Necropotence
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
Skip your draw step.
Whenever you discard a card, exile that card from your graveyard.
Pay 1 life: Exile the top card of your library face down. Put that card into your hand at the beginning of your next end step.
Combos with Necropotence
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.
- Near-Death Experience Infinite
- Win the game at the beginning of your next upkeep
- Ashiok, Wicked Manipulator Infinite
- Exile your library
- Repay in Kind Infinite
- Each opponent loses the game
- Near-infinite lifeloss for all players
- Near-infinite self-discard triggers
- Near-infinite looting
- Cool but Rude Infinite
- Near-infinite damage
- Near-infinite self-discard triggers
- Approach of the Second Sun Infinite
- Win the game at the beginning of your next upkeep
- Rowan, Scion of War Exsanguinate Infinite
- Near-infinite lifegain
- Near-infinite lifeloss
- Rowan, Scion of War Stensian Sanguinist // Exsanguinate Infinite
- Near-infinite lifegain
- Near-infinite lifeloss
- Rowan, Scion of War Debt to the Deathless Infinite
- Each opponent loses the game
- Near-infinite lifegain
- Near-infinite lifeloss
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
4 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 2017-11-17
Necropotence's last ability creates a delayed triggered ability that will put the exiled card into your hand. That ability still triggers even if Necropotence is removed from the battlefield before your end step.
- 2017-11-17
If a discarded card isn't put into your graveyard (due to an effect such as that of Obstinate Baloth) or leaves your graveyard (perhaps because another effect returned it to your hand), it won't be exiled.
- 2017-11-17
If you discard a card with madness and wish to cast it, Necropotence's ability won't exile that card. If you don't wish to cast it, you choose whether it ends up exiled or in your graveyard.
- 2023-09-01
You can't look at the cards exiled by the last ability while they're face down.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Necropotence, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clavileño, First of the Blessed | 1 | 0 | — |
| Dargo, the Shipwrecker | 1 | 0 | — |
| Etrata, the Silencer | 1 | 0 | — |
| Florian, Voldaren Scion | 1 | 0 | — |
| Ghoulcaller Gisa | 1 | 0 | — |
| Noctis, Prince of Lucis | 1 | 0 | — |
| Oloro, Ageless Ascetic | 1 | 0 | — |
| The Lord of Pain | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Esper 3 decks
- Mono-Black 2 decks
- Rakdos 2 decks
- Dimir 2 decks
- Orzhov 1 deck
- Mardu 1 deck
Necropotence price history
The Iconic Masters #98 printing, as Scryfall reports the TCGplayer market. Updated nightly. Click any version below to chart its price.
Every recorded price change
| Date | Non-foil | Foil |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 27, 2026 | $38.64 | $95.97 |
| Oct 26, 2026 | $38.64 | $95.97 |
| Oct 20, 2026 | $38.47 | $95.97 |
| Oct 15, 2026 | $38.30 | $95.97 |
| Oct 14, 2026 | $38.38 | $95.97 |
| Oct 11, 2026 | $38.23 | $95.97 |
| Oct 5, 2026 | $38.23 | $95.00 |
| Oct 4, 2026 | $38.36 | $95.00 |
| Sep 29, 2026 | $37.96 | $95.00 |
| Sep 28, 2026 | $37.67 | $95.00 |
A row is recorded only on nights the price moved, so each price held until the row above it.
Every version of Necropotence
12 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.
Showcase
Wilds of Eldraine: Enchanting Tales
- Normal
- $34.12
- Foil
- $63.00
Inverted
Wilds of Eldraine: Enchanting Tales
- Normal
- $41.13
- Foil
- $127.64
Inverted
Wilds of Eldraine: Enchanting Tales
- Foil
- $452.36
Inverted
Secret Lair Countdown
- Normal
- $45.20
- Foil
- $85.15
- Normal
- $38.64
- Foil
- $95.97
- Normal
- $34.50
- Foil
- $52.28
From the Vault: Exiled
- Foil
- $58.43
Deckmasters
- Foil
- $181.67
Oversized League Prizes
- Normal
- —
- Normal
- $37.74
Pro Tour Collector Set
- Normal
- $24.49
- Normal
- $46.61
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Necropotence. 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.
