Crimson Hellkite
Creature — Dragon
Flying
, 
: This creature deals X damage to target creature. Spend only red mana on X.
- CMC
- 9
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Oversized League Prizes
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #24966
Crimson Hellkite lands as a 6/6 flying dragon that can tap and spend red mana to deal damage directly to creatures — repeatable removal stapled onto a substantial body. The cost is real: it's a nine-mana sorcery-speed threat that asks for additional red mana investment every activation, making it too slow for most competitive tables.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Crimson Hellkite is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it sees essentially no play outside of Commander dragon tribal. In Commander, nine mana is the ceiling of what casual tables will support, and Crimson Hellkite finds a home almost exclusively in dragon-focused decks where cost reducers like Urza's Incubator or The Ur-Dragon's eminence ability bring it within reach. Legacy and Vintage have no interest — the card is simply too expensive for formats with access to fast mana and broken threats at a fraction of the cost.
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Price Context
Current price
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Price data for Crimson Hellkite isn't currently available, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the latest. Given its narrow home in casual dragon tribal and the number of printings it has accumulated over the years, it has historically been a budget card and is unlikely to command a premium.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.