Pop Quiz

Instant

Draw a card.

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.)

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Alchemy	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Arena	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Historic Brawl	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Modern Beyond Horizons	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pauper	Legal
Pauper Duel Commander	Legal
Pauper EDH	Legal
Pioneer	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Pre-release	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Standard	Legal
Standard Brawl	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (6)

Degaine on Why is Mulldrifter not a fish??

2 years ago

"This style of dimir" is like 3 decks combined together: Alchemy, Angler-delver and UB Control. I can believe that you can mill yourself out with alchemy, AC, preordains and mulldrifters pretty easily.

• If you want to play angler-delver - swap mulldrifters for delvers, add brainstorms for alchemy, change preordains for ponders.
• Alchemy plays only augurs and anglers. Or at least play one Stream of Thought
• UB control would cut alchemy and throw more spells or non-selfmill CA. Black rose could be helpful.

I would cut main justice for Arms of Hadar. Maybe not repeatable but kills all bully creatures and they can't even protect themselves. Imo AC is not that great of a card. In alchemy it is fine, but even only one bog and this card just feels sad. In the same slot you can use Behold the Multiverse, Think Twice and Pop Quiz - this last one is weird, cause it can ramp you&gains you life and provide reasonable threat later. I takes 5-6 slots in SB, but after little testing, I am very surprised how good this CA is.

moonlitmana on Proliferating Proliferaters

3 years ago

zapyourtumor thank you for the suggestions! Hardened Scales , Hangarback Walker , and Walking Ballista look like really cool cards that I'd love to test out, next time I order cards lol I like the last two tho bc they're X cost yeah i realized Pop Quiz is bad too lol

zapyourtumor on Proliferating Proliferaters

3 years ago

Agree with Thrummingbird , Pelt Collector , and Avatar of the Resolute

Hardened Scales

Tezzeret's Gambit

Walking Ballista

Hangarback Walker

Gyre Sage

Scavenging Ooze

Pop Quiz is bad

metalrayn on Thrummingbird's Military Buildup

3 years ago

big fan of this one. have you considered Expanded Anatomy maybe Pop Quiz or Arcane Subtraction to fetch it?

L0TTO on Gyruda's Experiment

3 years ago

amerika00 those are all undoubtedly good cards, but they all share a common problem for the purposes of this deck: They all have odd mana values. I could run them, but I would have to forego retaining Gyruda as a companion. I don't run Spikefield Hazard  ^Flip, Opt , or either of the odd-mana value Izzet Learn spells ( Igneous Inspiration or Pop Quiz ), all for the same reason.

Sanctum on Quandrix Copies

3 years ago

Thanks for your advice. It was really useful.

I had been playing around with the Learn mechanic, utilising Pop Quiz , but for 3 mana, it wasn't cutting it. Essentially, the Lessons are "Get out of jail" cards only: slightly too expensive for their effect but could literally save you the game. So 3 mana for 1 draw and a Lesson wasn't working.

Charge Through isn't a Learn card unfortunately, hence me overlooking it but I did take onboard your advice that Quandrix Apprentice was a truly suboptimal card for this deck and maybe running 4 Snakeskin Veil and 4 Ranger's Guile was too much defense. I mean, its good to keep your critters on the board but that will only get you so far.

I was specifically avoiding using Eldraine cards but they are just too good. Having a spell to cast AND a creature is very good for this deck.

The deck desperately needed a decent 3 drop, so Lovestruck Beast made its way in. Instantly saw a dramatic improvement.

I did actually go for a Learn card: Gnarled Professor . Its 4 mana for a 5/4 Trample creature which has Learn. That's mana efficiency for you right there. Plus every time you copy it with Orvar, you learn a new lesson.