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Necrosynthesis

Enchantment — Aura1 generic manaBlack mana

Two payoffs stacked on one Aura, and both ask the same thing of you: keep the board dying. The counter-accrual clause turns the enchanted creature into a reservoir for every other creature that hits the graveyard, yours or anyone's, so in a grinding attrition game the host grows without you spending a card. That growth is not the reward; it is the fuel. The death trigger digs a number of cards equal to the creature's power, which means the whole design is engineered to be sacrificed once it is fat. You are not protecting the enchanted creature: you are fattening it precisely so that trading it away or feeding it to a sacrifice outlet returns the deepest possible dig. The tension is that the counters live on a body that dies eventually, and the card wants that death, so any incidental destruction your opponent aims at the host is really them helping you cash the enchantment in. Aura-based card advantage has always fought against the two-for-one risk (kill the creature, the Aura dies with it, you are down two cards), and this design inverts that math: the creature dying is the moment you finally profit. Even a one-power host replaces the Aura by looking at the top card and taking it; the dig simply gets deeper the more fodder you were willing to spend, so the reward scales cleanly with how far you grew it before letting it go.

Necrosynthesis (mid)
MID · #115uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.25
Foil: $0.27
Oracle Text

Rules text

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has "Whenever another creature dies, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature." When enchanted creature dies, look at the top X cards of your library, where X is its power. Put one of those cards into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
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
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
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