Bayou Dragonfly
Creature — Insect
Flying; swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.)
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Tempest
- Price
- $0.12
- EDHREC rank
- #22375
Bayou Dragonfly is a 1/1 flyer with swampwalk for two mana — a floor so low it barely clears the bar for Constructed play. Outside of narrow swampwalk synergies, there's almost no shell where this earns a slot.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Bayou Dragonfly is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but legal doesn't mean playable. In Commander, a 1/1 for two with a parasitic evasion keyword does nothing at a table where opponents may not even run Swamps. Pauper is its most charitable home, where swampwalk can occasionally matter against Dimir or Golgari lists, but even there the stat line is too thin to compete. Everywhere else, Bayou Dragonfly is outclassed before it hits the table.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.12 bulk tier
At $0.12, Bayou Dragonfly is deep bulk — the kind of card that fills a box, not a deck. That price is stable for the same reason it's low: demand is essentially zero, and no foreseeable shift in any format changes that.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.