Necrotic Wound
Guilds of Ravnica 79 • uncommon
- Set
- Guilds of Ravnica
- Collector number
- 79
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Mana cost
- black mana
- Type
- Instant
- Colors
- Black
- Artist
- Randy Vargas
- Market price
- $0.13
What it does
Undergrowth — Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of creature cards in your graveyard. If that creature would die this turn, exile it instead.
The assassins of the Ochran distill toxins from the remains of their previous victims.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerLegal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlLegal
- HistoricLegal
- TimelessLegal
- Penny DreadfulNot legal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Necrotic Wound was introduced in the 2018 Magic: The Gathering set Guilds of Ravnica, a release that revisited the iconic city-plane of Ravnica. The card was designed as a thematic piece for the Golgari Swarm, the faction synonymous with the cycle of life and death, and it functions as a scaling removal spell that rewards players for managing the size of their own graveyard.
The artwork was commissioned from illustrator Randy Vargas, who utilized a moody, organic aesthetic to represent the grotesque power of Golgari necromancy. His illustration captures the essence of decay and reclamation central to the guild's identity, and the card was received as a functional, utility-focused uncommon that solidified the graveyard-centric strategy prevalent in that environment.
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