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Necropolis Fiend

Creature — Demon7 generic manaBlack manaBlack mana

The 4/5 flying body carries a nine-mana price tag that almost nobody pays in full: fill the graveyard, exile it card by card, and the flyer lands for a fraction of the printed cost. What separates this Demon from other delve creatures is that the graveyard keeps working after it resolves. The same yard that cheated it onto the battlefield feeds an activated ability that shrinks a creature by X/X for X, a tap, and X more cards exiled. That shared resource is the design's real tension. Cards you spend to cheat out the body are cards no longer available to power the removal engine, so a fast cast leaves a thin yard to draw from later, and the X generic mana on each activation means even a stocked graveyard never makes the removal free. Flying gives the body evasion that a single -X/-X activation on a blocker can widen, and a deep graveyard turns the ability into repeatable point removal that scales with how long the game runs. The card wants a deck that refills the yard faster than it spends it, a harder balancing act than the casting discount suggests, and the reason this Demon plays as a grindy control finisher rather than a cheap beater: every point of value it extracts, on the way in and every turn after, comes out of the same shrinking pile.

Necropolis Fiend (pktk)
PKTK · #82srare
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for 1 generic mana.) Flying X generic mana, Tap, Exile X cards from your graveyard: Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
Printings elsewhere

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