Drag Down
Instant
Domain — Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn for each basic land type among lands you control.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Conflux
- Price
- $0.03
- EDHREC rank
- #27916
Drag Down kills a creature with no mana value restriction, as long as you control a basic land type it shares — a condition most multicolor Commander decks satisfy without trying. Situational upside, zero monetary cost, but sorcery speed and the color-matching clause keep it firmly in filler territory rather than staple.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Drag Down competes against unconditional removal like Doom Blade and Go for the Throat, and it usually loses that fight — the domain condition is easy to meet in five-color or landfall builds, but sorcery speed is a real tax when you need to answer a Blightsteel Colossus at end of turn. Pauper is where Drag Down earns the most consideration, since the commons pool is shallow enough that conditional removal sees genuine play. In Legacy and Vintage, the card doesn't make the cut; those formats have Fatal Push and Swords to Plowshares, and no one is sleeving up Drag Down. Oathbreaker mirrors the Commander calculus — playable if your manabase has multiple basic types, but rarely the right tool.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.03 bulk tier
At $0.03, Drag Down is pure bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not the effect. Don't expect that floor to move; conditional sorcery-speed removal at common has no scarcity story to tell.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.