Dusk Legion Sergeant
- Mana cost
- {1}{B}
- Type
- Creature — Vampire Soldier
- Power / toughness
- 2 / 2
- Set
- The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander #48 (rare)
- Price
- $0.43 USD
Menace
{1}{B}, Sacrifice this creature: Each nontoken Vampire creature you control gains persist until end of turn. (When it dies, if it had no -1/-1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a -1/-1 counter on it.)
Dusk Legion Sergeant has 2 printings, first in The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander (2023). EDHREC ranks it #7,892 among Commander cards. It appears most in Clavileño, First of the Blessed decks (6,858 on EDHREC). 1 public deck on TCG runs it. It has 4 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: not legal
- pioneer: not legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: not legal
Public decks that run Dusk Legion Sergeant
- Blood Rites - The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander, led by Clavileño, First of the Blessed
Commanders that run Dusk Legion Sergeant most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Clavileño, First of the Blessed: 6,858 decks
- Evelyn, the Covetous: 1,123 decks
- Carmen, Cruel Skymarcher: 757 decks
- Edgar, Charmed Groom // Edgar Markov's Coffin: 228 decks
- Drana, Liberator of Malakir: 137 decks
- Timothar, Baron of Bats: 119 decks
- Kalitas, Bloodchief of Ghet: 12 decks
- Elenda, the Dusk Rose
Often played with Dusk Legion Sergeant
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : Once persist returns the creature, it's considered a new object with no relation to the object that it was. Auras that were attached to it won't return to the battlefield. Equipment that was attached to it will remain unattached. Any counters that were on it won't be put on the new creature.
- : If a creature with persist that has +1/+1 counters on it receives enough -1/-1 counters to cause it to be destroyed by lethal damage or put into its owner's graveyard for having 0 or less toughness, persist won't trigger and the card won't return to the battlefield. That's because persist checks the creature as it last existed on the battlefield, and it still had -1/-1 counters on it at that point.
- : If a card with persist is removed from the graveyard after it dies but before the ability trigger resolves, it won't be returned to the battlefield.
- : If a creature has +1/+1 counters and -1/-1 counters on it, state-based actions remove the same number of each so that it has only one kind of those counters on it. A creature's persist ability can bring it back again if its -1/-1 counters are removed this way.