Secrets of Strixhaven | Repartee, Opus, Infusion, Flashback, & Increment

Secrets of Strixhaven gives each of the five colleges its own exclusive mechanic for the first time, and each one plays very differently from the others. This is a full breakdown of Repartee for Silverquill, Opus for Prismari, Infusion for Witherbloom, Flashback for Lorehold, and Increment for Quandrix, with real interaction examples, rules clarifications straight from the team, and an honest take on which mechanic is going to matter most in your games.

The MTG Paradigm mechanic from Secrets of Strixhaven is getting nowhere near the attention it deserves. Cast a sorcery once, exile it, and from that point forward you get a free copy at the start of every single one of your turns for the rest of the game. It cannot lock you out of casting other spells, copies keep coming even if countered, and it is optional to trigger. This is a complete breakdown of how Paradigm works, why it is more powerful than people realize, and what i

The Prepared mechanic is the biggest talking point from Secrets of Strixhaven and most players still have questions about how it actually works. Straight from the people who built it, including Executive Producer Athena Froehlich and Senior Game Designer Daniel Holt, here is a full breakdown of what Prepared does, how creatures become prepared and unprepared, which iconic spells are attached to which creatures, and what the Reserved List actually has to do with any of it.