Professor Onyx

Professor Onyx
Full Name	Professor Onyx
Affinities
Origin set	Strixhaven
Cost	295
Stats (max level)
Health	112
Deck limits	7  ·   7  ·   5
Mana bonuses	+3 ·  +4 ·  +5 ·  -1 ·  -2
Leveling cost	79,920
Planeswalkers   (Infobox · Data)

Planeswalker series
Liliana Vess (human)
L1	Liliana, Defiant Necromancer
L2	Liliana, the Last Hope
L3	Liliana, Death's Majesty
L4	Liliana, Untouched by Death
L5	Liliana, Dreadhorde General
L6	Liliana, Waker of the Dead
	Professor Onyx
L8	Liliana, Master of Death
L9	Liliana of the Veil

Professor Onyx is a black human Planeswalker, introduced in May 2021 along with the Strixhaven card set.

She has average health and average deck limits with a slight focus on creatures and spells. She has quite good mana gains in Black, descending gradually through Blue and White to minuses in White and Green.

The themes of her abilities are spellcasting and the graveyard. She can Copy  spells, give full mana to a spell card, and gain life and make the opponent lose life and weaken their most powerful creature when spells are cast. She can Fetch a card, and put cards not picked into her graveyard. She can make the opponent discard, and gain life and cause them to lose life for each creature in graveyards, the amount of life gained and lost increasing to a high amount if the opponent discarded three or less cards.

Professor Onyx is the seventh of eight playable Planeswalkers in MtGPQ which embody Liliana Vess at different points in her life.

Stats

Professor Onyx - level 60
Mana bonus						Deck limits			Health	Leveling cost
+3	+4	+5	-1	-2	0	7	7	5	112	79,920

All level details 1-60													Click to
Level cost		Mana bonus							Deck limits				Health		Abilities
															1	2	3
1-5 440		+1	+1	+1	-2	-2	0		4	4	2		32
									5	4	2
													35
		+1	+2	+1	-2	-2	0
													38
6-10 1865
													41
									5	5	2
													44
11-15 4190													47
		+1	+2	+2	-2	-2	0
													50
									5	5	3
													53
16-20 7380
		+2	+2	+2	-2	-2	0
													56
21-25 11405													59
									6	5	3
													62
		+2	+3	+2	-2	-2	0
													65
26-30 16250
													69
									6	6	3
													72
31-35 21890													75
		+2	+4	+2	-2	-2	0
													78
									6	6	4
36-40 28325
													81
		+2	+4	+4	-2	-2	0
													84
41-45 35540													87
									7	6	4
													90
		+3	+4	+4	-2	-2	0
													93
46-50 43520
													96
									7	7	4
													99
51-55 55720													102
		+3	+4	+4	-1	-2	0
									7	7	5
													105
56-60 79920
													108
		+3	+4	+5	-1	-2	0
													112

Abilities

1: Morbid Research
Ability Level	PW level		Effect
	6-19	6	Pick and fetch 1 of the first 2 cards from your library. Then, destroy the other.
	20-35	6	Pick and fetch 1 of the first 2 cards from your library. Then, destroy the other. If the fetched card is a spell, Copy  it.
	36-49	6	Pick and fetch 1 of the first 3 cards from your library. Then, destroy the others. If the fetched card is a spell, Copy  it. That copy gains 3 mana.
	50-60	6	Pick and fetch 1 of the first 4 cards from your library. Then, destroy the others. If the fetched card is a spell, Copy  it. That copy gains 3 mana. Otherwise, your opponent loses 3 life.

2: Painful Lesson
Ability Level	PW level		Effect
	10-25	12	Create a Painful Lesson Token  [3 shield with "Magecraft  3: Your opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life. When your opponent casts or Copies  a spell card: The first opposing creature with the greatest power gets -2/-2 and your opponent loses 2 life."].
	26-39	12	Create a Painful Lesson Token  [3 shield with "Magecraft  3: Your opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life. When your opponent casts or Copies  a spell card: The first opposing creature with the greatest power gets -2/-2 and your opponent loses 2 life."]. Your opponent discards their first non-spell card.
	40-55	12	Create a Painful Lesson Token  [3 shield with "Magecraft  3: Your opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life. When your opponent casts or Copies  a spell card: The first opposing creature with the greatest power gets -2/-2 and your opponent loses 2 life."]. Your opponent discards their first non-spell card. Then: The first spell card in your hand gains 6 mana.
	56-60	12	Create a Painful Lesson Token  [3 shield with "Magecraft  3: Your opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life. When your opponent casts or Copies  a spell card: The first opposing creature with the greatest power gets -2/-2 and your opponent loses 2 life."]. Your opponent discards their first non-spell card. Then: The first spell card in your hand gains full mana.

3: Last Monography
Ability Level	PW level		Effect
	16-29	18	Your opponent discards 3 cards. Your opponent loses X life. X is the number of creature cards in their graveyard.
	30-45	18	Your opponent discards 4 cards. Your opponent loses X life and you gain X life. X is the number of creature cards in their graveyard.
	46-59	18	Your opponent discards 5 cards. Your opponent loses X life and you gain X life. X is the number of creature cards in both graveyards.
	60	18	Your opponent discards 6 cards. Your opponent loses X life and you gain X life. X is the number of creature cards in both graveyards. If your opponent discarded less than 4 cards this way, X is increased by 20.

Story

Professor Onyx is filled with great knowledge and power—especially power. Although often in contact with students, her words and teachings carry weight as if she always knows more than what she reveals. On other planes, however, this mysterious figure is known for being an infamous necromancer.

<< Liliana, Waker of the Dead's Story

>> Liliana, Master of Death's Story

Starting Deck

Card name	Type	Cost	Color	Rarity	Set
Tend the Pests	Missing card data
Promising Duskmage	Missing card data
Novice Dissector	Missing card data
Tormented Thoughts		6			ORI
Shambling Ghoul	(2/2)	6			ORI
Nightsnare		12			ORI
Caves of Koilos	(2)	8			ORI
Prism Ring	(4)	6			ORI
Search for Blex	Missing card data
Eyetwitch	Missing card data