Mavren Fein, Dusk Apostle
Legendary Creature — Vampire Cleric
Whenever one or more nontoken Vampires you control attack, create a 1/1 white Vampire creature token with lifelink.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Ixalan
- Price
- $0.83
- EDHREC rank
- #3607
Mavren Fein, Dusk Apostle turns every attacking nontoken Vampire into a free 1/1 lifelink token — a payoff that compounds fast in any tribal swarm shell. The cost is real: it only triggers on your nontoken Vampires attacking, so it does nothing the turn it enters and folds to any sorcery-speed removal before you untap. In Clavileño, First of the Blessed decks, that distinction barely matters; in slower builds, you earn the value quickly enough that the glass-cannon risk is acceptable.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Clavileño, First of the Blessed
Clavileño, First of the Blessed appears in 87% of Clavileño lists because the two cards form a self-reinforcing loop: Mavren Fein, Dusk Apostle generates 1/1 tokens on each attack, and Clavileño sacrifices those tokens to draw cards and create Flying Horror threats, keeping the engine churning every combat.
Edgar Markov
Edgar Markov lists run Mavren Fein, Dusk Apostle because the deck already floods the board with Vampire tokens and nontoken attackers, meaning Mavren reliably fires multiple times per combat and turns each swing into a net-positive board state through sheer token accumulation.
Elenda, the Dusk Rose
Elenda, the Dusk Rose wants a wide board of sacrificeable creatures to grow and then cash in, and Mavren Fein, Dusk Apostle provides a repeatable, low-investment stream of 1/1 tokens every time the nontoken Vampires swing.
Carmen, Cruel Skymarcher
Carmen, Cruel Skymarcher gains counters whenever permanents leave the battlefield on any player's turn, so the tokens Mavren Fein, Dusk Apostle generates serve as perpetual sacrifice fodder that keeps Carmen growing while also pressuring life totals.
Astarion, the Decadent
Astarion, the Decadent rewards draining life totals and leveraging Vampires broadly, and Mavren Fein, Dusk Apostle contributes a steady flow of lifelink tokens that pad your life total and feed any sacrifice or drain synergies Astarion enables.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Mavren Fein, Dusk Apostle belongs — the 100-card singleton format gives it access to the critical mass of Vampire synergies it needs to shine, and a 40-life starting total gives you enough runway to develop the token engine before winning. In Pioneer and Modern, dedicated Vampire tribal lists exist but are fringe, and Mavren competes with more efficient two-drops that close games faster; it sees minimal serious play there. Legacy and Vintage are non-starters — the power ceiling in those formats makes a three-mana do-nothing-on-entry enchantment-adjacent creature irrelevant. Oathbreaker is a reasonable home if you're pairing it with a Vampire-friendly planeswalker and a wide-board signature spell, though the smaller deck size tightens up competition for slots.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.83 bulk tier
At $0.83, Mavren Fein, Dusk Apostle sits firmly in bulk rare territory, which makes it a zero-hesitation inclusion for any Vampire deck on any budget. Demand is stable but narrow — it's a tribal staple, not a cross-format all-star — so the price is unlikely to spike unless a new pushed Vampire commander drives a wave of new lists.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.