General [STX] Strixhaven Spoilers
- Thread starter Jason Waddell
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Probably not but when they introduced the mechanic they said the ability would always be "Whenever this becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player X" and told us X could be many different things. Here is a link:
https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/feature/strixhaven-school-mages-mechanics-2021-03-25
Not immediately thrilled at the first black quad hybrid. It's not like Open the Graves was a consideration. That said, flying is a pretty big deal and maybe there's a way to build WB tokens where it doesn't detrimentally jam up the board.
Hoping to see more Inklings. This is probably too slow, but I'll definitely be looking into it.
Remember that it's not a 2/1 flyer token, it's a 3/2 flyer token (so long as this is still on the board). Drake Haven, eat your heart out. 1 less mama than Open the Graves for a much better body/ability combo sounds great. I think that if I can get two tokens out of this I'm going to be super happy, because at that point it's more stats than Lingering Souls for less mana, though the loss of efficiency/graveyard synergies does hurt.
Edit: to clarify, I dunno if I like it, but I think it has a chance at being a lot more powerful that it looks at first glance. I can see a lot of people dismissing it only to be absolutely bodied by it.
Edit: to clarify, I dunno if I like it, but I think it has a chance at being a lot more powerful that it looks at first glance. I can see a lot of people dismissing it only to be absolutely bodied by it.
Onderzeeboot
Ecstatic Orb
I quite like that enchantment! 
I was thinking about this last night, and I think you and I occupy opposite ends of a spectrum. I love how Magic plays, and making sure that my cube plays well is my number one priority. But I'm horribly traditional - I've still never broken singleton and I decided to make a cube called the Good Games Cube after playing a bunch of experimental stuff that I thought was miserable (an all 1-drop cube! A combo cube where every land is a rainbow land!). I'm interested in agonizing over single card choices and exact as-fans of mana to get the smoothest play experience possible. Meanwhile, you're on the other end and you're like, fuck it, what if we just throw out half the mana curve? Like, I'm pretty sure I'd never want to actually play Afternoon Delight, but I think as a thought experiment it's pretty cool, and I thought the all-blue cube was brilliant.
It's probably the same reason that I'm not a particularly good deck brewer. I am much, much happier taking a deck from the internet and tuning 1-2 cards rather than complete blue ocean design. I suspect you are the opposite.
Not sure I'd say insane unless your format plays tons of planeswalkers. I don't think it's better than Anguished Unmaking for instance since it can't target creatures. It would be a cost-prohibitive disenchant in my cube 98% of the time.
Huh. this is a pretty solid card for some GY formats
Probably too low powered for me since it only pings for one regardless of whether one or ten cards leave your graveyard at a time. Most of my exiling or resurrecting happens in batches via delve or a living death effect. Funny with something like Tortured Existence tho!
Chris Taylor
Contributor
The puns keep coming and they don't stop coming
This thing's text is hilarious and something that would 100% be criticized if it wasn't wotc doing it
Chris Taylor
Contributor
This is a mythic
Technically missing: 0/0 Fractal (lol) and 1/1 Grub?
Pretty cool with flashback and similar cards!Huh. this is a pretty solid card for some GY formats
Dom Harvey
Contributor
The rare spells matter & +1/+1 counters crossover!
Unstable Transformation
1U
Sorcery - Lesson
Until end of turn, target nonland permanent loses all abilities and becomes your choice of a Frog creature with base power and toughness 1/1 or an Octopus creature with base power and toughness 4/4.
1U
Sorcery - Lesson
Until end of turn, target nonland permanent loses all abilities and becomes your choice of a Frog creature with base power and toughness 1/1 or an Octopus creature with base power and toughness 4/4.
This is a mythic
Technically missing: 0/0 Fractal (lol) and 1/1 Grub?
1/1 Pest with “When this creature dies, you gain 1 life.”
Extreme flavor fail to only include 3 out of 5.
Just make a communal binder with all the lessons 3x or something. Pass around table as needed.
This set is booming with premium instant/sorcery spot removals..
.. which is very fitting for a set designed around instants and sorceries. MARO mentioned they were the last card type they hadn’t designed a set around and it was only possible because modal dual faced cards allows them to print enough creatures while also print enough instants and sorceries in the same set.
In case anyone is interested: Modal dual faced cards that we see in Zendikar Rising, Kaldheim and Strixhaven was first designed for the original Innistrad set in 2011 (or a few years before when they designed Innistrad) but they’d kept pushing the mechanic back for various reasons until we finally got the mechanic in Zendikar 3.
.. which is very fitting for a set designed around instants and sorceries. MARO mentioned they were the last card type they hadn’t designed a set around and it was only possible because modal dual faced cards allows them to print enough creatures while also print enough instants and sorceries in the same set.
In case anyone is interested: Modal dual faced cards that we see in Zendikar Rising, Kaldheim and Strixhaven was first designed for the original Innistrad set in 2011 (or a few years before when they designed Innistrad) but they’d kept pushing the mechanic back for various reasons until we finally got the mechanic in Zendikar 3.
Chris Taylor
Contributor
I love that reddit is like "this is so much worse than vindicate because you can't stone rain people."
Classic
That's super interesting! Its a mechanic that's easy to accuse of being "digital first design", and while it's certainly easier with double faced cards in a video game than in paper, it's interesting to hear it dates back 10 years ago.