Price$0.26 – $0.41
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Enchantment
LegalRank #328
When this enchantment enters, create a 1/1 white Human Soldier creature token.
Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Why is this card good?
Bastion of Remembrance is a staple aristocrats payoff, and one of the best at that price point. Unlike Blood Artist or Zulaport Cutthroat, it's an enchantment, so it dodges creature removal, board wipes, and edict effects — your damage engine survives even when your board doesn't.
The key distinction: it pings each opponent for the same amount, scaling beautifully in a multiplayer game. In a deck that sacrifices creatures repeatedly — think Korvold, Meren, Teysa Karlov, or any token-aristocrats build — a single chain of deaths can drain the whole table simultaneously while topping you off. With Teysa, the death triggers even double up.
The free token on ETB is small but real: it's an extra body to sacrifice immediately.
Don't play it outside dedicated sacrifice or token decks. If you're not generating consistent creature deaths, it's a do-nothing enchantment. It also wants redundancy — run it alongside Blood Artist and Cutthroat for a cumulative drain that closes games.
Related cards
Zulaport Cutthroat
Same aristocrats drain trigger when your creatures die.
Blood Artist
Drains each opponent and gains life on any creature death.
Cruel Celebrant
Near-identical aristocrat drain effect on a body.
Falkenrath Noble
Drains opponents and gains life when creatures die.
Vindictive Vampire
Drains opponents when your creatures die.
Corpse Knight
Pings opponents whenever creatures enter, similar aristocrat payoff.
Dictate of Erebos
Enchantment death payoff punishing opponents' boards.
Printings (11)
Played by these commanders
Hazel of the Rootbloom100% of 1
Y'shtola, Night's Blessed100% of 2
Zurgo Stormrender100% of 1
Jirina Kudro100% of 1
Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls100% of 1
Caesar, Legion's Emperor100% of 1
Combos (8)
- Warren Soultrader + Gravecrawler + Bastion of Remembrance
→ Infinite death triggers, Infinite ETB, Infinite lifegain triggers
- Warren Soultrader + Bastion of Remembrance + Chatterfang, Squirrel General
→ Infinite LTB, Infinite ETB, Infinite colored mana
- Mikaeus, the Unhallowed + Warren Soultrader + Bastion of Remembrance
→ Infinite LTB, Infinite ETB, Infinite colored mana
- Yawgmoth, Thran Physician + Nest of Scarabs + Bastion of Remembrance
→ Near-infinite -1/-1 counters, Near-infinite card draw, Near-infinite death triggers
- Trudge Garden + Ashnod's Altar + Bastion of Remembrance
→ Infinite ETB, Infinite lifegain, Infinite lifegain triggers
- Yawgmoth, Thran Physician + Scurry Oak + Bastion of Remembrance
→ Infinite card draw, Infinite draw triggers, Near-infinite death triggers
Tokens & Emblemsthis card creates
Rulings (3)
- 2020-04-17
If your life total is brought to 0 or less at the same time that creatures you control are dealt lethal damage, you lose the game before the last ability goes on the stack.
- 2020-04-17
In a Two-Headed Giant game, Bastion of Remembrance's last ability causes the opposing team to lose 2 life and you to gain 1 life.
- 2020-04-17
If one or more creatures you control die at the same time that Bastion of Remembrance leaves the battlefield, its last ability triggers for each of those creatures.