Dennick, Pious Apprentice // Dennick, Pious Apparition
Legendary Creature — Human Soldier // Legendary Creature — Spirit Soldier
Lifelink
Cards in graveyards can't be the targets of spells or abilities.
Disturb 
(You may cast this card from your graveyard transformed for its disturb cost.)
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- UW
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Innistrad: Midnight Hunt
- Price
- $0.18
- EDHREC rank
- #14634
Dennick, Pious Apprentice // Dennick, Pious Apparition shuts down graveyard recursion from both sides of the table the moment it enters — a passive tax that punishes reanimator and flashback strategies without spending a card. The cost is that its back half rewards a very specific set of circumstances, and pairing it with something like Infinite Reflection to clone the Apparition is the kind of setup that rarely lines up outside dedicated builds.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Dennick, Pious Apprentice // Dennick, Pious Apparition earns its spot as a cheap, incidental graveyard hate piece that pulls double duty in Azorius or Esper tempo decks — the front face slows down the table's graveyard engines while the back face provides a clue-generating body that rewards going wide with tokens. In Modern and Pioneer, it sees fringe play in Dimir or Azorius tempo sideboards as a way to apply pressure while hosing Goryo's Vengeance or Greasefang lines. Legacy and Vintage have enough dedicated hate that Dennick rarely makes the cut, but it's legal and not irrelevant in creature-light graveyard matchups.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Infinite ReflectionComposite GolemDennick, Pious Apprentice // Dennick, Pious Apparition
Infinite black mana; Infinite death triggers; Infinite ETB; Infinite green mana; Infinite LTB; Infinite red mana; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite storm count
View on Commander Spellbook ↗Price Context
Current price
$0.18 bulk tier
At $0.18, Dennick, Pious Apprentice // Dennick, Pious Apparition is firmly bulk — a buy-a-box worth of value that won't move without a format breakout. Picking up copies costs almost nothing, but don't expect the price to budge unless a new Commander archetype pushes graveyard-hate creatures into demand.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.