Necropolis Fiend
Creature — Demon
Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for 
.)
Flying
, 
, Exile X cards from your graveyard: Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn.
- CMC
- 9
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Fate Reforged Clash Pack
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #17078
Necropolis Fiend lands as a massive flying demon that converts your graveyard into repeatable, targeted removal — every creature you exile from the bin pays down -X/-X on something that needs to die. The setup cost is real: you need a loaded graveyard to get full value, but a stocked bin makes it one of the most threatening finishers black can offer.
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 |
Commander is where Necropolis Fiend does its best work — graveyard-centric black strategies like Meren of Clan Nel Toth, Wilhelt the Rotcleaver, or any self-mill shell will have the graveyard depth to fire the ability multiple times a turn cycle. In Legacy and Vintage, the competition at seven mana is brutal and the ability is too slow against the formats' combo density, so it sees virtually no play. Modern and Pioneer have the same problem: seven mana is a non-starter without a dedicated reanimator shell, and even then, more efficient threats exist. Necropolis Fiend is a Commander card through and through.
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Price Context
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.