Cave of the Frost Dragon
Land
If you control two or more other lands, this land enters tapped.
: Add 
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: This land becomes a 3/4 white Dragon creature with flying until end of turn. It's still a land.
- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Adventures in the Forgotten Realms
- Price
- $0.47
- EDHREC rank
- #7569
Cave of the Frost Dragon gives you a land that can turn into a 4/4 flying Dragon when you need a threat — the cost is four mana and tapping it, which is real but not backbreaking. It earns its slot wherever Dragons or creature-lands matter; everywhere else, it's a fringe inclusion that trades consistency for the occasional free body.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Black Panther, Wakandan King
Black Panther, Wakandan King cares about tokens and creatures entering the battlefield, and Cave of the Frost Dragon provides a repeatable, on-demand creature without spending a card — that ratio is exactly what the engine wants.
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, Cave of the Frost Dragon is a reasonable include in Dragon tribal decks or any shell that wants a creature-land as a late-game mana sink — the flying body is meaningful when the board stalls. In competitive 60-card formats like Modern and Legacy, creature-lands live or die by efficiency, and a four-mana activation that requires tapping the land is too slow against the threats those formats present. Pioneer follows the same logic: the activation cost puts it behind Faceless Haven and Mutavault in nearly every context. Legacy and Vintage could theoretically support it in fringe Dragon lists, but neither format has a home where Cave of the Frost Dragon is the correct choice over faster options.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.47 bulk tier
At $0.47, Cave of the Frost Dragon sits firmly in bulk territory — cheap enough to throw in a Dragon tribal Commander deck without a second thought. Bulk creature-lands rarely climb in price unless a specific deck archetype pushes demand, so don't expect movement.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Black Panther, Wakandan King
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.