Apprentice Necromancer
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
, T, Sacrifice this creature: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. That creature gains haste. At the beginning of the next end step, sacrifice it.
Combos with Apprentice Necromancer
Lines this card is part of — what it needs alongside it, and what the two of them do. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.
- Ashnod the Uncaring Basal Thrull Infinite
- Infinite black mana
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Ashnod the Uncaring Blood Pet Infinite
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Ashnod the Uncaring Phyrexian Altar Infinite
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Ashnod the Uncaring Basal Sliver Infinite
- Infinite black mana
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Ashnod the Uncaring Ruthless Knave Infinite
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Ashnod the Uncaring Teardrop Kami Alloy Myr Infinite
- Infinite black mana
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite mana creatures you control can produce
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite untap of creatures you control
- Ashnod the Uncaring Teardrop Kami Leaden Myr Infinite
- Infinite black mana
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite mana creatures you control can produce
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite untap of creatures you control
- Ashnod the Uncaring Teardrop Kami Ornithopter of Paradise Infinite
- Infinite black mana
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite mana creatures you control can produce
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite untap of creatures you control
Showing the 8 shortest and most explosive. This card appears in more than these — follow any of them through to Commander Spellbook to browse the rest.
Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.
Rulings
One official ruling, as Wizards published it.
- 2018-12-07
Apprentice Necromancer can’t be the target of its own ability. This is because targets are chosen for activated abilities before costs (such as “Sacrifice Apprentice Necromancer”) are paid.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Apprentice Necromancer, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Syr Konrad, the Grim | 1 | 3 | — |
| The Ur-Sphinx | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Mono-Black 1 deck
- Esper 1 deck
Every version of Apprentice Necromancer
4 printings, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly — a printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall genuinely publishes none for some of them.
The List
- Normal
- $0.70
Ultimate Masters
- Normal
- $1.54
- Foil
- $4.90
Commander 2017
- Normal
- $0.90
Urza's Destiny
- Normal
- $2.28
- Foil
- $58.25
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Apprentice Necromancer — a name search across every version, for the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.
Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only — no individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.
