Bone Dragon
Creature — Dragon Skeleton
Flying
, Exile seven other cards from your graveyard: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- mythic
- Set
- Core Set 2019 Promos
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #17473
Bone Dragon is a 5/4 flying recursive threat that comes back from exile — not the graveyard — making it resilient to the usual answers. The seven-mana activation cost is steep, but in any deck that generates disposable creatures, Bone Dragon earns its slot as a self-replacing finisher.
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 |
In Commander, Bone Dragon slots into reanimator and aristocrats shells that produce token fodder — you're rarely paying full activation cost when you have five expendable creatures. Legacy and Vintage have too many faster, more broken things happening for Bone Dragon to see competitive play, and Modern's graveyard strategies prefer cheaper, more explosive options. Pioneer is its most competitive home outside Commander, where recursive threats at this size are scarcer and the activation cost is more manageable in midrange builds. Across all formats, the exile-zone recursion is the real selling point — opponents who board in graveyard hate get less value against Bone Dragon than they expect.
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Price Context
Current price
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Price data isn't available for Bone Dragon right now, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for current market values before buying. Given its niche but genuine role in Commander aristocrats and reanimator lists, it tends to move with the popularity of those archetypes rather than sitting at a premium.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.