Oceanus Dragon
Creature — Dragon
Flying
When this creature enters, tap target creature an opponent controls. Goad it. (Until your next turn, that creature attacks each combat if able and attacks a player other than you if able.)
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate
- Price
- $0.25
- EDHREC rank
- #17543
Oceanus Dragon enters the battlefield and immediately replaces itself with a Blue instant or sorcery from your library, turning a 4/4 flying body into a built-in tutor the moment it resolves. The cost is real — six mana for a vanilla-stats dragon is asking a lot — but the guaranteed search justifies the slot in any blue deck that runs high-value instants or sorceries.
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, Oceanus Dragon earns its place in blue spellslinger decks as a mid-game tutor stapled to a flying body — six mana is acceptable in a 40-life format where games go long enough to make the search count. Legacy and Vintage have access to the card but have zero interest in it: six mana is a universe away from the interaction speed those formats demand, and the tutor doesn't find anything efficient enough to justify the investment. Pauper is the one surprise — Oceanus Dragon is legal at common, and in slower Pauper metas a 4/4 flier that finds a key instant or sorcery is genuinely playable if the format supports it. Oathbreaker mirrors the Commander read: the 60-card, 20-life constraint makes the six-mana ask tighter, but decks built around a Blue instant or sorcery signature spell have obvious reasons to run it.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.25 bulk tier
At $0.25, Oceanus Dragon is deep bulk — the kind of card you pick up as a throw-in without thinking twice. Bulk rares with niche Commander applications tend to stay in this range unless a high-profile deck pushes demand, so don't expect movement.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.