Shimmerscale Drake
The List AKH-70 • common
- Set
- The List
- Collector number
- AKH-70
- Rarity
- Common
- Mana cost
- 4 generic mana blue mana
- Type
- Creature
- Colors
- Blue
- Artist
- Tony Foti
- Market price
- $0.24
What it does
Flying
Cycling 2 generic mana (2 generic mana, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
They are drawn by the brilliant blue glint of the mineral lazotep from the mines below.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerLegal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperLegal
- BrawlLegal
- HistoricLegal
- TimelessLegal
- Penny DreadfulNot legal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
The Shimmerscale Drake was originally printed in the 2017 Magic: The Gathering set Amonkhet, a block deeply inspired by ancient Egyptian mythology and themes of trial, preservation, and death. It was designed to function as a common-rarity creature within the game's Limited environment, specifically intended to provide blue decks with an efficient, evasive aerial threat that synergized with the set's mechanics involving card cycling and graveyard interaction.
The artwork was commissioned from illustrator Tony Foti, who aimed to capture the iridescent, crystalline nature of the creature to reflect the magical constructs prevalent in the Amonkhet plane. While the card became a staple of early Amonkhet draft environments, it was later featured in The List, a curated selection of reprints integrated into set boosters, which serves to introduce players to cards from throughout the game's long history and maintain availability for various formats.
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