Necromancer's Stockpile
Enchantment
, Discard a creature card: Draw a card. If the discarded card was a Zombie card, create a tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature token.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Magic 2015
- Price
- $0.27
- EDHREC rank
- #16268
Necromancer's Stockpile turns every Zombie in your hand into a loot effect plus a free 2/2 token — the card advantage and board presence stack fast in the right shell. Zul Ashur, Lich Lord is the premier home because discarding Zombies to the Stockpile feeds directly into his graveyard-count payoffs, making the discard a feature rather than a cost.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Zul Ashur, Lich Lord
Zul Ashur, Lich Lord wants Zombies in the graveyard, and Necromancer's Stockpile is one of the cleanest engines for putting them there while replacing itself and generating a token each time — every activation advances two separate axes of the deck simultaneously.
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 |
Necromancer's Stockpile is Commander-first through and through — the effect scales with the density of Zombies in your deck, and 99-card singleton Zombie tribal lists provide exactly that density. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but essentially invisible; those formats have faster, less creature-dependent engines and no reason to invest two mana in a tribal enchantment. Modern and Pioneer are similarly unfavorable — competitive Zombie strategies there move too linearly to want a build-around that requires hand resources. Commander is the only venue where the Stockpile's incremental card selection and token generation compound into something genuinely threatening.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.27 bulk tier
At $0.27, Necromancer's Stockpile is deep bulk — pick it up from any bargain bin without hesitation. It's a narrow tribal enchantment with a small target audience, so there's no demand pressure pushing the price up.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.