Leafdrake Roost
Enchantment — Aura
Enchant land
Enchanted land has "
, 
: Create a 2/2 green and blue Drake creature token with flying."
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- GU
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Commander 2013
- Price
- $0.13
- EDHREC rank
- #26330
Leafdrake Roost costs five mana to enchant a land, then asks for two more every turn to make a 2/2 flying token — that's a seven-mana setup before you see a single body. The rate is too slow for competitive Commander tables and too fragile for anything faster.
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 |
Leafdrake Roost is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but seeing play in essentially none of them. In Commander — its most plausible home — the combination of a five-mana enchantment and a two-mana-per-token activation is simply too slow against tables that end games on turns 6–8. Legacy and Vintage have no interest in this rate when faster, more resilient token engines exist. Modern theoretically supports it, but a five-mana do-nothing-immediately enchantment on a land is a liability in any real gamestate. Oathbreaker's lower-power environment is the one context where Leafdrake Roost might survive long enough to matter, particularly in a Simic value shell with a planeswalker that generates mana.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.13 bulk tier
At $0.13, Leafdrake Roost is deep bulk — you're not paying for power, you're paying for cardboard. That price is unlikely to move given the card sees no meaningful competitive play and has been printed multiple times.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.