Magic: The Gathering – Warhammer 40,000 Commander Deck Previews: Necron Dynasties

Flying

My Will Be Done — Whenever Szarekh, the Silent King attacks, mill three cards. You may put an artifact creature card or Vehicle card from among the cards milled this way into your hand.

Lord of the Pyrrhian Legions — Whenever Anrakyr the Traveller attacks, you may cast an artifact spell from your hand or graveyard by paying life equal to its mana value rather than paying its mana cost.

Creatures you control are artifacts in addition to their other types. The same is true for creature spells you control and creature cards you own that aren’t on the battlefield.

Whenever you cast an artifact spell, you lose 1 life and create a 2/2 black Necron Warrior artifact creature token.

Atomic Transmutation — One generic, tap, Sacrifice another artifact: Draw a card.

Unearth: two generic, one black (Two generic, one black: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

One black, tap: Choose another target artifact creature you control. When that creature dies this turn, return it to the battlefield tapped under your control.

Lifelink

Flesh Flayer — When Flayed One enters the battlefield, mill three cards.

Multi-threat Eliminator — Hexmark Destroyer can’t be blocked except by six or more creatures.

Unearth: Four generic, two black. (Four generic, two black: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

Secrets of the Soul — Tap, Sacrifice another creature: Add an amount of black equal to the sacrificed creature’s mana value.

Phaeron — Whenever one or more artifact cards leave your graveyard, create two 2/2 black Necron Warrior artifact creature token.

Grand Strategist — At the beginning of combat on your turn, another target creature you control gets +2/+2 and gains menace until end of turn.

Flying

Enmitic Exterminator — When Lokhust Heavy Destroyer enters the battlefield, each plater sacrifices a creature.

Unearth: Five generic, three black. (Five generic, three black: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

Guardian Patrols — Three generic, one black, Sacrifice Lychguard: Return all legendary creature cards from your graveyard to your hand.

Flash

Synaptic Disintegrator — When Necron Deathmark enters the battlefield, destroy up to one target creature and target player mills three cards.

Relentless Mind — X generic, Tap, Tap X untapped artifacts you control: Target opponent loses X life.

At the beginning of your upkeep, put two eon counters on Out of the Tombs, then mill cards equal to the number of eon counters on it.

If you would draw a card while your library has no cards in it, instead return a creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. If you can’t, you lose the game.

Flying

Dynastic Advisor — When Plasmancer enters the battlefield, search your library for a basic Swamp card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Flying

Harbinger of Despair — Whenever Psychomancer or another nontoken artifact you control is put into a graveyard from the battlefield or is put into exile from the battlefield, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Phalanx Commander — When Royal Warden enters the battlefield, create two tapped 2/2 black Necron Warrior artifact creature tokens.

Unearth: Three generic, one black. (Three generic, one black: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

Flash

Elite Troops — Sautekh Immortal enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it for each creature that died this turn.

Flying

Drain Life — When Shard of the Nightbringer enters the battlefield, if you cast it, target opponent loses half their life, rounded up. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

Flying

Sphere of the Void Dragon — Whenever Shard of the Void Dragon attacks, each opponent sacrifices a nonland permanent.

Matter Absorption — Whenever an artifact is put into a graveyard from the battlefield or is put into exile from the battlefield, put two +1/+1 counters on Shard of the Void Dragon.

Deathtouch

Hyperphase Threshers — Whenever an artifact enters the battlefield under your control, Skorpekh Destroyer gains first strike until end of turn.

Menace

Command Protocols — Other artifact creatures you control get +1/+0 and have menace.

When Technomancer enters the battlefield, mill three cards, then return any number of artifact creature cards with total mana value 6 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after three.)

One — You draw three cards and you lose 3 life.

Two — Mill three cards.

Three — Choose up to three target creature cards with total mana value 8 or less in your graveyard. Return each of them to the battlefield with a necrodermis counter on it. They’re artifacts in addition to their others types.

Destroy all nonartifact creatures.

Create X tapped 2/2 black Necron Warrior artifact creature tokens, then you gain life equal to the number of artifacts you control. Exile Their Number Is Legion.

You may cast Their Number Is Legion from your graveyard.

Flying

Whenever Tomb Blade deals combat damage to a player, that player loses life equal to the number of creatures they control unless they sacrifice a creature.

Unearth: six generic, two black. (Six generic, two black: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

Tomb Fortress enters the battlefield tapped. Tap: Add one black. Two generic, three black, tap, Exile Tomb Fortress: Mill four cards, then return a creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery.

Deathtouch

Prismatic Gallery — As long as Trazyn the Infinite is on the battlefield, it has all activated abilities of all artifact cards in your graveyard.

Flying

Dynastic Codes — When Triarch Praetorian enters the battlefield from a graveyard, you draw two cards and you lose 2 life.

Unearth: four generic, one black. (Four generic, one black: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

Targeting Relay — At the beginning of combat on your turn, choose an opponent.

Creatures attacking the last chosen player have menace.

Flying

Feeder Mandibles — When Canoptek Scarab Swarm enters the battlefield, exile target player’s graveyard. For each artifact or land card exiled this way, create a 1/1 colorless Insect artifact creature token with flying.

Flying

Fabricator Claw Array — Whenever another nontoken artifact creature or Vehicle enters the battlefield under your control, draw a card.

Vigilance

Exile Cannon — When Canoptek Tomb Sentinel enters the battlefield from a graveyard, exile up to one target nonland permanent.

Unearth: seven generic. (Seven generic: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

Wraith Form — Canoptek Wraith can’t be blocked.

Transdimensional Scout — When Canoptek Wraith deals combat damage to a player, you may pay three generic and sacrifice it. If you do, search your library for up to two basic land cards with the same name as a land you control, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Dynastic Command Node — As long as you control your commander, activated abilities of cards in your graveyard cost two generic less to activate. This effect can’t reduce the mana in that ability’s activation cost to less than one mana.

Translocation Protocols — three generic, tap: Mill three cards.

Protector — Other artifact creatures you control have hexproof.

Flying

Repair Barge — Whenever Ghost Ark becomes crewed, each artifact creature card in your graveyard gains unearth: three generic until end of turn.

Crew 2 (Tap any number of creatures you control with total power two or more: This Vehicle becomes an artifact creature until end of turn.)

Flying, indestructible

Eternity Gate — Whenever Necron Monolith attacks, mill three cards. For each creature card milled this way, create a 2/2 black Necron Warrior artifact creature token.

Crew 4 (Tap any number of creatures you control with total power four or more: This Vehicle becomes an artifact creature until end of turn.)

Flying

Invasion Beams — When Night Scythe enters the battlefield, create a 2/2 black Necron Warrior artifact creature token. Crew 2 (Tap any number of creatures you control with total power two or more: This Vehicle becomes an artifact creature until end of turn.)

Equipped creature has lifelink.

Whenever equipped creature dies, return that card to the battlefield under its owner’s control at the beginning of the next end step.

Equip: four generic. (Four generic: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Tap: Add one mana of any color.

Tap: Add three mana of any one color. Activate only if you control three or more lands with the same name.