Academic Probation
Strixhaven: School of Mages 287 • rare
- Set
- Strixhaven: School of Mages
- Collector number
- 287
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana cost
- 1 generic mana white mana
- Type
- Sorcery
- Colors
- White
- Artist
- Cristi Balanescu
- Market price
- $0.33
What it does
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Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerLegal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlLegal
- HistoricLegal
- TimelessLegal
- Penny DreadfulLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Academic Probation was released in 2021 as part of the Strixhaven: School of Mages set, a Magic: The Gathering expansion centered on a magical university theme. Designed to capture the flavor of collegiate bureaucracy and high-stakes examination, the card functions as a targeted disruption tool, forcing players to account for the pressures of their academic environment within the game's strategic framework.
The artwork was commissioned from illustrator Cristi Balanescu, who utilized a clean, academic aesthetic to emphasize the theme of institutional authority. Balanescu’s design focuses on the visual language of magical scholasticism, grounding the card's mechanical effect in the thematic narrative of a student facing disciplinary action from the university's mages.
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