Consult the Necrosages
Sorcery
Choose one —
• Target player draws two cards.
• Target player discards two cards.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BU
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Ravnica: City of Guilds
- Price
- $0.19
- EDHREC rank
- #21562
Consult the Necrosages offers a clean modal choice — draw two or make an opponent discard two — stapled to a three-mana sorcery, and that flexibility doesn't justify the rate. Both modes are underpowered for the mana spent, and Commander is full of options that do either effect better for the same cost or less.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Consult the Necrosages is outclassed on both modes — Painful Truths, Night's Whisper, and Sign in Blood all draw for less mana, and targeted discard rarely scales in a four-player game. Pauper is the format where it sees the most legitimate consideration, since the card pool is shallow enough that modal spells gain real value, though even there dedicated draw and discard pieces tend to beat it. In Legacy and Vintage the rate is simply too slow to matter. Oathbreaker is the one Commander-adjacent format where the discard mode has slightly more teeth, since opponents have smaller hand sizes and fewer resources to rebuild.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.19 bulk tier
At $0.19, Consult the Necrosages is deep bulk — you're not paying for power, you're paying for a card slot. The price is stable because demand is low and supply is abundant, so don't expect it to move in either direction.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.