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Under most circumstances, sending a creature you control back to your hand is a bad thing, making Shrieking Drake an expensive Flying Men. On the other hand, there are many times that sending a creature of your back to your hand can be a very, very, good thing. Start making a list in your mind of all the cards that do neat things when they come into play...Shrieking Drake can allow you to bring them into play a second time. How about negating Shrieking Drake's "shortcoming" by using many creatures that aren't affected by summoning sicknes? Who cares if they just came into play? A type II version of Flying Men is a welcome sight. Working around or with Shrieking Drake isn't too hard, here are a few uses I've found:

• Ball Lightning
  Three red mana almost always translates into 6 damage when playing with the blasted Ball Lightning. Save up one extra blue mana before you unleash Ball Lightning. Put down Ball Lightning and attack with 6 trample damage. Play Shrieking Drake after combat, sending Ball Lightning back to your hand! Opponents don't often block Ball Lightning In my experience. Why bother? It is usually easier to take 6 then take 3 or 4 damage and loose a creature.
• Triskelion
  Triskelion may seem a little expensive, but it is an incredibly versatile weapon. Once Triskelion is out of +1/+1 tokens (you removed all three of those to deal 3 damage however you wish, didn't you?), bring the creature back to your hand simply by playing a Shrieking Drake. Next turn, you could have yourself 3 more tokens to hurl around.
• Tetravus
  Almost just like the above combo, you can remove up to 3 +1/+1 tokens from Tetravus to create three 1/1 flying creatures. Once you've split off the little token creatures, send Tetravus back to your hand by summoning yet another 1/1 flying creature. Play Tetravus again, and repeat as needed.
• Nekrataal
  Nekrataal is pretty spiffy all by himself. To make this electric-turban dude really shine, you need to keep sending him back to your hand. Nekrataal's "reusbale Terror" effect can be the downfall of many a deck. All you need is a cheap way of sending Nekrataal back to your hand. Shrieking Drake may not be reusable in itself, but it is incredibly cheap for a one shot use.
• Spike Everything
  These bizarre green thallid replacements all get +1/+1 tokens when they come into play (some more than others). All Spikes also have the ability to move a +1/+1 token from them to another creautre (perhaps another Spike?). Shrieking Drake is a decent means of replenishing tokens by recasting the Spikes.
• Spitting Hydra
  This red tempest creature is kinda like Triskelion. The Spiiting Hydra gets four +1/+1 tokens when it comes into play, but it cost 1R to remove one, and you can only damage creatures with the damage from removing heads.
• Staunch Defenders
  An easy four life are yours every time you're able to summon these modest creatures.
• Thundermare
  Who hasn't faced one of these nasties by now? Almost always, Thundermare will be able to attack your opponent unscathed for 5 damage the first turn it comes into play and only the first turn it comes into play. Once Thundermare has been in play for a turn, that whole "tap everything else" speal is worthless. Soon your Thundermare will have to face off against Juzam Djinns and Balduvian Hordes. If you send Thundermare back to your hand with a simple Shrieking Drake, you'll be able to have the Thundermare clear a path for itself once again.
• Sol Grail+Animate Artifact (hee hee)
  Every gosh darn time I get out Sol Grail (and I use it often enough), three or four turns later I find I've chosen the wrong stinking color "I knew I should have picked white. I'll never get this Elder Land Wurm into play..." I have dared to waste space in a deck to put in Animate Artifact for the purpose of making my Sol Grail a 3/3 creature, just so I can send it back to my hand---allowing me to pick the proper color of mana I wish it to produce. Maybe it was my childhood?

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