Does Nobody Play Pop Quiz?

Pop Quiz is an instant from Strixhaven: School of Mages… That never really saw a lot of Constructed play.

Which is kind of weird because in a sense, Pop Quiz is kind of an instant speed Divination (two cards for 2U)… And it’s kind of not weird because it’s only a Divination if the average Lesson you can get is as good as a random card off the top of your deck.

The Strixhaven Lessons (50% of the cards that Pop Quiz will get you) were, for the most part, worse than an average card off the top of your deck. With Avatar: The Last Airbender, that might not be true any more.

Build Your Own Three Steps Ahead

So how about this?

It’ll Quench Ya! is a new Lesson from Avatar: The Last Airbender that is a functional upgrade to the classic Quench. Now Quench isn’t the best two mana Counterspell of all time, but it’s basically playable. If you Pop Quiz for an It’ll Quench Ya! and then Counterspell your opponent, you will have basically built your own kind of Dismiss / Three Steps Ahead.

As you might know from other podcasts, articles on CoolStuffInc, or just chilling at Hex & Co. Union Square on a Tuesday night, Mike is now big into the Pauper format. This podcast episode a wide brainstorm by one of the best deck builders of all time, applying some heretofore under-appreciated commons… And maybe — just maybe — Innovating a whole new Pauper archetype.

How About Your Own Marang River Regent?

It doesn’t end there!

Who even knows if Waterbending Lesson would be good enough on its own? But functionally it’s essentially a Sift… Which has become more than good enough [in Standard] in the form of Marang River Regent. Now Marang River Regent obviously has some substantial incentives… But Waterbending Lesson does too! Specifically because it’s a Lesson!
So Pop Quiz Hotshot: Might you go and get this one?