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Necropotence
Enchantment
mythic
Skip your draw step. Whenever you discard a card, exile that card from your graveyard. Pay 1 life: Exile the top card of your library face down. Put that card into your hand at the beginning of your next end step.
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A spell that replaces itself by drawing a card as part of its resolution.
Puts additional cards into your hand. Includes direct draw, 'look/reveal and put into hand' effects, and conditional draw triggers.
Benefits from discarding cards — madness, Waste Not effects, Oskar strategies.
Benefits from discarding cards — madness, Waste Not effects, Oskar strategies.
Punishes or prevents opponents from drawing extra cards.
Exiles cards from graveyards or prevents graveyard interaction. Shuts down recursion, flashback, and graveyard-matters strategies.
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.
Prevents or punishes life gain — Erebos, Leyline of Punishment.
A keyword ability that lets a player cast a card they discard. See rule 702.35, “Madness.”
A keyword ability that lets a player cast a card they discard. See rule 702.35, “Madness.”
A card or token on the battlefield. See rule 110, “Permanents.”
Prevents players from searching their libraries. Shuts down tutors and fetchlands.
Cares about or manipulates the top card(s) of your library. Includes scry, surveil, and top-deck payoffs.
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Printings (14)
| Set | Rarity | TCGplayer | Card Kingdom | Cardmarket |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wilds of Eldraine: Enchanting Tales#31 | mythic | · | · | · |
| Wilds of Eldraine: Enchanting Tales#74 | mythic | · | · | · |
| Wilds of Eldraine: Enchanting Tales#94 | mythic | · | · | · |
| Secret Lair Countdown#1995 | mythic | · | · | · |
| Iconic Masters#98 | mythic | · | · | · |
| Eternal Masters#98 | mythic | · | · | · |
| Vintage Masters#130 | rare | · | · | · |
| From the Vault: Exiled#9 | mythic | · | · | · |
| Masters Edition II#107 | rare | · | · | · |
| Deckmasters#7 | rare | · | · | · |
| Oversized League Prizes#21 | rare | · | · | · |
| Fifth Edition#182 | rare | · | · | · |
| Pro Tour Collector Set#ll154 | rare | · | · | · |
| Ice Age#154 | rare | · | · | · |
Related Rules
If an ability would produce one or more mana of an undefined type, it produces no mana instead.
Some abilities produce mana based on the type of mana another permanent or permanents “could produce.” The type of mana a permanent could produce at any time includes any type of mana that an ability of that permanent would produce if the ability were to resolve at that time, taking into account any applicable replacement effects in any possible order. Ignore whether any costs of the ability could or could not be paid. If that permanent wouldn’t produce any mana under these conditions, or no type of mana can be defined this way, there’s no type of mana it could produce.
To “tap [a permanent] for mana” is to activate a mana ability of that permanent that includes the {T} symbol in its activation cost. See rule 605, “Mana Abilities.”
An ability that triggers whenever a permanent “is tapped for mana” or is tapped for mana of a specified type triggers whenever such a mana ability resolves and produces mana or the specified type of mana.
A replacement effect that applies if a permanent “is tapped for mana” or tapped for mana of a specific type and/or amount modifies the mana production event while such an ability is resolving and producing mana or the specified type and/or amount of mana.
If an object’s enters-the-battlefield triggered ability or replacement effect refers to X, and the spell that became that object as it resolved had a value of X chosen for any of its costs, the value of X for that ability is the same as the value of X for that spell, although the value of X for that permanent is 0. This is an exception to rule 107.3i.
The tap symbol is {T}. The tap symbol in an activation cost means “Tap this permanent.” A permanent that’s already tapped can’t be tapped again to pay the cost. A creature’s activated ability with the tap symbol in its activation cost can’t be activated unless the creature has been under its controller’s control continuously since their most recent turn began. See rule 302.6.
The untap symbol is {Q}. The untap symbol in an activation cost means “Untap this permanent.” A permanent that’s already untapped can’t be untapped again to pay the cost. A creature’s activated ability with the untap symbol in its activation cost can’t be activated unless the creature has been under its controller’s control continuously since their most recent turn began. See rule 302.6.
Rulings
Necropotence's last ability creates a delayed triggered ability that will put the exiled card into your hand. That ability still triggers even if Necropotence is removed from the battlefield before your end step.
If a discarded card isn't put into your graveyard (due to an effect such as that of Obstinate Baloth) or leaves your graveyard (perhaps because another effect returned it to your hand), it won't be exiled.
If you discard a card with madness and wish to cast it, Necropotence's ability won't exile that card. If you don't wish to cast it, you choose whether it ends up exiled or in your graveyard.
You can't look at the cards exiled by the last ability while they're face down.