Screeching Drake
Creature — Drake
Flying
When this creature enters, draw a card, then discard a card.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Portal Second Age
- Price
- $0.39
- EDHREC rank
- #29947
Screeching Drake is a 1/1 flyer for 1U that returns itself to your hand for 1U — a zero-net-card bounce loop with no ceiling on activations per turn. It does nothing on its own, but in any shell that rewards casting the same spell repeatedly, it's an infinite trigger engine waiting for a payoff.
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 |
Screeching Drake sees essentially zero competitive play in Legacy or Vintage despite being legal in both — the rate is too weak for those formats and the combo redundancy too available elsewhere. In Pauper it has a narrow niche in storm or flicker-adjacent brews that need a cheap repeatable cast trigger at common, though it rarely makes the cut over cleaner options. Commander is where Screeching Drake actually lives: any commander that cares about casting spells repeatedly — storm, magecraft, or cost-reduction payoffs — turns its self-bounce loop into a win condition with the right setup. It's dead weight in creature-beatdown shells and strictly a combo piece everywhere.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.39 bulk tier
At $0.39, Screeching Drake sits firmly in bulk territory and is unlikely to move — it's a narrow combo enabler with no cross-format demand propping it up. Pick up as many as you need without hesitation; the price ceiling is about the cost of a sleeve.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.