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Message: <blockquote data-quote="NotAYakk" data-source="post: 8450338" data-attributes="member: 72555">The MTG university was a school for mages.  It was founded by 5 dragons (using MTG-hybrid colors).  Each of the schools has two deans, who are each a legendary mage.  One of them is a famous MTG planeswalker in disguise.There is an implied story involving a school-destroying magical disaster told in the cards' flavor text.Each school has a different take on magic; mathemagics, biomagic, archeology, artistic expression, and eloquence.  In each school there are sub concentrations.The setting is pretty full of classic boarding-school tropes.  You arrive as a 1st year and take a general curriculum as the schools convince promising students to join them.  The school sport is mage duels at the top of a tower.  There are mascots (different summoned creatures for each school), faculty members trying to take over the universe (or worse; the school!), forbidden corners of libraries, 2 school councilors giving opposing advice for each student, etc.The MTG cards provide more than a half-dozen interesting NPCs for each of the schools, a bunch of interesting spells or rituals, artifacts of importance, etc.  Direct mechanical translation isn't really needed, but there is fertile ground to grow some stuff on here.Like many MTG sets, the writers wrote a story about what happens, then cards sample from events in that story (or cards inspire a story).  Here is a link to it written out in prose: <a href="https://mtg.fandom.com/wiki/Strixhaven:_School_of_Mages#Magic_Story" target="_blank">Strixhaven: School of Mages</a></blockquote>

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