Uktabi Drake
Creature — Drake
Flying, haste
Echo 
(At the beginning of your upkeep, if this came under your control since the beginning of your last upkeep, sacrifice it unless you pay its echo cost.)
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Time Spiral Remastered
- Price
- $0.09
- EDHREC rank
- #25001
Uktabi Drake enters as a 3/2 flier with haste — immediate air pressure for two mana — but the echo cost means you pay another two next upkeep or sacrifice it. That trade-off is the whole card: a one-turn ambush flier that punishes you for keeping it around.
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 |
In Commander, Uktabi Drake fills a narrow role in echo-matters or sacrifice-value shells — commanders like Asmara, Who Tends the Fires or Korvold, Fae-Cursed King that want creatures entering and leaving the battlefield on a schedule. In Pauper, a 3/2 haste flier for two is genuinely playable in tempo or aggressive green strategies that don't mind the echo since the game is often decided before it triggers. Legacy and Vintage have no interest — the ceiling on a vanilla-statline echo creature is too low when those formats have access to far more broken two-drops. Uktabi Drake is a card that rewards building around it rather than slotting in generically.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.09 bulk tier
At $0.09, Uktabi Drake is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard and shipping, not the card itself. Price won't move unless a Commander precon or high-profile brew puts echo synergies in the spotlight, which isn't on the horizon.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.