Gilded Drake

Gilded Drake

Creature — Drake

Mana cost: {1}{U}

How we read this card

Flying
When this creature enters, exchange control of this creature and up to one target creature an opponent controls. If you don't or can't make an exchange, sacrifice this creature. This ability still resolves if its target becomes illegal.

triggered —

triggered —

Causes: exchange creature , sacrifice a creature, a creature dies.

Cares about: nothing.

Works well with

a nontoken creature is sacrificed — 1,714 cards in the game can cause this (Gilded Drake is one).

When you sacrifice Gilded Drake:

  1. Fumulus, the Infestation — makes a token
  2. Bag of Devouring — exiles it

a creature is sacrificed — 1,741 cards in the game can cause this (Gilded Drake is one).

When you sacrifice Gilded Drake:

  1. Ziatora, the Incinerator — deals that creature's power damage
  2. Dina, Essence Brewer — draws you 1 card
  3. Fleshtaker — gains you 1 life
  4. Body Dropper — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  5. Smothering Abomination — draws you 1 card
  6. Kels, Fight Fixer — draws you 1 card
  7. Caesar, Legion's Emperor — triggers
  8. Grist, the Hunger Tide — kills a creature or planeswalker an opponent controls
  9. Cabal Therapist — triggers
  10. Rakdos, the Muscle — exiles a card from an opponent's library

19 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a creature in a graveyard — 2,769 cards in the game can cause this (Gilded Drake is one).

When Gilded Drake is in the graveyard:

  1. Chainer, Dementia Master — can bring it back
  2. Havengul Lich — can bring it back
  3. Liliana the Repentant — can bring it back
  4. Paleoloth — can bring it back
  5. Chainer, Nightmare Adept — can bring it back
  6. Banon, the Returners' Leader — can bring it back
  7. Surgical Suite // Hospital Room — can bring it back
  8. Sword of Light and Shadow — can bring it back
  9. Necromantic Thirst — can bring it back
  10. Krile Baldesion — can bring it back

799 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a nontoken creature dies — 2,769 cards in the game can cause this (Gilded Drake is one).

When Gilded Drake dies:

  1. Zahur, Glory's Past — makes a token
  2. Liesa, Forgotten Archangel — brings a card back
  3. Avacyn, Angel of Horror — brings a card back
  4. Yedora, Grave Gardener — brings a card back
  5. Nim Deathmantle — brings a card back
  6. Valkyrie's Call — brings a card back
  7. Decaying Soil — brings a card back
  8. High-Society Hunter — draws you 1 card
  9. Liliana, Heretical Healer // Liliana, Defiant Necromancer — flickers itself
  10. Body Launderer — draws and discards

60 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a creature dies — 2,830 cards in the game can cause this (Gilded Drake is one).

When Gilded Drake dies:

  1. Pious Evangel // Wayward Disciple — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  2. Daxos, Blessed by the Sun — gains you 1 life
  3. Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  4. Shriveling Rot — makes a player lose life equal to its toughness
  5. Meathook Massacre II — brings a card back
  6. Ashnod's Intervention — brings a card back
  7. Missy — brings a card back
  8. Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire — brings a card back
  9. Saffi Eriksdotter — sacrifices itself
  10. Angelic Renewal — sacrifices itself

451 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a creature leaves the battlefield — 4,238 cards in the game can cause this (Gilded Drake is one).

  1. Ninja Teen — When Gilded Drake leaves the battlefield, Ninja Teen makes each opponent lose 1 life

34 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a card in a graveyard — 7,589 cards in the game can cause this (Gilded Drake is one).

  1. Havi, the All-Father — Gilded Drake fills your graveyard toward the 4 or more cards Havi, the All-Father needs
  2. Repentant Vampire — Gilded Drake fills your graveyard toward the 7 or more cards Repentant Vampire needs
  3. Treacherous Vampire — Gilded Drake fills your graveyard toward the 7 or more cards Treacherous Vampire needs
  4. Athreos, Shroud-Veiled — When Gilded Drake is in the graveyard, Athreos, Shroud-Veiled can bring it back

440 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

anything attacks — 17,934 cards in the game can cause this (Gilded Drake is one).

When Gilded Drake attacks:

  1. Shaun, Father of Synths — makes a token
  2. Grim Javelineer — gives +1/+0
  3. Clavileño, First of the Blessed — turns something into a creature

146 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a creature attacks — 17,934 cards in the game can cause this (Gilded Drake is one).

  1. Chorale of the Void — When Gilded Drake attacks, Chorale of the Void brings a card back

219 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a creature is cast — 18,010 cards in the game can cause this (Gilded Drake is one).

  1. Quirion Beastcaller — When Gilded Drake is cast, Quirion Beastcaller puts a +1/+1 counter on itself

90 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a creature enters the battlefield — 19,800 cards in the game can cause this (Gilded Drake is one).

When Gilded Drake enters:

  1. Boss's Chauffeur — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  2. Dinosaur Egg — puts a counter on itself

445 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.