Blue Dragon
Creature — Dragon
Flying
Lightning Breath — When this creature enters, until your next turn, target creature an opponent controls gets -3/-0, up to one other target creature gets -2/-0, and up to one other target creature gets -1/-0.
- CMC
- 7
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Adventures in the Forgotten Realms
- Price
- $0.30
- EDHREC rank
- #15903
Blue Dragon is a five-mana 4/4 flier with no enters-the-battlefield effect and no built-in protection — a vanilla threat in a format full of five-drops that win games. It's not unplayable, but it needs a very specific context (tribal synergy, reanimation fodder, or a dragon-matters payoff) to justify the slot.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Blue Dragon sees no meaningful play in competitive formats — Legacy, Vintage, and Modern have no interest in a five-mana vanilla flier when the bar for that slot starts at immediate board impact. Pioneer is similarly uninterested. Commander is the only context where Blue Dragon has a real home, and even there it's limited to dragon-tribal decks that need bodies to hit critical mass — think Miirym, Sentinel Wyrm or The Ur-Dragon, where every dragon in the 99 contributes to cascade value or count-based payoffs. Outside tribal, it doesn't make the cut.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.30 bulk tier
At $0.30, Blue Dragon is bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not power. Bulk dragon creatures rarely climb in price unless a new dragon-matters commander spikes demand, so don't expect this to move.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.