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Wormfang Drake

Creature — Nightmare Drake

Flying
When this creature enters, sacrifice it unless you exile a creature you control other than this creature.
When this creature leaves the battlefield, return the exiled card to the battlefield under its owner's control.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{2}{U}
Color identity
U
Rarity
common
Set
Dominaria Remastered
Price
$0.09
EDHREC rank
#22527
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Wormfang Drake card art
Wormfang Drake enters, exiles one of your permanents, and gives you a 3/4 flying body — then when it leaves, you get that permanent back. The catch writes itself: you're paying three mana and a temporary resource for a beater that punishes you if it gets removed before you can blink it out, making it a build-around piece rather than a free inclusion. In Abdel Adrian, Gorion's Ward shells and similar flicker engines, that exile clause flips from liability to engine fuel.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern not legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper legal
oathbreaker legal

Wormfang Drake is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, and sees essentially zero competitive play in Legacy or Vintage — a 3/4 flier with a symmetrical-ish drawback doesn't clear the bar where every card needs to win the game or protect the win. Pauper is its most plausible non-Commander home, where a evasive three-drop body is at least on-curve, though the exile trigger still demands either a flicker outlet or something you want to exile temporarily. Commander is where Wormfang Drake actually has a job: flicker and blink decks can abuse the enter-and-leave triggers repeatedly, turning the "drawback" into a repeatable exile-and-return loop.

Key Combos

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Price Context

Current price

$0.09 bulk tier

At $0.09, Wormfang Drake is deep bulk — the price of a card that sees almost no demand outside narrow combo contexts. It holds that floor fine; there's no pressure pushing it up, but there's no reason it drops further either.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.