Necromantic Selection
- Mana cost
- {4}{B}{B}{B}
- Type
- Sorcery
- Set
- Starter Commander Decks #94 (rare)
- Price
- $0.28 USD
Destroy all creatures, then return a creature card put into a graveyard this way to the battlefield under your control. It's a black Zombie in addition to its other colors and types. Exile Necromantic Selection.
Necromantic Selection has 6 printings, first in Commander 2014 (2014). EDHREC ranks it #3,516 among Commander cards. It appears most in Teval, the Balanced Scale decks (9,025 on EDHREC). 6 public decks on TCG run it. It has 2 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: not legal
- pioneer: not legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: not legal
Public decks that run Necromantic Selection
- Arcane Wizardry - Commander 2017, led by Inalla, Archmage Ritualist
- Dungeons of Death - Forgotten Realms Commander, led by Sefris of the Hidden Ways
- Grave Danger - Starter Commander Decks, led by Gisa and Geralf
- Sneak Attack - Zendikar Rising Commander, led by Anowon, the Ruin Thief
- Sultai Arisen - Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander, led by Teval, the Balanced Scale
- Sworn to Darkness - Commander 2014, led by Ob Nixilis of the Black Oath
Commanders that run Necromantic Selection most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Teval, the Balanced Scale: 9,025 decks
- Gisa and Geralf: 2,847 decks
- Hidetsugu and Kairi: 2,222 decks
- Sefris of the Hidden Ways: 1,556 decks
- Anowon, the Ruin Thief: 1,336 decks
- Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver: 1,276 decks
- The Scarab God: 1,178 decks
- Vren, the Relentless: 833 decks
Often played with Necromantic Selection
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : If the creature is normally colorless, it will simply become black. It can't be both black and colorless.
- : Necromantic Selection doesn't overwrite any of the creature's colors or types. Rather, it adds another color and another creature type.