Way of the Necromancer
- Mana cost
- {1}{B}
- Type
- Legendary Enchantment
- Set
- Reality Fracture #239 (uncommon)
- Price
- $0.29 USD
When Way of the Necromancer enters, empower Jace 2. (Put two loyalty counters on a Jace token you control. If you don't control one, first create a blue Jace planeswalker token with "[−1]: Surveil 1" and "[−3]: Draw a card.")
Whenever a creature you control dies, put a loyalty counter on each planeswalker you control.
Way of the Necromancer has 1 printing, first in Reality Fracture (2026). EDHREC ranks it #11,812 among Commander cards. It appears most in Tam, the Possibility decks (3,189 on EDHREC). It has 4 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run Way of the Necromancer most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Tam, the Possibility: 3,189 decks
- Jace, Multiverse Architect: 2,085 decks
- Carth the Lion: 381 decks
- Liliana, Heretical Healer // Liliana, Defiant Necromancer: 323 decks
- Liliana the Repentant: 194 decks
- Xavier Sal, Infested Captain: 115 decks
- Dihada, Binder of Wills: 103 decks
- Uldaros Theorix: 85 decks
Often played with Way of the Necromancer
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : Empower Jace won't let you put loyalty counters on nontoken Jace planeswalkers. However, if you control a Jace planeswalker token that you got another way (such as an effect that creates a token that's a copy of a permanent), empower Jace will put loyalty counters on that.
- : If you control a Jace planeswalker token, you can't choose to create a new one when you empower Jace. You have to put the loyalty counters on your existing Jace planeswalker token. In the rare case that you control multiple Jace planeswalker tokens, you'll choose one of those tokens to put the loyalty counters on.
- : Some spells and abilities that empower Jace may require targets. If each target chosen is an illegal target as that spell or ability tries to resolve, it won't resolve. You won't empower Jace.
- : To empower Jace N, if you don't control a Jace planeswalker token, create a blue Jace planeswalker token with 0 loyalty, "[−1]: Surveil 1," and "[−3]: Draw a card." Choose a Jace planeswalker token you control. Put N loyalty counters on it.