Whirlpool Drake
Creature — Drake
Flying
When this creature enters, shuffle the cards from your hand into your library, then draw that many cards.
When this creature dies, shuffle the cards from your hand into your library, then draw that many cards.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- The List
- Price
- $0.13
- EDHREC rank
- #16155
Whirlpool Drake enters, draws you a card, and refills your hand by shuffling the rest back into your library — a punishing reset for decks that want to redraw their entire hand repeatedly. The cost is real: you're giving up your current hand to do it, so it belongs in decks built to profit from that, not as a generic draw spell. Alandra, Sky Dreamer is the canonical home, where each redraw triggers a token and the card pays for itself immediately.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Alandra, Sky Dreamer
Whirlpool Drake's bounce-and-redraw hits Alandra, Sky Dreamer's trigger every time you cast it, producing a 2/2 Drake token while resetting your hand — and in a deck built around drawing multiples in a turn, you're routinely setting up three or four triggers off a single play.
The Locust God
Every card Whirlpool Drake draws is an insect off The Locust God, and a full hand reset can translate directly into a board full of 1/1 fliers if your new hand is deep enough — it's lower inclusion than Alandra because The Locust God has more competitive draw options, but the payoff is real.
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 |
Whirlpool Drake is a Commander card through and through — the effect is too slow and too symmetry-hostile for Legacy or Vintage, where it's technically legal but never played. In Commander, it earns its slot specifically in Izzet spellslinger and draw-matters shells where bouncing your hand is a feature, not a drawback. Outside of those archetypes, a four-mana 2/2 that replaces itself once is below rate for the format. Oathbreaker follows the same logic: niche-playable in the right shell, irrelevant elsewhere.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.13 bulk tier
At $0.13, Whirlpool Drake is pure bulk — pick it up without a second thought if you're building Alandra, Sky Dreamer or The Locust God. Bulk rares with narrow homes rarely move on price, so expect it to stay in this range indefinitely.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.