Dusk Rose Reliquary
Artifact
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact or creature.
Ward 
When this artifact enters, exile target artifact or creature an opponent controls until this artifact leaves the battlefield.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- The Lost Caverns of Ixalan
- Price
- $0.31
- EDHREC rank
- #9158
Dusk Rose Reliquary trades itself for a free equip or attachment whenever a creature you control dies — a repeatable value engine that turns your board wipes and sacrifice outlets into card advantage. Queen Kayla bin-Kroog decks want it badly: she puts artifacts into play tapped, and a free equip trigger every time something dies turns her engine from a slow accumulation into a snowball.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Queen Kayla bin-Kroog
Queen Kayla bin-Kroog cheats equipment onto the battlefield tapped, and Dusk Rose Reliquary lets you immediately reattach the best one for free the next time a creature dies — which in a Boros sacrifice or combat-heavy shell is every turn cycle.
Gandalf the White
Gandalf the White flickers and replays permanents, and Dusk Rose Reliquary synergizes as a recurring free-equip trigger that rewards the constant creature turnover those decks generate through blinking and sacrifice.
Oswald Fiddlebender
Oswald Fiddlebender sacrifices artifacts to tutor up better ones, and Dusk Rose Reliquary slots in as a cheap artifact that turns creature deaths into free equipment activations, smoothing the loss of tempo from Oswald's sacrifice cost.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Dusk Rose Reliquary earns its slot — 45% inclusion in Queen Kayla bin-Kroog decks alone signals a genuine engine piece, not just filler. In 1v1 formats like Modern and Pioneer, the trigger requires a creature to die before you see value, which is a tempo ask those formats rarely forgive; the card sees effectively zero competitive play there. Legacy and Vintage have no use for it. Dusk Rose Reliquary is a Commander card through and through, with a narrow but enthusiastic home in equipment-focused or sacrifice-adjacent white decks.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.31 bulk tier
At $0.31, Dusk Rose Reliquary is bulk — easy to pick up as a throw-in or from a dollar bin. Bulk rares with narrow Commander homes tend to stay flat unless a new commander pushes them, so don't expect movement, but at this price there's no reason to hesitate on copies for the right deck.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.