Draco
Artifact Creature — Dragon
Domain — This spell costs 
less to cast for each basic land type among lands you control.
Flying
Domain — At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this creature unless you pay 
. This cost is reduced by for each basic land type among lands you control.
- CMC
- 16
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Planeshift
- Price
- $3.74
- EDHREC rank
- #9752
Draco is a 16/16 flying, trample artifact creature for sixteen mana — the highest mana cost ever printed on a creature — and it sees play almost exclusively because that cost is the point, not the problem. In decks built around cost manipulation or top-of-library chaos like Timesifter, The Capitoline Triad reaches for it to maximize extra-turn triggers; everywhere else, Draco sits on the bench.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
The Capitoline Triad
The Capitoline Triad uses Draco as a Timesifter turbo-charger — with a 16-mana card perpetually available to stack on top, the Triad's library manipulation converts Draco's absurd cost into a near-guaranteed extra turn every upkeep.
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 |
Draco is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, and irrelevant in three of those four. Legacy and Vintage have no interest in a vanilla 16/16 that costs sixteen mana when the formats end on turn two or three. Oathbreaker could theoretically support cost-reduction shells, but the format's lower power ceiling makes the payoff marginal. Commander is the only home where Draco earns its slot — specifically in decks that weaponize its mana cost as a number rather than actually paying it, whether through Timesifter's top-of-library reveal or artifact-cost-matters engines.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
TimesifterDracoIsochron ScepterPull from EternityAcademy Ruins
Infinite turns; Lock
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Varragoth, Bloodsky SireTimesifterEmiel the BlessedRiftsweeperDraco
Infinite turns; Lock
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Varragoth, Bloodsky SireTimesifterEldrazi DisplacerRiftsweeperDraco
Infinite turns; Lock
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Current price
$3.74 cheap tier
At $3.74, Draco sits in the cheap tier — accessible for any player building toward the narrow combo shells that want it. Demand is real but thin, concentrated almost entirely in Timesifter and The Capitoline Triad builds, so the price is stable rather than climbing.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.