As long as you control eight or more lands, this creature gets +1/+0 and can't be blocked.
"By using the vortex, I can study for at least fifteen extra minutes between every class. I wasn't being reckless, Dean Imbraham. I was being efficient."
Flying
Ward (Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays .)
Form and function in perfect unity.
: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.
After drownings, devourings, and one highly unpleasant algae infestation, unsupervised portal use on campus was banned.
Whenever this creature attacks, you may pay 2 life. If you do, it gains flying until end of turn.
"I would be kinder to my peers, Professor, but I simply don't have any."
You may pay rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
If the cost was paid, an opponent draws a card.
Exile target creature or planeswalker.
This creature enters tapped.
: Return this card from your graveyard to your hand. Activate only if you gained life this turn.
Most trudges are covered with decaying plant matter, making them ideal breeding grounds for fungal spores.
When this creature enters, choose one —
• Create a 1/1 black and green Pest creature token with "When this token dies, you gain 1 life."
• You draw a card and you lose 1 life.
• Exile target player's graveyard.
Choose one —
• Return target planeswalker card with mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
• Remove twice X loyalty counters from target planeswalker an opponent controls.
"Why, Gideon? Of all people, why save me?"
Each player loses 2 life. You draw two cards.
Most students could barely endure Dean Embrose's scrutiny for a semester or two; Killian lived with it his entire life.
Put two +1/+1 counters on target creature. It gains lifelink until end of turn.
"I'd say it's still a fair fight—now my friend is about the size of your ego."
Flying
When this creature dies, learn. (You may reveal a Lesson card you own from outside the game and put it into your hand, or discard a card to draw a card.)
Oculomancers see the ideal potion ingredient. The bats don't see it that way.
Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn, where X is 7 minus the number of cards in that creature's controller's hand.
"I assure you, no one fails my course more than once."
—Embrose, Silverquill dean
Target player discards two cards. Then exile that player's graveyard.
The only feeling worse than not knowing the answer is the certainty that you once did.
Create a 1/1 black and green Pest creature token with "When this token dies, you gain 1 life."
Learn. (You may reveal a Lesson card you own from outside the game and put it into your hand, or discard a card to draw a card.)
Target creature gets +2/-2 until end of turn.
"The strongest shadow spells come from disdain for someone else, not frustration with yourself."
—Embrose, Silverquill dean
During your turn, this creature has lifelink.
"Everyone thinks that leeches maintain a strictly sanguivorous diet, but in fact, most freshwater leeches are carnivores. Wait, where are you going?"
Whenever an opponent casts or copies an instant or sorcery spell, they lose 1 life.
One of the Oriq's most powerful tools is the mage hunter, a vile monstrosity created to seek out and snuff out the arcane.
Destroy target creature or planeswalker.
Whenever a creature blocks this turn, its controller loses 1 life.
Extus stood before his alma mater for a moment, remembering first his studies, then his vengeance. At his command, the mage hunters unfolded.
As an additional cost to cast this spell, exile a creature you control.
Exile target creature or planeswalker.
When live specimens aren't readily available, Witherbloom mages make creative use of ragged spirits clinging to long-dead bodies.
, Sacrifice another creature: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. Activate only as a sorcery.
"The professor said to first extract the venom glands, then the acid sac. Next up, the . . . meeping organ?"
: Search your library for a card, put it into your graveyard, then shuffle. If it's an instant or sorcery card, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
Nothing can quell the Oriq's thirst for the forbidden secrets of the past.
As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may sacrifice one or more creatures. When you do, copy this spell for each creature sacrificed this way.
You draw a card and lose 1 life.
Strixhaven forbade all magic from the Blood Age, so that is where Extus began his research.
When this Equipment enters, learn. (You may reveal a Lesson card you own from outside the game and put it into your hand, or discard a card to draw a card.)
Equipped creature gets +1/+1 and has lifelink.
Equip
Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.
[+1]: You lose 1 life. Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.
[−3]: Each opponent sacrifices a creature with the greatest power among creatures that player controls.
[−8]: Each opponent may discard a card. If they don't, they lose 3 life. Repeat this process six more times.
Choose one —
• Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.
• Target creature gains indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)
Professor Onyx urged the twins to prepare for the dark mage Extus, sounding very much like someone familiar with the rise of tyrants.
When this creature dies, if it had a +1/+1 counter on it, draw a card.
"Your technique is sloppy, but there is talent there. Do it again, and keep your right arm in position this time."
Menace
Ward—Pay 3 life. (Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays 3 life.)
Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, create a 1/1 black and green Pest creature token with "When this token dies, you gain 1 life."
Flying
: Target opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.
Foul specters hunt down those who try to back out of a deal with a daemogoth.
When this creature enters, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.
Whenever a creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it attacks, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
"Ah, another future archmage for my collection."
Choose one —
• Target player sacrifices a creature or planeswalker of their choice.
• Create a 2/1 white and black Inkling creature token with flying.
The sport of Mage Tower was conceived as a playful testing ground for young spellcasters.
Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)
, Exile this card from your graveyard: You draw a card and you lose 1 life.
"Don't look at me like that. It was either this or being eaten by a groff."
—Dina, Witherbloom mage-student
Target creature blocks this turn if able. You may have it gain reach until end of turn.
