Finally, we have one copy of Mentor's Guidance, which is basically two Opts for three mana, as long as we have one of our magecraft creatures on the battlefield. It's not exciting if we have to cast it for three mana but is still a Divination, which isn't the end of the world. Of One Mind is a sneaky all-star, often drawing us two cards for one mana since Clever Lumimancer and Symmetry Sage are Humans, while Clarion Spirit and Leonin Lightscribe are non-Humans. Defiant Strike and Opt are basically just "one mana, draw a card, trigger all of your magecraft abilities," which is exactly what our deck wants. For this plan to work, we need cheap card-draw spells to keep us churning through our deck in order to find more cheap spells to trigger magecraft on our creatures.
The most powerful thing our deck can do is play a couple of magecraft creatures, play a bunch of spells to pump them into massive threats, and kill our opponent by Turn 3 or 4. The most important spells in our deck are our one-mana cantrips. (While Clever Lumimancer and Leonin Lightscribe also die to Bonecrusher Giant without help, if we can cast a single spell, both pump to three toughness and survive the two damage from Stomp.) Meanwhile, Clarion Spirit probably looks strange since it does have magecraft, but since our deck is built to cast a bunch of cheap spells each turn, it's actually very easy to trigger repeatedly to make 1/1 Spirits, which we then can pump with Leonin Lightscribe and Symmetry Sage to close out the game quickly in the air.
The downside is that it always dies to Bonecrusher Giant. Symmetry Sage is powerful-basically a one-mana 2/2 flier in our deck with the additional upside that we can use its magecraft ability to target Clever Lumimancer to give it +2/+0 or create a Spirit token with Clarion Spirit. Rounding out our creature package are Symmetry Sage and Clarion Spirit. On Turn 3, if we can cast three one-mana spells, Clever Lumimancer will grow to a 9/10, and Leonin Lightscribe will be a 5/5, which is an absurd amount of damage on Turn 3 in Standard! Let's say we play Clever Lumimancer on Turn 1 and Leonin Lightscribe on Turn 2. Things can get crazy really quickly if we can get both of these cards on the battlefield together.
Leonin Lightscribe doesn't pump as aggressively as Clever Lumimancer does, only getting +1/+1 when we cast an instant or sorcery, but it makes up for this by pumping our entire team. While it starts off with zero power, it's usually attacking for two on Turn 2, and it's pretty easy to grow it into a four-, six-, or even 20-power creature as the game goes along and we cast more spells. Clever Lumimancer is one of the most aggressive one-drops that has ever been printed. The core of UW Magecraft is Clever Lumimancer and Leonin Lightscribe, both of which grow as we cast or copy cheap instants and sorceries thanks to their magecraft ability. The main idea is to play creatures that benefit from us playing (or copying) instants or sorceries, cast a bunch of cheap instants and sorceries to buff our creatures, and hopefully close out the game super fast, maybe as early as Turn 3 or 4! Creatures UW Magecraft is basically an aggro / combo deck that shares a lot of similarities with various prowess or blitz decks from older formats.
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