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King Darien XLVIII

Legendary Creature — Human Soldier

Other creatures you control get +1/+1.
{3}{G}{W}: Put a +1/+1 counter on King Darien and create a 1/1 white Soldier creature token.
Sacrifice King Darien: Creature tokens you control gain hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{1}{G}{W}
Color identity
GW
Rarity
rare
Set
Dominaria United
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#4483
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King Darien XLVIII card art
King Darien XLVIII turns every point of damage your team absorbs into a 1/1 Soldier token and pumps your whole board simultaneously — a defensive engine that snowballs board states while your opponents are trying to shrink them. The cost is a three-mana legend who does nothing the turn he enters, which means he needs a token shell to pay off immediately; pair him with Solemnity to lock out +1/+1 counter synergies on opposing creatures while his triggered ability circumvents the restriction entirely, and you have a resilient two-card lock that also generates an army. Kudo, King Among Bears decks hit 40% inclusion for a reason — he's one of the strongest redundant payoffs in go-wide white-green strategies.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Kudo, King Among Bears

Kudo, King Among Bears

40.2% of decks · synergy 0.33

Kudo, King Among Bears and King Darien XLVIII share the same core loop: creatures getting buffed and combat damage flowing both ways, generating tokens that immediately benefit from Kudo's anthem and Darien's replacement effect. At 40% inclusion across nearly 9,500 decks, Darien is essentially a staple in the 99.

02
Emmara, Soul of the Accord

Emmara, Soul of the Accord

33.5% of decks · synergy 0.26

Emmara, Soul of the Accord generates Soldier tokens every time she taps, and King Darien XLVIII adds a parallel token engine whenever your creatures absorb hits — together they produce a flood of bodies without needing combat as the sole trigger.

04
Cadira, Caller of the Small

Cadira, Caller of the Small

31.8% of decks · synergy 0.24

Cadira, Caller of the Small already rewards you for letting small creatures through in combat, and King Darien XLVIII converts the damage that Cadira invites into a parallel stream of Soldier tokens — the two commanders stack triggering conditions that both point toward a wide token board.

05
Jetmir, Nexus of Revels

Jetmir, Nexus of Revels

22.3% of decks · synergy 0.20

Jetmir, Nexus of Revels scales its combat anthem off creature count, making every Soldier token King Darien XLVIII generates directly improve the power of Jetmir's static ability and push toward the threshold for trample or double strike.

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

King Darien XLVIII is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but Commander is the only format where he's actually played. In Modern and Pioneer the three-mana 3/3 with a conditional token trigger can't compete with the raw efficiency those formats demand, and six toughness across your board is not a meaningful safety net when games end on turn four. In Legacy and Vintage he's outclassed so completely by the available card pool that he never sees play. Commander is his home because the format's longer games, larger boards, and multiplayer combat let both abilities fire repeatedly — absorbing damage is near-inevitable at a four-player table, and pumping 15 or 20 creatures by +1/+1 at instant speed is the kind of swing that matters in a 40-life format.

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Price Context

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Pricing data for King Darien XLVIII isn't available in the current feed, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for a live number before buying. Given his inclusion rates across multiple high-volume commanders, he's a card worth picking up for any white-green token shell regardless of where the price sits today.

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