Maro’s Strixhaven Teaser
Before previews for Strixhaven officially begin, I thought it would be fun to do another of my Duelist-style teasers where I give tiny hints of things to come. Note that I’m only giving you partial information.

First up, here are some things you can expect:

• a white card with the rules text “draw three cards”

• a planeswalker you know, but not as you know them
Professor Onyx

• a card featuring Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa’s likeness (for winning the World Championship)
Elite Spellbinder

• a spell with three X’s in its mana cost

• introduction of a new evergreen keyword
ward

• a red sorcery that you can have as many copies in your deck as you want

• a futureshifted card (appearing for the first time in a premier set other than Future Sight)

• an MDFC with the same card type on both sides that hasn’t been printed before
Roward, Scholar of Sparks / Will, Scholar of Frost

• a card sharing something never shared before

• a cycle of enemy dual lands finishing off a ten-card cycle
the snarl cycle

Here are some snippets from rules text that appear in the set:

• “Search your library and graveyard for up to four creature cards with different names”

• “Otherwise, put a study counter on it.”
Kianne, Dean of Substance / Imbraham, Dean of Theory

• “Whenever a permanent entering the battlefield causes a triggered ability to trigger”
Strict Proctor

• “untap each creature you control, then tap any number of creatures you control”
Plargg, Dean of Chaos / Augusta, Dean of Order

• “Pay 10 life:”

• “Repeat this process six more times.”
Professor Onyx

• “Pests, Bats, Insects, Snakes, and Spiders”

• “Each mode must target a different player.”
Shadrix Silverquill

• “Whenever an opponent activates an ability that isn’t a mana ability”
Flamescroll Celebrant / Revel in Silence

• “where X is the number of cards in your library”

And finally, here are some creature type lines from the set:

• Creature – Turtle Druid

• Creature – Bird Warlock

• Creature – Frog Wizard

• Creature – Spirit Dwarf

• Creature – Troll Druid

• Creature – Eye Bat

• Legendary Creature – Vampire Warlock
Valentin, Dean of the Vein / Lisette, Dean of the Root

• Legendary Creature – Orc Shaman
Plargg, Dean of Chaos / Augusta, Dean of Order

• Legendary Creature – Dryad Druid

• Legendary Artifact Creature – Construct
Codie, Vociferous Codex

Find out the answers to (some) of these clues and other Strixhaven news on March 25th at 9:00 AM PT. Tune in either on twitch.tv/Magic or on our official YouTube channel.

• introduction of a new evergreen keyword

This is interesting. I am imagining it will be the answer to the UR keyword question.

My money is on them keywording Lure.

That effect only gets printed on like two cards a year, though. Seems like too powerful of an ability to be printing all over place.

Likewise, double strike doesn't see a lot of appearances.

Good to see they're putting tourney winners faces on cards again. Is that not the coolest prize in MTG?

So "pest" is a creature type now? Is that going to be just for cards that represent many small creatures?