Strixhaven: School of Mages

Sorcery — Lesson

Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. You gain 2 life.

Environmental Sciences

Put two +1/+1 counters on target creature. It gains vigilance until end of turn.

Expanded Anatomy

Exile target nonland permanent. Its controller draws a card.

Introduction to Annihilation

Introduction to Prophecy

Spirit

Mascot Exhibition

Elemental

Inkling

Create a 2/1 white and black Inkling creature token with flying, a 3/2 red and white Spirit creature token, and a 4/4 blue and red Elemental creature token.

Sorcery

Each player looks at the top five cards of their library and may reveal a land card and/or an instant or sorcery card from among them. Each player puts the cards they revealed this way into their hand and the rest on the bottom of their library in a random order. Each player gains 3 life.

Explore the Vastlands

Creature — Avatar

Whenever an opponent casts an instant or sorcery spell, they may pay {2}. If they don't, you may copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Wandering Archaic

Choose one —
• Choose a nonland card name. Opponents can't cast spells with the chosen name until your next turn.
• Choose target nonland permanent. Until your next turn, it can't attack or block, and its activated abilities can't be activated.

Academic Probation

Creature — Spirit Soldier

Ageless Guardian

Instant

Target creature you control gets +2/+2 and gains hexproof until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

Beaming Defiance

Creature — Human Wizard

Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, this creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

Clever Lumimancer

Creature — Bird Cleric

Flying
At the beginning of combat on your turn, target creature you control gets +1/+0 and gains vigilance until end of turn.

Combat Professor

Choose one —
• Creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn.
• Destroy target creature with power 4 or greater.

Defend the Campus

Enchantment — Aura

Enchant nonland permanent
Enchanted permanent can't attack or block, and its activated abilities can't be activated.
{3}: Destroy this Aura. Only your opponents may activate this ability and only as a sorcery.

Detention Vortex

You may pay {2}{W}{W} rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
If the {2}{W}{W} cost was paid, an opponent chooses up to two nonland permanents they control and returns them to their owner's hand.
Destroy all nonland permanents.

Devastating Mastery

Creature — Human Monk

When this creature enters, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.
{4}{W}, {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it.

Dueling Coach

Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, this creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

Eager First-Year

Creature — Human Cleric

Flying
When this creature enters, look at target opponent's hand. You may exile a nonland card from it. For as long as that card remains exiled, its owner may play it. A spell cast this way costs {2} more to cast.

Elite Spellbinder

Expel

Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.
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.)

Guiding Voice

Creature — Cat Cleric

Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn.

Leonin Lightscribe

Legendary Creature — Bird Advisor

Flying
{0}: You may cast target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard this turn. If that spell doesn't target a creature you control, it costs {8} more to cast this way. If that spell would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead. Activate only once each turn. (You still pay the spell's costs. Timing rules for the spell still apply.)

Mavinda, Students' Advocate

Creature — Spirit

When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic Plains card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
{6}: Return this card from your graveyard to your hand.

Pilgrim of the Ages

Creature — Spirit Cleric

Flying
When this creature enters, return target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to your hand.

Pillardrop Rescuer

Creature — Kor Cleric

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.)

Professor of Symbology

Exile target nonland permanent. Its controller creates a 3/2 red and white Spirit creature token.

Reduce to Memory

You and target opponent each draw three cards.

Secret Rendezvous

Exile any number of target creatures and/or planeswalkers you control. At the beginning of the next end step, return each of them to the battlefield under its owner's control. Each of them enters with an additional +1/+1 counter on it if it's a creature and an additional loyalty counter on it if it's a planeswalker.

Semester's End

When you cast this spell, copy it for each other instant and sorcery spell you've cast this turn. You may choose new targets for the copies.
Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. It gains vigilance until end of turn.

Show of Confidence

Enchantment

When this enchantment 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.)
Whenever you attack, put a +1/+1 counter on target attacking creature and untap it.

Sparring Regimen

This creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it.
When this creature dies, put its counters on target creature you control.

Star Pupil

Creature — Spirit Dog

Whenever one or more cards are put into exile during your turn, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Stonebinder's Familiar

Creature — Spirit Bird

Flying
{4}, Exile a card from your graveyard: Target creature gains flying until end of turn.

Stonerise Spirit

Flying
Whenever a permanent entering causes a triggered ability to trigger, counter that ability unless its controller pays {2}.

Strict Proctor

Tap up to two target creatures.
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.)

Study Break

Creature — Kor Wizard

Vigilance
Whenever this creature attacks, it gains flying until end of turn if you control a creature with flying. The same is true for first strike, double strike, deathtouch, indestructible, lifelink, menace, and trample.

Thunderous Orator

Target creature gets -4/-0 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.)

