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Necropotence

Enchantment MV 3

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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

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.

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.

Decks running it 9
Games played 0
Win rate — Fewer than 5 completed games — not enough to publish a rate yet.
Confirmed on board 0 Games where a board photo caught it actually in play.

Most played under

Commander Decks Games Win rate
Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 2 0 —
Clavileño, First of the Blessed 1 0 —
Dargo, the Shipwrecker 1 0 —
Ghoulcaller Gisa 1 0 —
Oloro, Ageless Ascetic 1 0 —
The Lord of Pain 1 0 —
Tinybones, Trinket Thief 1 0 —
Tymna the Weaver 1 0 —

Colors it shows up in

  • Esper 3 decks
  • Mono-Black 2 decks
  • Rakdos 1 deck
  • Orzhov 1 deck
  • Mardu 1 deck

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 genuinely publishes none for some of them.

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 — 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.