Eternal Student
Creature — Zombie Warlock
, Exile this card from your graveyard: Create two 1/1 white and black Inkling creature tokens with flying.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Secrets of Strixhaven
- Price
- $0.11
- EDHREC rank
- #26384
Eternal Student gives you a repeatable looting effect stapled to a cheap creature — draw a card, discard a card, every turn for one mana. The cost is that it does nothing the turn it enters and asks you to build around the graveyard or discard payoffs to get real value out of it.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Eternal Student earns its slot in decks that want consistent discard outlets — reanimator piles, madness builds, and commanders that care about cards in the graveyard will treat it as reliable engine fuel at negligible cost. Outside Commander, Eternal Student competes in a crowded field of one-mana looters; it sees essentially no competitive play in Modern, Pioneer, or Legacy, where similar effects either cost nothing or come with a stronger body. Standard is its most plausible non-Commander home, and only in dedicated discard or graveyard synergy shells.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.11 bulk tier
At $0.11, Eternal Student is bulk — pick it up without thinking twice if the effect fits your deck. Bulk rares and uncommons with narrow applications rarely climb in price, so don't expect the tag to move unless a future set hands it a direct combo partner.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.