Red Dragon
Creature — Dragon
Flying
Fire Breath — When this creature enters, it deals 4 damage to each opponent.
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Magic Online Promos
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #6194
Red Dragon lands as a 4/4 flying, firebreathing threat that can push through the final points of damage the turn it enters — six mana for that statline is the honest cost of playing a vanilla-adjacent Dragon with no enters-the-battlefield value. It earns its slot almost exclusively in Dragon tribal and copy-token builds where the creature type or the power level of the copy matters more than raw efficiency.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Delina, Wild Mage
Delina, Wild Mage appears in over half of all Red Dragon decks because every non-legendary copy she makes is itself a Dragon with firebreathing, turning a single successful attack trigger into a scalable damage engine that closes games fast.
Neriv, Heart of the Storm
Neriv, Heart of the Storm rewards casting Dragons with haste and additional combat steps, and Red Dragon's firebreathing means any extra mana Neriv generates goes directly into a flying damage spike that opponents can't easily absorb.
Rionya, Fire Dancer
Rionya, Fire Dancer creates temporary copies at the beginning of combat, and Red Dragon's firebreathing lets you dump the mana you've accumulated that turn into every copy simultaneously — one expensive instant or sorcery becomes a board of flying threats all capable of pumping.
Lathliss, Dragon Queen
Lathliss, Dragon Queen generates a 5/5 Dragon token every time another Dragon enters under your control, so Red Dragon's six-mana entry immediately populates the board with an additional body and triggers any other Dragon-matters payoffs you're running.
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 |
In Commander, Red Dragon is a niche role-player — Dragon tribal and Delina, Wild Mage copy decks run it because the creature type and the firebreathing synergize with their engines, not because six mana for a 4/4 flier is a competitive rate. In Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer, six-mana vanilla-adjacent creatures don't compete; there's no world where Red Dragon displaces actual finishers in those formats. Vintage is theoretically legal but practically irrelevant — the card never shows up there. Red Dragon is a Commander card through and through, and even there it belongs in a specific build rather than any generic red list.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
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Pricing data for Red Dragon isn't currently available in our database — check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for a live number. Given that it's a common-rarity creature with narrow applications, it almost certainly sits well under a dollar.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.