Strixhaven: Omens of Chaos (Magic: The Gathering)

Seanan McGuire

Apr 2026 · Sold by Random House Worlds

About this ebook

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Strixhaven University welcomes you. Begin your magical studies on a faraway plane, encountering new friends, mysteries, and dangers, in this fantastical dark academia.

Eula Blue was supposed to be a mage. That was before the war came—before the fight for the Multiverse devastated Eula’s home, and with it her hopes for a magical education.

But the destruction of the war also brought something new: the ability to travel to other planes. And when Eula receives an invitation to study magic at a distant school called Strixhaven, she leaps to take it.

Eula’s journey brings her closer than she ever thought possible to her fellow students, including the mysterious Segante, a boy whose secrets Eula longs to share. But not everyone is thrilled by the arrival of the new class, and Eula and her new friends quickly become targets.

To make it through their first semester, they’ll have to fight for their place in this new world—or else they’ll be dead before their final exams.

Ratings and reviews

A solid YA fantasy story with fantastic character work and a deep exploration into Magic's worldbuilding. I would enjoy it without being into Magic, but seeing Seanan build out all these small details like Capennan etiquette or omenpath travel networks is what made me devour it in a day

one of the best fantasy entering novel i have read, how the introduction went was smooth transitioning to the actual story took place was the campus.

About the author

A Campbell, Hugo, and Nebula Award–winning author, Seanan McGuire lives and works in Washington State, where she shares her somewhat idiosyncratic home with her collection of books, creepy dolls, and enormous blue cats. When not writing—which is fairly rare—she enjoys travel and can regularly be found any place where there are cornfields, haunted houses, or frogs. Her first book was Rosemary and Rue, the beginning of the October Daye series—with more than twenty books across various series following since. Seanan McGuire doesn’t sleep much.