Ghastly Conscription
Commander 2016 111 • mythic
- Set
- Commander 2016
- Collector number
- 111
- Rarity
- Mythic
- Mana cost
- 5 generic mana black mana black mana
- Type
- Sorcery
- Colors
- Black
- Artist
- YW Tang
- Market price
- $0.28
What it does
Exile all creature cards from target player's graveyard in a face-down pile, shuffle that pile, then manifest those cards. (To manifest a card, put it onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.)
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerLegal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Ghastly Conscription was released as part of the Commander 2016 set for Magic: The Gathering, specifically featured within the Inventive Superiority deck. The card was designed to capitalize on the graveyard-based mechanics prevalent in the Sultai color identity, allowing players to turn an opponent's fallen forces into a personal army of manifest tokens. It serves as a high-mana, high-impact sorcery intended to shift the momentum of a multi-player game by simultaneously denying opponents their resources and filling the battlefield with threats.
The artwork for the card was created by YW Tang, who leaned into the dark, necromantic aesthetic central to the Abzan and Sultai cultures of the Tarkir plane. The illustration emphasizes the unsettling nature of the spell, depicting spirits rising from the earth to serve the caster. The card was received by the player base as a powerful, if situational, late-game engine that perfectly encapsulates the flavor of black-aligned reanimation magic within the complex landscape of Commander-format gameplay.
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