Ardyn, the Usurper
Mana Cost:
Type: Legendary Creature — Elder Human Noble
Oracle Text:
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.
Power/Toughness: 4/4
Rarity: rare
Prints: View all prints (1) →
Expansion: Final Fantasy
Price ( USD): $3.11
USD: $3.11 · EUR: €3.27
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Character Background
Ardyn, the Usurper’s name and Starscourge ability thematically read like a claimant converting corpses into fiendish soldiers, and mechanically he’s built around incremental battlefield generation and pressure: his static grant of menace, lifelink and haste turns every demon token into an immediately threatening, life-swapping attacker, while Starscourge turns opponents’ graveyards (or your own) into an essentially endless stream of 5/5 demon copies. That design favors a midrange/value-aggro plan—lock the opponents out with repeated, evasive beaters and long-term card advantage rather than pure combo. Deckbuilding should prioritize graveyard density and tutors or self-mill (Entomb, Faithless Looting, dredge or discard outlets) to feed Starscourge, plus sacrifice/value enablers and death triggers (Viscera Seer, Blood Artist) to extract additional advantage from tokens. Be mindful of the heavy BBB cost: a dedicated mono-black or heavily black-splash mana base is important. Ardyn shines in Demon tribal shells or reanimator builds where recurring premium creatures become durable 5/5 attackers the turn they hit the battlefield.
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