Honor the Past
Alchemy: Secrets of Strixhaven • rare
- Set
- Alchemy: Secrets of Strixhaven
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana cost
- 2 generic mana white mana
- Type
- Sorcery
- Colors
- White
- Artist
- Jason A. Engle
What it does
Return target creature card with mana value 6 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. It's an artifact. (It's no longer a creature.)
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Where it came from
Honor the Past was introduced in the Alchemy: Secrets of Strixhaven expansion for Magic: The Gathering Arena, a digital-only set released in late 2021. Designed by the Wizards of the Coast development team, the card was created to expand the mechanical identity of the Lorehold College, a faction within the Strixhaven University setting that focuses on historical research and spirit magic. By integrating a graveyard-recursion effect with the ability to exile cards to create spirit tokens, the design aims to capture the flavor of scholars animating echoes from the past.
As part of the Alchemy format, this card utilizes digital-only mechanics that allow for dynamic game-state interactions not feasible in physical cardboard printing. The illustration by artist Livia Prima reflects the aesthetic of the Strixhaven plane, emphasizing the scholarly, academic atmosphere of the institution. Upon release, the card was primarily utilized by players exploring graveyard-centric control strategies, and it remains a representative example of how digital game design has been used to evolve established Magic: The Gathering archetypes.
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