Fallaji Dragon Engine
Artifact Creature — Dragon
Prototype 
— 1/3 (You may cast this spell with different mana cost, color, and size. It keeps its abilities and types.)
Flying: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.
- CMC
- 8
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- The Brothers' War
- Price
- $0.06
- EDHREC rank
- #18351
Fallaji Dragon Engine is a 5/4 trampling artifact creature for five mana that merges with Dragon or Vehicle cards to grow into a serious threat — the payoff is real, but five mana for a vanilla-sized body means it earns its slot only in decks that can exploit the meld or crew mechanics. If you're not building around it, it's just an overcosted artifact.
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 |
Fallaji Dragon Engine sees virtually no play outside Commander — in Modern, Pioneer, and Legacy, a five-mana 5/4 with no immediate impact competes against formats where that mana buys you game-ending threats. In Commander, the card is narrowly but genuinely good in Mishra, Lost to Phyrexia builds, where completing the meld creates one of the most punishing meld permanents in the format. Outside of that specific combo shell, it's too slow and underpowered to justify the slot.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.06 bulk tier
At $0.06, Fallaji Dragon Engine is bulk — pick up a copy without thinking about it. Bulk meld pieces rarely spike unless the meld combo breaks into a popular format, and this one is too slow for constructed, so the price is likely to stay in the dirt.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.