Sergeant of the Dusk Legion
Dusk Legion Sergeant is a compact engine for graveyard tricks and combat pressure. At {1}{B} it brings menace and a sacrifice outlet that can grant persist to your nontoken Vampires for one turn. The card reads simple and does heavy work; you trade a single body to make threats stick through removal or to trigger additional death triggers across your board.
Play it in a deck that values incremental advantage and recursion. The Sergeant fits into vampire tribal shells or any black deck that wants repeated threats without leaning on token creation. Its ability interacts cleanly with sacrifice synergies and graveyard recursion making it a steady, low mana inclusion that rewards timing and sequencing.
Card Details:
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Mana Cost – {1}{B}
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Card Type – Creature
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Subtypes – Vampire Soldier
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Card Text / Rules Text (Printed) – Menace
1{B}, Sacrifice Dusk Legion Sergeant: Each nontoken Vampire creature you control gains persist until end of turn. (When it dies, if it had no −1/−1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner’s control with a −1/−1 counter on it.)
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Power / Toughness – 2/2