First printed in Dominaria United (2022)
All 5 prints
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Legendary Creature — Human Soldier
Other creatures you control get +1/+1.
: Put a +1/+1 counter on King Darien and create a 1/1 white Soldier creature token.
Sacrifice King Darien: Creature tokens you control gain hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.
2/3
- Illustrated by
- Donato Giancola
Legality
- Legal in
- Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Historic, Timeless, Penny Dreadful, Gladiator, Commander, Duel Commander, Tiny Leaders, Oathbreaker, Brawl, Competitive Brawl
- Not legal in
- Standard, Pauper, Future Standard, Alchemy, Premodern, Old School 93/94, Pauper Commander, PreDH, Standard Brawl
Rulings (3)
- In most cases where the value of X isn’t defined in the text of a card, its controller chooses the value of X. However, the X in King Darien’s name is always 10.
- XLVIII is forty-eight.
- If King Darien XLVIII leaves the battlefield, other creatures you control immediately lose the +1/+1 bonus. Notably, this means that if you activate its last ability after a creature has already been dealt damage, it might die due to having lethal damage before the ability resolves and gives it indestructible.
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).
| Set | GIH WR | vs set | IWD | Games |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dominaria United (DMU), Premier Draft | 60.8% | +4.3 | +6.5 | 14355 |
| Dominaria United (DMU), Sealed | 62.5% | +6.4 | +9.9 | 1830 |
- 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
Combos
7 combos, the most popular first:
- Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB…: Agatha of the Vile Cauldron + Kenrith, the Returned King + King Darien XLVIII + Relic of Legends
- Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB…: King Darien XLVIII + Leyline of Singularity + Ratadrabik of Urborg
- Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB…: King Darien XLVIII + Luminous Broodmoth + Solemnity
- Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB…: Eirdu, Carrier of Dawn // Isilu, Carrier of Twilight + King Darien XLVIII + Vizier of Remedies
- Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB…: Agatha of the Vile Cauldron + Earthcraft + Kenrith, the Returned King + King Darien XLVIII
- Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB…: Basking Broodscale + Cryptic Trilobite + King Darien XLVIII + Metastatic Evangel + Tayam, Luminous Enigma
- Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature sacrifice triggers…: King Darien XLVIII + Yedora, Grave Gardener + Zimone, Mystery Unraveler