Fledgling Dragon
Creature — Dragon
Flying
Threshold — As long as there are seven or more cards in your graveyard, this creature gets +3/+3 and has "
: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn."
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Modern Horizons 3
- Price
- $0.12
- EDHREC rank
- #20561
Fledgling Dragon is a conditional 5/5 flyer that costs five mana and does nothing until you have seven lands in play — a steep ask in a format where threats at that price need to be immediately threatening. The threshold requirement makes it too slow and too dependent on board state to compete with dragons that just enter swinging.
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 |
Fledgling Dragon is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but sees virtually no play in any of them. In Commander, five mana for a dragon that enters as a 2/2 until you hit seven lands is a hard sell when the format is full of dragons that close games the turn they arrive. Legacy and Vintage move too fast for a conditional threat that needs setup; Modern has enough efficient threats that Fledgling Dragon never makes the cut. It's a bulk rare in every format that allows it.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.12 bulk tier
At $0.12, Fledgling Dragon sits firmly in bulk territory with no competitive demand pulling the price up. Nothing about its play pattern suggests that changes — it's a safe throw-in trade fodder, not a pickup.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.