Ludevic, Necrogenius // Olag, Ludevic's Hubris
Legendary Creature — Human Wizard // Legendary Creature — Zombie
Whenever Ludevic enters or attacks, mill a card.
, Exile X creature cards from your graveyard: Transform Ludevic. X can't be 0. Activate only as a sorcery.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BU
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Innistrad: Midnight Hunt Promos
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #20203
Ludevic, Necrogenius // Olag, Ludevic's Hubris trades the slow self-mill setup for a payoff that scales with graveyard size — flip it with enough creatures in the yard and Olag enters as a massive, keyword-stacked threat that ends games. The cost is real: four mana plus the flip condition means you need a dedicated self-mill engine, and cards like Mirror-Mad Phantasm do the heavy lifting to make Olag reliably enormous.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Ludevic, Necrogenius // Olag, Ludevic's Hubris belongs — the 100-card singleton format gives self-mill decks enough redundancy to flip it consistently, and Olag's enters-the-battlefield power level is calibrated for multiplayer tables where you need a haymaker. In Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer the card is technically legal but competes against faster, more consistent threats that don't require a flip condition; no competitive shell is asking for it. Oathbreaker could support a graveyard-focused build, but the smaller deck size and planeswalker-commander constraint make the setup harder to assemble.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Ludevic, Necrogenius // Olag, Ludevic's HubrisMirror-Mad Phantasm
Infinite self-mill
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Enduring Angel // Angelic EnforcerLudevic, Necrogenius // Olag, Ludevic's Hubris
Your life total can't be reduced to 0 or less; Lock
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Current price
unknown tier
No current price data is available for Ludevic, Necrogenius // Olag, Ludevic's Hubris, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for live listings before buying. Given its niche appeal as a build-around in Commander graveyard decks, it typically sits in the budget-to-mid range — worth picking up if you're already committed to the archetype.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Mirror-Mad Phantasm
- Enduring Angel // Angelic Enforcer
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.