Dark Supplicant

Creature — Human Cleric

{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.

CMC
1
Mana cost
{B}
Color identity
B
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Legions
Price
$0.36
EDHREC rank
#22688
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Dark Supplicant exists to put Scion of Darkness into play for free — tap three Clerics you control and the 6/6 trampler with reanimation stapled to it comes down without paying its eight mana. The setup cost is real: you need three other Clerics untapped and a fourth in hand, so this is a tribal payoff, not a standalone card.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander
legacy
modern
pioneer
standard
vintage
pauper
oathbreaker

Commander is the only format where Dark Supplicant is worth building around, and only inside a dedicated Cleric tribal shell. Legacy and Vintage make it technically legal, but tutoring for Scion of Darkness the fair way is faster and more consistent than assembling four Clerics — no competitive player touches it there. In Commander, a Cleric-focused deck like Ravos, Soultender or Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim can realistically hit the threshold, and cheating an eight-mana threat into play on turn four is the kind of payoff that justifies the slot.

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Price Context

Current price

$0.36 bulk tier

At $0.36, Dark Supplicant is pure bulk — a throw-in when you're ordering other cards, not a purchase on its own merit. The price reflects its extreme narrowness: it does nothing outside Cleric tribal, so demand stays low and the floor is unlikely to move.

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