Card
Ardyn, the Usurper
Mana cost {5}{B}{B}{B}
Legendary Creature — Elder Human Noble 4/4
Demons you control have menace, lifelink, and haste. Starscourge — At the beginning of combat on your turn, exile up to one target creature card from a graveyard. If you exiled a card this way, create a token that's a copy of that card, except it's a 5/5 black Demon.
No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. 4 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Rare · FIN · #89
- Cheapest printing
- €0.97
- EDHREC salt
- 0.24
- Color identity
- Black
- Keywords
- Starscourge
Bracket
- B1 Exhibition — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B2 Core — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B3 Upgraded — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B4 Optimized — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
- B5 cEDH — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
Why
- No Game Changer, mass land denial, extra turn, tutor or two-card combo
How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket
Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags
Combos
No known combos for this card.
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2025-06-06 · Wizards of the Coast
If a card copied by the token had any "when [this permanent] enters" abilities, the token also has those abilities, and they'll trigger when it's created. Similarly, any "as [this permanent] enters" or "[this permanent] enters with" abilities that the token has copied will also work. - 2025-06-06 · Wizards of the Coast
If the copied card has {X} in its mana cost, X is 0. - 2025-06-06 · Wizards of the Coast
Except for the listed exceptions, the token copies exactly what was printed on the original card and nothing else. It doesn't copy any information about the object the card was before it was put into a graveyard. - 2025-06-06 · Wizards of the Coast
The token is a Demon creature instead of its other types and is black instead of its other colors. Its base power and toughness are 5/5. These are copiable values of the token that other effects may copy.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast