Necromantic Selection
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
Commander 2017C17 · #117
- Card type
- Sorcery
- Rarity
- Rare
- Indicative price
- 0.27 € · 0.34 $
- Mana value
- 7
- Colour
- Black
Card text
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.
Format legality
- CommanderLegal
- DuelLegal
- LegacyLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- VintageLegal
Legalities follow the imported catalogue; check format rules before a tournament.
Data imported on 2026-10-06 (UTC).
Indicative Scryfall prices, updated daily. ★: foil; ★ E: etched foil. EUR and USD represent different markets.
Printing information
- Illustrator
- Dave Kendall
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2017-08-25
Flavour text
It shambled from the cloud of ash and bone dust, undeterred by its own extinction.
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.
