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Peregrine Drake

Creature — Drake

Flying
When this creature enters, untap up to five lands.

CMC
5
Mana cost
{4}{U}
Color identity
U
Rarity
rare
Set
Secret Lair Drop
Price
$16.64
EDHREC rank
#894
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Peregrine Drake card art
Peregrine Drake enters and untaps five lands — net positive mana on a five-mana creature — and that's before any bounce or flicker effect touches it. Pair it with Deadeye Navigator or land it under Brago, King Eternal and the mana becomes infinite.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Peregrine Drake is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, and banned in Pauper — that ban is the whole story. In Pauper, a common creature that generates infinite mana with a single partner was simply too easy to assemble at too low a cost, so it got axed. Commander gives it a pass because you're singleton, operating at higher power ceilings, and the 99-card format means the combo requires more pieces to converge — the redundancy that makes Pauper degenerate is much harder to guarantee here. Legacy and Vintage can run it freely, but those formats have faster clocks and better answers, so Peregrine Drake rarely shows up outside fringe combo builds.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Brago, King Eternal

Brago, King Eternal

72.8% of decks · synergy 0.62

Brago, King Eternal flickers every nonland permanent on combat damage, which means Peregrine Drake untaps five lands every time Brago connects — that's infinite mana the turn you have any payoff in play.

02
Y'shtola Rhul

Y'shtola Rhul

69.6% of decks · synergy 0.62

Y'shtola Rhul's triggered abilities reward blinking creatures, and Peregrine Drake is the engine that converts those blinks into infinite mana to fuel whatever payoff Y'shtola lines up.

03
Orvar, the All-Form

Orvar, the All-Form

66.6% of decks · synergy 0.59

Orvar, the All-Form copies permanents when you target your own spells, so a single cheap cantrip targeting Peregrine Drake creates a copy that untaps five more lands — stack enough copies and you have all the mana you need.

04
Abdel Adrian, Gorion's WardCandlekeep Sage

Abdel Adrian, Gorion's Ward // Candlekeep Sage

70.1% of decks · synergy 0.59

Abdel Adrian, Gorion's Ward // Candlekeep Sage flickers nonland permanents as part of its own attack trigger, making Peregrine Drake a reliable infinite-mana engine that fires every combat.

05
Roon of the Hidden Realm

Roon of the Hidden Realm

54.0% of decks · synergy 0.50

Roon of the Hidden Realm blinks a creature at end of turn as an activated ability, and repeatedly targeting Peregrine Drake converts that ability into an unbounded mana engine with any cost reducer or additional untap effect in play.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

33,572 decks
Ghostly FlickerPeregrine DrakeArchaeomancer

Ghostly FlickerPeregrine DrakeArchaeomancer

Infinite blinking; Infinite ETB; Infinite landfall triggers; Infinite LTB; Infinite magecraft triggers; Infinite mana lands you control can produce; Infinite storm count; Infinite untap of lands you control

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13,932 decks
Ghostly FlickerPeregrine DrakeEternal Witness

Ghostly FlickerPeregrine DrakeEternal Witness

Infinite blinking; Infinite ETB; Infinite landfall triggers; Infinite LTB; Infinite magecraft triggers; Infinite mana lands you control can produce; Infinite storm count; Infinite untap of lands you control

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12,627 decks
DisplacePeregrine DrakeArchaeomancer

DisplacePeregrine DrakeArchaeomancer

Infinite blinking; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite magecraft triggers; Infinite mana lands you control can produce; Infinite storm count; Infinite landfall triggers; Infinite untap of lands you control

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Budget Alternatives

Cheaper options that do most of the same work

Palinchron fills the same role — it untaps seven lands instead of five and can bounce itself repeatedly for infinite mana without a partner, but it costs significantly more. Cloud of Faeries and Great Whale are the closest true budget parallels to Peregrine Drake: Cloud of Faeries untaps only two lands and requires more support to go infinite, while Great Whale costs seven mana to cast, making it slower but functionally identical in any flicker shell.

Price Context

Current price

$16.64 mid tier

At $16.64, Peregrine Drake sits in mid-tier pricing — reasonable for a card that appears in over 85,000 Commander decks and anchors multiple infinite-mana lines. It's held this range because demand is broad and steady, driven by flicker staple status across dozens of commanders.

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