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Hardened Academic SOS 0194 · rare

Hardened Academic · {R}{W} · Creature — Bird Cleric · 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. · Power / toughness: 2/1 · "Do you think I've spent a lifetime studying war and learned nothing?"

Hardened Academic · {R}{W} · Creature — Bird Cleric · 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. · Power / toughness: 2/1 · "Do you think I've spent a lifetime studying war and learned nothing?"

Price
from $0.443 printings
Win rate
61.3% GIH 14,467 instances · Premier Draft
Apr 21–Jun 2, 2026 · 17Lands

Game-in-hand win rate, all deck colors. 8,875 wins in 14,467 card-in-hand instances.

13,821 distinct games · 4,793 distinct drafts · games recorded Apr 21–Jun 2, 2026.

17Lands file dated Jun 5, 2026 · 100-instance minimum · 17Lands public data ↗

Draft data

61.3%when drawn (GIH)

+6.0 pp vs 55.4% average · 14,467 instances

Premier Draft · Apr 21–Jun 2, 2026 · average from 582,914 games

#17 of 320 nonland cards by win rate · last seen around pick 2.7 on average (15,825 packs).

6 of 83 multicolor cards · 4 of 26 multicolor rare cards.

Taken at pick2.76,775 picks
Makes the deck78.4%6,775 picks with known usage
When played57.9%29,972 matchesBenched 53.8%
5,997 matches
When drawn61.3%14,467 instances

Pick and maindeck observations: Apr 21–Jun 2, 2026. Played/benched cells use matches when available; the drawn cell uses game instances.

○ Opening hand 62.5% · 5,556 instances
● Drawn later 60.6% · 8,911 instances

In hand 61.3% · 14,467 instances
Unseen in deck 56.1% · 17,466 instances
+5.2 percentage points when drawn

Compared with multicolor cards

Win rate when drawn61.3%14,467 instances6 of 83
Opening hand62.5%5,556 instances3 of 82
Drawn later60.6%8,911 instances14 of 83
In the deck58.5%31,888 instances5 of 83
Without seeing it56.1%17,466 instances17 of 83
Improvement when drawn+5.2 pp14,467 instances / 17,466 instances23 of 83
When benched53.8%5,997 matches74 of 83
Makes the deck78.4%6,775 picks with known usage19 of 83
Pick (last seen)2.715,825 packs17 of 83
Taken at2.76,775 picks16 of 83

Ranks require 100 observations for that metric; comparisons are descriptive, not a pick order. Pick ranks put earlier picks first.

Best decks for it

no-splash decks only · card-level in-hand rates · 100 minimum

Lorehold Flashback Excavation RW62.9%10,964 instances

Each tick is this card’s all-decks rate (61.3% · 14,467 instances). A high card rate does not prove that splashing it will improve your deck.

Best with

Adjusted associations, ranked by confidence.

Stone Docent+4.1 pp15,046 games with both in the deck · 3,702 both drawnPrimary Research+5.1 pp7,566 games with both in the deck · 1,712 both drawnDig Site Inventory+4.1 pp10,218 games with both in the deck · 2,195 both drawn
How to read this

Observational, not a causal bonus. Both cards must be in the deck. Drawn means opening hand or normally drawn; each card counts once per game. Game-level approximate intervals do not account for repeated games by the same drafter.

At least 100 games in each of four drawn/not-drawn groups; adjusted for game length and screened by the lower confidence bound. Do not add these points to a card’s win rate.

Where it sits in the set

Above 95% of 320 nonland cards with 100+ instances, in win-rate order.

30% or lowerWin rate94% or higher

17Lands public datasets ↗ · CC BY 4.0 ↗ · Apr 21–Jun 2, 2026

Collect

3 printingsScryfall USD, snapshot Oct 25Pack odds →

Pick a printing for its prices and pull odds.

Prices

SOS 0194 · Regular printingListings ↗
FinishFound inPrice
NonfoilPlay Booster · prerelease-lorehold$0.44
FoilCollector Booster · Play Booster · prerelease-lorehold · prerelease-prismari · prerelease-quandrix · prerelease-silverquill · prerelease-witherbloom$0.48

Foil in a Collector Booster · Modeled · About 1 in 70 packs (1.43%) · 15.9% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

Foil in a Play Booster · Modeled · About 1 in 795 packs (0.13%) · 3.7% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

Nonfoil in a Play Booster · Modeled · About 1 in 57 packs (1.75%) · 41.2% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

Foil in a prerelease-lorehold · Modeled · About 1 in 70 packs (1.43%) · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

Nonfoil in a prerelease-lorehold · Modeled · About 1 in 23 packs (4.35%) · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

Foil in a prerelease-prismari · Modeled · About 1 in 70 packs (1.43%) · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

Foil in a prerelease-quandrix · Modeled · About 1 in 70 packs (1.43%) · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

Foil in a prerelease-silverquill · Modeled · About 1 in 70 packs (1.43%) · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

Foil in a prerelease-witherbloom · Modeled · About 1 in 70 packs (1.43%) · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

How to pull it

Official rates for the whole category, not this card.

BoosterSlotPer packCategory
Play BoosterWildcard of any rarity100%Wildcard of any rarity
Play BoosterRare or mythic rare100%Rare or mythic rare
Play BoosterTraditional foil of any rarity100%Traditional foil of any rarity
Collector BoosterTraditional foil rare or mythic85.7%Rare

Wizards · Collecting Secrets of Strixhaven ↗ · Oct 29, 2026

Details & sources

Legal in
Standard · Historic · Timeless · Pioneer · Modern · Legacy · Vintage · CommanderLimited eligibility depends on the event and its booster pool.
Illustration
Vincent Christiaens, SOS 194 · Scryfall ↗
More like this
Lorehold Flashback Excavation cards → · Regular printing printings →
Sources
Wizards · Collecting Secrets of Strixhaven · Oct 29, 2026
Scryfall USD, snapshot Oct 25
Comprehensive Rules ↗