Printings
Necrotic Wound
Card Information
Type: Instant
Mana Cost: 
CMC: 1
Part of the Reserved List: No
Color Identity:
Set: Foundations Jumpstart (J25)
Rarity: Uncommon
Collector Number: 470
Oracle Text
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.
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Format Legalities
Card Rulings
- October 5, 2018
If you have no creature cards in your graveyard, the target creature gets -0/-0, and it will still be exiled if it would die this turn.
Source: wotc - October 5, 2018
Necrotic Wound's replacement effect will exile the target creature if it would die this turn for any reason, not just immediately after Necrotic Wound resolves.
Source: wotc - October 5, 2018
The value of X is determined only as the undergrowth ability resolves. If the number of creature cards in your graveyard changes later in the turn, the target creature is unaffected.
Source: wotc - October 5, 2018
Creature cards with other types, such as artifact creature cards, count for undergrowth abilities.
Source: wotc - October 5, 2018
Because tokens aren't cards, they never count for undergrowth abilities.
Source: wotc
Price History
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