Dakra Mystic
Creature — Merfolk Wizard
, 
: Each player reveals the top card of their library. You may put the revealed cards into their owners' graveyards. If you don't, each player draws a card.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- The List
- Price
- $0.20
- EDHREC rank
- #10878
Dakra Mystic gives you a repeatable, political draw engine that also fuels graveyard and chaos strategies — but the cost is real: every activation lets opponents choose whether they draw, and the card you mill stays milled. In Ian Malcolm, Chaotician builds, that asymmetry flips into an advantage, making Dakra Mystic far more powerful than its one-mana body suggests.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Ian Malcolm, Chaotician
Ian Malcolm, Chaotician runs Dakra Mystic because every activation is a free chaos trigger — Ian rewards you whenever opponents draw outside their draw step, so Dakra Mystic turns each tap into a cascading bonus whether opponents take the card or eat the mill.
Kwain, Itinerant Meddler
Kwain, Itinerant Meddler decks want redundant group-draw engines, and Dakra Mystic fills that role at one mana — the forced-choice structure matches Kwain, Itinerant Meddler's philosophy of making draws political while still advancing your own card velocity.
Kami of the Crescent Moon
Kami of the Crescent Moon already floods the table with draw triggers, and Dakra Mystic stacks on top — the mill-or-draw choice becomes increasingly punishing for opponents when everyone is drawing three or four cards per turn cycle anyway.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Dakra Mystic actually lives — three opponents means three separate activation choices, and political tables will frequently let dangerous players mill rather than draw, letting you control tempo for free. In Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer it's a one-mana 1/1 with a symmetrical effect against a single opponent, which is too slow and too fair to see serious play. Vintage has better things to do at one mana. Dakra Mystic is a Commander card dressed up in a universal legality status.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.20 bulk tier
At $0.20, Dakra Mystic sits firmly in bulk territory — pick it up without a second thought. Bulk rares with genuine Commander niches occasionally tick up as their archetypes grow, but Dakra Mystic has been available cheaply for years and there's no supply pressure pushing it higher.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.