Chromescale Drake
Creature — Drake
Affinity for artifacts (This spell costs 
less to cast for each artifact you control.)
Flying
When this creature enters, reveal the top three cards of your library. Put all artifact cards revealed this way into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.
- CMC
- 9
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Darksteel
- Price
- $0.39
- EDHREC rank
- #22081
Chromescale Drake enters with a triggered ability that mills three and returns an artifact from any graveyard to the battlefield — a relevant board impact stapled to a five-mana 4/4 flier with ward 2. The cost is real: five mana is a steep ask, and the payoff lives and dies by what's already in a graveyard.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Chromescale Drake is a Commander card through and through — the format's slower pace gives graveyards time to fill up, and multiplayer tables mean three opponents are each milling three cards on entry, which dramatically widens the artifact targets you can reanimate. In Legacy and Vintage it's simply too slow and too conditional; those formats end before the graveyard setup does meaningful work. Modern could theoretically support it in an artifact-graveyard shell, but five mana for a value trigger that doesn't immediately close the game isn't competitive there either.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.39 bulk tier
At $0.39, Chromescale Drake is firmly bulk — a safe pickup if it fits your build, with essentially no financial downside. Bulk rares with niche graveyard synergies don't tend to spike unless a new commander pushes them into demand, so treat it as a cheap role-player, not a spec.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.