MagicTheGathering.fyi

Shrieking Drake

Creature — Drake

Flying
When this creature enters, return a creature you control to its owner's hand.

CMC
1
Mana cost
{U}
Color identity
U
Rarity
common
Set
Media and Collaboration Promos
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#4488
Buy on TCGplayer
Shrieking Drake card art
Shrieking Drake is a one-mana bounce-your-own-creature loop piece that does nothing by itself and everything in the right shell. Pair it with Intruder Alarm or Lonis, Cryptozoologist and a free-cast engine, and a single blue mana becomes infinite enters-the-battlefield triggers.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Lonis, Cryptozoologist

Lonis, Cryptozoologist

70.1% of decks · synergy 0.68

Lonis, Cryptozoologist turns every creature cast into a Clue token, so Shrieking Drake bouncing and recasting itself converts one blue mana into arbitrarily many tokens — and then into whatever those tokens crack into.

02
Chulane, Teller of Tales

Chulane, Teller of Tales

55.0% of decks · synergy 0.51

Chulane, Teller of Tales draws a card and puts a land into play whenever a creature enters, so Shrieking Drake looping itself becomes infinite landfall, infinite draws, and effectively infinite mana.

03
Clement, the Worrywort

Clement, the Worrywort

32.6% of decks · synergy 0.30

Clement, the Worrywort cares about creatures entering and leaving, and Shrieking Drake provides the cleanest self-contained loop to stack those triggers without needing a second creature on the field.

04
Geralf, the Fleshwright

Geralf, the Fleshwright

23.3% of decks · synergy 0.22

Geralf, the Fleshwright generates tokens on creature casts, so Shrieking Drake's self-bounce loop hands Geralf an infinite stream of tokens off a single blue mana source.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Commander is where Shrieking Drake actually lives — it's nearly irrelevant as a 1/1 flier but becomes a centerpiece in any deck that rewards repeated creature casts or enters-the-battlefield triggers. In Pauper it's legal and has seen fringe play in bounce-heavy tempo shells, though the format doesn't reliably support the combo payoffs that make it broken in EDH. Legacy and Vintage allow it, but a 1/1 that requires setup is far too slow for those formats' threat density. The card is unplayable in Standard and Pioneer, which is irrelevant — no one is casting Shrieking Drake there anyway.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

6,028 decks
Intruder AlarmShrieking Drake

Intruder AlarmShrieking Drake

Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite mana creatures you control can produce; Infinite storm count; Infinite untap of creatures; Infinite untap of creatures you control

View on Commander Spellbook ↗

Price Context

Current price

unknown tier

Pricing data isn't currently available for Shrieking Drake, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the latest. Historically it's been a bulk rare to low-uncommon — the kind of card that spikes briefly when a new Simic commander drops and then settles back down.

Explore

Sources

Mentioned

← All cards

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