Dread Summons

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Dread Summons: Sorcery, Aetherdrift Commander. Each player mills X cards. MTG card printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.

Mana cost
{X}{B}{B}
Mana value
2
Type
Sorcery
Colour identity
Black (B)
Rarity
Rare
Set
Aetherdrift Commander (DRC)
Released
2025-02-14
Collector number
90
Artist
Izzy
Commander rank
3,687 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
Keywords
Mill

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About Dread Summons

Dread Summons is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare black sorcery from Aetherdrift Commander (DRC), a Commander product released in February 2025. It is collector number 90 in that set, with art by Izzy. It costs {X}{B}{B} (X and two black mana) to cast, for a mana value of 2. Its colour identity is black. It is legal in Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, Brawl, Standard Brawl, Historic, Timeless, Alchemy, Gladiator and Penny Dreadful. It has been printed in 7 sets, from Commander 2015 (2015) to Aetherdrift Commander (2025). The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.29 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-11).

Card text

Each player mills X cards. For each creature card put into a graveyard this way, you create a tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature token. (To mill a card, a player puts the top card of their library into their graveyard.)

"Did you have a nice nap?" -Liliana Vess

Market price

Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.29 (as of 2026-11-11).

The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.

Format legality

Legality of Dread Summons by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.

StandardLegal
PioneerLegal
ModernLegal
LegacyLegal
VintageLegal
CommanderLegal
Duel CommanderLegal
OathbreakerLegal
BrawlLegal
Standard BrawlLegal
HistoricLegal
TimelessLegal
AlchemyLegal
GladiatorLegal
Penny DreadfulLegal

Other printings of Dread Summons

Dread Summons has been printed in 7 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.

PrintingRarityYear
Foundations (FDN) #604Rare2024
New Capenna Commander (NCC) #249Rare2022
Midnight Hunt Commander (MIC) #113Rare2021
Commander Anthology (CMA) #56Rare2017
Legendary Cube Prize Pack (PZ1) #44Rare2015
Commander 2015 (C15) #20Rare2015

Official rulings

One official ruling applies to Dread Summons.

  • If a creature card has an ability that replaces going to the graveyard with moving somewhere else "instead," that card won't count toward the number of Zombies you get. Conversely, creature cards with a triggered ability that removes them from the graveyard when they're put there from anywhere (or your library) will count toward that number.

Similar cards

Other sorcery cards with a black colour identity, ranked by how often they appear in Commander decks.

In these precons

Dread Summons is in the decklist of these preconstructed Commander decks.

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