A-Dueling Coach
When Dueling Coach enters the battlefield, distribute two +1/+1 counters among one or two target creatures you control.
{W}, {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it.
A-Mentor's Guidance
When you cast this spell, copy it if you control a planeswalker, Cleric, Druid, Shaman, Warlock, or Wizard.
Scry 1, then draw a card.
Kasmina had encouraged the twins to apply. Strixhaven would test not only their magical potential, but also their character.
A-Tenured Inkcaster
When Tenured Inkcaster enters the battlefield, 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.
A-Ardent Dustspeaker
Whenever Ardent Dustspeaker 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.
A-Tome Shredder
Haste
{T}, Exile an instant or sorcery card from your graveyard: Put a +1/+1 counter on Tome Shredder.
A-Rowan, Scholar of Sparks // A-Will, Scholar of Frost
Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.
+1: Rowan, Scholar of Sparks deals 1 damage to each opponent. If you've drawn three or more cards this turn, she deals 3 damage to each opponent instead.
−5: You get an emblem with "Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, you may pay {2}. If you do, copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy."
Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.
+1: Up to one target creature has base power and toughness 0/2 until your next turn.
−3: Draw two cards.
−8: Exile up to five target permanents. For each permanent exiled this way, its controller creates a 4/4 blue and red Elemental creature token.
A-Maelstrom Muse
Flying
Whenever Maelstrom Muse attacks, the next instant or sorcery spell you cast this turn costs {X} less to cast, where X is Maelstrom Muse's power as this ability resolves.
A-Tanazir Quandrix
Flying, trample
When Tanazir Quandrix enters the battlefield, double the number of +1/+1 counters on target creature you control.
Whenever Tanazir Quandrix attacks, you may have the base power and toughness of other creatures you control become equal to Tanazir Quandrix's power and toughness until end of turn.
Environmental Sciences
Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. You gain 2 life.
First-years quickly learn how the Vastlands earned its name.
Expanded Anatomy
Put two +1/+1 counters on target creature. It gains vigilance until end of turn.
"Changing the equation from incremental to exponential was a stroke of genius on my part."
Introduction to Annihilation
Exile target nonland permanent. Its controller draws a card.
"I've never seen a student fail quite so spectacularly. There's potential in that."
—Hostram, professor of arcanochemistry
Introduction to Prophecy
Scry 2, then draw a card.
Final grades are posted on the first day of class.
Mascot Exhibition
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.
"Don't just win the game. Win the crowd."
—Moriana, Mage Tower coach
Wandering Archaic // Explore the Vastlands
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.
"Fly the path of nine birds."
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.
Academic Probation
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.
Ageless Guardian
Ancient ruins dot the world of Arcavios, most older than Strixhaven itself and many still guarded by soldiers from the Blood Age, centuries after their deaths.
Beaming Defiance
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.)
"I've lived too long in my father's shadow. It's time to find my own light."
—Killian, Silverquill mage-student
Clever Lumimancer
Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, Clever Lumimancer gets +2/+2 until end of turn.
"You're too dim to realize it, but you've already lost."
Combat Professor
Flying
At the beginning of combat on your turn, target creature you control gets +1/+0 and gains vigilance until end of turn.
"Before Yovus was cut down at Pranticle Peak, she performed which maneuver? Anyone? From the reading?"
Defend the Campus
Choose one —
• Creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn.
• Destroy target creature with power 4 or greater.
Professors scrambled to push the mage hunters back, leaving the heart of Strixhaven undefended.
Detention Vortex
Enchant nonland permanent
Enchanted permanent can't attack or block, and its activated abilities can't be activated.
{3}: Destroy Detention Vortex. Only your opponents may activate this ability and only as a sorcery.
Devastating Mastery
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.
Dueling Coach
When Dueling Coach enters the battlefield, 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.
Eager First-Year
Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, Eager First-Year gets +1/+0 until end of turn.
Today, she learns the basics. She'll knock out advanced theory later this week.
Elite Spellbinder
Flying
When Elite Spellbinder enters the battlefield, 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.
Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa, World Champion XXVI
Expel
Exile target tapped creature.
Quintorius was a daydreamer, far happier digging through history books than practicing battle tactics. He agreed with the military academy on only one thing: he did not belong in their ranks.
Guiding Voice
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.)
When honormancers work together, their compliments are complementary.
Leonin Lightscribe
Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn.
All who hear his inspiring words are filled with hope and pride.
Mavinda, Students' Advocate
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.)
Pilgrim of the Ages
When Pilgrim of the Ages enters the battlefield, you may search your library for a basic Plains card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
{6}: Return Pilgrim of the Ages from your graveyard to your hand.
Pillardrop Rescuer
Flying
When Pillardrop Rescuer enters the battlefield, return target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to your hand.
Gentle hands of stone whisk the careless from the crumbling ruins of Pillardrop.
Professor of Symbology
When Professor of Symbology enters the battlefield, 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.)
"A language isn't dead until we stop learning from it."
Reduce to Memory
Exile target nonland permanent. Its controller creates a 3/2 red and white Spirit creature token.
"Do not flinch from studying the horrors of the past. History's most important lessons are cloaked in terror and tragedy."
—Augusta, Lorehold dean
Secret Rendezvous
You and target opponent each draw three cards.
Strixhaven's five colleges encourage natural rivalries among the students, but some bonds transcend all barriers.
Semester's End
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 the battlefield 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.
Show of Confidence
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.
Sparring Regimen
When Sparring Regimen enters the battlefield, 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.
Star Pupil
Star Pupil enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it.
When Star Pupil dies, put its counters on target creature you control.
"When I'm done here, they'll name entire buildings after me."
Stonebinder's Familiar
Whenever one or more cards are put into exile during your turn, put a +1/+1 counter on Stonebinder's Familiar. This ability triggers only once each turn.
"Hey, my great-great-grandfather had a dog just like that!"
—Dradiel, Lorehold mage-student
Stonerise Spirit
Flying
{4}, Exile a card from your graveyard: Target creature gains flying until end of turn.
The carved cliffs of Pillardrop thrum with the sounds of ancient spirits rising from the past.
Strict Proctor
Flying
Whenever a permanent entering the battlefield causes a triggered ability to trigger, counter that ability unless its controller pays {2}.
"You might believe being dead for centuries has made me more lenient. I think you'll find the opposite to be true."
Strict Proctor
Flying
Whenever a permanent entering the battlefield causes a triggered ability to trigger, counter that ability unless its controller pays {2}.
"You might believe being dead for centuries has made me more lenient. I think you'll find the opposite to be true."
Study Break
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.)
"You've been cramming all night. You're taking a nap whether you like it or not."
Thunderous Orator
Vigilance
Whenever Thunderous Orator 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.
Arcane Subtraction
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.)
The class learned little that day.
Archmage Emeritus
Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, draw a card.
Some emeritus professors return from their wanderings periodically to share tales of the mystical wonders of Arcavios.
Burrog Befuddler
Flash
When Burrog Befuddler enters the battlefield, target creature an opponent controls gets -1/-0 until end of turn.
Students who seek river herbs in Doradur quickly find themselves slightly damp and thoroughly surrounded.
Bury in Books
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.
There are no weapons allowed in the Biblioplex, but a clever mage is never truly defenseless.
