Novice Dissector
Strixhaven: School of Mages 79 • common
- Set
- Strixhaven: School of Mages
- Collector number
- 79
- Rarity
- Common
- Mana cost
- 3 generic mana black mana
- Type
- Creature
- Colors
- Black
- Artist
- Mads Ahm
- Market price
- $0.10
What it does
1 generic mana, Sacrifice another creature: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. Activate only as a sorcery.
"The professor said to first extract the venom glands, then the acid sac. Next up, the . . . meeping organ?"
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
Novice Dissector was released in 2021 as part of the Strixhaven: School of Mages expansion for Magic: The Gathering. The card was designed for the Witherbloom college, a faction within the set themed around biology and the cycle of life and death, reflecting the academic setting of a magical university where students study the anatomy of supernatural creatures.
The artwork was illustrated by Svetlin Velinov, who sought to capture the sterile yet eerie environment of a magical laboratory. The piece was well-received by players for its thematic consistency with the set's identity, effectively blending the game's mechanics of life-drain and sacrifice with the visual storytelling of a student learning the craft of necromantic dissection.
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