Drake

Drakes are similar to dragons but smaller and less powerful. Their minds are also more similar to that of an animal than that of true dragons, and they are more often aligned with blue than any other color, although drakes of all other colors do exist. It is often thought that drakes were descendants of the losers of the Elder Dragon Wars, like the wurms, but this is not true, for their ancestry can also be traced to the surviving Elder Dragons.

Officially the difference between drakes and dragons is that dragons have wings in addition to their limbs, while drakes have one set of their limbs replaced by their wings, like birds or bats. Although that reasoning is true for most of Magic’s drakes and dragons there are a few exceptions such as Wind Drake and Dromar, the Banisher. No explanation for this has been given.

Drakes have been seen on Dominaria (especially on Tolaria, the Burning Isles and Jamuraa), Rath, Mirrodin and Ravnica.

Notable Types of Drakes

Azure Drakes

An Azure Drake attacked and was killed by Caliphear the Nightmare and his attendants in the Great Salt Marshes of Western Golthonor. Hakim Loreweaver had tamed one of these drakes and used it a pet and a means of traveling.

Ravnican Drakes

These drakes live among the spires of the vast city of Ravnica. They are used by the Dimir and Izzet guilds. Leafdrakes are an enhanced form of drake created by the Simic.

Spiketail Drakes

These Jamuraan drakes had the ability to nullify magic.

Teferi's Drakes

Created by Teferi while he was studying in the Tolarian Academy, they were used by Barrin in the defense of the University against Kerrick's forces. They had the irritating habit of disappearing into the timestream moments after being summoned.