Undercity Necrolisk
Creature — Zombie Lizard
, Sacrifice another creature: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. It gains menace until end of turn. Activate only as a sorcery. (It can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Guilds of Ravnica
- Price
- $0.16
- EDHREC rank
- #25596
Undercity Necrolisk is a repeatable sacrifice outlet that grows with each body you feed it, making it a genuine engine piece in aristocrats and graveyard shells. The cost — four mana for a 2/3 that needs creatures to kill things — means it earns its slot only when you're already flooding the board with sacrifice fodder.
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 |
Undercity Necrolisk is a Commander card through and through — the format's longer games give it the time to accumulate counters and find its sacrifice targets. In Legacy, Modern, or Pioneer, a four-mana creature that can't immediately affect the board is too slow against the interaction density those formats demand. Oathbreaker shares enough of Commander's pace that it's at least playable there, but the 20-life format compresses timelines enough to make it a fringe inclusion at best.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.16 bulk tier
At $0.16, Undercity Necrolisk is deep bulk — the kind of card you pick out of a common box without thinking twice. Bulk rares with niche-but-real Commander applications tend to stay at this floor indefinitely, so there's no urgency either way.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.