Tower Drake
Creature — Drake
Flying
: This creature gets +0/+1 until end of turn.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- UW
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Return to Ravnica
- Price
- $0.05
- EDHREC rank
- #30600
Tower Drake is a 2/3 flyer for three mana with a +1/+0 kicker that costs one blue — a passable limited body that never crosses into constructed relevance. There are simply better three-drops in every format that wants a blue flyer.
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 |
Tower Drake has no competitive home in any format. In Commander, a 2/3 flyer for three mana is below the power floor — the format's 99-card redundancy requirement means you only run creatures this vanilla if they do something unique, and Tower Drake does not. Pauper is the closest thing to a natural habitat, where cheap evasive bodies see more play, but even there the card struggles to make cuts over more efficient commons. In Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer, Tower Drake is outclassed before it hits the table.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.05 bulk tier
At $0.05, Tower Drake is deep bulk — the kind of card that fills out a commons box rather than a trade binder. That price is a ceiling, not a floor; demand is essentially zero, so it holds no meaningful value.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.