Learn. (You may reveal a Lesson card you own from outside the game and put it into your hand, or discard a card to draw a card.)
"I'll show you original research, you hack!"
Whenever this creature attacks, you may put an instant or sorcery card from your graveyard on the bottom of your library. If you do, exile the top two cards of your library. You may play those cards this turn.
"The Founder Dragons weren't even hatched when this scroll was written!"
: Attacking Spirits get +1/+0 until end of turn.
His troops took the Fortress of Caerdoon centuries ago, yet he fights on.
Whenever this creature attacks, you may pay and discard a card. If you do, draw a card.
Whenever you discard one or more nonland cards, you may exile one of them from your graveyard. If you do, you may cast it this turn.
Crackle with Power deals five times X damage to each of up to X targets.
Will gasped as Rowan drew from the raw power of the Strixhaven Snarl. For a moment, she was luminous, transcendent, terrible.
As an additional cost to cast this spell, exile an instant or sorcery card from your graveyard.
Draconic Intervention deals X damage to each non-Dragon creature, where X is the exiled card's mana value. If a creature dealt damage this way would die this turn, exile it instead.
Exile Draconic Intervention.
Dragon's Approach deals 3 damage to each opponent. You may exile Dragon's Approach and four cards named Dragon's Approach from your graveyard. If you do, search your library for a Dragon creature card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
A deck can have any number of cards named Dragon's Approach.
Double strike
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may cast target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard without paying its mana cost. If that spell would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead.
Target creature gets +3/+1 and gains trample until end of turn.
Learn. (You may reveal a Lesson card you own from outside the game and put it into your hand, or discard a card to draw a card.)
"If the pen is mightier than the sword, just think what a giant tome could do!"
Explosive Welcome deals 5 damage to any target and 3 damage to any other target. Add .
Rowan and Will were a natural fit in Prismari College, the school of outrageous elemental arts.
You may pay rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
If the cost was paid, an opponent discards any number of cards, then draws that many cards.
Search your library for up to three cards, put them into your hand, shuffle, then discard three cards at random.
Whenever a creature you control enters this turn, put a +1/+1 counter on it and it gains haste until end of turn.
Learn. (You may reveal a Lesson card you own from outside the game and put it into your hand, or discard a card to draw a card.)
Whenever one or more cards leave your graveyard, this creature deals 1 damage to each opponent.
Some spirits share ancient wisdom. Others just get mad you touched their stuff.
, Return this creature to its owner's hand: Add . Activate only as a sorcery.
On rare occasions, a Prismari student will summon an elemental that shows such promise that it's permitted to stay and enroll.
Haste
, : Target creature can't block this turn.
"No unauthorized summoning. No writing in the library books. And absolutely no indoor dueling!"
This spell can't be countered. (This includes by the ward ability.)
Heated Debate deals 4 damage to target creature or planeswalker.
"While you were wasting time with abstract equations, I mastered ancient Oggyar fire magic. Your move."
Igneous Inspiration deals 3 damage to any target.
Learn. (You may reveal a Lesson card you own from outside the game and put it into your hand, or discard a card to draw a card.)
Prismari fosters a burning need to create.
Discard any number of cards, then draw that many cards. Then if there are seven or more cards in your graveyard, create a 3/2 red and white Spirit creature token.
"Look at the detail in this stonework! Professor, our assumptions about early Kathorran tool use may not be correct."
, Exile this card from your graveyard: Create a tapped 3/2 red and white Spirit creature token.
The most distinguished Lorehold professors are eligible to receive extended tenure, even beyond the limits of their own mortality.
This spell costs less to cast if it targets a creature token.
Gain control of target creature until end of turn. Untap that creature. It gets +2/+0 and gains haste until end of turn.
Far from the trappings of royalty, Rowan and Will found inspiration from the most popular sport on campus, Mage Tower.
Pigment Storm deals 5 damage to target creature. Excess damage is dealt to that creature's controller instead.
When art projects collapse, Prismari students revel in the beauty of destruction. Everyone else runs for cover.
Reach
, , Sacrifice this creature: Return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand. Activate only as a sorcery.
A giant statue of a dwarf is still a giant statue.
Flying, haste
When this creature enters, if you cast it, learn. (You may reveal a Lesson card you own from outside the game and put it into your hand, or discard a card to draw a card.)
As long as this card is in your graveyard, if you would learn, you may instead return this card to the battlefield.
Choose one —
• Start from Scratch deals 1 damage to any target.
• Destroy target artifact.
"I don't care what they think!" Rootha snapped. "I know I can do better."
This creature gets +1/+0 for each artifact you control.
Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with ", Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
A captured elemental makes for a potent, albeit unstable, power source.
Target creature gets +2/+0 and gains first strike until end of turn.
Create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with ", Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
Rootha created constantly, passionately, in hopes of impressing her greatest critic: herself.
Haste
, Exile an instant or sorcery card from your graveyard: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
"Quintorius, would you care to explain why you didn't complete your homework?"
—Augusta, Lorehold dean
Double strike
"May your wretched name never grace the annals of history, you ignorant buffoon!"
: Add one mana of any color.
: Add X mana of any one color, where X is the amount of life you gained this turn.
"Tincture of murkroot and lizard feet? Simple. One that doesn't taste like murkroot and lizard feet? I'm working on it."