Mortality Spear
Strixhaven: School of Mages 380 • uncommon
- Set
- Strixhaven: School of Mages
- Collector number
- 380
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Mana cost
- 2 generic mana black mana green mana
- Type
- Instant
- Colors
- Black · Green
- Artist
- PINDURSKI
- Market price
- $0.48
What it does
This spell costs 2 generic mana less to cast if you gained life this turn.
Destroy target nonland permanent.
"Death is my life's work."
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerLegal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlLegal
- HistoricLegal
- TimelessLegal
- Penny DreadfulNot legal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Mortality Spear was released in 2021 as part of the Strixhaven: School of Mages set, a collection centered on a magical university setting within the Magic: The Gathering multiverse. Designed to mechanically support the Witherbloom college, which focuses on the intersection of life and death, the card serves as a thematic removal spell. The artwork, illustrated by Igor Kieryluk, emphasizes the dark, bio-magical aesthetic of the campus, showcasing the raw, skeletal nature of the spell's effect within the game's broader lore.
The card was received as a functional addition to the green-black color archetype, favored for its conditional efficiency in gameplay. Like many cards from the Strixhaven set, it was designed to integrate cleanly into both Limited and Commander formats, reflecting the set's broader goal of providing specific utility tools for players exploring the university's diverse academic factions. The visual design leans into the gothic, swamp-adjacent imagery typical of Witherbloom, maintaining a consistent thematic thread across the set's collegiate identity.
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