Revealing some brand new Magic: The Gathering Strixhaven cards

Strixhaven, the brand new Harry Potter-ish card expansion for Magic: The Gathering, is nearly here, and we’ve been given a small collection of cards to reveal.

Strixhaven launches in Magic: The Gathering – Arena and Magic Online on 15th April, and then a week later in shops, in those nice shiny foil packets, from 23rd April.

It’s Harry Potter-ish because Strixhaven is a school for mages, which is also broken into various inner-houses, or colleges in this case. Each is themed around the long-running colours of Magic.

Lorehold, the college of archaeomancy, is white; Prismari, the college of elemental arts, is red; Quandix, the college of numeromancy, is blue; Silverquill, the college of eloquence, is black; and Witherbloom, the college of life and death, is green.

The cards we’ve been given are from the Silverquill school. These are the masters of words, and they’re also apparently very stylish, as am I, in pyjamas and a cardigan.

The cards are Academic Probation, Ageless Guardian, Beaming Defiance, Dueling Coach, Semester’s End and Thunderous Orator.

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Academic Probation is arguably the most interesting because it involves one of the new Strixhaven ideas: a Lesson. These are cards you can pull from your deck during battle! You do it by using a Learn card, which gives you the option of either discarding a card and drawing a new one, or taking a Lesson.