Card
Necromancy
Mana cost {2}{B}
You may cast this spell as though it had flash. If you cast it any time a sorcery couldn't have been cast, the controller of the permanent it becomes sacrifices it at the beginning of the next cleanup step. When this enchantment enters, if it's on the battlefield, it becomes an Aura with "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with Necromancy." Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control and attach this enchantment to it. When this enchantment leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it.
Part of 35 known combos, 4 of them two-card. 5 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Uncommon · VIS · #64
- Cheapest printing
- €12.79
- EDHREC salt
- 0.42
- Color identity
- Black
Bracket
- B1 Exhibition — Not in the same deck as its two-card combo partners: Abdel Adrian, Gorion's Ward, Worldgorger Dragon, Leonin Relic-Warder, Kederekt Leviathan
- B2 Core — Not in the same deck as its two-card combo partners: Abdel Adrian, Gorion's Ward, Worldgorger Dragon, Leonin Relic-Warder, Kederekt Leviathan
- B3 Upgraded — Not in the same deck as its early two-card combo partners: Abdel Adrian, Gorion's Ward, Worldgorger Dragon, Kederekt Leviathan
- B4 Optimized — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
- B5 cEDH — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
Why
- Two-card combo with Abdel Adrian, Gorion's Ward, Worldgorger Dragon, Leonin Relic-Warder, Kederekt Leviathan (early with Abdel Adrian, Gorion's Ward, Worldgorger Dragon, Kederekt Leviathan)
How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket
Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags
Combos
35 known combos, 4 of them two-card.
- Abdel Adrian, Gorion's Ward + Necromancy
Produces: Infinite blinking, Infinite creature tokens, Infinite death triggers
View on Commander Spellbook - Worldgorger Dragon + Necromancy
Produces: Infinite death triggers, Infinite blinking of permanents, Infinite colored mana
View on Commander Spellbook - Leonin Relic-Warder + Necromancy
Produces: Infinite death triggers, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB
View on Commander Spellbook
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2022-12-08 · Wizards of the Coast
The sacrifice occurs only if you cast it using its own ability. If you cast it using some other effect (for example, if another effect allowed you to cast it as though it had flash), then it won't be sacrificed. - 2008-04-01 · Wizards of the Coast
If the creature card put onto the battlefield has protection from black (or anything that prevents this from legally being attached), this won't be able to attach to it. Then this will go to the graveyard as a state-based action, causing the creature to be sacrificed. - 2005-08-01 · Wizards of the Coast
Necromancy enters as an enchantment and then becomes an Enchant Creature Aura as a triggered ability upon entering. It follows all the rules for Auras from then on. - 2004-10-04 · Wizards of the Coast
When putting a card onto the battlefield that requires a definition for its value or some other choice, you do what is needed to define the value or make the choice. - 2004-10-04 · Wizards of the Coast
The bringing of the creature onto the battlefield and then putting Necromancy on it is all done as part of the resolution.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast