Cloudheath Drake
Artifact Creature — Drake
Flying
: This creature gains vigilance until end of turn.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- UW
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Shards of Alara
- Price
- $0.03
- EDHREC rank
- #30829
Cloudheath Drake is a 3/1 flier that can gain vigilance for one mana — a modest ceiling on a body that dies to a stiff breeze. It's filler, and competitive lists have no reason to run it.
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 |
Cloudheath Drake is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but legality and playability are different things. In Pauper, where the card pool is constrained to commons, it still doesn't make cuts — the format has better two- and three-mana fliers at common that don't require an additional mana sink to do anything. In Commander, Cloudheath Drake competes against dozens of blue flying bodies that generate card advantage, enable combos, or close games, and it does none of those things. Legacy and Vintage are non-conversations.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.03 bulk tier
At $0.03, Cloudheath Drake is deep bulk — the kind of card that fills a common box and never leaves it. There's no demand driver that would move this price, so bulk is where it stays.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.