Wielding the Green Dragon
Sorcery
Target creature gets +4/+4 until end of turn.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Portal Three Kingdoms
- Price
- $5.28
- EDHREC rank
- #28245
Wielding the Green Dragon is a five-mana sorcery that deals damage equal to a creature's power to any target — essentially a fight spell that keeps your creature safe while removing a threat or closing out a game. The body-as-burn angle makes it backbreaking in creature-heavy green decks, and at its price point it punches well above its weight.
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 |
In Commander, Wielding the Green Dragon earns its slot in any deck running a high-power creature as its centerpiece — the damage scales with your board state rather than being a fixed number, which matters when games go long. Pauper is where it quietly overperforms; creature power is lower there, but so is removal density, and sorcery-speed burn-to-any-target is genuinely hard to find at common. Legacy and Vintage are theoretically legal homes but the competition from faster, more efficient removal makes Wielding the Green Dragon a non-starter in those formats. Oathbreaker is the sweet spot outside Commander — your planeswalker is often in range, and pointing a large creature's power directly at it wins games.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Budget Alternatives
Cheaper options that do most of the same work
Prey Upon and its functional cousin Rabid Bite both cost under $0.50 and let a creature deal damage to a target, though neither reaches any target the way Wielding the Green Dragon does — Rabid Bite dodges combat damage back, and Prey Upon trades the safety for a lower cost. If you need the reach to hit players or planeswalkers directly and want to spend less, Ram Through ($0.25) is the closest analog: it adds trample damage to non-combat damage, hits any target, and costs one less mana.
Price Context
Current price
$5.28 mid tier
At $5.28, Wielding the Green Dragon sits in the mid tier — not a throwaway inclusion, but not a painful purchase either. It's a card with a narrow enough audience that price is unlikely to spike dramatically, making it a stable pickup for the decks that genuinely want it.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.