Sky-Eel School
Creature — Fish
Flying
When this creature enters, draw a card, then discard a card.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Foundations Jumpstart
- Price
- $0.09
- EDHREC rank
- #26109
Sky-Eel School is a 4/3 flier with looter-on-cast — you draw a card and discard a card the moment it resolves. The stats are passable and the loot triggers on cast, not on attack, so you get the effect even if it's immediately answered.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Sky-Eel School finds its most plausible home in Pauper, where a 4/3 flier at five mana is at least in range and the loot effect has real value in graveyard-synergy or spell-heavy shells. In Commander, it's too slow and too low-impact — a one-shot loot stapled to a vanilla-adjacent body doesn't move the needle at five mana when you're competing against draw spells that replace themselves harder and creatures that do more. Legacy and Vintage have no interest; the card is legal but far below the power floor those formats demand. Oathbreaker is the one Commander-adjacent format where Sky-Eel School could sneak into a tempo-light discard-matters build, but even there it's a fringe consideration.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.09 bulk tier
At $0.09, Sky-Eel School is deep bulk — you're paying draft-chaff prices for a draft-chaff card. There's no trajectory that changes that; the effect isn't scarce enough to hold any speculative floor.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.