Arcane Subtraction
Strixhaven: School of Mages 36 • common
- Set
- Strixhaven: School of Mages
- Collector number
- 36
- Rarity
- Common
- Mana cost
- 1 generic mana blue mana
- Type
- Instant
- Colors
- Blue
- Artist
- Anastasia Ovchinnikova
- Market price
- $0.06
What it does
Target creature gets -4/-0 until end of turn.
Learn. (You may reveal a Lesson card you own from outside the game and put it into your hand, or discard a card to draw a card.)
The class learned little that day.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerLegal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperLegal
- BrawlLegal
- HistoricLegal
- TimelessLegal
- Penny DreadfulNot legal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Arcane Subtraction was released in 2021 as part of the Strixhaven: School of Mages expansion for Magic: The Gathering. The set centers on a magical university setting, drawing inspiration from high-fantasy academia tropes. Mechanically, the card represents the resource-denial style of play associated with the Quandrix College, which focuses on mathematics, nature, and the manipulation of values.
The artwork was created by illustrator Zezhou Chen, who utilized a clean, clinical aesthetic to reflect the academic rigor of Strixhaven's curriculum. The design emphasizes the card's theme of reduction through numerical and abstract visual motifs, grounding the high-fantasy spell in the unique, scholarly identity of the set. It was received as a functional niche utility card, noted primarily for its specific role in Limited formats.
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