Secrets of Strixhaven MTG Combat Tricks & Instants
Secrets of Strixhaven has 54 instant-speed plays: 13 combat tricks, 6 of them at common, 27 instant-speed removal spells, 2 flash creatures and 4 counterspells. By color, white has 1 trick, blue 2, black 4, green 3 and multicolored 3. The biggest pump at common is +2/+2 from Interjection for one mana. Below, every one of them by color and by the mana it needs, the way a cheat sheet lists them.
All colors
1 mana15
++2/+2
×exile
×destroy
++0/+3
+
⚑2/3
·
·
·
·
·
++1/+0
×−1 toughness
×3 damage
·2 mana18
×destroy
·
×bounce
⊘
++1/+0
×−3 toughness
·
++2/+4
×bite
×4 damage
×sacrifice artifact
×1 damage
×exile
×X damage
×3 damage
×destroy
⚑1/1
⊘3 mana9
×destroy
⊘
·
×destroy
×4 damage
·
+
×exile
·4 mana5
×tuck
⊘
×exile
×bounce
×5 damage5 mana6
×destroy
·
×6 damage
·
×5 damage
·6+ mana1
·+trick×removal⚑flash creature⊘counterspell·other instant
| Color | Tricks | At common | Biggest at 1 | Biggest at 2 | Biggest at 3 | Biggest at 4+ | Leaves a counter | Protection | First strike |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
 | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
 | 4 | 2 | 1 | ||||||
 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Multi | 3 | 1 |