Strixhaven: School of Mages

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Tempted by the Oriq
Sorcery

For each opponent, gain control of up to one target creature or planeswalker that player controls with mana value 3 or less.

Baleful Mastery
Instant

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.

Callous Bloodmage
Creature — Vampire Warlock

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.

2/1
Confront the Past
Sorcery — Lesson

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.

Oriq Loremage
Creature — Human Warlock

: 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.

3/3
Poet's Quill
Artifact — Equipment

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

Sedgemoor Witch
Creature — Human Warlock

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."

3/2
Conspiracy Theorist
Creature — Human Shaman

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.

2/2
Crackle with Power
Sorcery

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

Draconic Intervention
Sorcery

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.

Efreet Flamepainter
Creature — Efreet Shaman

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.

1/4
Fervent Mastery
Sorcery

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.

Illuminate History
Sorcery — Lesson

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.

Retriever Phoenix
Creature — Phoenix

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.

2/2
Accomplished Alchemist
Creature — Elf Druid

: Add one mana of any color.

: Add X mana of any one color, where X is the amount of life you gained this turn.

2/5
Basic Conjuration
Sorcery — Lesson

Look at the top six cards of your library. You may reveal a creature card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. You gain 3 life.

Dragonsguard Elite
Creature — Human Druid

Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

: Double the number of +1/+1 counters on this creature.

2/2
Ecological Appreciation
Sorcery

Search your library and graveyard for up to four creature cards with different names that each have mana value X or less and reveal them. An opponent chooses two of those cards. Shuffle the chosen cards into your library and put the rest onto the battlefield. Exile Ecological Appreciation.

Exponential Growth
Sorcery

Until end of turn, double target creature's power X times.

Gnarled Professor
Creature — Treefolk Druid

Trample

When this creature 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.)

5/4
Verdant Mastery
Sorcery

You may pay rather than pay this spell's mana cost.

Search your library for up to four basic land cards and reveal them. Put one of them onto the battlefield tapped under an opponent's control if the cost was paid. Put two of them onto the battlefield tapped under your control and the rest into your hand. Then shuffle.

Augmenter Pugilist
Creature — Troll Druid

Trample

As long as you control eight or more lands, this creature gets +5/+5.

3/3
Echoing Equation
Sorcery

Choose target creature you control. Each other creature you control becomes a copy of it until end of turn, except those creatures aren't legendary.

Blex, Vexing Pest
Legendary Creature — Pest

Other Pests, Bats, Insects, Snakes, and Spiders you control get +1/+1.

When Blex dies, you gain 4 life.

3/2
Search for Blex
Sorcery

Look at the top five cards of your library. You may put any number of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard. You lose 3 life for each card you put into your hand this way.

Extus, Oriq Overlord
Legendary Creature — Human Warlock

Double strike

Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, return target nonlegendary creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

2/4
Awaken the Blood Avatar
Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may sacrifice any number of creatures. This spell costs less to cast for each creature sacrificed this way.

Each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice. Create a 3/6 black and red Avatar creature token with haste and "Whenever this token attacks, it deals 3 damage to each opponent."

Flamescroll Celebrant
Creature — Human Shaman

Whenever an opponent activates an ability that isn't a mana ability, this creature deals 1 damage to that player.

: This creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn.

2/1
Revel in Silence
Instant

Your opponents can't cast spells or activate planeswalkers' loyalty abilities this turn.

Exile Revel in Silence.

Jadzi, Oracle of Arcavios
Legendary Creature — Human Wizard

Discard a card: Return Jadzi to its owner's hand.

Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, reveal the top card of your library. If it's a nonland card, you may cast it by paying rather than paying its mana cost. If it's a land card, put it onto the battlefield.

5/5
Journey to the Oracle
Sorcery

You may put any number of land cards from your hand onto the battlefield. Then if you control eight or more lands, you may discard a card. If you do, return Journey to the Oracle to its owner's hand.

Kianne, Dean of Substance
Legendary Creature — Elf Druid

: Exile the top card of your library. If it's a land card, put it into your hand. Otherwise, put a study counter on it.

: Create a 0/0 green and blue Fractal creature token. Put a +1/+1 counter on it for each different mana value among nonland cards you own in exile with study counters on them.

