Lumengrid Drake
Creature — Drake
Flying
Metalcraft — When this creature enters, if you control three or more artifacts, return target creature to its owner's hand.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Scars of Mirrodin
- Price
- $0.10
- EDHREC rank
- #29766
Lumengrid Drake bounces a target artifact when it enters — a 2/2 flier that doubles as a reset button on any artifact threatening the board. The four-mana cost is steep for what you get in most contexts, but in Volo, Guide to Monsters builds that copy each unique creature type, a cloned Drake chains bounce triggers and quickly clears the table of problematic artifacts.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Lumengrid Drake is a role-player in artifact-heavy metas where targeted bounce is more useful than straight removal — it can send back an Esper Sentinel or reset a Pithing Needle naming your commander. In Pauper, the format most likely to actually run it competitively, the combination of evasion and on-entry disruption is more relevant, though four mana remains the ceiling of what midrange blue strategies want to pay. Legacy and Vintage have no interest — the bounce effect isn't remotely worth the slot at that power level. Lumengrid Drake finds its most honest home in Commander as a value enabler in enter-the-battlefield or copy-matters shells.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Volo, Guide to MonstersFood ChainLumengrid Drake
Infinite colored mana that can only be spent to cast creature spells; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite storm count; Return any number of creatures to their owners' hands
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Current price
$0.10 bulk tier
At $0.10, Lumengrid Drake is deep bulk — a free inclusion if you already own a copy. There's no meaningful floor to breach here, and the card won't appreciate unless a commander emerges that turns four-mana bounce-an-artifact creatures into a broken loop.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Volo, Guide to Monsters
- Food Chain
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.