Magic: The Gathering (Unreleased Sets)

We have a bunch of Strixhaven articles up on the Mothership now.

• Strixhaven: School of Mages Mechanics
  • Learn and Lesson: Learn allows you to either reveal a Lesson card from outside the game and put it into your hand, or discard a card to draw a card (or do nothing, if for some strange reason neither of those options are helpful). In addition to being retrievable by Learn, Lessons can be included in your deck like any other card.
  • Magecraft: An ability word that highlights abilities that trigger whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell.
  • Ward: A new evergreen ability. Whenever a permanent with ward is targeted by a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter that spell or ability unless its controller pays a cost (which varies from card to card).
  • And once again, there are more modal double-faced cards.
• Introducing Ward: An in-depth article on the new evergreen mechanic, Ward.

And finally, the first chapter of the Strixhaven main story!

Episode 1: Class is in Session, by Adana Washington

I don't have time to read the story myself now, but I plan on doing so either later tonight or after work tomorrow.

Holy $h!t, Quandrix elder dragon art. The Lorehold one has drip too.

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Please be a good card. Please be a good card. Please be a good card.

Edited by googlebot on Mar 25th 2021 at 11:28:25 AM

I think I'm going to be building around the Lorehold Commander.

It looks like an artifact focused Boros deck that can get a lot of value. There's even a combo that for five mana lets you Time Stretch your opponents.

In Boros.

Here's a new Strixhaven side story;

A Cry of Magic, by Aysha U. Farah

In The Strixhaven, Part 1. I'm really digging this set. In part because I am in uni myself now. And it seems to bring new life to the old enemy colour pairs which intrigues me as enemy colours were always the ones I gravitate towards.

Here's a new Strixhaven main story:

Episode 2: Lessons

Liliana's trying to resurrect Gideon. Didn't something like this backfire on her before?

Yes. Yes it did.

If things go badly enough, we may see a Legendary White Black Gideon Zombie.

I mean. (She thinks) She probably knows how to make it work this time. She's gotten enough knowledge and mileage to make it work this time, just watch!

So anyway I got a look at the Hall Monitor card.

...Dammit, Wizards of the Coast.

@Elfive:

Planeswalker's Guide to Strixhaven

After getting a better idea of what the five colleges are all about, I think I've settled on Lorehold as the one that most resonates with me.

Complete card gallery is out. I appreciate this set, especially the lore.

New Strixhaven main story.

Episode 3: Extracurriculars, by Adana Washington

I really ought to wait until the stories all come out before looking at the card galleries. Sure, things don't always play out as depicted in the cards, but the general strokes are still there.

Today's side story;

The Chains that Bind, by Reinhardt Suarez

Posted yesterday, The Legends of Strixhaven

Also, this week's Strixhaven main story episode is up.

Epiosde 4: Put to the Test. by Adana Washington

So apparently, Extus Narr knows about the multiverse and Planeswalkers, and has started going Darth Sidious on Lukka - who seems nothing but eager to be corrupted.

Lukka then went ahead and amplified the Mage Killer monsters with his magic.

Not that Extus needed to do much. Lukka was already the kind of person willing to unleash a monster horde on a city in his debut story. Even Vivien Reid, someone who thinks badly of civilization in general, thought he was going too far.

He's basically a guy with the mindset of a mass shooter who also happens to have formidable magical power over beasts.

Edited by M84 on Apr 16th 2021 at 2:19:48 AM

So really more of a villain team up than a straight corruption. All Extus really had to do was point him in the right direction. So...really more Darth Sidious and Darth Maul.

"At last, we will have our revenge."

"For what?"

I will say that Lukka's introduction to the plane could give him the idea that Strixhaven's a problem.

Lukka is really weird in that the Ikoria cards portrayed showed him being someone befriending a monster and getting persecuted by his xenophobic city for it, being ezzentially the hero of the story. Then the Ikoria story summary came up and explained that he was someone befriending a monster and getting persecuted by his xenophobic city for it, who then responded by using an Artifact of Doom to crete an army of super mosnters to raze said city to the ground, ultimately becoming the villain of the story.

Today's Strixhaven side story;

The Mentor, by Reinhardt Suarez

You think Extus might be connected to whoever our next major villain's gonna be?

The last Strixhaven main story is up!

Episode 5: Final Exam, by Adana Washington