Clockwork Drawbridge
Artifact Creature — Wall
Defender
, 
: Tap target creature.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Dominaria United
- Price
- $0.05
- EDHREC rank
- #17353
Clockwork Drawbridge enters tapped, taps for colorless, and gains indestructible until end of turn by tapping itself — the combat trick costs you the mana the land would have produced, making it a net-zero exchange that rarely matters. A land slot is too valuable to spend on a conditional, reactive ability that doesn't advance your board state.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Clockwork Drawbridge is legal across Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but that breadth is irrelevant — no competitive or casual format wants a tapped colorless land with an indestructible-until-end-of-turn ability that costs the land's own mana. In Commander, where 99-card consistency demands every land slot pull weight, this is a strict downgrade from a basic. In Pauper, where land efficiency defines tempo, tapping to spend the land's output on a defensive non-ability is unplayable. There is no format context that makes Clockwork Drawbridge a correct inclusion.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.05 bulk tier
At $0.05, Clockwork Drawbridge sits in the deepest bulk tier — this is a card you pull from a common box, not one you buy. The price reflects the demand accurately: it holds no constructed value and is unlikely to move in either direction.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.