Canyon Drake
Creature — Drake
Flying
, Discard a card at random: This creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Tempest
- Price
- $0.36
- EDHREC rank
- #30930
Canyon Drake trades cards from your hand for a temporary power boost — a mechanic that rarely clears the bar in formats where card advantage is everything. At four mana for a 1/2 flier, the baseline rate is bad enough that the activated ability needs to close games, and discarding lands to pump a small body just doesn't get there.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Canyon Drake is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but competitive interest across all of them is effectively zero. In Commander, a four-mana 1/2 flier needs to do something powerful at scale, and feeding cards from your hand to grow it by +2/+0 until end of turn is neither efficient nor repeatable in a meaningful way. Legacy and Vintage have access to the most broken cards in the game's history — Canyon Drake doesn't register. Oathbreaker is the only format where a discard-synergy build could theoretically make this interesting, but even there, better enablers exist at lower mana costs.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.36 bulk tier
At $0.36, Canyon Drake sits firmly in bulk territory, and that price reflects its playability accurately. Don't expect movement — cards with no competitive home and minimal casual demand stay bulk.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.