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◇ Catalog #130

Necropotence

DIGITAL ONLY

vma·#130·rare·nonfoil

Illus. Dave Kendall

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in vault

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for trade

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wishlisted

Jun '14

12 yr ago

Played in EDH

EDHrec rank #501 · Common include

Variants

Foil$0.37

Nonfoil$0.37

Gameplay

Enchantment

Skip your draw step. Whenever you discard a card, exile that card from your graveyard. Pay 1 life: Exile the top card of your library face down. Put that card into your hand at the beginning of your next end step.

Legalities

tlrbanned

duellegal

brawllegal

pennynot legal

PreDH

Rulings · 4

2023-09-01wotc

You can't look at the cards exiled by the last ability while they're face down.

2017-11-17wotc

Necropotence's last ability creates a delayed triggered ability that will put the exiled card into your hand. That ability still triggers even if Necropotence is removed from the battlefield before your end step.

2017-11-17wotc

If a discarded card isn't put into your graveyard (due to an effect such as that of Obstinate Baloth) or leaves your graveyard (perhaps because another effect returned it to your hand), it won't be exiled.

2017-11-17

Context

This printing is one of 3 catalogued treatments from VMA — the lineup includes Foil and Nonfoil alongside the standard finish. Across our catalog the Rarix library tracks every variant in the same family so collectors can compare price, scarcity and demand inside a single lineage.

Card #130 of *Vintage Masters*, the set that shipped alongside the June 2014 Vintage Masters release.

Card type: Enchantment, color identity black, printed at rare. Rares occupy the bottom-of-pack rare slot in standard boosters. Mana cost: {B}{B}{B} (3 converted).

Legal in Commander and Brawl. Banned in Legacy and Historic. Restricted in Vintage.

EDHrec ranks this card #501 in Commander, putting it in the common-include tier of the format's playable pool.

Illustrated by Dave Kendall. Rarix catalogs 597 other cards credited to this artist.