Nesting Dragon
Nesting Dragon: Creature - Dragon, Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander. MTG card printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {3}{R}{R}
- Mana value
- 5
- Type
- Creature - Dragon
- Colour identity
- Red (R)
- Power / toughness
- 5/4
- Rarity
- Rare
- Set
- Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC)
- Released
- 2025-04-11
- Collector number
- 225
- Artist
- Jehan Choo
- Commander rank
- 3,569 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
- Keywords
- Landfall, Flying
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About Nesting Dragon
Nesting Dragon is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare red creature from Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC), a Commander product released in April 2025. It is collector number 225 in that set, with art by Jehan Choo. It costs {3}{R}{R} (three generic and two red mana) to cast, for a mana value of 5. It is a 5/4 creature. Its colour identity is red. It is legal in Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander and Oathbreaker. It has been printed in 5 sets, from Treasure Chest (2016) to Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (2025). The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.39 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-02).
Card text
Flying
Landfall - Whenever a land you control enters, create a 0/2 red Dragon Egg creature token with defender and "When this token dies, create a 2/2 red Dragon creature token with flying and '{R}: This token gets +1/+0 until end of turn.'"
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.39 (as of 2026-11-02).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Nesting Dragon by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Legacy | Legal |
|---|---|
| Vintage | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
Other printings of Nesting Dragon
Nesting Dragon has been printed in 5 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander (OTC) #176 | Rare | 2024 |
| Commander Masters (CMM) #245 | Rare | 2023 |
| Commander Masters (CMM) #546 | Rare | 2023 |
| Treasure Chest (PZ2) #70649 | Rare | 2018 |
| Commander 2018 (C18) #24 | Rare | 2018 |
Similar cards
Other creature cards with a red colour identity, ranked by how often they appear in Commander decks.
In these precons
Nesting Dragon is in the decklist of these preconstructed Commander decks.