Necron Deathmark
Artifact Creature — Necron
Flash
Synaptic Disintegrator — When this creature enters, destroy up to one target creature and target player mills three cards.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Warhammer 40,000 Commander
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #4672
Necron Deathmark puts a persistent, targeted threat-removal ability on a creature body — the effect is strong enough that Imotekh the Stormlord decks run it in over 75% of builds, and Out of the Tombs gives Necron tribal shells the recursion to reuse it repeatedly. The two-mana cost is low enough that this never feels like a concession.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Imotekh the Stormlord
Imotekh the Stormlord is the natural home — Necron Deathmark slots directly into the Necron tribal package Imotekh incentivizes, and the recursion and synergy density in those decks means you're rarely casting it just once.
Glissa, the Traitor
Glissa, the Traitor kills creatures and returns artifacts from the graveyard, so Necron Deathmark fits on both axes — it's an artifact creature that benefits from the death-trigger loop Glissa enables.
Trazyn the Infinite
Trazyn the Infinite copies abilities of artifact creatures in the graveyard, and Necron Deathmark's ability is exactly the kind of repeatable effect Trazyn wants to imprint and recur across multiple combats.
Henzie "Toolbox" Torre
Henzie "Toolbox" Torre discounts big creatures and rewards blitzing them in for immediate value, and Necron Deathmark's enter-the-battlefield impact makes it a clean blitz target even if it never sticks.
Araumi of the Dead Tide
Araumi of the Dead Tide encores creatures from the graveyard to generate multiple copies, and tripling up on Necron Deathmark's trigger in a single turn can dismantle an opponent's board outright.
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 Necron Deathmark does its real work — the multiplayer threat density means its removal-on-a-stick effect stays relevant all game, and Necron tribal support pushes its ceiling further. Legacy and Vintage are legal but uninterested; the effect isn't efficient enough to compete with the interaction suites those formats run, and there's no tribal payoff to exploit. Oathbreaker is a viable home if you're running a black-based artifact commander, though the format's compressed game length slightly diminishes the value of a recurrable creature. Everywhere else, it's not legal.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Out of the TombsCanoptek SpyderNecron DeathmarkLeveler
Infinite death triggers; Infinite mill; Infinite LTB; Infinite ETB
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.