Viashivan Dragon
Creature — Dragon
Flying
: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.
: This creature gets +0/+1 until end of turn.
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- GR
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Visions
- Price
- $1.13
- EDHREC rank
- #29267
Viashivan Dragon is a 5/5 flying, trample dragon for six mana that can pump its own power and toughness at instant speed — a legitimate combat threat that can grow to close out games. The cost is the mana intensity: activating the pump repeatedly drains your green and red, making it a mid-range threat rather than a late-game bomb.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Viashivan Dragon occupies an honest but unremarkable role — dragon tribal lists running Ur-Dragon or Tiamat will almost always find a better six-drop, but budget builds that want a self-sufficient beater have worse options. Legacy and Vintage are legal but irrelevant; no competitive shell at those power levels is reaching for a six-mana vanilla-adjacent creature. Oathbreaker follows the same logic as Commander: playable, never optimal. Viashivan Dragon is a casual Commander card through and through, and there's nothing wrong with that.
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Price Context
Current price
$1.13 cheap tier
At $1.13, Viashivan Dragon sits firmly in the budget tier — easy to pick up without a second thought. It's a niche casual inclusion, so the price is unlikely to move in either direction; buy it if you want it, but don't expect scarcity to ever be a concern.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.