Strixhaven: School of Mages
Arrogant Poet {1}{B}
Creature - Human Warlock
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."
2/1
Baleful Mastery {3}{B}
Instant
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.
If the {1}{B} cost was paid, an opponent draws a card.
Exile target creature or planeswalker.
Brackish Trudge {2}{B}
Creature - Fungus Beast
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.
{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.
4/2
Callous Bloodmage {2}{B}
Creature - Vampire Warlock
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.
• 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.
2/1
Confront the Past {X}{B}
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.
• 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 {3}{B}
Instant
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 {1}{B}
Sorcery
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 {B}
Creature - Eye Bat
Flying
When Eyetwitch dies, learn.
When Eyetwitch dies, learn.
Oculomancers see the ideal potion ingredient. The bats don't see it that way.
1/1
Flunk {1}{B}
Instant
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
—Embrose, Silverquill dean
Go Blank {2}{B}
Sorcery
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 {1}{B}
Sorcery
Create a 1/1 black and green Pest creature token with "When this creature dies, you gain 1 life."
Learn.
Learn.
Lash of Malice {B}
Instant
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
—Embrose, Silverquill dean
Leech Fanatic {1}{B}
Creature - Human Warlock
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?"
2/2
Mage Hunter {3}{B}
Creature - Horror
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.
3/4
Mage Hunters' Onslaught {2}{B}{B}
Sorcery
Destroy target creature or planeswalker.
Whenever a creature blocks this turn, its controller loses 1 life.
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 {1}{B}{B}
Sorcery - Lesson
As an additional cost to cast this spell, exile a creature you control.
Exile target creature or planeswalker.
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 {3}{B}
Creature - Troll Warlock
{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?"
3/3
Oriq Loremage {2}{B}{B}
Creature - Human Warlock
{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.
3/3
Plumb the Forbidden {1}{B}
Instant
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.
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 {1}{B}
Artifact - Equipment
When Poet's Quill enters the battlefield, learn.
Equipped creature gets +1/+1 and has lifelink.
Equip {1}{B}
Equipped creature gets +1/+1 and has lifelink.
Equip {1}{B}
Professor Onyx {4}{B}{B}
Legendary Planeswalker - Liliana
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.
[+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.
Loyalty:
5
Professor's Warning {B}
Instant
Choose one —
• Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.
• Target creature gains indestructible until end of turn.
• Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.
• Target creature gains indestructible until end of turn.
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 {2}{B}
Creature - Human Warlock
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."
2/3
Sedgemoor Witch {2}{B}
Creature - Human Warlock
Menace
Ward—Pay 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."
Ward—Pay 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."
3/2
Specter of the Fens {3}{B}
Creature - Specter
Flying
{5}{B}: Target opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.
{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.
2/3