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Ardyn, the Usurper

First printed in Final Fantasy (2025)

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Ardyn, the Usurper

Legendary Creature — Elder Human Noble

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.

4/4

Illustrated by
Russell Dongjun Lu

Legality

Rulings (4)

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

Prices

MTGO price: 0.006 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 1 Nov 2026).

In Limited on MTG Arena

Win rates in Arena drafts and sealed, retrieved from 17Lands (CC BY 4.0).

Win rates of Ardyn, the Usurper in Limited
Set GIH WR vs set IWD Games
Final Fantasy (FIN), Premier Draft 64.9% +9.2 +11.7 16727
Final Fantasy (FIN), Sealed 66.4% +9.0 +9.5 2093
GIH WR
win rate of the games in which the card was in the opening hand or drawn
vs set
points above or below the average win rate of all decks in the set
IWD
improvement when drawn: GIH WR minus the win rate when the card stayed in the library
Games
games in which the card was seen

Standard In 24 of 1778 decks (1.3%), most in UB (unclassified)

Share of decks
1.3%
= vs previous 30 days
2026-08-10: 1.7% 2026-08-17: 0.0% 2026-08-24: 0.8% 2026-08-31: 0.6% 2026-09-07: 0.5% 2026-09-14: 2.3% 2026-09-21: 1.4% 2026-09-28: 1.1% 2026-10-05: 2.8% 2026-10-12: 1.6% 2026-10-19: 0.7% 2026-10-26: 0.0%
Weekly, last 90 days
Decks
24
24 main, 0 sideboard
Avg. copies
2.1
in the main deck
Win rate
57%
4 top 8 (challenges only)

Archetypes by metagame share

Archetype Meta Play it
UB (unclassified) 9.2% 1%
UBRG (unclassified) 1.3% 79%
UBG (unclassified) 0.6% 36%

Played together with

Card Together Lift
Bringer of the Last Gift100%74.1
Overlord of the Balemurk100%10.7
Superior Spider-Man100%9.5
Cavern of Souls100%5.1
Watery Grave100%4.2
Formidable Speaker96%37.0
Breeding Pool96%27.9
Overgrown Tomb96%8.9
Oblivious Bookworm88%74.1
Wistfulness88%57.6

Best win rate

DeckRecord
UBRG
Martin_Dominguez in Standard Challenge 32 Special
6-2
75%
UBRG
Martin_Dominguez in Standard Challenge 32 Special
5-2
71%
UBRG
bless_von in Standard Challenge 16
4-2
67%
UBRG
MeninoNey in Standard Challenge 32
4-2
67%
UBG
LaceiSuaEsposa in Standard Challenge 32 Special
4-2
67%
UBRG
haqe in Standard Challenge 32 Special
4-2
67%
UBRG
LegacyGrinder in Standard Challenge 16 Special
4-2
67%
UBRG
izzy-wilde in Standard Challenge 16 Special
4-2
67%

Challenges only: MTGO publishes only the 5-0 league decks.

Latest decks

DeckCopiesFinish
UBRG
Arena ranked player,
2 main
UB
Yojiro Futamata,
2 main #130
of 177
UBRG
Ko Mak,
1 main
UBRG
Cudibunda,
3 main #31
of 64
3-3
UBG
Arena ranked player,
2 main
UBRG
bless_von,
2 main #10
of 39
4-2
UBRG
MeninoNey,
3 main #25
of 39
1-4
UBRG
KangXiaotian,
2 main 5-0

Commander In 12 of 6305 decks (0.2%), most in Gyruda, Doom of Depths

Share of decks
0.2%
= vs previous 30 days
2026-08-17: 0.2% 2026-08-24: 0.2% 2026-08-31: 0.2% 2026-09-07: 0.1% 2026-09-14: 0.1% 2026-09-21: 0.3% 2026-09-28: 0.2% 2026-10-05: 0.2% 2026-10-12: 0.1% 2026-10-19: 0.4% 2026-10-26: 0.3%
Weekly, last 90 days
Decks
12
12 main, 0 sideboard
Avg. copies
1.0
in the main deck
Win rate
–
1 top 8 (challenges only)

Archetypes by metagame share

Archetype Meta Play it
Gyruda, Doom of Depths 0.2% 80%
Terra, Herald of Hope 0.1% 14%
Sheoldred, the Apocalypse 0.0% 50%
Tasha, the Witch Queen 0.0% 100%
Ziatora, the Incinerator 0.0% 100%

Played together with

Card Together Lift
Sol Ring92%0.9
Reanimate75%6.6
Dark Ritual75%1.8
Arcane Signet75%1.2
Command Tower75%0.9
Lotus Petal75%0.8
Evil Twin67%431.6
Gyruda, Doom of Depths67%431.6
Callidus Assassin67%431.6
Sakashima's Protege67%431.6

Best win rate

No challenge results yet.

Challenges only: MTGO publishes only the 5-0 league decks.

Latest decks

DeckCopiesFinish
Ziatora, the Incinerator
David García Centelles,
1 main #8 (top 8)
of 28
0-2
Tasha, the Witch Queen
Aniol Morató,
1 main #15
of 28
0-2
Gyruda, Doom of Depths
Brooklyn,
1 main #13
of 28
0-3
Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
Adrian Rich,
1 main #14
of 20
0-3
Gyruda, Doom of Depths
Stephen D Rosato,
1 main #12
of 33
1-2
Gyruda, Doom of Depths
Mark Churchwell,
1 main #13
of 32
1-2
Gyruda, Doom of Depths
Christopher Summitt,
1 main #22
of 53
1-3
Gyruda, Doom of Depths
Matthew Nathaniel,
1 main #13
of 41
1-3