Academy Drake
Creature — Drake
Kicker 
(You may pay an additional as you cast this spell.)
Flying
If this creature was kicked, it enters with two +1/+1 counters on it.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Dominaria
- Price
- $0.03
- EDHREC rank
- #25588
Academy Drake is a vanilla 2/2 flyer for three mana with a kicker that bumps it to a 4/4 — a body that's always outclassed by what the format offers at both price points. There's no text box worth building around, no enters-the-battlefield trigger, nothing; this is filler, and it plays like it.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Academy Drake doesn't have a home in any competitive format. In Commander, a 2/2 flyer for three is below the power floor the format demands, and paying the kicker to get a 4/4 is a fine Limited play that simply doesn't scale to 40-life games with three opponents. Pauper is the one format where commons get real scrutiny, but even there the blue skies slot is crowded with efficient threats that do more for less. Legacy, Vintage, and Modern have no interest in a vanilla creature at any mana cost.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.03 bulk tier
Academy Drake sits at $0.03 — deep bulk, the kind of card that moves in draft chaff lots rather than individual sales. At that price there's no downside to owning copies, but there's also no reason to seek them out; the card doesn't hold value because it doesn't hold interest.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.