Crashing Drawbridge
Artifact Creature — Wall
Defender
: Creatures you control gain haste until end of turn.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Commander Masters
- Price
- $3.66
- EDHREC rank
- #988
Crashing Drawbridge gives your entire board haste at instant speed for two mana — the effect is real, and the cost is negligible. Decks that dump creatures at sorcery speed and need to attack immediately, like anything built around Hanweir Garrison's token generation or Felothar the Steadfast's combat triggers, run this without a second thought.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Felothar the Steadfast
Felothar the Steadfast lives and dies on connecting in combat, and Crashing Drawbridge lets every creature Felothar produces or tutors attack the same turn they land — 87% inclusion across 17,000+ decks is as close to mandatory as it gets.
Arcades, the Strategist
Arcades, the Strategist wants defenders swinging the turn they enter, and Crashing Drawbridge is the cheapest way to make that happen at instant speed, letting you flash in a wall at the end of an opponent's turn and attack with it on yours.
The Pride of Hull Clade
The Pride of Hull Clade pumps creatures based on toughness and wants to press that advantage immediately; Crashing Drawbridge turns a freshly-buffed board into a same-turn threat before opponents can answer.
Arcum Dagsson
Arcum Dagsson needs to untap and activate, but the artifact creatures he tutors up are dead weight until they can attack — Crashing Drawbridge closes that gap and lets him crew or activate on-board pieces the same turn they resolve.
Gwenom, Remorseless
Gwenom, Remorseless rewards aggressive attacks with venom counters and poison triggers, and Crashing Drawbridge ensures that a mid-combat creature dump or a big top-end threat doesn't sit idle for a full turn cycle.
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 |
Commander is where Crashing Drawbridge earns its keep — a two-mana artifact that blanket-grants haste is strong enough to slot into any go-wide or combat-dependent strategy, and the instant-speed activation means opponents can't easily play around it. In Pauper it's a legitimate inclusion in creature-based aggressive shells where haste is otherwise hard to come by at common rarity. Modern and Pioneer have enough dedicated haste sources and faster game plans that Crashing Drawbridge rarely makes the cut, but it's not unplayable — token strategies that go tall quickly could find a use. Legacy and Vintage have too many degenerate alternatives for it to matter competitively.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Hanweir GarrisonBreath of FuryCrashing Drawbridge
Infinite combat damage; Infinite combat phases; Infinite creature tokens; Infinite death triggers; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite mana creatures you control can produce; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite untap of creatures you control
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Current price
$3.66 cheap tier
At $3.66, Crashing Drawbridge sits at the top of the cheap tier — a fair price for a utility piece with genuine multi-format demand. It's not a card that's going to spike, but it's also not likely to crater given its 87% inclusion in one of the more popular Commander archetypes.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Hanweir Garrison
- Felothar the Steadfast
- Arcades, the Strategist
- The Pride of Hull Clade
- Arcum Dagsson
- Gwenom, Remorseless
- Breath of Fury
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.