Necropolis
Artifact Creature — Wall
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Exile a creature card from your graveyard: Put X +0/+1 counters on this creature, where X is the exiled card's mana value.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- The Dark
- Price
- $1.51
- EDHREC rank
- #23655
Necropolis turns your graveyard into a cost-reduction engine, letting you exile your own dead creatures to pay for new spells — free value if you're already generating a body count. The catch is that you're trading recursion potential for speed, so it earns its slot only when the creatures in your bin were never coming back anyway.
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 Necropolis does its best work — graveyard-heavy black decks like sacrifice loops, reanimator, and aristocrats constantly fill the bin with creatures that have already served their purpose, giving Necropolis a steady fuel supply. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but effectively unplayed; those formats move too fast for a zero-mana artifact that asks you to accrue a graveyard before it does anything. Oathbreaker shares enough of Commander's midrange pace that the same shells that want it there could run it, though the smaller deck size means graveyard saturation arrives less reliably.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$1.51 cheap tier
At $1.51, Necropolis sits in budget territory with essentially no financial risk to try. It's a narrow enough card that demand is unlikely to spike it meaningfully, so you're buying a cheap experiment rather than a staple.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.