Call the Spirit Dragons
Enchantment
Dragons you control have indestructible.
At the beginning of your upkeep, for each color, put a +1/+1 counter on a Dragon you control of that color. If you put +1/+1 counters on five Dragons this way, you win the game.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BGRUW
- Rarity
- mythic
- Set
- Tarkir: Dragonstorm Promos
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #4929
Call the Spirit Dragons tutors up any dragon from your library and puts it directly onto the battlefield — that's the whole pitch, and it's a strong one. The six-mana cost is steep, but in The Ur-Dragon decks that are already casting seven- and eight-drop dragons, dropping your best threat at instant speed while triggering Lair of the Dragon's cascade effects is worth every mana.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
The Ur-Dragon
The Ur-Dragon's eminence ability reduces the cost of every dragon you cast, but Call the Spirit Dragons cheats past that entirely by putting the dragon onto the battlefield directly — meaning you skip the cost reduction you're already getting and just land the threat immediately, which matters when your targets are Nicol Bolas, God-Pharaoh or Zirilan of the Claw variants that win on resolution.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Call the Spirit Dragons is a Commander card through and through — the redundancy and political breathing room of a 100-card singleton format are exactly the conditions that make a six-mana tutor-and-deploy effect worth a slot. In 60-card formats like Modern and Pioneer it's simply too slow; you'd be dead or out of relevant targets by turn six in any competitive context, and non-dragon decks have no reason to touch it. Legacy and Vintage have the raw power density to punish a six-mana do-nothing-until-resolution sorcery, so it doesn't see play there either. Oathbreaker is the one non-Commander home where it could function, specifically in dragon-tribal builds where your planeswalker commander is already in the right colors.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Pricing data isn't available for Call the Spirit Dragons at the moment — check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for a current figure. Given its narrow tribal application, it typically sits in budget-friendly territory, so if you're building The Ur-Dragon, it's likely an easy pickup.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.