Dromoka's Gift
Instant
Bolster 4. (Choose a creature with the least toughness among creatures you control and put four +1/+1 counters on it.)
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Dragons of Tarkir
- Price
- $0.15
- EDHREC rank
- #26518
Dromoka's Gift puts a +1/+1 counter on every creature you control — and if you control a Dragon, each of those counters proliferates once, doubling the spread. Six mana at sorcery speed is the ceiling on how good this gets, and outside of counter-heavy or Dragon-heavy Commander builds it rarely clears that bar.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Dromoka's Gift is a Commander card through and through — the six-mana cost and sorcery speed are liabilities that only a multiplayer format's longer game can excuse. In Dragon tribal or +1/+1 counter decks it pulls real weight, essentially acting as a one-sided Doubling Season trigger across a wide board. Outside Commander, it never sees play: Modern, Pioneer, and Legacy move too fast for a six-mana do-nothing-if-you're-behind spell, and Vintage has no interest whatsoever. Stick to EDH.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.15 bulk tier
At $0.15, Dromoka's Gift is pure bulk — you'll find copies in bulk bins before you find them on TCGPlayer wish lists. The price reflects honest demand: it's a niche role-player in specific Commander archetypes, and that ceiling keeps it firmly in the 'grab a spare copy' tier rather than anything worth tracking.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.