Ardyn, the Usurper
- Mana cost
- {5}{B}{B}{B}
- Type
- Legendary Creature — Elder Human Noble
- Power / toughness
- 4 / 4
- Set
- Final Fantasy #379 (rare)
- Price
- $2.67 USD
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.
Ardyn, the Usurper has 6 printings, first in Final Fantasy (2025). EDHREC ranks it #3,236 among Commander cards. It appears most in Be'lakor, the Dark Master decks (5,197 on EDHREC). It has 4 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run Ardyn, the Usurper most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Be'lakor, the Dark Master: 5,197 decks
- Baron Helmut Zemo: 1,489 decks
- Jace, Multiverse Architect: 1,156 decks
- Gyruda, Doom of Depths: 1,144 decks
- Emet-Selch, Unsundered // Hades, Sorcerer of Eld: 1,072 decks
- Raphael, Fiendish Savior: 935 decks
- Superior Spider-Man: 480 decks
- Tasha, the Witch Queen: 455 decks
Often played with Ardyn, the Usurper
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : 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.
- : If the copied card has {X} in its mana cost, X is 0.
- : 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.
- : 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.