Mavinda, Students' Advocate (STX 291, foil) is a white legendary creature — Bird Advisor from Strixhaven: School of Mages. It has flying and an activated ability allowing you once each turn to cast an instant or sorcery from your graveyard with a conditional additional cost and exile clause. The card functions as a value engine for graveyard-based spell recursion while also providing a flying body for defense or evasion.

Identity & printing

Name: Mavinda, Students' Advocate
Number: 291
Rarity: Mythic
Variant: Foil
Language code: EN

Type line & stats

Supertype: Legendary
Subtypes

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Bird, Advisor

Types

Creature

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Rules

Flying {0}: You may cast target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard this turn. If that spell doesn't target a creature you control, it costs {8} more to cast this way. If that spell would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead. Activate only once each turn. (You still pay the spell's costs. Timing rules for the spell still apply.)

Set, artist & references

Artist: Wesley Burt
Language: English
Set name: Strixhaven: School of Mages
Game name: Magic The Gathering

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Mavinda, Students' Advocate (STX 291, foil) is a white legendary creature — Bird Advisor from Strixhaven: School of Mages. It has flying and an activated ability allowing you once each turn to cast an instant or sorcery from your graveyard with a conditional additional cost and exile clause. The card functions as a value engine for graveyard-based spell recursion while also providing a flying body for defense or evasion.

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