Strixhaven: School of Mages/Card comparisons
Cards from Strixhaven: School of Mages as compared to cards from earlier sets.
Strictly better
- Ageless Guardian is strictly better than Femeref Scouts.
- Baleful Mastery is strictly better than Feed the Serpent, Final Death and Final Reward.
- Bury in Books is strictly better than Chronostutter.
- Campus Guide is strictly better than Bronze Sable.
- Defend the Campus is strictly better than Smite the Monstrous.
- Elite Spellbinder is strictly better than Geist of the Moors.
- Excavated Wall is strictly better than Steel Wall.
- Expel is strictly better than Excoriate.
- Frost Trickster is strictly better than Frost Lynx and Wind Drake.
- Go Blank is strictly better than Mind Rot.
- Heated Debate is strictly better than Bombard.
- Letter of Acceptance is strictly better than Celestial Prism, Manalith, Phyrexian Lens, Sol Grail, the Invasion cameos (e.g. Bloodstone Cameo) and the Shards of Alara obelisks (e.g. Obelisk of Bant).
- Professor of Zoomancy is strictly better than Ambassador Oak.
- Sedgemoor Witch is strictly better than Cursed Minotaur.
- Teach by Example is strictly better than Doublecast.
- Thunderous Orator is strictly better than Sun Sentinel.
- Zephyr Boots is strictly better than Neurok Hoversail.
- The campus lands are strictly better than the dual taplands (e.g., Lorehold Campus vs. Stone Quarry).
Strictly worse
- Ageless Guardian is strictly worse than Maned Serval.