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Bladewing's Thrall

Creature — Zombie

This creature has flying as long as you control a Dragon.
When a Dragon enters, you may return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{2}{B}{B}
Color identity
B
Rarity
uncommon
Set
The List
Price
$0.15
EDHREC rank
#16919
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Bladewing's Thrall card art
Bladewing's Thrall enters as a 3/3 flier for four mana and reanimates itself every time a Dragon enters the battlefield under your control — that loop is the whole reason to run it. Lathliss, Dragon Queen and Sivitri, Dragon Master both trigger it repeatedly, making it a recursive body that punishes opponents for killing it once and rewards you for running a Dragon-dense list.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Sivitri, Dragon Master

Sivitri, Dragon Master

19.6% of decks · synergy 0.19

Sivitri, Dragon Master tutors Dragons directly onto the battlefield, and every Dragon she fetches triggers Bladewing's Thrall's self-reanimation — so a single activation can pull the Thrall back from the graveyard while also adding the tutored Dragon to the board.

02
Rivaz of the Claw

Rivaz of the Claw

17.4% of decks · synergy 0.17

Rivaz of the Claw generates mana specifically to cast Dragons and can reanimate them from the graveyard, creating a tight loop where Dragons entering off Rivaz's abilities keep returning Bladewing's Thrall to play turn after turn.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern not legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Bladewing's Thrall is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but Commander is the only format where it does anything meaningful. In Legacy and Vintage, a four-mana 3/3 with a conditional recursion trigger is far too slow against the threats those formats deploy on turns one and two. Commander is where the Dragon-tribal synergies exist at scale, and that's where Bladewing's Thrall earns its slot — specifically in Rakdos or Grixis Dragon builds that expect their key pieces to die and want cheap recursive bodies to weather attrition.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.15 bulk tier

At $0.15, Bladewing's Thrall is deep bulk — you're not paying for scarcity, you're paying for cardboard. It holds that floor comfortably because Dragon-tribal is a perennial Commander archetype and the card fills a specific recursive role no strictly better bulk replacement covers.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.