Necrotic Wound
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
Foundations JumpstartJ25 · #470
- Card type
- Instant
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Indicative price
- 0.09 € · 0.24 $
- Mana value
- 1
- Colour
- Black
Card text
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.
Format legality
- BrawlLegal
- CommanderLegal
- CompetitivebrawlLegal
- DuelLegal
- GladiatorLegal
- HistoricLegal
- LegacyLegal
- ModernLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PioneerLegal
- TimelessLegal
- 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
- Randy Vargas
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2024-11-15
Flavour text
The assassins of the Ochran distill toxins from the remains of their previous victims.
Rulings
Because tokens aren't cards, they never count for undergrowth abilities.
Creature cards with other types, such as artifact creature cards, count for undergrowth abilities.
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.
