Necromantic Selection
Necromantic Selection: Sorcery, Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander. MTG card printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {4}{B}{B}{B}
- Mana value
- 7
- Type
- Sorcery
- Colour identity
- Black (B)
- Rarity
- Rare
- Set
- Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC)
- Released
- 2025-04-11
- Collector number
- 189
- Artist
- Dave Kendall
- Commander rank
- 3,380 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
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About Necromantic Selection
Necromantic Selection is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare black sorcery from Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC), a Commander product released in April 2025. It is collector number 189 in that set, with art by Dave Kendall. It costs {4}{B}{B}{B} (four generic and three black mana) to cast, for a mana value of 7. Its colour identity is black. It is legal in Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander and Oathbreaker. It has been printed in 6 sets, from Commander 2014 (2014) to Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (2025). The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.34 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-03).
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.
It shambled from the cloud of ash and bone dust, undeterred by its own extinction.
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.34 (as of 2026-11-03).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Necromantic Selection by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Legacy | Legal |
|---|---|
| Vintage | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
Other printings of Necromantic Selection
Necromantic Selection has been printed in 6 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Starter Commander Decks (SCD) #94 | Rare | 2022 |
| Forgotten Realms Commander (AFC) #103 | Rare | 2021 |
| Zendikar Rising Commander (ZNC) #48 | Rare | 2020 |
| Commander 2017 (C17) #117 | Rare | 2017 |
| Commander 2014 (C14) #26 | Rare | 2014 |
Official rulings
Two official rulings apply to Necromantic Selection, newest first.
- 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.
Similar cards
Other sorcery cards with a black colour identity, ranked by how often they appear in Commander decks.
In these precons
Necromantic Selection is in the decklist of these preconstructed Commander decks.