Dark Supplicant
Mana cost {B}. Power/toughness 1/1.
{T}, Sacrifice three Clerics: Search your graveyard, hand, and/or library for a card named Scion of Darkness and put it onto the battlefield. If you search your library this way, shuffle.
Dark Supplicant is a black card, legal in Premodern, shown in its old-frame Legions printing.
Price and printings: Cardmarket (€0.71) · TCGplayer ($0.33) · Scryfall
Tracked daily since 28 July 2026: on Cardmarket between €0.34 and €0.88 in that time.
How often Dark Supplicant is played
Dark Supplicant is maindecked in 3 of 131 tournament decks in this archive (2%), averaging 4.0 copies; used by 1 of 33 tracked archetypes.
Counting only the 75 decks that can cast black cards, 3 of them play it (4%).
See how it compares on the Premodern staples list.
Premodern archetypes that play Dark Supplicant
- Clerics: Tap it and sacrifice three Clerics, which can include Supplicant itself, to put Scion of Darkness onto the battlefield from your graveyard, hand or library. The ability needs {T}, so Supplicant has to survive until your next turn, and removal, Engineered Plague naming Cleric or Human and Cursed Totem all stop it.
Tournament decks with Dark Supplicant
- Mono Black Clerics: 3rd Place at IX Torneo Mensual (4× mainboard)
- Clerics: 1st Place at MTGO Premodern League (4× mainboard)
- Black Clerics: 2nd Place at Lega Milano 3/9 (4× mainboard)
Spicy brews with Dark Supplicant
- Bloody Clerics (4×)
