Learn

Learn
Keyword Action
Introduced	Strixhaven: School of Mages
Last used	Strixhaven: School of Mages
Reminder Text	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.)
Statistics	21 cards 19% 19% 14.3% 23.8% 14.3% 4.8% 4.8%
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keyword:"Learn"

Learn is a keyword action introduced in Strixhaven: School of Mages.

Description

If a spell or ability instructs you to learn, you have two choices. Your first choice is that you can discard a card and then draw a card. This is a great way to improve your hand, trading in extra lands or trading out undesirables for a chance at what you need.

Your second choice when learning is to reveal a Lesson card from outside the game and put it into your hand. Lesson is a spell type seen on instants and sorceries. There is a wide variety of Lesson cards to represent a wide variety of areas of study (e.g. Token generation, removal, card draw, etc.).

Learn has similarities to Investigate (a rider that appears on many cards as an extra resource), Aftermath (a single card producing two different spell effects), and interestingly Contraptions (a selection of outside resources that is activated by otherwise weaker cards).

Rules

From the glossary of the Comprehensive Rules (June 7, 2024—Modern Horizons 3)

Learn

A keyword action that lets a player add a Lesson card to their hand from outside the game or discard a card to draw a card. See rule 701.45, “Learn.”

From the Comprehensive Rules (June 7, 2024—Modern Horizons 3)

• 701.45. Learn
  • 701.45a “Learn” means “You may discard a card. If you do, draw a card. If you didn’t discard a card, you may reveal a Lesson card you own from outside the game and put it into your hand.”

Rulings

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• The official Commander rules don't include sideboards, but if you're using them anyway or casually allowing players to get cards from their collections, cards you bring into the game from outside the game can't share a name with any card in your starting deck.
• If instructed to learn, you may do nothing. Discarding a card and putting a Lesson card into your hand are both optional.
• Lesson is a new spell subtype found on some instant and sorcery cards in this set. The Lesson subtype has no special rules associated with it.
• Although you may want to include Lessons in your sideboard if you're playing with cards that instruct you learn, Lesson cards can be included in your main deck like other instant or sorcery cards.

Example

Example

First Day of Class
Instant
Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under your control this turn, put a +1/+1 counter on it and it gains haste 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.)