Dragon's Herald
Creature — Goblin Shaman
, 
, Sacrifice a black creature, a red creature, and a green creature: Search your library for a card named Hellkite Overlord, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Shards of Alara
- Price
- $0.09
- EDHREC rank
- #27086
Dragon's Herald exists for one reason: to pay life, sacrifice creatures, and drop Hellkite Overlord onto the battlefield for free on turn two or three. The cost — a black, red, and green creature for the sacrifice plus three life — is steep enough that Dragon's Herald only earns a slot if you're fully committed to cheating that specific Dragon into play.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Dragon's Herald is a Commander card in practice, where singleton deckbuilding and the game's longer time horizon give you realistic odds of assembling the three-color creature requirement. In Legacy and Vintage, it's technically legal but irrelevant — faster reanimation and combo lines make the Herald's setup cost laughable. Modern has better dragon-cheating options that don't demand you stockpile a black, a red, and a green creature simultaneously. Commander is the one format where Dragon's Herald can actually fire, specifically in five-color Dragon tribal lists that run enough redundancy to hit the sacrifice conditions consistently.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.09 bulk tier
At $0.09, Dragon's Herald is pure bulk — pick it up as a throw-in or grab a playset out of a bulk bin without thinking twice. Demand is narrow enough that the price is unlikely to move unless a new Hellkite Overlord reprint or a popular Dragon's Herald Commander build spikes interest.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.