Hardened Academic
- Mana cost
- {R}{W}
- Type
- Creature — Bird Cleric
- Power / toughness
- 2 / 1
- Set
- Secrets of Strixhaven #194 (rare)
- Price
- $0.39 USD
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.
Hardened Academic has 3 printings, first in Secrets of Strixhaven (2026). EDHREC ranks it #10,785 among Commander cards. It appears most in Quintorius, History Chaser decks (4,413 on EDHREC). It has 1 official ruling.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run Hardened Academic most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Quintorius, History Chaser: 4,413 decks
- Massimo, the Magician: 1,122 decks
- Excava, the Risen Past: 358 decks
- Joshua, Phoenix's Dominant // Phoenix, Warden of Fire: 303 decks
- Queen Kayla bin-Kroog: 303 decks
- Kirol, History Buff // Pack a Punch: 254 decks
- Alesha, Who Smiles at Death: 228 decks
- Quintorius, Loremaster: 101 decks
Often played with Hardened Academic
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : If multiple cards leave your graveyard at the same time, Hardened Academic's last ability will trigger only once.