Muse's Encouragement

Secrets of Strixhaven #61

Type: Instant

Mana cost: {4}{U}

Card text: Create a 3/3 blue and red Elemental creature token with flying. Surveil 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)

Rarity: common

Artist: Oriana Menendez

"Many Prismari students find their best ideas while under the gaze of the Muse."

Released: April 24, 2026

Prices

$0.07 USD · $0.11 USD (Foil) · €0.03 EUR

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Format Legality

Format	Legality
Standard	✓ Legal
Pioneer	✓ Legal
Modern	✓ Legal
Legacy	✓ Legal
Commander	✓ Legal
Vintage	✓ Legal
Pauper	✓ Legal
Oathbreaker	✓ Legal

Draft & Sealed Synergies

Best cards to pair with Muse's Encouragement in Secrets of Strixhaven limited

common

Spellbook Seeker // Careful Study

Creature — Bird Wizard // Sorcery

Spellbook Seeker provides card selection through Careful Study, filling your graveyard while Muse's Encouragement creates evasive tokens and helps you dig deeper with surveil 2.

Textbook Tabulator

Creature — Frog Wizard

Textbook Tabulator's surveil 2 on entry stacks with Muse's Encouragement's surveil 2, letting you filter through your deck efficiently while building a board of creatures.

Owlin Historian

Creature — Bird Cleric

Owlin Historian gets +1/+1 whenever cards leave your graveyard, and Muse's Encouragement's surveil 2 can trigger this by putting cards into the graveyard that you later use.

uncommon

Muse Seeker

Creature — Elf Wizard

Muse Seeker triggers Opus on instant/sorcery casts, drawing and discarding cards, which synergizes with Muse's Encouragement's surveil to filter your deck and fill the graveyard.

rare

Exhibition Tidecaller

Creature — Djinn Wizard

Exhibition Tidecaller mills opponents when you cast instants/sorceries, and Muse's Encouragement is an efficient instant that also helps you surveil, creating a mill/control strategy.

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