Snapping Drake
Portal 67 • common
- Set
- Portal
- Collector number
- 67
- Rarity
- Common
- Mana cost
- 3 generic mana blue mana
- Type
- Creature
- Colors
- Blue
- Artist
- Christopher Rush
- Market price
- $0.18
What it does
Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)
Drakes claim to be dragons—until the dragons show up.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerLegal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperLegal
- BrawlLegal
- HistoricLegal
- TimelessLegal
- Penny DreadfulLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Released in 1997 as part of the Portal introductory set for Magic: The Gathering, Snapping Drake was designed to serve as a streamlined tool for teaching new players the fundamentals of the game. Wizards of the Coast developed the Portal line to lower the barrier to entry, simplifying complex rules and focusing on straightforward creature combat to demystify a system that had become increasingly layered over its first few years of existence.
The card features an illustration by Mark Poole, a staple artist during the early years of the game. Poole utilized his signature fantasy aesthetic to depict the creature as an agile, winged predator, aligning with the set's goal of using clear, thematic imagery to explain game mechanics. While the set was intended as an educational tool rather than a competitive standard, Snapping Drake became a recognizable example of the blue-aligned flying creatures that define the game's creature archetypes.
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