Pensive Professor

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Name	Pensive Professor
Type	Creature — human wizard
Description	Increment (Whenever you cast a spell, if the amount of mana you spent is greater than this creature's power or toughness, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.) Whenever one or more +1/+1 counters are put on this creature, draw a card.
Flavor	"To the patient mind, no problem is unsolvable."
Artist	Billy Christian
Set	Secrets of Strixhaven Promos #63p
Wallpaper	download
Image	download

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Pensive Professor, Creature — human wizard, designed by Billy Christian first released in Mar, 2026 in the set Secrets of Strixhaven and was printed exactly in 3 different ways.

Pensive Professor would fit best in a blue-based spellslinger or tempo deck that casts a high volume of noncreature spells, especially ones costing 3+ mana, since Increment rewards you for spending more mana than its current power or toughness and then snowballs into card draw whenever counters are added; it synergizes particularly well with cheap protection (like Shore Up–style effects), proliferate, or counter-doubling effects to repeatedly trigger the draw ability and turn it into a growing card-advantage engine. However, at 1UU with no immediate board impact and requiring additional mana investment to scale, it competes unfavorably with more efficient blue card-advantage creatures such as Ledger Shredder (which grows and filters cards more reliably and cheaply), Third Path Iconoclast (which generates board presence immediately in spells decks), or even Balmor, Battlemage Captain in aggressive shells, all of which provide value without needing higher mana thresholds. As designed, Pe

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