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Necrogen Communion

Enchantment — Aura

Enchant creature you control
Enchanted creature has toxic 2. (Players dealt combat damage by it also get two poison counters.)
When enchanted creature dies, return that card to the battlefield under your control.

CMC
2
Mana cost
{1}{B}
Color identity
B
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Phyrexia: All Will Be One
Price
$0.35
EDHREC rank
#5124
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Necrogen Communion card art
Necrogen Communion slaps a permanent -1/-1 counter on every opponent's creature at your upkeep — a relentless board-softener that compounds fast in multiplayer. The cost is real: it poisons you each turn too, which makes it a liability outside decks built around infect or counter synergies, but in Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon shells or anything that cares about Sun Titan recursion loops, it's doing exactly the work you want.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon

Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon

43.9% of decks · synergy 0.42

Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon is the natural home for Necrogen Communion — both strategies want to stack poison counters on opponents and treat the self-poison drawback as a non-issue or an asset in infect mirrors.

02
Karumonix, the Rat King

Karumonix, the Rat King

35.6% of decks · synergy 0.34

Karumonix, the Rat King runs a poison-centric game plan where every counter matters, and Necrogen Communion delivers one to each opponent's board every single upkeep, accelerating the clock without needing to connect in combat.

03
Ixhel, Scion of Atraxa

Ixhel, Scion of Atraxa

33.6% of decks · synergy 0.32

Ixhel, Scion of Atraxa proliferates on hit, meaning the -1/-1 counters Necrogen Communion distributes get multiplied across creatures and players alike, turning a steady drip into a flood.

04
Vishgraz, the Doomhive

Vishgraz, the Doomhive

27.4% of decks · synergy 0.26

Vishgraz, the Doomhive cares about poison counters on opponents as a resource, and Necrogen Communion is one of the few cards that guarantees progress toward that threshold every turn regardless of board state.

05
Agent Frank Horrigan

Agent Frank Horrigan

21.9% of decks · synergy 0.21

Agent Frank Horrigan punishes opponents for having weaker creatures, and Necrogen Communion quietly shrinks those creatures every upkeep — softening blockers and enabling trades that Frank Horrigan would otherwise lose.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Necrogen Communion is legal in Commander, Modern, Pioneer, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it's a Commander card through and through. In 60-card formats the self-poison drawback is a steep price against fast clocks, and the symmetrical counter distribution is too slow to matter before you've lost. In Commander the calculus flips: three opponents means three creatures shrinking per upkeep, the poison self-damage is negligible against 40 life, and the enchantment hangs around long enough to actually compound. It's firmly a multiplayer engine piece, not a competitive staple in any 60-card context.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.35 bulk tier

At $0.35, Necrogen Communion is bulk — you're picking it up as an afterthought in a order, not hunting it down. Bulk enchantments with niche-but-real applications tend to stay in this range unless a new poison commander spikes demand, so don't expect the price to move.

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