Lurking Green Dragon
Creature — Dragon
Flying
This creature can't attack unless defending player controls a creature with flying.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate
- Price
- $0.18
- EDHREC rank
- #21640
Lurking Green Dragon gives you a 5/5 flying trampler for effectively one green mana if you can discard a land — that's an absurd rate stapled to a condition that land-heavy or landfall-focused decks barely notice. The cost is real in decks that can't feed it, but in the right shell it's simply one of the most efficient threats green can run.
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, Lurking Green Dragon belongs squarely in landfall and land-matters decks where discarding a land is a feature, not a cost — outside that context it's too conditional to justify a slot. Legacy and Vintage have access to it but won't touch it; fair five-drops don't compete in those formats. Pauper is where the card is technically legal and theoretically most interesting, since a 5/5 flying trampler for one mana is a massive rate even with the discard restriction, though the format's tempo demands make a do-nothing 2/2 on turn three a serious liability. Oathbreaker shares the same land-synergy logic as Commander — pair it with a Simic walker that cares about lands and the activation cost evaporates.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.18 bulk tier
At $0.18, Lurking Green Dragon is pure bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not scarcity. Demand is too narrow to push the price anywhere meaningful, so buy it for pennies and don't expect that to change.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.