Top 10 Commander Cards from Strixhaven: School of Mages

Admittedly, Simic does draw the best out of most color combos. Golden Ratio can easily draw you a few cards, and in the rare instance, a whole grip of cards. For three mana, I think it’s a pretty solid card.

If you’re running a zoo-themed deck like Volo, Guide to Monsters, this card could be a powerful tool.

But, it’s not as good as cantrips for card draw, but it’s a nice trick to have up your sleeve for the late-game.

Strixhaven had a big focus on copying spells, mainly instants and sorceries. But Double Major flips the script a bit, letting us copy a creature and making it non-legendary is super nice, too.

You can use Double Major as you’re casting your commander to double-up on it’s effects. Alternatively, using Double Major to copy high-value creatures, like Ledger Shredder, Birds of Paradise, or Pollywog Prodigy can help you get ahead faster.

I love alternative win-conditions in EDH, and Strixhaven Stadium is just that. It taps to add a colorless mana and put a point counter on itself. You can also gain counters by dealing combat damage to players.

This card incentivizes token decks, similar to cards like Beastmaster's Ascension, which wants multiple creatures to attack at once for the full effect.

If you’re running a grindy token generator that usually wins by flooding the board with 1/1s, this card might be for you. I can see this playing well in Lathrill, Blade of the Elves or Zinnia, Valley's Voice decks.

Green does a good job of pretending to be blue, and this is just a bad Intuition. It’s funny though, to look for four creatures in your graveyard and library, then get two of them straight to the battlefield.

I can see this card being good for decks that have simple gameplan. If you want to get out a pinger or something, you could reasonably grab four cards that have similar effects. No matter which ones your opponents put back, you’re getting two, so it’s kind of a win-win.

In lower brackets, this card feels better than other X tutors (think Chord of Calling or Nature's Rhythm) because it gives you a bit more flexibility. And this card is less than a dollar, so that’s a plus.

Dragon’s Approach got a lot of attention when the set debuted, and I saw multiple people with Dragon’s Approach-themed decks. I feel like the allure has kind of died off since then, but I bet we’ll see a reprint in the upcoming set.

This card is one of the cooler versions of the “your deck may contain any number of this card” type we’ve been given. It doesn’t seem overpowered, you need cast it a few times or mill yourself to get enough cards to activate the ability. At that point, running tutors is more effective.

But, I’d be interested to see what is in store for this card, especially if it does receive some attention.

I thought it was pretty cool how the Loremages were in each color, and there were the Apprentices were in dual colors. Oriq Loremage is a very good card for graveyard-themed decks, allowing you to repeatedly Entomb stuff.

I am considering putting him in my Greasefang, Okiba Boss vehicle deck, but the mana curve is a little too low for him. Four mana usually isn’t a big deal, but I like playing faster so I’d sacrifice a repeatable tutor for a quick 1-time deal. But, if you can give the Loremage haste, he’s pretty solid.

This is another spell that’s seen play in cEDH. It’s super nice against early-game plays like mana rocks, dorks, and stuff like Mystic Remora and Esper Sentinel.

I have found that Culling Ritual tends to hurt in the late game unless your payoff is really good. Chances are, you hit your own stuff just as much as other people’s.

But, if you’re in need of a big burst of mana, Culling Ritual is just the card.

This card is a cheaper version of Teferi's Protection, but for decks running on a budget, it gets the job done.

Being able to exile your whole board of creatures for 4 mana might not seem great, but this is protection from boardwipes.

Semester's End also protects planeswalkers, but that’s not quite as good, since they lose their loyalty counters. But, the resolution of the card gives them 1 extra, so it’s not all bad!

To be frank, I completely missed Wandering Archaic when the set came out. I only found out about it from watching Play to Win on YouTube a few years ago.

Wandering Archaic is an incredibly powerful card for anyone playing decks that are light on interaction. Etali, Primal Conqueror players love this card because it gives you counterspells, removal, and everything.

Being colorless, Wandering Archaic slots into every deck. To be honest, I’ve never seen anyone play the backside of this card, which is a card-to-hand top deck tutor for the whole table.

This card is pretty powerful as a piece of protection in any deck running red and white. The creature-side in Flamescroller Celebrant offers some protection against people attempting to combo off by activating an ability (think, sacrificing to Viscera Seer or similar effects).

The flip side is a worse version of Silence but it still gets the job done.

I like this card alot, the option to protect a win attempt on your turn, or to stop someone from comboing off is versatile. This card is a hidden gem, only appearing in 0.41% of decks that could run it based on EDHRec data.