Flayer Drone
Creature — Eldrazi Drone
Devoid (This card has no color.)
First strike
Whenever another colorless creature you control enters, target opponent loses 1 life.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BR
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Oath of the Gatewatch
- Price
- $0.20
- EDHREC rank
- #16949
Flayer Drone drains each opponent for 1 whenever you cast or put a colorless creature onto the battlefield — in a four-player pod, that's three life per trigger before combat math even starts. The cost is a three-mana 2/1 body that asks you to build around a specific creature type, so it earns its slot only in dedicated Eldrazi or colorless-matter shells.
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 |
In Commander, Flayer Drone is a tribal payoff for Eldrazi decks — the drain trigger scales with player count, making it quietly punishing in longer games where you're dropping multiple colorless creatures per turn cycle. Outside Commander, it sees essentially no competitive play: Modern, Pioneer, and Legacy have all moved past three-mana 2/1s that ask you to build around them, and the Eldrazi synergy pieces that make Flayer Drone tick aren't present in those metagames. Oathbreaker is the one exception where a colorless-creature-focused shell could make it functional, but the card is still firmly a casual, format-specific include.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.20 bulk tier
At $0.20, Flayer Drone is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard and not much else. It won't appreciate; Eldrazi tribal has enough redundancy at this slot that demand stays low and the price reflects it.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.