Disciple of Perdition
Creature — Human Warlock
When this creature dies, choose one. If you have exactly 13 life, you may choose both instead.
• You draw a card and you lose 1 life.
• Exile target opponent's graveyard. That player loses 1 life.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Jumpstart 2022
- Price
- $0.33
- EDHREC rank
- #14843
Disciple of Perdition drains each opponent for 1 whenever it dies and returns itself — or any other creature — to hand under the right recursion engine, making it a repeatable life-loss engine rather than a one-shot blocker. The catch is a 1/1 body that dies to a stiff breeze, which means it does nothing without a reliable sacrifice or recursion outlet.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Shirei, Shizo's Caretaker
Shirei, Shizo's Caretaker recurs every 1-power creature that dies on your turn, and Disciple of Perdition is exactly that — a free drain-1-each-opponent trigger every combat loop, scaling fast in multiplayer pods.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Disciple of Perdition lives almost entirely in Commander, where multiplayer math turns a 1-damage drain into 3 life lost per death trigger and where Shirei, Shizo's Caretaker shells can chain it indefinitely. In Legacy and Vintage it's technically legal but competes against far more efficient one-drops with no meaningful support structure, so it doesn't see play. Oathbreaker is its only other realistic home, and only in a dedicated sacrifice or drain strategy.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.33 bulk tier
At $0.33, Disciple of Perdition is bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not power. Bulk status means the price is stable at the floor; there's no meaningful downside to picking up a copy, but no reason to expect it to move.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.