Skip to content
    Community

    Necrotic Plague

    Enchantment — Aura

    Necrotic Plague

    Illustrated by Jaime Jones

    EDHREC Rank #18,189
    Enchant creature Enchanted creature has "At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this creature." When enchanted creature dies, its controller chooses target creature one of their opponents controls. Return this card from its owner's graveyard to the battlefield attached to that creature.

    Rulings (4)

    Necrotic Plague's last ability triggers when the enchanted creature is put into a graveyard for any reason, not just when it's sacrificed due to the ability it grants to that creature. It triggers if it and the creature it's enchanting are both put into the graveyard at the same time, or if the creature it's enchanting is put into the graveyard but Necrotic Plague isn't. (In the second case, Necrotic Plague is then put into the graveyard as a state-based action.)

    Aug 15, 2010

    If no legal target can be chosen for Necrotic Plague's last ability, it just remains in its owner's graveyard. Similarly, if the targeted creature becomes an illegal target by the time the ability resolves, the ability doesn't resolve and Necrotic Plague remains in its owner's graveyard.

    Aug 15, 2010

    Necrotic Plague grants the sacrifice ability to the creature it's enchanting. That means it triggers at the beginning of the upkeep of the creature's controller (not necessarily Necrotic Plague's controller).

    Aug 15, 2010

    Legality

    Formats by platform

    Commander

    Competitive

    Community & retro