#Strixhaven: School of Mages
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Hall Monitor
"No unauthorized summoning. No writing in the library books. And absolutely no indoor dueling!"
Artist: Forrest Imel
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Excavated Wall by Zezhou Chen
#Magic the Gathering#MtG#MtGSTX#Arcavios#Strixhaven#Strixhaven: School of Mages#Excavated Wall#Fantasy#Art#Zezhou Chen#Wizards of the Coast
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Kasmina, Enigma Sage (Strixhaven: School of Mages) - Tyler Jacobson
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Tedin, Mark. Swords to Plowshares. 2021, Strixhaven: School of Mages - Mystical Archive
“The blademaster turned his fury to his new foes: root rot and cabbage slugs.”
—Myths and Miracles, Vol. VII
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Blood Researcher (Creature - Vampire Druid)
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Drean Valentin warns us not to consume the examples for our safety, but I think that he's just being greedy.
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original ill. Cristy Balanescu
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My favorite part of the online DnD community is that it's pretty consistently ahead of WotC and does things with 5e that blows the official releases out of the water.
Take the magic school setting, as seen in 2021's Strixhaven expansion. The idea had already been done, and better, in the original TAZ campaign (2014), Campaign 2 of C.R. (2018, which was so good that WotC published it as its own setting), D20: Fantasy High (2018) and the Mage Madness Arc of NADDPOD (2019).
The big names also consistently do things with 5e it was never meant to do, especially D20, which pushed the system to its limits with Tiny Heist and Starstruck Odyssey.
The smaller indy creators are also doing things the system hadn't before, whether that's the afro-centric content of shows like Three Black Halflings, Jocat's wildly successful Crap Guide, the Arcane Arcade, Tulok the Barbarian's How to Play or any number of other series I doubt this site's character limit would let me heap praise upon.
TL;DR, WotC is far behind the stuff that online creators have made.
#the adventure zone#critical role#naddpod#dimension 20#three black halflings#dnd#dnd thoughts#wizards of the coast
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something I noticed sorting my bulk: sets were originally called named after words like "Tempest" and "Onslaught", and now they're called verbose things like "Strixhaven: School of Mages" and "The Lost Caverns of Ixalan". do you ever see Magic having another one-word set name (that isn't the name of a new plane)?
Our current philosophy is that the theme is clearly communicated through the name, which makes one-word names harder to use.
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Cornwall's Random Card of the Day #712: Confront the Past
Confront the Past is a rare from Strixhaven: School of Mages.
This is a Lesson spell, which, if I have not explained before, can be tutored from outside the game if you perform the Learn action from certain cards. This means you CAN put it in the maindeck, but it'll probably be easier to get from the sideboard or whatever. This is a rare lesson, so it's much more powerful than normal ones. Even so, not that great, unless you get it as a bonus from another card.
This card portrays Professor Onyx, aka Liliana Vess, feelin bad about Gideon dying in her stead during the events of War of the Spark. He did it mostly cause he had a hero complex, but that doesn't make Vess any less guilty about it, so she started teaching magic in Strixhaven under an assumed identity.
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oz can you tell me about your tabletop robot guy who is sometimes a regular guy sometime I'm so curious
Gingey you are so real for this because you FUCKING KNOW I’ll write an essay about him. But I will give you the (still extremely long) reader's digest version.
His name is Aurelio and he's Wizard/Fighter in me and the homies' hiatus-ed Strixhaven (D&D magic college) game.
idk if you have familiarity with Eberron and the Warforged but basically there was this huge century-long, continental war, and things progressed to the extent the government was manufacturing soldiers to like. You know, fight and kill and die for them. Aurelio was built by a private contractor to be a battle mage and gained consciousness 2 days before a peace treaty was signed and all the Warforged were granted citizens' rights. So he was never dispatched and spent the following year and a half kind of just rotting away in a workshop, only 90% finished with only books and newspapers to learn about the world from.
