Necromantic Selection
Sorcery
Destroy all creatures, then return a creature card put into a graveyard this way to the battlefield under your control. It's a black Zombie in addition to its other colors and types. Exile Necromantic Selection.
- CMC
- 7
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Forgotten Realms Commander
- Price
- $0.34
- EDHREC rank
- #3280
Necromantic Selection wipes the board and hands you the best creature in every graveyard as a 4/4 black Zombie — all for seven mana at sorcery speed. The cost is real, but the swing is decisive; commanders like Hidetsugu and Kairi that copy spells for free turn a single cast into two board wipes and two stolen bodies, at which point the price tag stops mattering.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Hidetsugu and Kairi
Hidetsugu and Kairi tops the chart because its death trigger casts the top instant or sorcery from your library for free — hit Necromantic Selection off that trigger and you've wiped twice and stolen two creatures without spending extra mana.
Gisa and Geralf
Gisa and Geralf mills your library into your graveyard and casts Zombies from it each turn, so Necromantic Selection pulling your best stolen creature back as a 4/4 Zombie feeds directly into the reanimation loop.
Teval, the Balanced Scale
Teval, the Balanced Scale churns through enter-the-graveyard and leave-the-graveyard triggers, and Necromantic Selection's mass removal followed by a Zombie token gives the deck a clean reset that also fuels Teval's counters engine.
Anowon, the Ruin Thief
Anowon, the Ruin Thief mills opponents on every Rogue combat trigger, and Necromantic Selection lets the deck pivot from mill-aggro to stealing the best creature milled so far while clearing the board of anything that stopped the attack.
Sefris of the Hidden Ways
Sefris of the Hidden Ways triggers dungeon ventures whenever a creature lands in your graveyard, and Necromantic Selection dumps an entire board into graveyards at once before handing you a Zombie — triggering Sefris and advancing the dungeon chain in one shot.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Necromantic Selection earns its slot — multiplayer boards fill up fast, and a seven-mana sorcery that clears everything and nets the best creature from any of four graveyards scales better here than almost anywhere else. In Vintage and Legacy it's legal but unplayable; seven mana at sorcery speed is generationally slow in formats defined by turn-one kills and Force of Will. Oathbreaker follows similar logic to Commander but on a compressed game length, making the card a borderline include at best unless your meta runs out enough late-game threats to justify the slot.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Necromantic SelectionDualcaster Mage
Infinite death triggers; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite magecraft triggers
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Necromantic SelectionNaru Meha, Master Wizard
Infinite death triggers; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite magecraft triggers
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Current price
$0.34 bulk tier
At $0.34, Necromantic Selection sits firmly in bulk territory, which is a genuine bargain for a spell that combines mass removal and reanimation on a single card. Bulk rares at this effect density rarely spike hard, but this one sees enough Commander play that copies should stay easy to find at this price.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.