Hunting Drake
Creature — Drake
Flying
When this creature enters, put target red or green creature on top of its owner's library.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Planeshift
- Price
- $0.12
- EDHREC rank
- #29493
Hunting Drake bounces a target nonblue creature to the top of its owner's library — not their hand, the top — and staples a 2/2 flyer onto the effect for five mana. That tempo hit is real, but five mana for a conditional bounce on a medium body is too slow for most Commander tables.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Hunting Drake earns a niche in flicker and bounce-value engines — commanders like Hullbreaker Horror or Teferi, Temporal Pilgrim shells that want repeated bounce triggers, or Venser, the Sojourner lists that loop enter-the-battlefield effects. The library placement rather than hand return is the distinguishing detail: it denies the opponent a card for a full turn cycle, which matters more in one-on-one formats. In Pauper, Hunting Drake has seen fringe play in blue tempo and blink strategies where commons with relevant bodies and built-in tempo are genuinely scarce. Legacy and Vintage are legal but irrelevant — five mana for this effect doesn't register in those formats.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.12 bulk tier
At $0.12, Hunting Drake is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not scarcity. That price is stable by definition: there's no demand catalyst that would move a five-mana common bounce creature.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.