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Screeching Drake

Creature — Drake3 generic manaBlue mana

Looting on a body usually pays for itself twice: once when the creature lands, again when the filtering smooths your draws. This one keeps the bargain modest. The 2/2 flying frame is unremarkable on rate, and the enters-the-battlefield clause is a one-sided loot (draw a card, then discard one) that nets you no extra cards, only a swap. What that buys is a small evasive blocker stapled to a single quality filter, the kind of effect that turns a late-game land into something useful or pitches a creature you would rather reanimate than hardcast. It comes from the era when introductory sets taught new players with stripped-down templating, and the loot trigger here is about as gentle a version of card selection as the mechanic gets: no tempo cost, no graveyard payoff written on the card, just a clean exchange wrapped around a flier. The design carries weight only when the deck around it wants things in the graveyard or wants to dig toward a specific card; on its own it is a serviceable body that replaces nothing it draws.

Screeching Drake (p02)
P02 · #44common
Pricing
Normal: $0.39
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Flying When this creature enters, draw a card, then discard a card.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
N/A
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
Legal
Brawl
N/A
Historic
N/A
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
N/A
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
Legal
Pauper Commander
Legal
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
N/A
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