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The Necrobloom

Legendary Creature — Plant

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, create a 0/1 green Plant creature token. If you control seven or more lands with different names, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token instead.
Land cards in your graveyard have dredge 2. (You may return a land card from your graveyard to your hand and mill two cards instead of drawing a card.)

CMC
4
Mana cost
{1}{W}{B}{G}
Color identity
BGW
Rarity
rare
Set
Modern Horizons 3
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#3306
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The Necrobloom card art
The Necrobloom turns every land that enters your graveyard into a free Zombie token, making it an engine card that compounds value every turn it sits on the battlefield. The cost is a four-mana legendary that does nothing the turn it arrives — but in any shell built around The Gitrog Monster or Thalia and The Gitrog Monster, the payoff outruns the setup cost fast enough that the tempo hit barely registers.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Thalia and The Gitrog Monster

Thalia and The Gitrog Monster

48.2% of decks · synergy 0.43

Thalia and The Gitrog Monster is the natural home — the commander pitches lands to the graveyard through its own attack triggers, and The Necrobloom converts every one of those lands into a Zombie token while simultaneously threatening the dredge-loop lines that define the archetype.

02
The Wandering Minstrel

The Wandering Minstrel

24.5% of decks · synergy 0.23

The Wandering Minstrel leans on a wide, token-based go-wide strategy, and The Necrobloom supplies a steady stream of bodies without requiring any extra card slots — just lands hitting the graveyard in the normal course of play.

03
Nethroi, Apex of Death

Nethroi, Apex of Death

19.7% of decks · synergy 0.14

Nethroi, Apex of Death wants the graveyard full of zero-power creatures to reanimate in bulk, and The Necrobloom's Zombie tokens die cheaply and restock the yard, giving Nethroi more targets every time it mutates.

04
Karador, Ghost Chieftain

Karador, Ghost Chieftain

14.2% of decks · synergy 0.09

Karador, Ghost Chieftain reduces its own cost for each creature in the graveyard, and The Necrobloom accelerates that count passively — tokens that die go straight to the yard, shaving mana off Karador turn after turn.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where The Necrobloom does its best work — four mana is acceptable in a 40-life format with ramp, and the Zombie token engine scales well across a long game against multiple opponents. In Legacy and Vintage, it's technically legal but competes with formats where a four-mana do-nothing-immediately enchantment has no realistic place in any competitive shell. Oathbreaker shares enough of Commander's slower, value-oriented pace that The Necrobloom could slot into a graveyard-lands build there, though the smaller deck size and lower life totals compress the window for it to take over.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

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Current pricing data for The Necrobloom isn't available in this snapshot, so check Scryfall or your preferred retailer for the live number. Given its near-50% inclusion rate in Thalia and The Gitrog Monster decks and its role as a combo piece in multiple graveyard archetypes, it tends to hold value — pick it up if you're building into any of those strategies rather than waiting.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.