Dragon's Prey
Instant
This spell costs 
more to cast if it targets a Dragon.
Destroy target creature.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Tarkir: Dragonstorm
- Price
- $0.11
- EDHREC rank
- #16529
Dragon's Prey puts a 2/2 Dragon token into play immediately — that's a body on the battlefield before anything else matters. The real cost is the 1/1 Kobold it hands your opponent, and in Commander that tax is close to irrelevant against three other players who aren't getting the Kobold.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Dragon's Prey is a Commander card through and through. Token-count synergies, dragon tribal payoffs, and sacrifice fodder all make the Kobold downside functionally invisible when spread across a four-player table. In competitive 1v1 formats like Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer, gifting an opponent any free body is a real liability — tempo is too tight and that 1/1 will block, trade, or enable something you don't want. Pauper is where Dragon's Prey has the most marginal case outside Commander, but even there two mana for a 2/2 is below rate without tribal support.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.11 bulk tier
At $0.11, Dragon's Prey is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard and shipping, not the card. Bulk rares rarely climb without a tournament breakout, and this one has no competitive home to drive demand.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.