Owlin Historian

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Name	Owlin Historian
Type	Creature — bird cleric
Description	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.
Artist	Matheus Graef
Set	Secrets of Strixhaven #24
Wallpaper	download
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About Owlin Historian

Owlin Historian, Creature — bird cleric, designed by Matheus Graef first released in Apr, 2026 in the set Secrets of Strixhaven.

Owlin Historian fits best in a white-based graveyard synergy deck, particularly Orzhov (white-black) or Abzan builds that actively move cards in and out of the graveyard through mechanics like flashback, disturb, escape, reanimation, or exile-based recursion (e.g., Unearth effects or cards like Lurrus of the Dream-Den in older formats), since it rewards you for repeatedly removing cards from your graveyard while providing minor card selection with surveil 1; it could also function in a white tempo or limited environment deck that values evasive creatures and incidental graveyard value. However, in most competitive constructed formats, there are stronger options: for raw efficiency, cards like Ledger Shredder (card selection and scaling body), Tenacious Underdog (self-recurring threat), or Raffine, Scheming Seer (repeatable connive) provide more impactful and consistent value engines, and even in graveyard-focused strategies, creatures that generate immediate board impact or card advant