Necrotic Wound
- Mana cost
- {B}
- Type
- Instant
- Set
- Guilds of Ravnica Promos #79 (uncommon)
Undergrowth — Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of creature cards in your graveyard. If that creature would die this turn, exile it instead.
Necrotic Wound has 4 printings, first in Guilds of Ravnica (2018). EDHREC ranks it #18,701 among Commander cards. It appears most in Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord decks (334 on EDHREC). It has 5 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run Necrotic Wound most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord: 334 decks
- Iname, Death Aspect: 70 decks
- Izoni, Thousand-Eyed: 67 decks
- Vash, Freelance Archaeologist: 1 decks
- Keskit, the Flesh Sculptor: 1 decks
- Black Widow, Daring Operative
Often played with Necrotic Wound
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : If you have no creature cards in your graveyard, the target creature gets -0/-0, and it will still be exiled if it would die this turn.
- : Necrotic Wound's replacement effect will exile the target creature if it would die this turn for any reason, not just immediately after Necrotic Wound resolves.
- : The value of X is determined only as the undergrowth ability resolves. If the number of creature cards in your graveyard changes later in the turn, the target creature is unaffected.
- : Creature cards with other types, such as artifact creature cards, count for undergrowth abilities.
- : Because tokens aren't cards, they never count for undergrowth abilities.