Necromantic Selection
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
Destroy all creatures, then return a creature card put into a graveyard this way to the battlefield under your control. It's a black Zombie in addition to its other colors and types. Exile Necromantic Selection.
Combos with Necromantic Selection
The lines this card is part of, what it needs alongside it, and what the cards do together. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.
- Dualcaster Mage Infinite
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite magecraft triggers
Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.
Rulings
2 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 2014-11-07
If the creature is normally colorless, it will simply become black. It can't be both black and colorless.
- 2014-11-07
Necromantic Selection doesn't overwrite any of the creature's colors or types. Rather, it adds another color and another creature type.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Necromantic Selection, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gisa and Geralf | 4 | 0 | — |
| The Mycotyrant | 1 | 2 | — |
| Rat King, Verminister | 1 | 0 | — |
| Sefris of the Hidden Ways | 1 | 0 | — |
| Teval, the Balanced Scale | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Dimir 4 decks
- Mono-Black 1 deck
- Golgari 1 deck
- Sultai 1 deck
- Esper 1 deck
Necromantic Selection price history
The Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander #189 printing, as Scryfall reports the TCGplayer market. Updated nightly. Click any version below to chart its price.
Every recorded price change
| Date | Non-foil |
|---|---|
| Oct 27, 2026 | $0.34 |
| Oct 26, 2026 | $0.34 |
| Oct 23, 2026 | $0.33 |
| Oct 21, 2026 | $0.32 |
| Oct 16, 2026 | $0.30 |
| Oct 15, 2026 | $0.32 |
| Oct 14, 2026 | $0.31 |
| Oct 10, 2026 | $0.30 |
| Oct 9, 2026 | $0.29 |
| Oct 7, 2026 | $0.30 |
| Oct 6, 2026 | $0.28 |
| Oct 5, 2026 | $0.29 |
| Oct 3, 2026 | $0.30 |
| Sep 30, 2026 | $0.31 |
| Sep 29, 2026 | $0.33 |
| Sep 28, 2026 | $0.31 |
A row is recorded only on nights the price moved, so each price held until the row above it.
Every version of Necromantic Selection
6 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 publishes none for some of them. Click a card's art to chart that version's price above.
- Normal
- $0.34
- Normal
- $0.29
- Normal
- $0.34
- Normal
- $0.32
- Normal
- $0.35
- Normal
- $0.36
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Necromantic Selection. It runs a name search across every version, which covers 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.
