Owlin Historian

Secrets of Strixhaven #24

Type: Creature — Bird Cleric

Mana cost: {2}{W}

Card text: Flying When this creature enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.) Whenever one or more cards leave your graveyard, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

P/T: 2/3

Rarity: common

Artist: Matheus Graef

Released: April 24, 2026

Prices

$0.08 USD · $0.17 USD (Foil) · €0.06 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 Owlin Historian in Secrets of Strixhaven limited

common

Cheerful Osteomancer // Raise Dead

Creature — Orc Warlock // Sorcery

Raise Dead returns a creature from your graveyard to hand, triggering Owlin Historian's ability to give it +1/+1, and the prepare mechanic allows multiple triggers.

Stone Docent

Creature — Spirit Chimera

Stone Docent can exile itself from your graveyard to gain life and surveil, triggering Owlin Historian's ability when it leaves the graveyard.

Pull from the Grave

Sorcery

Pull from the Grave returns up to two creatures from graveyard to hand, triggering Owlin Historian twice for +2/+2 total, making it a significant combat threat.

uncommon

Primary Research

Enchantment

Primary Research returns a card from graveyard to battlefield and draws you a card at end step when cards leave your graveyard, synergizing perfectly with Owlin Historian's trigger.

rare

Wisdom of Ages

Sorcery

Wisdom of Ages returns all instants and sorceries from graveyard to hand, triggering Owlin Historian multiple times for massive stat boosts in one turn.

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