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Stormchaser Drake

Creature — Drake1 generic manaBlue mana

Most card-draw triggers cost you a card to draw a card; this one converts your cheap interaction into cantrips by aiming it at itself. The trigger fires on any spell you control that targets the Drake, which rewrites how you value your one- and two-mana spells: a combat trick becomes a pumped attacker plus a fresh card, a bounce spell resets your own creature and refills, and a protective spell cast in response to removal replaces itself on the way out. The engine only pays out while the Drake is alive to be targeted, and the 2/1 body supplies the friction: it dies to almost anything, so the whole payoff front-loads around keeping it on the battlefield long enough to point spells at it. This is the self-targeting reward structure that makes Curious Obsession or a well-placed aura feel like a two-for-one, except the reward lives on the creature rather than the enchantment, so you are not committing a whole card to the engine, just choosing where your existing spells land. What lifts it past a generic evasive flier is the deckbuilding contract it offers: stock your hand with cheap, targeted, low-opportunity-cost spells, and the Drake turns tempo plays into card advantage without asking you to deviate from the game you were already playing.

Stormchaser Drake (dbl)
DBL · #349uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.33
Foil: $3.44
Oracle Text

Rules text

Flying Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell you control, draw a card.
Legalities

Format Status

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

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