Academic Probation

Two clean answers stapled to one modal frame, and the interesting one is the first mode: a soft, temporary version of the name-a-card effect that Meddling Mage pioneered. Rather than exile or counter, it declares one nonland card name illegal to cast until your next turn, which is a fundamentally different clock than the permanent lockout the older name-a-card designs used. It is not a hate card so much as a timing tool: you shut off a combo piece, a removal spell, or a wincon for exactly one cycle, then it comes back online. That window is the whole design tension. The second mode is a temporary lockdown that runs on the same clock, stripping one nonland permanent of its ability to attack, block, or activate anything until your next turn; a threat, a mana rock, or a defensive wall all go quiet for a single cycle rather than for good. Neither half is powerful in isolation; the value is that you carry both options into a spot without committing at deckbuild. As a Lesson, it lives in the Learn toolbox, retrievable rather than drawn, which reframes it from a maindeck slot to an answer you fetch when the board tells you which mode you need. That fetchability is what makes a card this narrow worth the ink: you never draw the wrong half of a modal spell when you can go get the right half on demand.