Mindeye Drake
Creature — Drake
Flying
When this creature dies, target player mills five cards.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Gatecrash
- Price
- $0.05
- EDHREC rank
- #26966
Mindeye Drake costs five mana to put a 2/2 flier on the board that makes opponents pay two extra mana per spell — a punishing tax, but five mana for a 2/2 is a steep rate in any powered table. It earns its slot only in dedicated group-slug or spell-tax builds; everywhere else it's too slow and too fragile.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is the only realistic home for Mindeye Drake — the tax effect rewards multiplayer tables where multiple opponents are forced to pay it, and casual pods that lean on big-spell haymakers will feel it more than competitive ones. In Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer, a five-mana 2/2 with no immediate board impact is unplayable; those formats kill before the tax ever matters. Vintage has the same problem compounded by the density of zero- and one-mana spells that laugh at a two-mana surcharge. Oathbreaker is theoretically legal but the 20-life format moves too fast for this rate.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.05 bulk tier
At $0.05, Mindeye Drake is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not demand. That price reflects its narrow playability accurately and is unlikely to move without a dramatic reprint or a breakout Commander archetype built around spell taxes.
Explore
Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.