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Bastion of Remembrance

Enchantment

When this enchantment enters, create a 1/1 white Human Soldier creature token.
Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{2}{B}
Color identity
B
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Fallout
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#330
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Bastion of Remembrance card art
Bastion of Remembrance enters the battlefield with a free 1/1 Human token, then punishes every creature death with a drain-one trigger — that combination of body plus persistent life-loss pressure is the whole appeal. At three mana it slots cleanly into any black token or sacrifice shell, and Warren Soultrader or Caesar, Legion's Emperor can turn a single activation into a table-wide damage event without any additional setup.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Caesar, Legion's Emperor

Caesar, Legion's Emperor

79.0% of decks · synergy 0.65

Caesar, Legion's Emperor generates a Human token on every combat damage trigger, which means Bastion of Remembrance is converting each attack step into a drain loop before tokens even hit the graveyard as sacrifice fodder.

02
Silvar, Devourer of the FreeTrynn, Champion of Freedom

Silvar, Devourer of the Free // Trynn, Champion of Freedom

76.7% of decks · synergy 0.63

Trynn makes a Human token every end step you attacked, and Silvar eats Humans for indestructible counters — Bastion of Remembrance turns each of those sacrifices into a drain trigger, stacking life loss without needing any separate payoff.

03
Zurgo Stormrender

Zurgo Stormrender

71.9% of decks · synergy 0.58

Zurgo Stormrender floods the board with Goblin tokens off Dash and death triggers, giving Bastion of Remembrance a constant stream of dying creatures to convert into life-loss across every combat.

04
Teysa Karlov

Teysa Karlov

75.1% of decks · synergy 0.57

Teysa Karlov doubles every triggered ability from creature deaths, so Bastion of Remembrance fires twice per creature that dies — the enchantment's drain output effectively doubles the moment Teysa hits the table.

05
Yawgmoth, Thran Physician

Yawgmoth, Thran Physician

67.8% of decks · synergy 0.51

Yawgmoth, Thran Physician sacrifices creatures as a repeatable activated ability, letting Bastion of Remembrance trigger on demand every turn cycle rather than waiting for combat or removal.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Bastion of Remembrance does its best work — four opponents means each drain trigger is four life swung in your favor, and token-plus-sacrifice strategies are deep enough in black and white that the enchantment almost always has a critical mass of fodder to feed on. In older non-rotating formats like Modern and Legacy it's legal but rarely sees play, since faster linear strategies don't want a three-mana enchantment that drains for one; the card simply doesn't keep pace with those formats' clocks. Pioneer and Oathbreaker are similar stories — legal on paper, but the effect is too slow and incremental to compete at the speed those formats demand. Bastion of Remembrance is a Commander card through and through.

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Price Context

Current price

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Pricing data isn't available at the moment, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the current market rate before buying. Bastion of Remembrance has historically been an inexpensive pickup given its non-mythic rarity, making it an easy include even on tight budgets.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.