Ore-Scale Guardian
Creature — Dragon
This spell costs 
less to cast for each land card in your graveyard.
Flying, haste
- CMC
- 7
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Modern Horizons
- Price
- $0.15
- EDHREC rank
- #26151
Ore-Scale Guardian enters as a 4/4 flyer with ward 2, then cashes itself in for two Treasure tokens when it dies — solid stats, built-in protection, and a death trigger that replaces itself with mana. The seven-mana cost is the ceiling: this is a midrange value piece, not a threat that demands an answer on the spot.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Ore-Scale Guardian actually sees play — dragon tribal decks and Treasure-matters shells both want the incidental value it generates on death, and ward 2 makes it annoying to remove cleanly in a multiplayer context. In Legacy, Modern, and Vintage it's strictly unplayable; those formats demand efficiency that a seven-mana 4/4 can't come close to meeting. Oathbreaker is legal but faces the same speed problem as the non-Commander 60-card formats — the card simply costs too much to matter.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.15 bulk tier
At $0.15, Ore-Scale Guardian is deep bulk — the kind of card you pick up in a trade binder without thinking twice. Bulk dragons with niche applications rarely climb in price, so treat this as a cheap slot-filler rather than any kind of hold.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.