Curate
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.
"*Kathorran War Chants, Vol. III*? That doesn't even belong in this wing!"
Divide by Zero
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.)
"Misery. Inadequacy. Failure. The common denominator is you."
Dream Strix
Flying
When Dream Strix becomes the target of a spell, sacrifice it.
When Dream Strix 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.)
Frost Trickster
Flying
When Frost Trickster enters the battlefield, tap target creature an opponent controls. That creature doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.
The most important skill in a Mage Tower match is keeping one's cool.
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.
Kelpie Guide
{T}: Untap another target permanent you control.
{T}: Tap target permanent. Activate only if you control eight or more lands.
Kelpies are drawn to paradoxes, making them ideal companions for Quandrix mages.
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.
Mercurial Transformation
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.
"For sun's sake, I just want a crab!"
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.
Pop Quiz
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.)
"Today is hydromancy? I thought it was amplimancy! I studied for amplimancy!"
Reject
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.
"Grux, for the last time, you have to do more than simply shout 'Apply!' at the administrators."
—Pavil, admissions officer
Resculpt
Exile target artifact or creature. Its controller creates a 4/4 blue and red Elemental creature token.
Critics were struck first by the elemental's surprising grace, and then by its fists.
Serpentine Curve
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.
"Math bites."
—Bim, Lorehold mage-student
Snow Day
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.
"Advanced Elemental Manifestations is canceled until all students have thawed."
—Prismari dormitory notice
Solve the Equation
Search your library for an instant or sorcery card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Zimone's brilliance drew attention from many, including the sinister mages known as the Oriq.
Soothsayer Adept
{1}{U}, {T}: Draw a card, then discard a card.
One of the first lessons divination students learn is how to recognize the difference between a portent and a simple surface ripple.
Symmetry Sage
Flying
Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, target creature you control has base power 2 until end of turn.
"By my calculations, I should be able to achieve true enlightenment before graduation."
Teachings of the Archaics
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.
Mages seek out the ancient beings known as the Archaics for their boundless knowledge of history and magic, dispensed only in cryptic metaphors.
Tempted by the Oriq
For each opponent, gain control of up to one target creature or planeswalker that player controls with mana value 3 or less.
To exact his vengeance, Extus needed followers. His infiltrators recruited promising mage-students from the very halls he sought to destroy.
Test of Talents
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.
Vortex Runner
As long as you control eight or more lands, Vortex Runner 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."
Waterfall Aerialist
Flying
Ward {2} (Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays {2}.)
Form and function in perfect unity.
Wormhole Serpent
{3}{U}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.
After drownings, devourings, and one highly unpleasant algae infestation, unsupervised portal use on campus was banned.
Arrogant Poet
Whenever Arrogant Poet 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."
Baleful Mastery
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.
Brackish Trudge
Brackish Trudge enters the battlefield tapped.
{1}{B}: Return Brackish Trudge 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.
Callous Bloodmage
When Callous Bloodmage enters the battlefield, choose one —
• Create a 1/1 black and green Pest creature token with "When this creature dies, you gain 1 life."
• You draw a card and you lose 1 life.
• Exile target player's graveyard.
Confront the Past
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?"
Crushing Disappointment
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.
Essence Infusion
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."
Eyetwitch
Flying
When Eyetwitch 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.
Flunk
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
Go Blank
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.
Hunt for Specimens
Create a 1/1 black and green Pest creature token with "When this creature 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.)
Lash of Malice
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
Leech Fanatic
As long as it's your turn, Leech Fanatic has lifelink.
"Everyone thinks that leeches maintain a strictly sanguivorous diet, but in fact, most freshwater leeches are carnivores. Wait, where are you going?"
Mage Hunter
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.
Mage Hunters' Onslaught
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.
Necrotic Fumes
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.
Novice Dissector
{1}, 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?"
Oriq Loremage
{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 Oriq Loremage.
Nothing can quell the Oriq's thirst for the forbidden secrets of the past.
Plumb the Forbidden
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 you lose 1 life.
Strixhaven forbade all magic from the Blood Age, so that is where Extus began his research.
Poet's Quill
When Poet's Quill 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.)
Equipped creature gets +1/+1 and has lifelink.
Equip {1}{B}
Professor Onyx
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.
Professor's Warning
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.
Promising Duskmage
When Promising Duskmage 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."
Sedgemoor Witch
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 creature dies, you gain 1 life."
Specter of the Fens
Flying
{5}{B}: 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.
