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Necrodominance

Legendary Enchantment

Skip your draw step.
At the beginning of your end step, you may pay any amount of life. If you do, draw that many cards.
Your maximum hand size is five.
If a card or token would be put into your graveyard from anywhere, exile it instead.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{B}{B}{B}
Color identity
B
Rarity
mythic
Set
Modern Horizons 3
Price
$3.84
EDHREC rank
#4327
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Necrodominance card art
Necrodominance hands you up to five cards every end step — the entire game warps around that raw refueling rate. The cost is steep: your maximum hand size drops to five, you lose the ability to draw outside your end step, and every card you pull costs a life, so running it in Appa, Steadfast Guardian or Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh // Silas Renn, Seeker Adept decks built to weaponize that life loss is the correct context, not a fair midrange pile.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Rograkh, Son of RohgahhSilas Renn, Seeker Adept

Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh // Silas Renn, Seeker Adept

62.6% of decks · synergy 0.61

Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh // Silas Renn, Seeker Adept is the defining Necrodominance shell — the deck is already a fast-mana storm engine that wants to dump its hand and refuel, so pulling five fresh pieces each end step at the cost of five life is a bargain when you're goldfishing a win on turn three.

02
Sheoldred, the Apocalypse

Sheoldred, the Apocalypse

22.8% of decks · synergy 0.20

Sheoldred, the Apocalypse turns the life drain from Necrodominance into a two-way engine: opponents lose two life for each draw they take while you're paying life to draw, and Sheoldred offsets some of that loss by punishing every card an opponent draws in response.

03
Queza, Augur of Agonies

Queza, Augur of Agonies

14.9% of decks · synergy 0.14

Queza, Augur of Agonies converts each Necrodominance draw directly into damage and life loss for opponents, meaning the five-cards-for-five-life transaction effectively reads as a mass ping package stapled to a refuel.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

In Commander, Necrodominance is a role-player rather than a universal staple — it demands a deck built around the constraint, not just a black deck that wants more cards. Legacy is where it earned its reputation, slotting into Ad Nauseam-adjacent shells that can win the turn they resolve it or the following end step. Modern gives it a similar home, though the format's interaction density makes the no-draw-until-end-step clause more punishing. Vintage has better draw options that don't cost life or restrict hand size, so it sees minimal play there. Across all formats, the verdict is the same: Necrodominance is a build-around engine that wins games when the deck earns it and drains you dry when it doesn't.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$3.84 cheap tier

At $3.84, Necrodominance is priced as a role-player rare rather than a format staple, which undervalues how format-warping it is in the right shell. That price holds as long as it stays out of the competitive spike spotlight, but dedicated combo builds in Legacy and Commander keep steady demand on it.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.