Hogaak, Arisen Necropolis
Legendary Creature — Avatar
You can't spend mana to cast this spell.
Convoke, delve (Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for 
or one mana of that creature's color. Each card you exile from your graveyard pays for .)
You may cast this card from your graveyard.
Trample
- CMC
- 7
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BG
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Modern Horizons
- Price
- $1.47
- EDHREC rank
- #10088
Hogaak, Arisen Necropolis is an 8/8 trampler that costs nothing but graveyard resources and creature convoke — you never pay a single mana for it. The restriction is real: you can't cast it from hand, only from the graveyard, which means Infested Thrinax and similar token-generating enablers do the heavy lifting of fueling convoke while your yard fills up.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | banned |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Hogaak, Arisen Necropolis carries one format-warping restriction — it's banned in Modern, where dedicated self-mill shells could land an 8/8 trampler on turn two with enough consistency to warp the entire format. Legacy and Vintage tolerate it because those formats have access to broader answers and the overall power ceiling is high enough that an 8/8 is less of an outlier. Commander gives it a clean pass for the same structural reason most broken-in-60-card-formats cards mellow out: you're one player among four, the graveyard is a contested resource, and you'll see Hogaak once per game rather than drawing three copies.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Hogaak, Arisen NecropolisInfested ThrinaxAltar of Dementia
Infinite LTB; Infinite ETB; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite death triggers; Infinite mill; Infinite self-mill; Infinite storm count; Infinite creature tokens
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Hogaak, Arisen NecropolisGreater GoodZombie Infestation
Infinite draw triggers; Near-infinite ETB; Near-infinite self-discard triggers; Near-infinite tapped creature tokens
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Hogaak, Arisen NecropolisKorozda GuildmagePhyrexian Altar
Infinite colored mana; Infinite creature tokens; Infinite death triggers; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite storm count
View on Commander Spellbook ↗Hogaak, Arisen NecropolisInfested ThrinaxPhyrexian Altar
Infinite LTB; Infinite ETB; Infinite colored mana; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite death triggers; Infinite storm count; Infinite creature tokens
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Hogaak, Arisen NecropolisInfested ThrinaxViscera Seer
Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite death triggers; Infinite scry 1; Infinite storm count; Infinite creature tokens
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Current price
$1.47 cheap tier
At $1.47, Hogaak, Arisen Necropolis sits in the cheap tier — a Modern ban with no reprint pressure keeping prices down would normally spike a card like this, but casual demand and steady supply have kept it accessible. It's a stable floor, not a bargain waiting to spike.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.