Scion of Darkness
Mana cost {5}{B}{B}{B}. Power/toughness 6/6.
Trample
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may put target creature card from that player's graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.
Cycling {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Scion of Darkness is a black card, legal in Premodern, shown in its old-frame Legions printing.
Price and printings: Cardmarket (€2.48) · TCGplayer ($2.91) · Scryfall
Tracked daily since 28 July 2026: on Cardmarket between €1.64 and €2.96 in that time.
How often Scion of Darkness is played
Scion of Darkness is maindecked in 3 of 131 tournament decks in this archive (2%), averaging 1.0 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 Scion of Darkness
- Clerics: In all but one list since April, almost always a single copy: an 8-mana 6/6 trampler that puts a creature card from the defending player's graveyard onto the battlefield under your control whenever it deals combat damage to them. Drawn without a Supplicant, it cycles for {3}, and a later Supplicant still finds it in your graveyard.
Tournament decks with Scion of Darkness
- Mono Black Clerics: 3rd Place at IX Torneo Mensual (1× mainboard)
- Clerics: 1st Place at MTGO Premodern League (1× mainboard)
- Black Clerics: 2nd Place at Lega Milano 3/9 (1× mainboard)
Spicy brews with Scion of Darkness
- Bloody Clerics (1×)
