Necropotence
Enchantment
5EDFifth Edition#182rare
Game Changer
Banned in LegacyBanned in HistoricBanned in PremodernBanned in Tiny Leaders
- Finishes
- Nonfoil
- Border
- white
- Frame
- 1997
- Pull rate
- ~1 in 44–132
- Illustrator
- Mark Tedin
- Found in
- Fifth Edition Starter Deck · Fifth Edition Booster Pack
CommanderLegalModernNot legalStandardNot legal
Format legality
Constructed
StandardNot legal
PioneerNot legal
ModernNot legal
LegacyBanned
VintageRestricted
PauperNot legal
Commander
CommanderLegal
Pauper CommanderNot legal
Duel CommanderLegal
PreDHLegal
OathbreakerLegal
Tiny LeadersBanned
Arena
AlchemyNot legal
HistoricBanned
TimelessRestricted
BrawlLegal
Standard BrawlNot legal
Competitive BrawlLegal
GladiatorLegal
Other
PremodernBanned
Old SchoolNot legal
Penny DreadfulNot legal
Future StandardNot legal
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.
Plays as:
Discard PayoffLife Outlet
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Rulings
4 · latest Sep 1, 2023
- WotCSep 1, 2023
You can't look at the cards exiled by the last ability while they're face down.
- WotCNov 17, 2017
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.
- WotCNov 17, 2017
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.
- WotCNov 17, 2017
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.