Soaring Drake
Creature — Drake
Flying
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Dominaria United
- Price
- $0.06
- EDHREC rank
- #27927
Soaring Drake is a 2/3 flyer for four mana with a drawback that returns it to your hand whenever you cast a creature spell — which is a cost, not a feature, unless you're deliberately abusing enter-the-battlefield triggers or need a repeatable bounce target. Outside of niche exploit strategies, a vanilla-adjacent 2/3 in the air for four is below the curve in every format that matters.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Soaring Drake sees essentially no competitive play in any format it's legal in. In Commander, a 2/3 flyer for four that bounces itself on creature casts actively fights against the tempo you need in a 100-card singleton environment — there are dozens of more efficient blue flyers at this slot. Pauper is the one format where Soaring Drake theoretically fits on a budget curve, but even there the self-bounce is a liability rather than a selling point without dedicated loop support. Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, and Vintage don't give it a second look.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.06 bulk tier
At $0.06, Soaring Drake is deep bulk — the kind of card that ends up in a collection binder and never gets pulled out. That price reflects its playability ceiling accurately, and there's no pressure driving it upward.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.