Draftsim’s Staff Picks: Best Secrets of Strixhaven Cards
We’re insanely excited for Secrets of Strixhaven. Now that spoiler season is over, we asked our team about their favorite upcoming cards from the set.
Read moreWe’re insanely excited for Secrets of Strixhaven. Now that spoiler season is over, we asked our team about their favorite upcoming cards from the set.
Read moreSecrets of Strixhaven looks like a pretty juiced up set. There are a ton of headliners here, so today Iโll narrow down the newcomers to just the best in class. The Valedictorian-level graduates, if you will.
Read morePrepare is one of the bigger mechanics in Secrets of Strixhaven, one that features on 46 cards across the main set and the precons, and makes up a large portion of the Limited landscape.
Read moreGrandeur sounds like itโll be good. It sounds like itโll be the best. Hence my disappointment when I did an image search for โgrandeurโ to try to explain the vibe of this word and saw many pictures of Hyundais. Not that that model of car isnโt...
Read moreCommander has a reputation for big, bombastic battlecruisers, but big instants and sorceries deserve love too. They might not stick around on the battlefield, but they’re just as impactful and game-warping.
Read moreSecrets of Strixhaven is finally here, and that means we have a batch of commanders to review! These range in power from potentially busted to extremely cut, with instants and sorceries being a recurring theme, as one would expect for the school...
Read moreSilverquill has a new mechanic in Secrets of Strixhaven, repartee, which encourages players to target creaturesโtheirs or their opponents. It also has exciting new cards for Commander!
Read moreRepartee is the mechanic for aspiring Silverquill students who want their words to sting just as badly as a Prismari mageโs fire magic. It draws on a subtheme from the OG Strixhaven to give the second round of Silverquill cards a more distinct...
Read moreChoices are always great in Magic card design. We’ve seen plenty of modal options with commands, spree cards, and so on, but we’re looking at the most charming modal cards in Magic today!
Read moreIn Magic slang, Fireballs are instant or sorcery spells that deal damage to various targets based on the amount of mana you spent on them, as represented by X. While the original Fireball has more wording on it that makes it harder to understand...
Read moreThe Prismari school in Secrets of Strixhaven gets a mechanic similar to magecraft in opus, which also cares about casting instants and sorceries, and it loves when you get flamboyant with expensive ones.
Read moreDeath & Taxes is a popular strategy that’s been around in Magic forever, mostly in Legacy. These kinds of decks run a mix of taxing effects and spells that aim to hate or slow down your opponents. The creatures that are seen in them...
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