A lot of the people in Ebberon do NOT like the warforged because they're relics of a really scary and dire war (and also they're like. Built to be soldiers, with all that entails.) Aurelio is really book-smart but has a lot of internalized guilt about being inherently dangerous and he also kind of lacks identity. And he's mesmerized by life and death and the human experiences — stuff like falling in love and growing old. He's determined that the only way he'll ever be happy is if he somehow becomes an organic lifeform, and decides that the best way to go about achieving that is through reincarnation (a spell that must be performed by a 9th level druid). Whether becoming a Regular Guy would ACTUALLY fix him or not... remains to be seen. What he wants and what I want for him are usually sorta at odds.
Anyway -- what better place to find a high-level mage than academia? So Aurelio gets really good at basic illusion spells and crafts a little persona based on his creator and his creator's two sons. Cause he doesn't wanna make people uncomfortable. And he thinks he’d be happier playing out this little fantasy.
He steals some military academy records, and ships himself off to Wizard College... in hopes that he can live some facsimile of human (elf?) experience, secure the allyship of a druid, figure out what he wants to do with his life one he gets it, then self-destruct at the opportune time so that his new druid buddy can randomly generate him a new body.
But he makes all these wonderful friends and has to keep them at arm's length because he's constantly lying to them, even though he's a terrible liar. Until he feels he can't do it anymore and finally tells them. But he's in too deep, he's married to his little lie (not to mention he faked his identity to the school), so he just keeps up with the disguise -- up until recent in-game events which caused his world to shatter a little bit.
He's super emotional (because he's basically brand new and every feeling is new and horrible), a little mischievous, cagey, lacks tact, and is constantly fucking up his interpersonal relationships. But he’s well-meaning and earnest. All he knows how to do is lie (illusion magic) and wreck shit (lighting-damage evocation magic). He wants to be a good, gentle person and a good friend but he's so self-involved that his actions usually backfire in some way.
That's the guy! He's a mess!
#You asked. I'm sorry#he was *just* kinda starting a fucked up little journey of self identity and acceptance when we hit pause. so maybe he’ll figure it all out#one day#Aurelio#ayy im talkin here#asks#gingey
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'Symmetry Sage' by Jehan Choo.
Card art from the 'Strixhaven: School of Mages' expansion set, released in April 2021 by Magic: The Gathering.
#Art Of The Day#Art#AOTD#Jehan Choo#Magic The Gathering#MTG#Strixhaven#MTG Art#Card Art#Fantasy Art#Fantastical Art#Imaginative Realism
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Body of Research
Needledeep had promised that his final project would be his biggest one yet.
Artist: Antonio José Manzanedo
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Velomachus Lorehold by Raymond Swanland
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Ingenious Mastery (Strixhaven: School of Mages) - Cristi Balanescu
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I have just finished the Ikoria ebook and I have Thoughts
I am rotating Lukka in my mind like some kind of microwaveable food item.
I'm a sucker for Ikoria and everything about it but I just hadn't gotten around to reading the book yet. Very good. Many notes.
Lukka is a very special kind of asshole. He starts as a well-meaning but ultimately ignorant man and, through a combination of arrogance, access to power, and self-feeding isolation and radicalism, becomes a very hateful piece of shit. He's a very interesting take on a red-centered planeswalker to me because he comes from the same slice of red's philosophical color pie as Act of Treason effects. His main flaw isn't that he's stupid (though he's not like. book-smart or anything), it's that he lacks empathy.
Above all else, I take Lukka as a warning.
Lukka starts the novel as like, this prodigal foot soldier at the head of the first squad of Specials. If you're anything like me calling a bunch of people "Specials :)" because they're good at killing things is like, a giant red fuckoff fascism banner, and you aren't too far off because Drannith is a military aristocracy from hell. But Lukka likes it here because everything makes sense and doesn't challenge his values until a giant cat kills most of his friends and then challenges his values.
Particularly, the giant cat challenges his values by bonding with him and forcing him to empathize with it. This scares the shit out of Lukka, who is used to treating these things as existential threats to his life and the life of everyone he loves (i.e. his fiancee). He telepathically panics and tells the flying cat to fuck off so it does, and then he passes out and wakes up in the hospital with some military aide writing down every word he says. His fiancee, Jirina Kudro, helps him out of the city and he fucks off into the woods with Vivien to go find the cat.
