Fighting Drake
Creature — Drake
Flying
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Tempest
- Price
- $0.17
- EDHREC rank
- #30849
Fighting Drake is a 3/3 flyer for four mana with a significant downside: it can't attack if your opponent controls a creature with flying. In most blue decks, that conditional blocks you out of your own attacker far too often to justify the slot.
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 |
Fighting Drake is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it sees essentially no play in any of them. In Commander, a 3/3 flyer for four mana is well below the rate you need, and the attacking restriction means any opponent running a Thopter token shuts it down. Legacy and Modern have access to strictly better flying threats at the same cost or cheaper, so Fighting Drake never makes the cut. It's a card that exists in the pool but has no competitive home.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.17 bulk tier
At $0.17, Fighting Drake sits firmly in bulk territory. There's no demand driver that would move it off that floor — it's not part of any combo, sees no tournament play, and has no casual cachet to prop up the price.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.