Scavenger Drake
Shards of Alara 85 • uncommon
- Set
- Shards of Alara
- Collector number
- 85
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Mana cost
- 3 generic mana black mana
- Type
- Creature
- Colors
- Black
- Artist
- Trevor Claxton
- Market price
- $0.18
What it does
Flying
Whenever another creature dies, you may put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
Dragons consider drakes to be mockeries of their perfection, destroying them on sight.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Scavenger Drake was released in 2008 as part of the Shards of Alara expansion for Magic: The Gathering. The set introduced the concept of the Alara multiverses, which were fractured into five distinct shards, each lacking two colors of mana. This card belongs to the Grixis shard, a nightmarish landscape defined by black, blue, and red mana, where life is sustained through the harvesting of death and decay.
The card’s illustration was created by artist Jesper Ejsing. His design emphasizes the scavengery theme of the Grixis environment, featuring a skeletal, necrotic draconic figure that embodies the set's graveyard-centric mechanics. Upon its release, the card was recognized for its utility in limited play formats, where its ability to grow stronger as creatures perish served as a functional representation of Grixis's philosophy of survival through attrition.
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