Necromantic Selection
Commander 2017 (C17) #117 · Rare · Sorcery
Mana cost: {4}{B}{B}{B}
Destroy all creatures, then return a creature card put into a graveyard this way to the battlefield under your control. It's a black Zombie in addition to its other colors and types. Exile Necromantic Selection.
It shambled from the cloud of ash and bone dust, undeterred by its own extinction.
Illustrated by Dave Kendall · Released August 25, 2017
Prices
- Nonfoil: $0.35 USD · €0.34 EUR
Nonfoil price since August 29, 2026: down $0.26 USD (42.6%) to $0.35 USD; low $0.32 USD, high $0.64 USD.
Printings
- Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander #189 (TDC) · Rare · 2025 · $0.30 USD
- Starter Commander Decks #94 (SCD) · Rare · 2022 · $0.29 USD
- Forgotten Realms Commander #103 (AFC) · Rare · 2021 · $0.34 USD
- Zendikar Rising Commander #48 (ZNC) · Rare · 2020 · $0.32 USD
- Commander 2017 #117 (this printing) · Rare · 2017 · $0.35 USD
- Commander 2014 #26 (C14) · Rare · 2014 · $0.37 USD
Legality
- Standard: Not legal
- Alchemy: Not legal
- Pioneer: Not legal
- Historic: Not legal
- Modern: Not legal
- Brawl: Not legal
- Legacy: Legal
- Timeless: Not legal
- Vintage: Legal
- Pauper: Not legal
- Commander: Legal
- Penny: Not legal
- Oathbreaker: Legal
- Duel: Legal
Rulings
- 2014-11-07 · wotc — If the creature is normally colorless, it will simply become black. It can't be both black and colorless.
- 2014-11-07 · wotc — Necromantic Selection doesn't overwrite any of the creature's colors or types. Rather, it adds another color and another creature type.
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