Academy Raider
Creature — Human Warrior
Intimidate (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.)
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may discard a card. If you do, draw a card.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Magic 2014
- Price
- $0.08
- EDHREC rank
- #20121
Academy Raider is a 1/1 Intimidate creature that makes a blocked or unblocked attacker loot — the effect is real, but the body is too small and too slow to matter in most powered games. There are cheaper, more reliable looting engines that don't require combat damage to trigger.
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 Raider is a bulk common in every format that matters, and that tells you most of what you need to know. In Pauper, where commons compete on raw efficiency, a 2-mana 1/1 that loots only on hit is too conditional to see play. In Commander, Academy Raider occasionally shows up in red discard-matters or Grenzo-style aggro builds where every attack step generates incremental advantage, but it's firmly a budget filler slot rather than a staple. Competitive Constructed formats ignore it entirely — Modern and Legacy have no interest in a fragile attacker whose payoff is a single loot.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.08 bulk tier
At $0.08, Academy Raider is deep bulk — buy a dozen for the price of a sleeve. The price reflects the card's power level accurately, and there's no realistic scenario where demand pushes it higher.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.