Champion's Drake
Creature — Drake
Flying
This creature gets +3/+3 as long as you control a creature with three or more level counters on it.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Rise of the Eldrazi
- Price
- $0.05
- EDHREC rank
- #28064
Champion's Drake is a 2/2 flier for two mana that grows into a 4/4 the moment your commander is on the battlefield — a legitimate threat for essentially no extra cost. It earns a slot in any deck whose gameplan revolves around keeping one commander in play, and gets cut everywhere else.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Champion's Drake is a role-player in dedicated voltron or commander-centric strategies — the 4/4 flying body for two mana is genuinely efficient, but it's a blank 2/2 in any game where your commander is removed or tucked, which happens constantly at a four-player table. In Pauper, the format it's technically legal in, it competes in a much faster, tighter environment where a conditional 4/4 flier is interesting but reliant on too narrow a setup to see serious play. Legacy and Vintage have no use for it; those formats don't run commander-dependent synergies, and a conditional 2/2 for two is not a card those formats will ever touch. Champion's Drake is a Commander card first, last, and entirely.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.05 bulk tier
At $0.05, Champion's Drake is deep bulk — pick it out of any common box for free. There's no price pressure to worry about; it will stay at this floor indefinitely given its narrow application and multiple printings.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.