Ramos, Dragon Engine
Ramos, Dragon Engine: Legendary Artifact Creature - Dragon, Commander 2017. MTG card printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {6}
- Mana value
- 6
- Type
- Legendary Artifact Creature - Dragon
- Colour identity
- White, blue, black, red and green (WUBRG)
- Power / toughness
- 4/4
- Rarity
- Mythic
- Set
- Commander 2017 (C17)
- Released
- 2017-08-25
- Collector number
- 55
- Artist
- Joseph Meehan
- Keywords
- Flying
- Commander
- Can be your commander
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About Ramos, Dragon Engine
Ramos, Dragon Engine is a Magic: The Gathering card, a mythic rare white, blue, black, red and green legendary artifact creature from Commander 2017 (C17), a Commander product released in August 2017. It is collector number 55 in that set, with art by Joseph Meehan. It costs {6} (six generic mana) to cast, for a mana value of 6. It is a 4/4 creature. Its colour identity is white, blue, black, red and green. It is legal in Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, Brawl, Standard Brawl, Historic, Timeless, Alchemy, Gladiator and Penny Dreadful. It has been printed in 7 sets, from Treasure Chest (2016) to Foundations (2024). It can be your commander. The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $2.30 (foil finish, as of 2026-10-23).
Card text
Flying
Whenever you cast a spell, put a +1/+1 counter on Ramos for each of that spell's colors.
Remove five +1/+1 counters from Ramos: Add {W}{W}{U}{U}{B}{B}{R}{R}{G}{G}. Activate only once each turn.
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the foil finish of this printing: $2.30 (as of 2026-10-23).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Ramos, Dragon Engine by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Standard | Legal |
|---|---|
| Pioneer | Legal |
| Modern | Legal |
| Legacy | Legal |
| Vintage | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| Brawl | Legal |
| Standard Brawl | Legal |
| Historic | Legal |
| Timeless | Legal |
| Alchemy | Legal |
| Gladiator | Legal |
| Penny Dreadful | Legal |
Other printings of Ramos, Dragon Engine
Ramos, Dragon Engine has been printed in 7 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| The List (PLST) #C17-55 | Mythic | 2026 |
| Foundations (FDN) #678 | Mythic | 2024 |
| The Brothers' War Retro Artifacts (BRR) #110 | Mythic | 2022 |
| The Brothers' War Retro Artifacts (BRR) #110z | Mythic | 2022 |
| The Brothers' War Retro Artifacts (BRR) #47 | Mythic | 2022 |
| Magic Online Promos (PRM) #86212 | Mythic | 2020 |
| Commander Legends (CMR) #545 | Mythic | 2020 |
| Treasure Chest (PZ2) #65749 | Mythic | 2017 |
Official rulings
Four official rulings apply to Ramos, Dragon Engine, newest first.
- Ramos's triggered ability doesn't trigger until you've finished casting a spell, including paying all of its costs. If Ramos has fewer than five +1/+1 counters on it, there's no way to add counters with a spell and pay for that spell with the newly-added counters.
- If you cast a colorless spell, Ramos's triggered ability triggers, but it won't get any +1/+1 counters.
- Ramos's triggered ability resolves before the spell that caused it to trigger. The ability will resolve even if that spell is countered or otherwise leaves the stack without resolving. In that case, use its last known information to determine what colors it was.
- Ramos's triggered ability counts the number of colors a spell has (from zero to five), not how many colored mana symbols are there in its mana cost or how many colors of mana you spent.
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