Stitched Drake
Creature — Zombie Drake
As an additional cost to cast this spell, exile a creature card from your graveyard.
Flying
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- The List
- Price
- $0.09
- EDHREC rank
- #25484
Stitched Drake is a 3/4 flier for three mana — above-rate stats — but it asks you to exile a creature card from your graveyard as an additional cost. In graveyard-matters decks that want to fuel the bin and occasionally cash out fodder for a threat, that cost is a feature; everywhere else, it's a tax that makes this a cut.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Stitched Drake is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker. In Commander it slots narrowly into self-mill and reanimator builds where the graveyard exile cost is incidental — think Millicent or The Scarab God strategies that generate expendable creature cards as a byproduct. Pauper is its most relevant competitive home, where a 3/4 flier at common pricing is a real rate and graveyard synergy is a genuine archetype. In Legacy, Modern, or Vintage, Stitched Drake is simply outclassed — those formats have faster, unconditional threats that don't require a graveyard setup.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.09 bulk tier
At $0.09, Stitched Drake is deep bulk — you're picking this out of a dollar box, not tracking it on a buylist. The price will stay flat; there's no cross-format demand to push it anywhere.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.