Duskwielder
Creature — Elf Berserker
Boast — 
: Target opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life. (Activate only if this creature attacked this turn and only once each turn.)
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Kaldheim
- Price
- $0.10
- EDHREC rank
- #20441
Duskwielder is a one-mana 1/2 with lifelink and infect — the infect half closes games, the lifelink half keeps you alive while doing it. The cost is that every creature with infect demands removal or a race, so Duskwielder draws attention completely disproportionate to its size.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Duskwielder slotts into dedicated infect strategies — Atraxa, Praetors' Voice and Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon builds — where the lifelink matters in four-player games and the 10-poison threshold replaces the 40-life clock. Pauper is where Duskwielder sees the most competitive daylight, fitting into infect aggro shells alongside Glistener Elf and Ichorclaw Myr as a redundant one-drop threat. In Modern and Legacy, infect decks exist but run higher-powered threats; Duskwielder's 1/2 body is too fragile to make the cut over Glistener Elf or Blighted Agent. Pioneer infect is fringe at best, and Duskwielder doesn't change that calculus.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.10 bulk tier
At $0.10, Duskwielder is pure bulk — floor pricing for a card with a narrow but real niche. It won't appreciate unless infect becomes a mainstream Commander archetype, so buy copies for the deck you're building today and don't expect any upside.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.