Dread Summons
Commander 2015 20 • rare
- Set
- Commander 2015
- Collector number
- 20
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana cost
- X mana black mana black mana
- Type
- Sorcery
- Colors
- Black
- Artist
- Izzy
- Market price
- $0.43
What it does
Each player mills X cards. For each creature card put into a graveyard this way, you create a tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature token. (To mill a card, a player puts the top card of their library into their graveyard.)
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Where you can play it
- StandardLegal
- PioneerLegal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlLegal
- HistoricLegal
- TimelessLegal
- Penny DreadfulLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Dread Summons was first printed in the Commander 2015 set, released by Wizards of the Coast to support the multiplayer Commander format. The card was designed as a high-impact sorcery intended to reward players for committing to a black-aligned graveyard strategy, allowing them to mill opponents and convert that discarded library into an army of tapped zombie tokens. Its inclusion in the 'Plunder the Graves' deck highlighted the set's focus on attrition-based gameplay and resource recursion.
The artwork for this card was created by Aleksi Briclot, a prolific fantasy illustrator whose work is a cornerstone of the Magic: The Gathering visual identity. Briclot utilized a dark, visceral aesthetic to emphasize the necromantic theme of the spell, depicting a mass rising of the undead that mirrors the card's mechanical effect. Upon its release, the card was well-received by the Commander community for its ability to scale effectively as a game progresses, becoming a staple inclusion for mill and tribal zombie decks.
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