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Elenda, the Dusk Rose

Legendary Creature — Vampire Knight

Lifelink
Whenever another creature dies, put a +1/+1 counter on Elenda.
When Elenda dies, create X 1/1 white Vampire creature tokens with lifelink, where X is Elenda's power.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{2}{W}{B}
Color identity
BW
Rarity
mythic
Set
Double Masters 2022
Price
$9.82
EDHREC rank
#1188
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Elenda, the Dusk Rose card art
Elenda, the Dusk Rose converts every death on the board into +1/+1 counters on herself, then cashes out her own death for a flood of 1/1 lifelink Vampire tokens — the bigger she gets before she dies, the more tokens hit the table. The cost is that she has to leave play to pay out, which makes her a do-nothing if she gets exiled; pair her with Nim Deathmantle or slot her under Clavileño, First of the Blessed and that liability becomes an engine.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Clavileño, First of the Blessed

Clavileño, First of the Blessed

88.6% of decks · synergy 0.70

Clavileño, First of the Blessed runs Elenda, the Dusk Rose at nearly 90% inclusion because Clavileño turns any dying non-token Vampire into a card draw trigger — Elenda grows on every death, dies enormous, floods the board with tokens, and each of those tokens is a potential draw engine waiting to connect.

02
Teysa Karlov

Teysa Karlov

70.4% of decks · synergy 0.51

Teysa Karlov doubles death triggers, which means when Elenda, the Dusk Rose finally dies she produces twice the Vampire tokens — a board that goes from threatening to overwhelming in a single turn.

03
Carmen, Cruel Skymarcher

Carmen, Cruel Skymarcher

69.0% of decks · synergy 0.50

Carmen, Cruel Skymarcher gets a +1/+1 counter whenever any player's creature dies, so she and Elenda, the Dusk Rose both grow from the same graveyard traffic, turning attrition games into a race to lethal stats.

04
Edgar Markov

Edgar Markov

59.4% of decks · synergy 0.49

Edgar Markov creates a token every time a Vampire is cast, so Elenda, the Dusk Rose enters a board already primed with bodies to sacrifice, letting her scale up fast and die for a massive token payoff on demand.

05
Ardbert, Warrior of Darkness

Ardbert, Warrior of Darkness

58.0% of decks · synergy 0.39

Ardbert, Warrior of Darkness drains opponents for each creature that dies on any turn he attacks, stacking directly on top of Elenda, the Dusk Rose's death-fueled token production to turn a single board wipe into a game-ending life-swing.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Elenda, the Dusk Rose earns her keep — multiplayer tables generate constant creature deaths, she scales off all of them, and one well-timed sacrifice can close out an otherwise stalled board state with a token army. In Pioneer and Modern she's legal but sees almost no competitive play; four mana for a 1/1 that needs setup is too slow for non-rotating 60-card formats where opponents aren't feeding her counters for free. Legacy and Vintage have the raw card power to support her loops, but the formats move fast enough that she rarely surfaces outside brewers testing token synergies. Oathbreaker lets her serve as a signature-spell-adjacent threat in the 58, and she's a real commander option in that format if the planeswalker supports sacrifice or aristocrats themes.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Budget Alternatives

Cheaper options that do most of the same work

Viscera Seer plus a token producer like Pawn of Ulamog replicates the core loop of Elenda, the Dusk Rose — sacrifice creatures, generate more creatures — at well under a dollar combined, though you lose the passive counter-growth that makes Elenda's token payout scale exponentially. Xathrid Necromancer is another sub-$1 option that spits out Zombie tokens on Human deaths, capturing a similar death-triggers-board-presence angle but without the lifelink or the self-referential size payoff.

Price Context

Current price

$9.82 mid tier

At $9.82, Elenda, the Dusk Rose sits in the mid tier — expensive enough to feel like a slot commitment, cheap enough that it's not a barrier to entry in any deck that genuinely wants her. Demand across Vampire tribal and aristocrats staples keeps the floor stable, so this isn't a card you need to rush to buy at a discount or worry about leaving in a binder.

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