Honestly I didn’t know that this was from Magic the Gathering, I was planning a Strixheaven d&d campaign, and now I have another source of lore for our campaign. Thanks, for inspiring me.
At first I was interested in Witherbloom, only because of the look of Dina. But after I learned about the Numeromancy and the Fractals my heart belongs to the Quandrix.
Witherbloom is the most based due to the biggest amount of animal cruelty and generally morally relativistic scientists. Quandrix may find out how to make a nuke, but witherbloom will test it
You have to love the sheer audacity of Silverquils. It's like the shiny bard college of Inspiration crossed with the edgy, coffee drinking burn slingers in Black. Words have power is always a delightful theme!
I was going around MTG channels and noticed that the only woodworking is to make deckboxes. I’m thinking of filling that role by creating lore items as the shop professor at Strixhaven :D
I am conflicted. On one hand, as a real life biomathematician, the themes of quandrix are my optimal, and I really like that school. On the other hand, my favourite mana combination is green/black, and whiterbloom also seems really nice... I guess I would end up studying the green side of quandrix 😅
I am brand new to magic. A friend has been teaching me how to play commander. I absolutely love the prismari deck and I've been trying the silver quill and quandrix decks too. Amazing content and a new sub to you!
No doubt I'd be Lorehold. Not only is it my favorite color combo, but it's all the bravery of Gryffindor mashed with the curiosity of Ravenclaw. Plus, archeology is cool. Lol (P.S. I only use the Harry Potter comparison because it's a school of magic with houses.)
@@TheLorebrarians I agree! I put together a deck earlier last year just from the packs I opened. I really thought the mechanics were neat and different. I liked it a lot!
Thank you SO MUCH for this video!! It's everything I needed to understand the setting. I'm getting the D&D setting book delivered today, so I'm soaking up as much as I can. Love the Cadence of the video, the easy to understand format, and the editing was flawless. Subbed!
Strixhaven was the newest set when I was introduced to Magic, so I'm happy to see it here! I like the big stompy fractals and land ramp of Quandrix, and that's where I started, but I like Witherbloom's colors more now that I have more experience in the game. My first and strongest homebrewed Commander deck uses Valentin and Lisette as the commander.
Just earlier today I was wondering if you were planning on covering this. Many thanks as always! Your content is an excellent resource for the world building nerds!
Didn't know a shred of lore until you came along. The Nicole Bolas video was absolutely sublime and what initially caused me to take interest in your work. This stuff is really good for people and helps drive the heart of what magic really is... The telling, And unfolding, Of the many stories behind the endless sea of planes. Subscribed, And liking, Every one of your videos I watch 👀 Please never stop making this content.
This is so wonderfully laid out and explained! I'm into mtg, but also am about to run the Strixhaven D&D campaign and this video did a better job at explaining Strixhaven and it's views and purpose better than the actual book did. Thank you!
I think it's nice that other than "magic school", the set feels very different than HP. The colleges don't really even feel like school houses since they are canonically more like majors. WotC did a good job, me thinks.
I agree, at first I was worried it would be too close to HP but the feel of the set is quite original. I think I might enjoy the two color colleges more than the guilds on Ravnica
I like the idea of the power pair being drastically different depending on which side you lean to... I just wish they would do something new with black green... something akin to the blue green flesh shaping concept.
@@JimmyNails27 Yeah, most of the other colleges do something slightly new with the pairs (Prismari not just being engineering like Izzit), but Witherbloom feels a lot like Golgari.
@@DefaultSeaTurtle it's real similar to golgari, but I do like the more scientific almost simic aspect they have. They kinda take over the field of biology where simic would certainly have that role on Ravnica.
Quandrix is my favourite Dorm because I love creative magic effects, it’s the same reason why I supported the Azorius guild- their Law magic ‘enforcing’ order is so novel!
Another amazing video man. You know it’s good when I already have read all the lore articles but watch it anyways bc it’s just so enjoyable. Honestly feels like official wizards content. What formats do you play?
@@TheLorebrarians same thing here, did standard and modern before but now just commander on playedh since I don’t have a playgroup and drafting on mtga. What decks do you play? Would love to do some spelltable will y’all sometime if that’s what u do
I almost like the building process more than the playing, so I have many decks that don't last too long. But I like my radha heart of keld, yuriko, and syr carah decks right now. And you? Yeah I've played spelltable a couple times, we should sling spells sometime
What i love most about Arcavios is that it allows room in the lore for extra-planar travelers who _arent_ just Planeswalkers as mtg knows them: D&D adventurers with Plane Shift exist alongside this universe, and the Biblioplex probably has dozens of different variants of the planeshift spell, giving us potential room for older characters to eventually become planeswalkers without requiring a Spark and without butchering existing lore. Again.
Has there been a story/set that has focused on the creation and birth of Planes? I’m fairly new to digging into the depth of story of the MtG Universe. However I feel like Strixhaven and Arcavios is the first time they’ve really talked about the birth of Planes with the snarls as a focal point.
They've not really talked about it much in sets or stories other than artificial planes created by old planeswalkers. I think they've spent the most time on creation/destruction of Phyrexia, serra's realm, argentum etc.
I would join Silverquill to study the white mana side. Writing poems and speeches to express my emotions and help my fellow students and friends through dark times and gloomy days. I care about style sure but not perfection and uniformity necessarily but you can always spice up your school uniform, we are in a magical world after all ;)
Can I ask were you get your info? I love the magic lore so much and I'm always curious to look into it myself. I'd really appreciate it! Thanks for the videos they are wonderful.
@@TheLorebrarians nice! Thank you so much. Sorry, for being lazy 😅 didn't occur for me to check. I appreciate you taking the time to reply! Keep up the great work!
Ow cool the archaic are based on a vary old D&D things and the idea the the plan of sxyhaven be to plans that smashed together. ( Magic and D&D) is a cool idea
Loved this. I bought the Strixhaven book for D&D and they didn't even discuss the plane. Heck they never even specified the colors of the schools... they just used them in the art. There was so much potential wasted.
Really enjoyed the lore of Strixhaven, this going to be a big help to me getting ideas for running a D&D game when the book drops later this year. Thank you for your hard work and now off watch more videos. :) P.s. you got yourself a new sub.
I would pick Silverquil, since White and Black are my best colors, yet Witherbloom is better as far as types of magic specialization with my usual colors.
Since everyone is sharing: Orzhov was my first deck, and growing up I'd have definitely been Silverquill. However, as an actual occultist, Language gets kind of boring after a while, and Mathemagick is really where its at: I'm Quandrix at heart. Not Simic though, because Simic people are psychopaths. People _always_ cover Quandrix last 😔
I think it's catalog of spells and written texts would exceed equilor, but the equilorians likely hold greater knowledge over the past, present, and future of the multiverse
The Oriq literally should not exist. This plane doesnt need an evil subplot, it could've seriously just been a utopia and still been a great plane. When first year students learn presience and every living creature at that school can literally tell the future by the end of their first year, its stupid that 'hoarding magic' is the only plot they could come up with.
Didn’t know much about this plane but when you said the wizards were invited to the school I instantly became sour because magic tried to rip off Harry potters hogwarts with that tidbit. So dumb. Lol
