Secrets of Strixhaven Preview Recap: Quandrix & Mystical Archive

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Josh Nelson
Josh Nelson
Secrets of Strixhaven Preview Recap: Quandrix & Mystical Archive

Planar EngineeringPlanar Engineering | Art by Liiga Smilshkalne

The previews for Secrets of Strixhaven continue in great numbers this week! As mentioned in the previous recap article we did, Wizards of the Coast is tackling each Strixhaven University academic house one by one every day. This past Friday, we covered the houses of Prismari and Lorehold. Yesterday, Wizards revealed the blue-green Quandrix house, and today, they looked at the Mystical Archive bonus sheet. So, to recap, today we will look at both of those aspects of the set! Let's jump in.

April 6th: Quandrix (Outlets and Content Creators)

The content creators and media outlets credited with bringing the Quandrix previews to the public are the following:

Be sure to give these creators credit where credit is due and visit their pages for a more in-depth look at their previews!

Quandrix Reveals for Secrets of Strixhaven

Quandrix is an academic house full of proud mathematics nerds (or is that MathemagicsMathemagics nerds? The verdict's largely out!). This group of students is led byQuandrix, the ProofQuandrix, the Proof, to be sure, but they are driven by the laws of physical logic and order. Their cards also look quite powerful in Limited and Constructed, something that seems like it'll be the case across the entire set's enemy-color combinations. Remember, we aren't looking at cards without confirmed English names. Now, let's look at the previews!

Fractal Anomaly
Ambitious Augmenter
Fractal Tender
Planar Engineering
Harmonized Trio
Emeritus of Abundance
Echocasting Symposium
Mind into Matter
Pterafractyl
Flow State
Slumbering Trudge
Tester of the Tangential
Divergent Equation
Jadzi, Steward of Fate
Fractalize
Zimone's Experiment
Paradox Surveyor
Growth Curve

April 7th: Mystical Archive (Outlets and Content Creators)

The content creators and media outlets credited with bringing the Mystical Archive previews to the public include the following:

Feel free to click the content creators' links and check out their work!

SOS's Mystical Archive Bonus Sheet Reveals

Since the first Strixhaven set, the bonus sheet known as the Mystical Archive has been a mainstay of the setting. These spells are studied and held in the fabled BiblioplexBiblioplex of Strixhaven University. And now, we have even more of them available! Well... Not until Prerelease on April 17th, but even so, we can also use the cards printed before these versions. On to the reveal!

But before we do that, note that a ton more of these cards are revealed than are accessible on Scryfall at the moment. To give a little hint about how the sausage is made here at EDHREC, our database links to Scryfall, so if cards aren't there, they won't show up here unless we upload renders one by one. It's a big task and one I do every time WeeklyMTG debuts a preview season. So one more time, in order to spare your favorite Magic journalist, please feel free to consult the list of outlets and content creators (listed above) to see more of these spells!

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Conclusion

With that, this wraps up the previews for the Quandrix house and Mystical Archive. Join us on Thursday when we cover Silverquill and Witherbloom!

And in the meantime, let's open the floor to you, dear readers! Are you excited for Secrets of Strixhaven? Are the cards revealed yesterday and today worth building decks around? Alternatively, what's your favorite Strixhaven University house, and which one do you think you'd fit in best among? Sound off in the comments below!

Josh Nelson

Josh Nelson


Josh Nelson wears many hats. They are a music journalist when not writing gaming news. Beyond this, they're a scholar of the Sweeney Todd urban legend, a fan of monster-taming RPGs, and a filthy Aristocrats player. Josh has been playing Magic since 2001 and attributes their tenure to nostalgia, effort, and "aesthetic".

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