Dusk Legion Sergeant

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Dusk Legion Sergeant: Creature - Vampire Soldier, The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander. Printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.

Mana cost
{1}{B}
Mana value
2
Type
Creature - Vampire Soldier
Colour identity
Black (B)
Power / toughness
2/2
Rarity
Rare
Set
The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander (LCC)
Released
2023-11-17
Collector number
80
Artist
Igor Kieryluk
Commander rank
7,566 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
Keywords
Menace

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About Dusk Legion Sergeant

Dusk Legion Sergeant is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare black creature from The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander (LCC), a Commander product released in November 2023. It is collector number 80 in that set, with art by Igor Kieryluk. It costs {1}{B} (one generic and one black mana) to cast, for a mana value of 2. It is a 2/2 creature. Its colour identity is black. It is legal in Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker and Penny Dreadful. The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander is its only printing so far. The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.32 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-12).

Card text

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.)

Market price

Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.32 (as of 2026-11-12).

The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.

Format legality

Legality of Dusk Legion Sergeant by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.

LegacyLegal
VintageLegal
CommanderLegal
Duel CommanderLegal
OathbreakerLegal
Penny DreadfulLegal

Other printings of Dusk Legion Sergeant

The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.

PrintingRarityYear
The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander (LCC) #48Rare2023

Official rulings

Four official rulings apply to Dusk Legion Sergeant, newest first.

  • 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.

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