2/2
Imbraham, Dean of Theory
Legendary Creature — Bird Wizard

Flying

, : Exile the top X cards of your library and put a study counter on each of them. Then you may put a card you own in exile with a study counter on it into your hand.

3/3
Pestilent Cauldron
Artifact

, Discard a card: Create a 1/1 black and green Pest creature token with "When this token dies, you gain 1 life."

, : Each opponent mills cards equal to the amount of life you gained this turn.

, : Exile four target cards from a single graveyard. Draw a card.

Restorative Burst
Sorcery

Return up to two target creature, land, and/or planeswalker cards from your graveyard to your hand. Each player gains 4 life. Exile Restorative Burst.

Plargg, Dean of Chaos
Legendary Creature — Orc Shaman

, Discard a card: Draw a card.

, : Reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a nonlegendary, nonland card with mana value 3 or less. You may cast that card without paying its mana cost. Put all revealed cards not cast this way on the bottom of your library in a random order.

2/2
Augusta, Dean of Order
Legendary Creature — Human Cleric

Other tapped creatures you control get +1/+0.

Other untapped creatures you control get +0/+1.

Whenever you attack, untap each creature you control, then tap any number of creatures you control.

1/3
Selfless Glyphweaver
Creature — Human Cleric

Exile this creature: Creatures you control gain indestructible until end of turn.

2/3
Deadly Vanity
Sorcery

Choose a creature or planeswalker, then destroy all other creatures and planeswalkers.

Shaile, Dean of Radiance
Legendary Creature — Bird Cleric

Flying, vigilance

: Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature that entered the battlefield under your control this turn.

1/1
Embrose, Dean of Shadow
Legendary Creature — Human Warlock

: Put a +1/+1 counter on another target creature, then Embrose deals 2 damage to that creature.

Whenever a creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it dies, draw a card.

4/4
Torrent Sculptor
Creature — Merfolk Wizard

Ward (Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays .)

When this creature enters, exile an instant or sorcery card from your graveyard. Put a number of +1/+1 counters on this creature equal to half that card's mana value, rounded up.

2/2
Flamethrower Sonata
Sorcery

Discard a card, then draw a card. When you discard an instant or sorcery card this way, Flamethrower Sonata deals damage equal to that card's mana value to target creature or planeswalker you don't control.

Uvilda, Dean of Perfection
Legendary Creature — Djinn Wizard

: You may exile an instant or sorcery card from your hand and put three hone counters on it. It gains "At the beginning of your upkeep, if this card is exiled, remove a hone counter from it" and "When the last hone counter is removed from this card, if it's exiled, you may cast it. It costs less to cast this way."

2/2
Nassari, Dean of Expression
Legendary Creature — Efreet Shaman

At the beginning of your upkeep, exile the top card of each opponent's library. Until end of turn, you may cast spells from among those exiled cards, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast those spells.

Whenever you cast a spell from exile, put a +1/+1 counter on Nassari.

4/4
Valentin, Dean of the Vein
Legendary Creature — Vampire Warlock

Menace, lifelink

If a nontoken creature an opponent controls would die, exile it instead. When you do, you may pay . If you do, create a 1/1 black and green Pest creature token with "When this token dies, you gain 1 life."

1/1
Lisette, Dean of the Root
Legendary Creature — Human Druid

Whenever you gain life, you may pay . If you do, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control and those creatures gain trample until end of turn.

4/4
Blade Historian
Creature — Human Cleric

Attacking creatures you control have double strike.

2/3
Blot Out the Sky
Sorcery

Create X tapped 2/1 white and black Inkling creature tokens with flying. If X is 6 or more, destroy all noncreature, nonland permanents.

Body of Research
Sorcery

Create a 0/0 green and blue Fractal creature token. Put X +1/+1 counters on it, where X is the number of cards in your library.

Culling Ritual
Sorcery

Destroy each nonland permanent with mana value 2 or less. Add or for each permanent destroyed this way.

Culmination of Studies
Sorcery

Exile the top X cards of your library. For each land card exiled this way, create a Treasure token. For each blue card exiled this way, draw a card. For each red card exiled this way, Culmination of Studies deals 1 damage to each opponent.

Daemogoth Titan
Creature — Demon

Whenever this creature attacks or blocks, sacrifice a creature.

