Thunderclap Drake
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
Flying
Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost 1 less to cast.
2, Sacrifice this creature: When you next cast an instant or sorcery spell this turn, copy it for each time you've cast your commander from the command zone this game. You may choose new targets for the copies.
Combos with Thunderclap Drake
The lines this card is part of, what it needs alongside it, and what the cards do together. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.
- Biovisionary Rite of Replication Infinite
- Win the game
- Blazing Firesinger // Seething Song Emiel the Blessed Infinite
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite magecraft triggers
- Infinite storm count
- Orvar, the All-Form View from Above Infinite
- Infinite artifact ETB
- Infinite storm count
- Infinite magecraft triggers
- Infinite landfall triggers
- Infinite tapped Island tokens
- Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker Blazing Firesinger // Seething Song Hematite Talisman Infinite
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature tokens with haste
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite magecraft triggers
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite storm count
- Haakon, Stromgald Scourge Morophon, the Boundless Nameless Inversion Infinite
- Reduce the toughness of creatures opponents control to 0
- Reduce the toughness of each creature opponents control to 0 upon entering
Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.
Rulings
9 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 2024-04-12
The copies made by Thunderclap Drake's delayed triggered ability are created on the stack, so they're not "cast."
- 2024-04-12
If a spell that's copied has an X whose value was determined as it was cast, the copies will have the same value of X.
- 2024-04-12
If the spell that's copied divides damage or distributes counters among a number of targets, the division and number of targets can't be changed.
- 2024-04-12
You can't choose to pay any additional costs for the copies. However, effects based on any additional costs that were paid for the original spell are copied as though those same costs were paid for the copies too.
- 2024-04-12
If you have multiple commanders, you'll copy the next instant or sorcery spell you cast this turn for each time you've cast either of them. For example, if you've cast one commander once and one twice, you'll copy that spell three times.
- 2024-04-12
Thunderclap Drake's second ability can't reduce the amount of colored mana you pay for a spell. It reduces only the generic mana component of that spell's cost.
- 2024-04-12
Thunderclap Drake's second ability doesn't change the mana cost or mana value of any spell. It changes only the total cost you pay to cast instant and sorcery spells.
- 2024-04-12
If the spell that's copied is modal (that is, it says "Choose one —" or the like), the copies will have the same mode or modes. You can't choose different ones.
- 2024-04-12
The last sentence of Thunderclap Drake's rules text was inadvertently omitted from the card. Its Oracle text has been updated to include that sentence.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Thunderclap Drake, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Raffine, Scheming Seer | 1 | 0 | — |
| Rootha, Mastering the Moment | 1 | 0 | — |
| Sanar, Unfinished Genius | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Izzet 2 decks
- Esper 1 deck
Every version of Thunderclap Drake
3 printings, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly. A printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall publishes none for some of them.
Secrets of Strixhaven Commander
- Normal
- $0.53
Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander
- Normal
- $4.69
Extended Art
Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander
- Normal
- $3.00
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Thunderclap Drake. It runs a name search across every version, which covers the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.
Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only. No individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.