Arcane Subtraction

Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, draw a card.

Archmage Emeritus

Creature — Frog Wizard

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)
When this creature enters, target creature an opponent controls gets -1/-0 until end of turn.

Burrog Befuddler

This spell costs {2} less to cast if it targets an attacking creature.
Put target creature into its owner's library second from the top.

Bury in Books

Surveil 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)
Draw a card.

Curate

Return target spell or permanent with mana value 1 or greater to its owner's hand.
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.)

Divide by Zero

Creature — Bird Illusion

Flying
When this creature becomes the target of a spell, sacrifice it.
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.)

Dream Strix

Creature — Bird Wizard

Flying
When this creature enters, tap target creature an opponent controls. That creature doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

Frost Trickster

Treasure

Ingenious Mastery

You may pay {2}{U} rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
If the {2}{U} cost was paid, you draw three cards, then an opponent creates two Treasure tokens and they scry 2. If that cost wasn't paid, you draw X cards.

Creature — Beast

{T}: Untap another target permanent you control.
{T}: Tap target permanent. Activate only if you control eight or more lands.

Kelpie Guide

When you cast this spell, copy it if you control a planeswalker, Cleric, Druid, Shaman, Warlock, or Wizard.
Scry 1, then draw a card.

Mentor's Guidance

Until end of turn, target nonland permanent loses all abilities and becomes your choice of a blue Frog creature with base power and toughness 1/1 or a blue Octopus creature with base power and toughness 4/4.

Mercurial Transformation

Multiple Choice

If X is 1, scry 1, then draw a card.
If X is 2, you may choose a player. They return a creature they control to its owner's hand.
If X is 3, create a 4/4 blue and red Elemental creature token.
If X is 4 or more, do all of the above.

Draw a card.
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.)

Pop Quiz

Counter target creature or planeswalker spell unless its controller pays {3}. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard.

Reject

Exile target artifact or creature. Its controller creates a 4/4 blue and red Elemental creature token.

Resculpt

Fractal

Create a 0/0 green and blue Fractal creature token. Put X +1/+1 counters on it, where X is one plus the total number of instant and sorcery cards you own in exile and in your graveyard.

Serpentine Curve

Tap up to two target creatures. Those creatures don't untap during their controller's next untap step.
Draw two cards, then discard a card.

Snow Day

Search your library for an instant or sorcery card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Solve the Equation

Creature — Merfolk Wizard

{1}{U}, {T}: Draw a card, then discard a card.

Soothsayer Adept

Flying
Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, target creature you control has base power 2 until end of turn.

Symmetry Sage

If an opponent has more cards in hand than you, draw two cards. Draw three cards instead if an opponent has at least four more cards in hand than you.

Teachings of the Archaics

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

Tempted by the Oriq

Counter target instant or sorcery spell. Search its controller's graveyard, hand, and library for any number of cards with the same name as that spell and exile them. That player shuffles, then draws a card for each card exiled from their hand this way.

Test of Talents

As long as you control eight or more lands, this creature gets +1/+0 and can't be blocked.

Vortex Runner

Creature — Djinn Wizard

Flying
Ward {2} (Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays {2}.)

Waterfall Aerialist

Creature — Serpent

{3}{U}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Wormhole Serpent

Creature — Human Warlock

Whenever this creature attacks, you may pay 2 life. If you do, it gains flying until end of turn.

Arrogant Poet

You may pay {1}{B} rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
If the {1}{B} cost was paid, an opponent draws a card.
Exile target creature or planeswalker.

Baleful Mastery

Creature — Fungus Beast

This creature enters tapped.
{1}{B}: Return this card from your graveyard to your hand. Activate only if you gained life this turn.

Brackish Trudge

Pest

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.

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.

Confront the Past

Each player loses 2 life. You draw two cards.

Crushing Disappointment

Put two +1/+1 counters on target creature. It gains lifelink until end of turn.

Essence Infusion

Creature — Eye Bat

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.)

Eyetwitch

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.

Flunk

Target player discards two cards. Then exile that player's graveyard.

Go Blank

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.)

Hunt for Specimens

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

Lash of Malice

During your turn, this creature has lifelink.

Leech Fanatic

Creature — Horror

Whenever an opponent casts or copies an instant or sorcery spell, they lose 1 life.

Mage Hunter

Destroy target creature or planeswalker.
Whenever a creature blocks this turn, its controller loses 1 life.

Mage Hunters' Onslaught

As an additional cost to cast this spell, exile a creature you control.
Exile target creature or planeswalker.

Necrotic Fumes

Creature — Troll Warlock

{1}, Sacrifice another creature: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. Activate only as a sorcery.

Novice Dissector

{T}: 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.

Oriq Loremage

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.

Plumb the Forbidden

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 {1}{B}