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Moltensteel Dragon

Artifact Creature — Phyrexian Dragon

({R/P} can be paid with either {R} or 2 life.)
Flying
{R/P}: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

CMC
6
Mana cost
{4}{R/P}{R/P}
Color identity
R
Rarity
rare
Set
New Phyrexia
Price
$0.50
EDHREC rank
#13689
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Moltensteel Dragon card art
Moltensteel Dragon converts life into a one-shot kill — pay enough Phyrexian mana activations and it hits for lethal out of nowhere. The real home is Scion of the Ur-Dragon, where copying it mid-combat turns a single attack into a commander-damage execution.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is the only format where Moltensteel Dragon is genuinely dangerous — starting at 40 life gives you a deep reservoir of Phyrexian mana activations to fund a lethal pump, and the Scion of the Ur-Dragon combo is a known kill condition in competitive dragon piles. In Legacy and Vintage it's a six-mana 4/4 flying firebreathing dragon competing against formats that end games on turns one through three, so it doesn't see play. Modern is similarly hostile — the mana cost and lack of immediate impact make it unplayable in any serious list. Oathbreaker is legal but shares the same logic as Commander: worth consideration in a dragon-centric shell, irrelevant elsewhere.

Key Combos

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Price Context

Current price

$0.50 bulk tier

At $0.50, Moltensteel Dragon sits firmly in bulk rare territory and is unlikely to climb without a reprint ban or sudden spike in Scion of the Ur-Dragon popularity. It's a low-risk pickup for any dragon pile — the floor is already the floor.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.