Arcane Subtraction
Strixhaven: School of Mages (STX) #36 · Common · Instant
Mana cost: {1}{U}
Target creature gets -4/-0 until end of turn.
Learn. (You may reveal a Lesson card you own from outside the game and put it into your hand, or discard a card to draw a card.)
The class learned little that day.
Illustrated by Anastasia Ovchinnikova · Released April 23, 2021
Prices
- Nonfoil: $0.06 USD · €0.05 EUR
- Foil: $0.22 USD · €0.06 EUR
Nonfoil price since August 29, 2026: no net change at $0.06 USD; low $0.06 USD, high $0.07 USD.
Printings
- Strixhaven: School of Mages #36 (this printing) · Common · 2021 · $0.06 USD
Legality
- Standard: Not legal
- Alchemy: Not legal
- Pioneer: Legal
- Historic: Legal
- Modern: Legal
- Brawl: Legal
- Legacy: Legal
- Timeless: Legal
- Vintage: Legal
- Pauper: Legal
- Commander: Legal
- Penny: Not legal
- Oathbreaker: Legal
- Duel: Legal
Rulings
- 2021-04-16 · wotc — If you bring a card into the game from outside the game in a Constructed tournament (or a Constructed game played under tournament conditions), you may select only a card from your sideboard. In casual Constructed games, the card comes from your collection.
- 2021-04-16 · wotc — If you bring a card into the game from outside the game in a Sealed Deck or Booster Draft event, you may select only a card that is in the card pool that you built your deck from.
- 2021-04-16 · wotc — If a card is brought into the game from outside the game, it will stay in the game until it ends or until its owner leaves the game, whichever comes first.
- 2021-04-16 · wotc — If instructed to learn, you may do nothing. Discarding a card and putting a Lesson card into your hand are both optional.