There's a quiz on the Secrets of Strixhaven site to figure out which of the magical university's colleges you belong to. Ignore that traumatic memory of the time every millennial was telling us they were Hufflepuff. It's a heads-up that this set's focus is on differentiating those colleges, making the factions even more important than they were in the first Strixhaven set. I'm Silverquill, apparently.
Each college isn't just a pair of colors, it's also a signature mechanic. Witherbloom (green/black) is the college where they study life and death—they're half hippy, half goth—and so Infusion is triggered whenever you gain life. It can have a variety of effects, like Poisoner's Apprentice giving someone unlucky -4/-4 when it enters. But again, only if you already gained life that turn, making it a fun play for your second main phase after weakening someon...
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