Dragon Engine
Artifact Creature — Construct
: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Dominaria Remastered
- Price
- $0.08
- EDHREC rank
- #26089
Dragon Engine is a 1/3 artifact creature that can pump its own power for three mana — slow, expensive, and easy to ignore at a table full of faster threats. It sees play almost exclusively as a combo piece, not as a standalone threat.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Dragon Engine is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but its competitive footprint is essentially zero across all of them. In Commander it shows up as a combo enabler — specifically the Mox Amber line — rather than anything you'd run for raw stats. Legacy and Vintage have far more efficient options for anything Dragon Engine might attempt on its own. Pauper is where bulk commons get their best shot, but a 1/3 with an overcosted pump ability doesn't compete there either.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.08 bulk tier
At $0.08, Dragon Engine is deep bulk — the kind of card that ends up in a box, not a cart. That price is stable because demand is narrow and supply is essentially unlimited.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.