Overview

This cube is designed to be grid, pancake, or Housman drafted with 2 players. 4 player multi player option possible too! (See bottom for draft details)

• 225 cards - Players see 72% (grid), 88% (pancake), and 76% (houseman) allowing for variation between drafts.
• Only includes cards from Strixhaven with Mystical Archives
• Reduced bombs (no Deans, Elder Dragons, and less rares/mythics)

Mechanics

• LESSONS LEARNED If a spell or ability instructs you to learn, you have two choices...

1. You can discard a card and then draw a card.
2. You reveal a Lesson card from outside the game and put it into your hand.

• MAGECRAFT is an ability word that highlights triggered abilities that give you some sort of benefit whenever you cast—or copy—an instant or sorcery spell.

• WARD is a triggered ability. Whenever a permanent with ward becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter that spell or ability unless that opponent pays whatever cost is after the word "ward." That cost can be mana, life, or pretty much anything else that can be a cost.

SILVERQUILL +1/+1 Counters & Tokens

Wielding the magic of words, Silverquill students are stylish, intimidating, and tirelessly competitive. These mages are born leaders with razor-sharp wit and natural charisma that can be used for good or for ill.

WITHERBLOOM Lifegain!

Witherbloom students draw power from the essence of living beings, whether that means enhancing nature or exploiting it. Witherbloom mages are most at home riding zombie crocs, picking herbs for potions, and hanging out in their swamp making grim jokes.

QUANDRIX Additional Lands & +1/+1 Counters

Quandrix mages are ingenious math magicians. They study patterns, fractals, and symmetries to command power over the fundamental forces of nature. They can simultaneously contemplate the metaphysical properties of the universe while reciting every number of Pi backwards.

PRISMARI Big instant/sorcery & Treasures

These students' spells are spectacles of raw creativity or meticulous artistic expressions. All the world’s a stage, and whether informed by mind or emotion, Prismari always leave a lasting impression.

LOREHOLD Sprits & Graveyard

Lorehold students are diligent researchers, daring adventurers, and scholars passionate about history. They explore the past by poring over artifacts and summoning long-dead spirits. For some, the past is a rich tapestry for disciplined study. For Lorehold it's a cape worn as they jump into a forgotten tomb.

4 Player Housman Draft

• Deal a 5-card hand to each player, and 5 cards face-up in between them.

• Players take turns exchanging one card from their hand with a face-up card, until each player has made three exchanges. Players must make all their exchanges — no skipping — but they may pick cards that were previously laid out by either player. After three turns of exchanges, each player adds their final 5-card hand to their draft pool, discarding the 5 face-up cards.

• Repeat this process 9 times, so that each player ends with a 45-card draft pool. Shift which player makes the first exchange each round, each player should first exchange twice.

• Players make a 60 card deck

• OPTIONAL RULE: Draft a commander and follow color identity restrictions!