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Hardened Academic
Oracle Text
Flying, haste
Discard a card: This creature gains lifelink until end of turn.
Whenever one or more cards leave your graveyard, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control.
Card Details
Mana CostCharacter Background
Hardened Academic looks built for a proactive Boros tempo or aggressive value shell, where its flying haste body starts pressuring immediately while still offering late-game utility. A 2/1 for {R}{W} that can cash in extra cards for lifelink means it can swing races hard, especially when you can discard something you actually want in the graveyard, such as flashback, disturb, or other recursion-friendly cards. The real payoff is the graveyard trigger: whenever one or more cards leave your graveyard, you get a +1/+1 counter on any creature you control, letting you turn self-mill, rummage, or exile-based recursion into board growth. That makes it especially attractive alongside cards that repeatedly reuse the graveyard, since even small looping effects can steadily build your best attacker. The name and bird-cleric frame suggest a sharp, disciplined Strixhaven mage, but on the battlefield it plays like a resilient, evasive threat that rewards careful resource conversion.
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Character Background
Hardened Academic looks built for a proactive Boros tempo or aggressive value shell, where its flying haste body starts pressuring immediately while still offering late-game utility. A 2/1 for {R}{W} that can cash in extra cards for lifelink means it can swing races hard, especially when you can discard something you actually want in the graveyard, such as flashback, disturb, or other recursion-friendly cards. The real payoff is the graveyard trigger: whenever one or more cards leave your graveyard, you get a +1/+1 counter on any creature you control, letting you turn self-mill, rummage, or exile-based recursion into board growth. That makes it especially attractive alongside cards that repeatedly reuse the graveyard, since even small looping effects can steadily build your best attacker. The name and bird-cleric frame suggest a sharp, disciplined Strixhaven mage, but on the battlefield it plays like a resilient, evasive threat that rewards careful resource conversion.
Generated using gpt-5.4-mini · Updated at 2026-08-26 21:10:43 UTC