Once he does, he runs into some other people with mental connections to Ikoria's monsters. And this is the kicker: he has no care or sympathy for the others in his position or curiosity at how they live away from the cities. He just wants, by his own words, to go home. This will proceed to be his defining trait. And this makes the other bonders accept him! Because, much like many real minority communities, they understand being displaced, they understand being hunted for what they are, they understand the desire to make oneself a found family.
Instead of empathizing with people who might welcome him, and looking past differences, he instead goes off on his selfish quest to redeem himself with the status quo he comes from. This gets him manipulated and pushed into alienating himself from both groups, isolated in a mentality where rejecting his plan means rejecting him, reinforcing his ideas and driving them to even more extreme ends. Even if at the heart of his issue he is on some level correct (General Kudro and the military aristocracy of Drannith is corrupt and fascist and unchanging), his methods and rhetoric harm both (what if we used our allies, a subset of our minority group, as thoughtless weapons, objectifying them and stripping their own rights to empower our own? doesn't that sound great?).
This repeats itself on Arcavios in the Strixhaven story. He gets to the plane, find civilization, and is immediately persecuted for being weird and suspicious and out of place. He gets in a fight with a dragon cop and then runs off with the Oriq, the gang of criminal mages who rebel against the dragons who founded Strixhaven and, from all we've heard, effectively rule the plane.
And again, the Oriq aren't wrong about the dragon founders being vaguely tyrannical (with some of the lore mentioning a banning of ally-colored magic on the... continent? plane?). But Lukka is still driven by selfishness and power, and instead of informing people of possibilities, he helps the Oriq unleash a murderous war avatar inside of a school. (This will not be the first nor last time a red 'walker helps or actively commits a war crime and it gets pretty passed over.)
Lukka is fundamentally a warning against the thought process of (and rhetoric used by) people like TERFs, splinters of a minority who fall into hate trying to appease the majority and ultimately fail.
#im too tired right now to figure out how phyrexia clicks into this#but ill probably go feral about it tomorrow#fox yips#magic the gathering#lukka#ikoria: lair of behemoths
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OH MY GOD FE3H CHARACTERS AS STUDENTS AT THE STRIXHAVEN SCHOOL OF MAGES. THE CROSSOVER WE ALL NEED (ESPECIALLY ME)
HUBERT AND EDELGARD AS SILVERQUILL INK MAGES WHO WILL STOP AT NOTHING TO ACHIEVE THEIR GOALS AND WILL CUT YOU DOWN WITH THE VERY SHARPEST OF WORDS (AND INK PROJECTILES) IF YOU CHOOSE TO STAND AGAINST THEM
CONSTANCE AS A PRISMARI MAGE TRYING TO GET HER BIG BREAK AS AN ELEMENTAL ARTIST
LYSITHEA AS A WITHERBLOOM MAGE WHO TEMPTS DEATH ITSELF TO ACHIEVE HER AIMS
DIMITRI AS A LOREHOLD MAGE, SUMMONING THE SPIRITS OF HIS OWN PAST TO AID HIM IN BATTLE
CLAUDE IN WITHERBLOOM, PLAYING AROUND WITH POISONS AND BONDING WITH PESTS
LINHARDT AS A QUANDRIX MATHS NERD WHO BENDS TIME AND SPACE ITSELF TO GIVE HIMSELF MORE NAPPING OPPORTUNITIES
HAPI IN WITHERBLOOM, ASHE IN LOREHOLD, IGNATZ IN PRISMARI, LORENZ IN SILVERQUILL, BYLETH IN QUANDRIX
#I realize this will make sense to an extremely miniscule amount of people but TRUST ME#I need to draw this......#Drawing ref#Nagnerd#Send me an ask with a fe3h character and I'll gush about my Strixhaven headcanons!! 🙏🙏🙏#Asdffghjjkkll#Fire emblem#Fe3h#Mtg#Strixhaven
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