Illuminate History
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
Strixhaven: School of MagesSTX · #108
- Card type
- Sorcery — Lesson
- Rarity
- Rare
- Indicative price
- 0.24 € · ★ 0.27 € · 0.32 $ · ★ 0.35 $
- Mana value
- 4
- Colour
- Red
Card text
Discard any number of cards, then draw that many cards. Then if there are seven or more cards in your graveyard, create a 3/2 red and white Spirit creature token.
Format legality
- BrawlLegal
- CommanderLegal
- CompetitivebrawlLegal
- DuelLegal
- GladiatorLegal
- HistoricLegal
- LegacyLegal
- ModernLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PennyLegal
- PioneerLegal
- TimelessLegal
- VintageLegal
Legalities follow the imported catalogue; check format rules before a tournament.
Data imported on 2026-10-06 (UTC).
Indicative Scryfall prices, updated daily. ★: foil; ★ E: etched foil. EUR and USD represent different markets.
Printing information
- Illustrator
- Jokubas Uogintas
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2021-04-23
Flavour text
"Look at the detail in this stonework! Professor, our assumptions about early Kathorran tool use may not be correct."
Rulings
Although you may want to include Lessons in your sideboard if you’re playing with cards that instruct you to learn, Lesson cards can be included in your main deck like other instant or sorcery cards.
Illuminate History will stay on the stack until it is finished resolving, so it will not count itself as one of the cards in your graveyard.
Lesson is a spell subtype found on some instant and sorcery cards in the Strixhaven set. The Lesson subtype has no special rules associated with it.
You may choose not to discard any cards as Illuminate History resolves. In that case, you will not draw any cards, but you might still create a Spirit.
