Welcome to Strixhaven! 

So is coffee, look at experimental frenzy. Magic really does have it all

*sigh* now I need a Pizza cannon

Pizza food tokens or we riot

espresso machine artifact token that sacrifice for single target haste anyone?

@@sprocketscribbler8359 not to be a lore douche But... actually coffee really is cannon but only appears on some plane's, ravnica for example.

Obviously Urza had previously summoned Canadians to the plane of Strixhaven when he needed a team for an impromptu hockey match

Lmao! That South Park reference.

The cast of Friday Nights is in this plane? Sold!

I never seen any stabbing of the backs, so I hardly doubt it is in Canada. Also, where’s the ice and snow.

@@DragonSoul66 little known fact: canada has 2 seasons in the year. Winter and construction.

Wizard drugs are what we all really want from mtg

Old school wizardry lol

@@vaastdovahkiin635And now I'll use my magic wand.... to vape!

@@ThijsvA-hu8oj Gandalf approves.

i think its supposed to give that cringe of college or back to school commercials

Exactly

Well it’s even better lorewise than the trailer for Kaldheim XD

This feels like a low budget hearthstone trailer, intructional workplace video, that weird film you need to watch about BHP in school and added cringe.

Like that of Scholomance Academy?

i was thinking the same thing

andi t was great

I agree, this trailer was horrible, I honestly have lost all interest in the set because of this trailer.

@@Mistychan Sucks for you. I thought the trailer was fun

@@teatree7334 I'm not surprised that a little kid found the trailer to be fun.

Feels like a Hearthstone Trailer and I sure love those goofy little self mocking trailers

I like it, I might love it after delving into it. ☺

*adds on doubling season and mystic reflections them into giant lizrogs*

@@Case2_0 suggestion: minimum 2 of guttural response, and destructive revelry, and smash to smithereens. plenty of artifact hate, and burn.

Much as I admire your enthusiasm, Gruul, the Boros Legion still frowns upon skipping your classes simply because you dislike their colors.

@@DJROCKSTAZ dislike colors? No hates on the prospects i just dont have a college i'd call my own. Cant skip a classes if you just decline an invite. The deans would just think its a missed opportunity. As for me, i be just the nomad thay i am. roaming the planes of the multiverse. scaling the lost cities on zendikar, or hunting in deep frozen wastes on tarkir. Then there is the formerly known plane mirrodin! somebodys gotta help karn kick some phyrexian butt. Cant do all that while sittin around hearing lectures and theories on phibinacci or pacing about in a workshop/lab making elemental sculptures/brewing a potion. ^_^ the set looks cool. But im not stickin to a college. Maybe ill explore the plane the college is in. But that would be an adventure for another day

That's not a good pun. Or Izzet?!

@@nomadrl91x In that case, TOTALLY sign me up! I have unfinished business with the Phyrexians myself on Mirrodin.

Well, if you're willing to splash silver, you can add Donkey creatures to your Ogre tribal deck.

Cursed It goes on the maren pile

As you should.

Fine, but I'm making a I need a hero meme deck under the legendary fairy from eldraine. Although I see the flavor for this character being more of red, white, and blue?.... whatever! It will have a bunch of legendary creatures, and planeswalkers.

Now I am too!

Writer so yeah, silverquil but going more between lorehold and witherbloom as a second pick

I'm a lawyer and silverquill's aesthetics really resonated with me. But I love music and my fav color pair is Izzet, so my heart is conflicted between Silverquill or Prismari!

Double major?

Witherbloom, and silverquill, college leaders as my two headed giant! Anything but mono red.

For sure I'm going Silverquil because I love public speaking lol. And like you Orzhov are my favorite colors with Rakdos right behind it lol. But Witherbloom is pretty close for me

Estus: Allow me to introduce myself

Im so sorry

@@protolight1654 sorry about what?

Agreed. It's very refreshing from the past key arc plots. But I'm sure this has some kind of connection to previous drama that I don't know yet

I like the theory that each plane is going to a have phyrexian on it like Kaldheim and Vorinclex, so I kinda want to see Jin-Gitaxius hanging around here.

I wouldn't be. Applause would get in the way of his speech. Can't have that. ^.^

They fell asleep through his long winded speech.

@@qwerty70231 Killian is Asian

Stax deserve zero applause

They should have gotten snaps lol

annndd Codie became a magic card today

It is interesting that they decided to cut the stand for this animation. Anyway, this really sold me on Lorehold, with it's kinda dweeby Indian Jones Elephant.

I can only imagine the nymph cheerleaders in this college. Why am I such a guy?

Picture this: a dryad made from cannabis.

So can I

@@ThijsvA-hu8oj no

@@asrieldreemurr1988 yes

heaerthstone trailers are actually good for what they are

This doesn't even look like a trailer, it's disappointing coming from wizards

@@brunotorres356 I disagree, I found this very enjoyable and not every trailer needs to be so serious.

Alas, I am torn between two schools: The Witherbloom and the Quandrix! The forest energies call to me from both! _But yes Witherbloom crushed it!_

Also, I'm totally convinced Witherbloom is hiding the 420 club. Mushrooms, maaan.

