Sapphire Drake
Creature — Drake
Flying
Each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it has flying.
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Gatecrash
- Price
- $0.07
- EDHREC rank
- #21422
Sapphire Drake grants your entire team flying for as long as it stays on the board — a meaningful evasion upgrade that can close games against ground-heavy tables. Six mana for a 4/4 is a real cost, and the effect evaporates the moment the Drake dies.
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 |
Sapphire Drake is a Commander card in practice — the evasion-anthem effect is most relevant in the go-wide creature strategies that Commander enables, and the six-mana cost is far less punishing in a 40-life format with ramp support. In competitive 60-card formats like Modern, Pioneer, and Legacy, six mana for a fragile anthem that dies to any removal is unplayable; dedicated flying payoffs exist at half the cost. Oathbreaker shares enough of Commander's pace that the Drake can occasionally find a home, but it faces the same fundamental weakness: one removal spell and the effect is gone.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.07 bulk tier
At $0.07, Sapphire Drake is firmly bulk — you're paying for a physical card, not the card. Price stability is essentially guaranteed in one direction only: it doesn't go lower than bulk.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.