Urborg Drake
Creature — Drake
Flying
This creature attacks each combat if able.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BU
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Battlebond
- Price
- $0.12
- EDHREC rank
- #30533
Urborg Drake is a 2/3 flyer for three mana with a drawback that kills it if you don't attack each turn — passable stats, punishing condition. Unless you're specifically building around sacrifice or graveyard recursion, there are cleaner flying bodies at this cost.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Urborg Drake sees essentially no competitive play in any format where it's legal. In Commander, a 2/3 flyer with a forced-attack clause is too fragile to serve as a reliable threat and too slow to matter as a sacrifice fodder piece when better options exist at the same price point. In Pauper, where the card is technically legal, the aggro and tempo decks that want cheap evasive creatures demand more consistency than Urborg Drake's drawback allows. Legacy and Vintage don't give it a second look.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.12 bulk tier
At $0.12, Urborg Drake is deep bulk — you're paying for the cardboard, not the card. Demand is low enough that this price is effectively a floor with no realistic upward pressure.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.