HAHAHAHHA That one got me

punk emo students could be BW or GB to be fair

@@Case2_0 Who looks like Samuel L. Jackson (Not the one in this trailer)

@@Cyberium or boros

@@Cyberium Could be pure White coz...Gideon 😂

@@Cyberium Nah, that's Gruul, the jocks (seriously, there needs to be a second competing school).

Bug Fables?

@@TheAverageGuyTAG Ooh, fair point. Still need to finish that.

The Terrance and Phillip reference jokes, understandable. However, Paper Mario is hardly the first to use this style of animation. Your joke failed.

That’s probably the idea of this

Could have fooled me, but all Hearhtstone trailers have songs, I'm pretty sure.

I might build a Codie deck just so I can do that.

See, that's a healthy attitude, haha

@@WowItsErin :)

You're a good person

gave me an hearth attack, but thanks for the info mate!

Yes, but without the fun

On the other hand, I'd try to stay as far away from anything Urza related as possible. He's like if Ahab was a god.

But what if we made a new academy with planeswalkers as teachers, like tibalt and tez- Jace belrand: DONT YOU BLOODY DARE!

I mean, this was the school Liliana attended, and she took out 4 demons to get out of her contract, sooooo.

Crap! I just made the same joke!

Hey, Buddy.

Looks like we're in for some roaring 20s

but the ticket, take the ride.

@@maxmight9533 but it but it now

duels? "tower mage" (or something i don't remember)? interesting/unique lessons that they have: Lorehold: Sequence of showing an exhibition with cuts to how those presented relics where retrived (dungeon dwelling, indiana jones easter eggs). Prismari: Performance with *the elements*. Showing dancers creating elementals, zaffai performing and other stuff. And remember to add that sweet ending "everyone freeze pose" (with some elemental crushing or falling and few others trying to keep their balance). Witherbloom: Normal lesson about pests and how to breed them (ends with a sentence about what to avoid). Then cuts to fighting of a pest infestation with someone saying "you shouln't have done that". Quandrix: Creation, multiplication, repetition presentation performed on fractals would be cool (with several of the students failing *spectacularly*). Silverquill: Just have two students interact in a simple debate that spirals into a duel with inklings, ink projectiles, white ink counter arguments and at the end both are exhausted on their knees saying "you win this one.." (and fall on their faces)? now im out of creative juice

@@nathanex5122 Good ideas, but the problem I have with WotC now is they're totally designing their card game for kids and the power creep is quite silly now. I expect more bans fairly quickly, just like last set.

imagine going from insane art and a mature image all this time to.. this.

Sometimes you need a joke one to balance out all the more mature ones

Realistically, this trailer is infinitely better than pre war of the spark trailers, a lot better than the Theros and Kaldhiem trailers, and is on par with War for the Spark, Eldraine, and Ikoria. The goal of a mtg set trailer should always be to convey tone, setting, theme, and a general idea of what the hell is going on. War for the spark did that perfectly. Eldraine and Ikoria showed off the fairy tales run amok vibe, and the giant monsters gimmick that were the main focus of those two settings. Those three trailers could be shown to anyone who wasn't already invested in the story behind mtg and they'd be able to get the main points just from the trailers. Theros's trailer was incomprehensible to anyone who wasn't invested in mtg before. Kaldhiem's trailers were just plain incomprehensible. All pre war of the spark trailers are pointless voice over narration exposition gibberish set to slightly animated card art. This trailer does everything it needs to do to intro the set. Strixhaven is a magic school. It's not Harry Potter. It's got 5 colleges; cirque du soleil nerds, math nerds, mean girls, pot head garden club, and the Indiana Jones adventurers society.

Tbh, I love how accurately these color pairs match their College Stereotypes. Green-black stoner biologists, red-white loud history nerds, blue-green math dorks, blue-red art students etc. Absolutely loving it.

@@Case2_0 lmao feel the same way - i was a theater and band kid and now I'm an archaeology major

@@Case2_0 lol i wish! - i played trombone among other instruments

To be honest, this actually looks like what an actual college might come up with and fits the much, much lighter tone Strixhaven has compared to other sets, and this isn't a story trailer either, so it doesn't need to be as fancy. They're probably spending their resources on the Midnight Hunt and Crimson Vow trailers too.

You know there's a pandemic right?

You realise this isn't the set trailer right?

Yeah and when they actually release the set trailer just like with khaldeim we’ll probably all be seeing the teaser Or this case collage show case is better and overall more informative to the set then the actual trailer. Honestly not every trailer needs to be some 3D cinematic if they don’t actually do their job of being trailers of setting the tone for the set and or it’s lore.

This is really bad.

To paraphrase Mark Rosewater: "Magic didn't stop being grim and dark: Magic expanded its horizons past things *other* than grim and dark." If you want to constantly stew in horrifying misery on *every plane* in a *multiverse of infinite fantastical possibility,* then I don't know what to tell you.

There is nothing poetic about making this feel like hearthstone. A desperate try to get kids into cardboard crack. Im in for light hearted humor, but this... This is just so cringy.

