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Ardyn, the Usurper

Legendary Creature — Elder Human Noble MV 8

Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.

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What it doesRulingsAs a commanderIn the 99Every version

What it does

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.

Rulings

4 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 2025-06-06

    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

    If the copied card has X in its mana cost, X is 0.

  • 2025-06-06

    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

    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 are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.

As a commander

Decks built with Ardyn, the Usurper in the command zone.

Decks led 1
Games played 0
Wins 0
Win rate — Fewer than 5 completed games — not enough to publish a rate yet.

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Ardyn, the Usurper, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 5
Games played 14
Win rate 28.6%
Confirmed on board 0 Games where a board photo caught it actually in play.

Most played under

Commander Decks Games Win rate
Fire Lord Zuko 2 14 28.6%
M.O.D.O.K. 1 0 —
Zoraline, Cosmos Caller 1 0 —

Colors it shows up in

  • Mardu 2 decks
  • Mono-Black 1 deck
  • Orzhov 1 deck

Every version of Ardyn, the Usurper

6 printings, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly — a printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall genuinely publishes none for some of them.

Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Ardyn, the Usurper — a name search across every version, for the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.

Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only — no individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.