First printed in Final Fantasy Commander (2025)
Enchantment Creature — Saga Drake
(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after IV.)
I — Exile an instant or sorcery card from each graveyard.
II, III, IV — Add 
for each lore counter on this Saga. You may cast an instant or sorcery card exiled with this Saga, and mana of any type can be spent to cast that spell.
Flying, haste
3/3
- Illustrated by
- Fiona Hsieh
Legality
- Legal in
- Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker
- Not legal in
- Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Pauper, Future Standard, Historic, Timeless, Alchemy, Penny Dreadful, Premodern, Old School 93/94, Gladiator, Pauper Commander, PreDH, Tiny Leaders, Brawl, Standard Brawl, Competitive Brawl
Rulings (11)
- Removing lore counters won't cause a previous chapter ability to trigger. If lore counters are removed from a Saga, the appropriate chapter abilities will trigger again when the Saga receives more lore counters.
- Each symbol on the left of a Saga's text box represents a chapter ability. A chapter ability is a triggered ability that triggers when a lore counter that is put on the Saga causes the number of lore counters on the Saga to become equal to or greater than the ability's chapter number. Chapter abilities are put onto the stack and may be responded to.
- A chapter ability doesn't trigger if a lore counter is put on a Saga that already had a number of lore counters greater than or equal to that chapter's number. For example, the third lore counter put on a Saga causes the chapter III ability to trigger, but chapters I and II won't trigger again.
- Once a chapter ability has triggered, the ability on the stack won't be affected if the Saga gains or loses counters, or if it leaves the battlefield.
- As a Saga enters, its controller puts a lore counter on it. As your first main phase begins (immediately after your draw step), you put another lore counter on each Saga you control. Putting a lore counter on a Saga in either of these ways doesn't use the stack.
- If multiple chapter abilities trigger at the same time, their controller puts them on the stack in any order. If any of them require targets, those targets are chosen as you put the abilities on the stack, before any of those abilities resolve.
- Once the number of lore counters on a Saga is greater than or equal to the greatest number among its chapter abilities, the Saga's controller sacrifices it as soon as its chapter ability has left the stack, most likely by resolving or being countered. This state-based action doesn't use the stack.
- Summon: Esper Valigarmanda's second, third, and fourth chapter abilities aren't mana abilities. They use the stack and can be responded to.
- Saga creatures have two sections to their text boxes. The first section, above the type line, contains their chapter abilities, and the second section, below the type line, contains any other abilities (or italicized flavor text). Any abilities in the latter section aren't chapter abilities and apply no matter how many lore counters are on the creature.
- You cast the spell while the ability is resolving and still on the stack. You can't wait to cast it later in the turn.
- Due to a rules change that takes effect with this release (see below for details), a Saga that somehow loses all of its chapter abilities will not be sacrificed as a state-based action. It will also not gain a lore counter at the beginning of each of its controller's first main phases.
Prices
MTGO price: 2.53 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 31 Oct 2026).
Combos
20 combos, the most popular first:
- Cast all instants and sorceries from opponents' graveyards infinite times, Infinite creature ETB…: Clash of the Eikons + Summon: Esper Valigarmanda + Terra, Magical Adept // Esper Terra
- Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB…: Replenish + Resourceful Defense + Summon: Esper Valigarmanda (+ 1 other requirement)
- Infinite colored mana, Infinite colorless mana…: Clockspinning + Magnus the Red + Mycosynth Lattice + Summon: Esper Valigarmanda
- Infinite colored mana, Infinite colorless mana…: Clockspinning + Heliod, the Radiant Dawn // Heliod, the Warped Eclipse + Mycosynth Lattice + Summon: Esper Valigarmanda
- Infinite card draw, Infinite colored mana…: Chromatic Orrery + Clockspinning + Heliod, the Radiant Dawn // Heliod, the Warped Eclipse + Summon: Esper Valigarmanda
- Infinite card draw, Infinite colored mana…: Chromatic Orrery + Clockspinning + Summon: Esper Valigarmanda + Will, Scion of Peace
- Infinite colored mana, Infinite colorless mana…: Clockspinning + Mycosynth Lattice + Summon: Esper Valigarmanda + Will, Scion of Peace
- Infinite colored mana, Infinite colorless mana…: Clockspinning + Mycosynth Lattice + Summon: Esper Valigarmanda + Temur Battlecrier
- Infinite colored mana, Infinite colorless mana…: Clockspinning + Mycosynth Lattice + Samut, the Driving Force + Summon: Esper Valigarmanda
- Infinite colored mana, Infinite colorless mana…: Clockspinning + Mycosynth Lattice + Summon: Esper Valigarmanda + Vadrik, Astral Archmage
