Dracosaur Auxiliary
Creature — Dinosaur Dragon Mount
Flying, haste
Whenever this creature attacks while saddled, it deals 2 damage to any target.
Saddle 3 (Tap any number of other creatures you control with total power 3 or more: This Mount becomes saddled until end of turn. Saddle only as a sorcery.)
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Aetherdrift
- Price
- $0.11
- EDHREC rank
- #19723
Dracosaur Auxiliary puts a body on the board and scales with your dinosaur count — the payoff is real in the right tribal shell. The cost is narrow tribal dependency: outside a dinosaur deck, it does almost nothing.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Dracosaur Auxiliary earns a slot in dedicated dinosaur builds where the payoff scales with a crowded battlefield — Pantlaza, Sun-Favored and Gishath, Sun's Avatar lists will get the most mileage. Competitive non-tribal Commander ignores it entirely; the card has no standalone text worth a slot in a 100-card singleton format. In 60-card formats like Modern and Pioneer, dinosaur tribal lacks the critical mass and consistency to make Dracosaur Auxiliary a reliable inclusion, and Standard is the only place it sees any real daylight — and even there, only in the specific window where dinosaur support cards are legal together. Legacy and Vintage have no interest whatsoever.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.11 bulk tier
At $0.11, Dracosaur Auxiliary is deep bulk — pick up as many copies as you need without a second thought. Bulk tribal commons and uncommons rarely climb unless a breakout deck drives demand, and dinosaur tribal has never generated that kind of sustained spike.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.