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Necromantic Selection

Necromantic Selection

Sorcery

rare

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.

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Semantic Tags

Board Wipemechanical

Removes multiple permanents at once. Includes destroy-all, exile-all, mass bounce, and damage-based sweepers.

Cards that directly win the game or threaten to end it quickly. Includes 'you win the game' effects and massive threats.

Exiles cards from graveyards or prevents graveyard interaction. Shuts down recursion, flashback, and graveyard-matters strategies.

Cares about cards in the graveyard, puts cards into the graveyard, or benefits from things dying.

Cares about cards in the graveyard, puts cards into the graveyard, or benefits from things dying.

Puts creatures into the graveyard then returns them to the battlefield cheaply.

Undyingvector

A keyword ability that can return a creature from the graveyard to the battlefield. See rule 702.93, “Undying.”

Format Legality

commanderlegal
oathbreakerlegal
modernnot legal
pioneernot legal
standardnot legal
legacylegal
vintagelegal
paupernot legal
historicnot legal
explorernot legal
alchemynot legal

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Printings (6)

Related Rules

702.93

Undying

702.93a

Undying is a triggered ability. “Undying” means “When this permanent is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, if it had no +1/+1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner’s control with a +1/+1 counter on it.”

704.8

If a state-based action results in a permanent leaving the battlefield at the same time other state-based actions were performed, that permanent’s last known information is derived from the game state before any of those state-based actions were performed.

Rulings

2014-11-07

If the creature is normally colorless, it will simply become black. It can't be both black and colorless.

2014-11-07

Necromantic Selection doesn't overwrite any of the creature's colors or types. Rather, it adds another color and another creature type.