11/10
Double Major
Instant

Copy target creature spell you control, except it isn't legendary if the spell is legendary. (A copy of a creature spell becomes a token.)

Dramatic Finale
Enchantment

Creature tokens you control get +1/+1.

Whenever one or more nontoken creatures you control die, create a 2/1 white and black Inkling creature token with flying. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Elemental Expressionist
Creature — Orc Wizard

Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, choose target creature you control. Until end of turn, it gains "If this creature would leave the battlefield, exile it instead of putting it anywhere else" and "When this creature is put into exile, create a 4/4 blue and red Elemental creature token." (Each instance of that ability triggers separately.)

4/4
Harness Infinity
Instant

Exchange your hand and graveyard.

Exile Harness Infinity.

Hofri Ghostforge
Legendary Creature — Dwarf Cleric

Spirits you control get +1/+1 and have trample and haste.

Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, exile it. If you do, create a token that's a copy of that creature, except it's a Spirit in addition to its other types and it has "When this token leaves the battlefield, return the exiled card to its owner's graveyard."

4/5
Lorehold Command
Instant

Choose two —

• Create a 3/2 red and white Spirit creature token.

• Creatures you control get +1/+0 and gain indestructible and haste until end of turn.

• Lorehold Command deals 3 damage to any target. Target player gains 3 life.

• Sacrifice a permanent, then draw two cards.

Magma Opus
Instant

Magma Opus deals 4 damage divided as you choose among any number of targets. Tap two target permanents. Create a 4/4 blue and red Elemental creature token. Draw two cards.

, Discard this card: Create a Treasure token.

Manifestation Sage
Creature — Human Wizard

When this creature enters, create a 0/0 green and blue Fractal creature token. Put X +1/+1 counters on it, where X is the number of cards in your hand.

2/2
Prismari Command
Instant

Choose two —

• Prismari Command deals 2 damage to any target.

• Target player draws two cards, then discards two cards.

• Target player creates a Treasure token.

• Destroy target artifact.

Quandrix Command
Instant

Choose two —

• Return target creature or planeswalker to its owner's hand.

• Counter target artifact or enchantment spell.

• Put two +1/+1 counters on target creature.

• Target player shuffles up to three target cards from their graveyard into their library.

Radiant Scrollwielder
Creature — Dwarf Cleric

Instant and sorcery spells you control have lifelink.

At the beginning of your upkeep, exile an instant or sorcery card at random from your graveyard. You may cast it this turn. If a spell cast this way would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead.

2/4
Rushed Rebirth
Instant

Choose target creature. When that creature dies this turn, search your library for a creature card with lesser mana value, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Silverquill Command
Sorcery

Choose two —

• Target creature gets +3/+3 and gains flying until end of turn.

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

• Target player draws a card and loses 1 life.

• Target opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Silverquill Silencer
Creature — Human Cleric

As this creature enters, choose a nonland card name.

Whenever an opponent casts a spell with the chosen name, they lose 3 life and you draw a card.

3/2
Vanishing Verse
Instant

Exile target monocolored permanent.

Venerable Warsinger
Creature — Spirit Cleric

Vigilance, trample

Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may return target creature card with mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield, where X is the amount of damage this creature dealt to that player.

3/3
Witherbloom Command
Sorcery

Choose two —

• Target player mills three cards, then you return a land card from your graveyard to your hand.

• Destroy target noncreature, nonland permanent with mana value 2 or less.

• Target creature gets -3/-1 until end of turn.

• Target opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Codie, Vociferous Codex
Legendary Artifact Creature — Book Construct

You can't cast permanent spells.

, : Add . When you next cast a spell this turn, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile an instant or sorcery card with lesser mana value. Until end of turn, you may cast that card without paying its mana cost. Put each other card exiled this way on the bottom of your library in a random order.

1/4
Strixhaven Stadium
Artifact

: Add . Put a point counter on this artifact.

Whenever a creature deals combat damage to you, remove a point counter from this artifact.

Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to an opponent, put a point counter on this artifact. Then if it has ten or more point counters on it, remove them all and that player loses the game.

The Biblioplex
Land

: Add .

, : Look at the top card of your library. If it's an instant or sorcery card, you may reveal it and put it into your hand. If you don't put the card into your hand, you may put it into your graveyard. Activate only if you have exactly zero or seven cards in hand.