counter it unless its controller pays .

"If they try to storm your palace, you must become the storm."

Handbook of Imperial Spellcraft

Agonizing Remorse
Sorcery

Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from it or a card from their graveyard. Exile that card. You lose 1 life.

"Guilt is not absolution. Regret is not justice. But it is right that you suffer."

—Extus Narr

Crux of Fate
Sorcery

Choose one —

• Destroy all Dragon creatures.

• Destroy all non-Dragon creatures.

"One brother fought for the sake of the Multiverse. The other for himself."

The Elderspell Parable

Dark Ritual
Instant

Add .

"They distrust my methods, but when they want results, whom do you think they seek?"

Incantations of Lim-Dûl

Demonic Tutor
Sorcery

Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

"Demons prefer to deal with those who believe themselves too wise to be fooled."

—Scroll case inscription

Doom Blade
Instant

Destroy target nonblack creature.

"An angel can shine like the sun, inspire the weak, and even threaten victory over darkness. But in the end it matters not, for it still dies like any other pest."

—Ob Nixilis

Duress
Sorcery

Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a noncreature, nonland card from it. That player discards that card.

"Magic brought peace to the Vastlands but was soon corrupted."

The Mystic Age: A Saga of Spells

Eliminate
Instant

Destroy target creature or planeswalker with mana value 3 or less.

"It takes so little energy to erase a person. It's almost like the universe doesn't care that they existed at all."

—Extus Narr

Inquisition of Kozilek
Sorcery

Target player reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from it with mana value 3 or less. That player discards that card.

"To dwell within the Blind Eternities is unthinkable. To encounter those who do could shatter the mind."

Chronicle of the Titans

Sign in Blood
Sorcery

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

"It's always my brightest students who make the worst decisions."

—Shaile, Silverquill dean

Tainted Pact
Instant

Exile the top card of your library. You may put that card into your hand unless it has the same name as another card exiled this way. Repeat this process until you put a card into your hand or you exile two cards with the same name, whichever comes first.

Tendrils of Agony
Sorcery

Target player loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

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

Village Rites
Instant

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

Draw two cards.

"My colleagues revile the barbarity of the Blood Age, but I believe we have much to learn from the magics of endless war."

—Embrose, Silverquill dean

Chaos Warp
Instant

The owner of target permanent shuffles it into their library, then reveals the top card of their library. If it's a permanent card, they put it onto the battlefield.

"Be careful when handling old magical trinkets. You never know who they've been."

—Augusta, Lorehold dean

Claim the Firstborn
Sorcery

Gain control of target creature with mana value 3 or less until end of turn. Untap that creature. It gains haste until end of turn.

"Will! They have a copy of Tales of the Fae here! Want me to read you a bedtime story?"

—Rowan Kenrith

Faithless Looting
Sorcery

Draw two cards, then discard two cards.

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

"How did you get your hands on that? Wait, never mind. I don't want to know."

—Plargg, Lorehold dean

Grapeshot
Sorcery

Grapeshot deals 1 damage to any target.

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

Increasing Vengeance
Instant

Copy target instant or sorcery spell you control. If this spell was cast from a graveyard, copy that spell twice instead. You may choose new targets for the copies.

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

Infuriate
Instant

Target creature gets +3/+2 until end of turn.

"Some mages duel using intricate spellcraft and superior tactics. Others just get really, really mad."

Secrets of the Feradorn Sorcerers

Lightning Bolt
Instant

Lightning Bolt deals 3 damage to any target.

"The first mages witnessed the fury of the raging storm and wished to answer back."

The Stormwright Texts

Mizzix's Mastery
Sorcery

Exile target card that's an instant or sorcery from your graveyard. For each card exiled this way, copy it, and you may cast the copy without paying its mana cost. Exile Mizzix's Mastery.

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

Shock
Instant

Shock deals 2 damage to any target.

"To this day, I have no idea if the heavens were obeying him or attacking him."

—Ral Zarek, research notes

Stone Rain
Sorcery

Destroy target land.

"Thus, Bruk the Skyhammer earned his epithet and won the war, all in one fiery moment."

Compendium of Warspells

Thrill of Possibility
Instant

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

Draw two cards.

"If the prospect of what could be doesn't electrify you to your core, why attend Strixhaven at all?"

—Nassari, Prismari dean

Urza's Rage
Instant

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

This spell can't be countered.

Urza's Rage deals 3 damage to any target. If this spell was kicked, instead it deals 10 damage to that permanent or player and the damage can't be prevented.

Abundant Harvest
Sorcery

Choose land or nonland. Reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a card of the chosen kind. Put that card into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Adventurous Impulse
Sorcery

Look at the top three cards of your library. You may reveal a creature or land card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

"Her quest began as all quests do, with one small step in an unexpected direction."

The Explorer's Testament

Channel
Sorcery

Until end of turn, any time you could activate a mana ability, you may pay 1 life. If you do, add .

"As long as you are breathing, you always have something more to give."

—Valentin, Witherbloom dean

Cultivate
Sorcery

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

"You'd be amazed how much a single plant has to teach you."

—Lisette, Witherbloom dean

Harmonize
Sorcery

Draw three cards.

"The bloody din of invasion faded

And silent song rang through the woods again."

—"Song of Freyalise"

Krosan Grip
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.)

Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

"On a world where time was torn asunder, destruction ruled the minds of all."

Multiversal Metahistories

Natural Order
Sorcery

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

Search your library for a green creature card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

"Nature is neither cruel nor kind. It operates on necessity, not sentiment."

—Dina, Witherbloom mage-student

Primal Command
Sorcery

Choose two —

• Target player gains 7 life.

• Put target noncreature permanent on top of its owner's library.

• Target player shuffles their graveyard into their library.

• Search your library for a creature card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Regrowth
Sorcery

Return target card from your graveyard to your hand.

"Centuries of war had broken Arcavios, but a single seed began the long process of renewal."

The Mystic Age: A Saga of Spells

Snakeskin Veil
Instant

Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control. It gains hexproof until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

"Never reject the kindness of a serpent. It will not be offered twice."

—Druidic manuscript fragment

Weather the Storm
Instant

You gain 3 life.

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

"Neither blade nor tempest can assail the serenity of a tranquil mind."

The Turrau Carvings

Despark
Instant

Exile target permanent with mana value 4 or greater.

"A tale of a tyrant being humiliated and losing all his power? I'm inspired already!"

—Killian, Silverquill mage-student

Electrolyze
Instant

Electrolyze deals 2 damage divided as you choose among one or two targets.

Draw a card.

"The hydraulic power grip was a failure, but the gauntlets were a shocking success."

—Journal of the Prime Izmagnus