@@Noisius Spoiler alert, but trying to get kids into magic is *the right move.* Games with fanbases made entirely out of nostalgic gen-xers don't last longer than 25 years. Magic's lasted that long, and longer. Mtg hooked me when I was a kid with Tarkir: An overkill dragon-filled faction set. It put an iconic creature type on the box, and had cool faction identities to market, and I took those two pieces of bait hook-line-and-sinker. And I'm *so glad about it.* So now, half a decade later, they're doing it again! Faction identities, iconic themes, and an overkill vibrant aesthetic. I agree: This is a transparent attempt to draw in new players. *And that's a good thing, because it will WORK.*

As far as I love dark fantasy sets and I am a huge Innistrad nerd, they should and must continue doing different tastes of fantasy. The point of the multiverse is mana, travel and discovery, not tragedy and fear.

LOL, you should say that during gameplay!

Yeah, after the recent trailers I was actually pretty shocked that this one a) had a coherent concept and b) actually introduced the setting properly. Way to go

Many HP fans are in their late 20-40s and have the money to buy though now (me.)

Each Strixhaven college has a patron elder dragon of their colors. Allied colors are already covered by the elder dragons of Tarkir.

@@chronorebel_greatgryffon1312 oh that's neat. ... the ally swirl lands would totally fit in Tarkir

Welcome to Hearthstone@_@!

cause other shitty ass games do it even better....

their money, it plummeted somewhrer

Agreed! Very much.

The witherbloom’s good kush?

@@demolisherman1763 ... maybe but magically created drugs are waaaay to unpredictable in my experience odds are like ixilan strixhaven has an artifact or tome that specifically targets planeswalkers like lilianna will try to revive gideon as a white jedi ghost or somethin

@@DragonspineInfiniteZero in the official strixhaven story it's confirmed that she was witherbloom

@@DragonspineInfiniteZero I don't think we will see Gideon alive again. I mean, he is literally a pile of dust. If we somehow see him again it will be his spirit, which is something that doesn't goes with Lilliana

@@CriticoDeNo0bs thats what i though like he's a white jedi ghost now

its a good change (still thinking we are getting jin gitaxis in this set to set up the praetors as a threat)

@@shay4232 It's a school of mages, I really wanna see Jin doing some phyrexian meddling in this expansion! After Voriclex on Kaldheim, It's likely! Am hyped for maybe Liliana taking a stand against the Phyrexians to redeem herself fully, giving that Gideon's sacrifice left a mark on her!

@@davidmagno2998 definately

Exactly!

It sure seems like it! After all, Lorehold Command has (what looks to be, at least) card draw as it's monowhite effect!! "Sacrifice a permanent, draw two cards." Personally, i think "Sacrifice a noncreature permanent, draw two cards" would be more in flavor: Sacrifice a land? You're exploring historic ruins to find ancient knowledge, a white thing to do. Sacrifice an enchantment? You're disenchanting magic to find hidden secrets, a white thing to do. Sacrifice an artifact? You're tinkering with old civilization to make new discoveries, a white thing to do. Sacrifice a creature? Uhm. You're murdering a living being for knowledge... A blue and/or black thing to do. But yeah! Between the dwarves on Kaldheim, Forging The Tyrite Sword, and Lorehold? It looks like Boros is finally on the up-and-up!

Boros is my favorite color combo purely on esthetics and seeing that they're finally getting cards that are more about card advantage and less about combat is truly gratifying

Yeah it sounds very close

I mean we’ve had Greek plane already, and ixalan is spain/new world mixed together with dinosaurs and pirates so why not

@@Case2_0 Sounds interesting and I have heard that Kasmina is out for new walkers but how did they get to the school if they haven't ignited yet?

@@Case2_0 Maro said that most of the students are from Arcavios, I don't think there can be that many from one plane.

@@Case2_0 ... I am indeed curious how Strixhaven is supposed to fit into the whole thing about Magic's universe, what with how only Planeswalkers are supposed to travel, and everyone else is stuck to one world with little to no knowledge of the rest.

LOL

Lorehold is better because statues are cool

@Not a NPC Real quick, mind defining "SJW" for me, and how exactly what WotC's been doing lately falls into it?

Absolutely. Green's natural phenomenon and Blue's intellectualism combining to explore the field of mathematics? That age old question of "did we CREATE math or did we DISCOVER math"?? Absolutely amazing. White's ability to sway a crowd combining with Black's charismatic ego and exploring public speaking/literature? Literally fucking poetry. Red's insatiable passion for old shiny things and White's respect for history combining into archaeology? Delightful. Blue's scientific practice combining with Red's love for the arts to make Artistic Theory instead of yet another group of mad scientists?? The most creative interpretation of Izzet they've put out in ages. ... And then Witherbloom is just, Golgari... But they're a lot more fun take on Golgari!

@GamerBear well, aren't you a respectable individual.

@@StormXEagle lol I think this video was GamerBear's idea.

@@sleepyhead9352 he does seem personally offended by my opinion lol I'd believe it.