Dusk Legion Sergeant
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
Jump to section ▾
What it does
Menace
1, 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.)
Combos with Dusk Legion Sergeant
The lines this card is part of, what it needs alongside it, and what the cards do together. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.
- Molten Echoes Cordial Vampire Phyrexian Altar Infinite
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite colored mana
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite creature tokens with haste
- Infinite +1/+1 counters on certain creatures
Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.
Rulings
4 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 2023-11-10
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.
- 2023-11-10
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.
- 2023-11-10
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.
- 2023-11-10
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.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Dusk Legion Sergeant, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clavileño, First of the Blessed | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Orzhov 1 deck
Every version of Dusk Legion Sergeant
2 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 publishes none for some of them.
Extended Art
The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander
- Normal
- $0.41
The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander
- Normal
- $0.21
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Dusk Legion Sergeant. It runs a name search across every version, which covers 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.
