Vault 12: The Necropolis
Enchantment — Saga
(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — Each player gets three rad counters.
II — Create X 2/2 black Zombie Mutant creature tokens, where X is the total number of rad counters among players.
III — Put two +1/+1 counters on each creature you control that's a Zombie or Mutant.
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Fallout
- Price
- $0.38
- EDHREC rank
- #6292
Vault 12: The Necropolis puts a poison counter on each opponent whenever a creature dies — every turn, in a multiplayer game, that clock ticks fast. The Wise Mothman turns those poison counters into a board-wide stat pump, so the two cards form a self-reinforcing engine that wins on two axes simultaneously.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
The Wise Mothman
The Wise Mothman proliferates and buffs creatures based on poison counters, making Vault 12: The Necropolis a guaranteed poison-counter engine — every creature death across all players advances both the infect clock and the stat-pump payoff without requiring any extra mana investment.
The Master, Transcendent
The Master, Transcendent clones and steals creatures, generating a steady stream of deaths and enters-the-battlefield triggers; Vault 12: The Necropolis converts that churn into a parallel poison-counter win condition that opponents must answer on top of everything else The Master is doing.
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 the format Vault 12: The Necropolis was built for — three opponents means three separate poison clocks ticking every time any creature on any board dies, and in a 100-card singleton format full of creature-heavy strategies, that clock moves fast. In Legacy and Vintage it's technically legal but competes with far more efficient ways to win, and creature deaths are less reliable as a trigger source in those faster, more spell-dense environments. Oathbreaker offers the same multiplayer poison upside as Commander in a more streamlined game, and the card slots in cleanly to any Simic or infect-adjacent build there.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.38 bulk tier
At $0.38, Vault 12: The Necropolis sits firmly in bulk territory despite appearing in nearly half of all The Wise Mothman decks — high demand hasn't moved the needle because supply from the Fallout Commander precon remains deep. It's a safe pickup at this price with no realistic downside risk.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.