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Professor Onyx

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

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Full Name Professor Onyx
Affinities Black
Origin set Strixhaven Strixhaven
Cost 295 Mana Crystals
Stats (max level)
Health 112
Deck limits Creatures 7  ·  Spells 7  ·  Supports 5
Mana bonuses Icon W.png +3 · Icon U.png +4 · Icon B.png+5 · Icon R.png -1 · Icon G.png -2
Leveling cost 79,920 Mana Runes
Planeswalkers   (Infobox · Data)
Planeswalker series
Liliana Vess (human)
Liliana, Defiant Necromancer L1 Black Liliana, Defiant Necromancer
Liliana, the Last Hope L2 Black Liliana, the Last Hope
Liliana, Death's Majesty L3 Black Liliana, Death's Majesty
Liliana, Untouched by Death L4 Black Liliana, Untouched by Death
Liliana, Dreadhorde General L5 Black Liliana, Dreadhorde General
Liliana, Waker of the Dead L6 Black Liliana, Waker of the Dead
Professor Onyx  Black Professor Onyx
Liliana, Master of Death L8 Black Liliana, Master of Death
Liliana of the Veil L9 Black Liliana of the Veil

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 CopyCopy 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.

Contents

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