Hellkite Hatchling
Creature — Dragon
Devour 1 (As this creature enters, you may sacrifice any number of creatures. It enters with that many +1/+1 counters on it.)
This creature has flying and trample if it devoured a creature.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- GR
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Conflux
- Price
- $0.16
- EDHREC rank
- #22792
Hellkite Hatchling enters as a 2/2 flyer and immediately scales with every Dragon already on the battlefield, picking up a +1/+1 counter for each one — trample included if it hits three or more. The cost is real: four mana for a creature that does nothing without existing board presence, making it a liability in empty-board situations.
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 |
Hellkite Hatchling is a Commander card through and through — it needs a critical mass of Dragons to be worth casting, and only the tribal density of a 99-card singleton deck reliably provides that. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but invisible; those formats have no appetite for a four-mana creature that depends on setup. Modern has better Dragon payoffs and faster threats at the same cost, so Hatchling never competes. Stick to Commander, specifically Dragon tribal, where the ceiling is a trampling 6/6 or larger for four mana.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.16 bulk tier
At $0.16, Hellkite Hatchling is pure bulk — a throw-in trade card that costs almost nothing to acquire. It won't hold speculative value, but it doesn't need to; you're buying it to play it, and the price is never the reason to leave it out of a Dragon deck.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.