Coastal Drake
Creature — Drake
Flying
, 
: Return target Kavu to its owner's hand.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Apocalypse
- Price
- $0.04
- EDHREC rank
- #29884
Coastal Drake bounces a creature you control when it enters — a one-time flicker trigger stapled to a 2/1 flyer for three mana. That rate is too slow and too fragile to justify a slot in most lists.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Coastal Drake is a fringe inclusion in decks that want repeated enter-the-battlefield triggers — think Brago, King Eternal or Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines shells — but even there, it competes with cheaper, more reliable bounce effects. Pauper is the only format where Coastal Drake might see real daylight, since the card pool is constrained enough that a flying body with built-in bounce has marginal utility in flicker-combo builds. Legacy and Vintage are legal on paper, but the card is simply outclassed at every angle — no competitive deck there needs what it does.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.04 bulk tier
At $0.04, Coastal Drake sits firmly in bulk territory — it costs less than a sleeve. That price reflects demand accurately; there's no trajectory that changes it.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.