Not Dead After All

Instant

Until end of turn, target creature you control gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control, then create a Wicked Role token attached to it." (Cards can only have one Role attached to it at a time. If there is already a Role attached to it, put that one into the graveyard before attaching this one. Enchanted creature gets +1/+1. When this Aura is put into a graveyard, each opponent loses 1 life.)

Combos

• Archaeomancer + Not Dead After All + Phyrexian Altar

Tokens

• Wicked

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Alchemy	Legal
Arena	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Historic Brawl	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Modern Beyond Horizons	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pauper	Legal
Pauper EDH	Legal
Pioneer	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Pre-release	Legal
Standard	Legal
Standard Brawl	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (21)

Icbrgr on Poison Apple

2 weeks ago

love this commander always love seeing people brew it! +1

Icbrgr on Poison Apple

1 month ago

My brother runs this commander and as much as I hate this commander I absolutely love this commander! Ill be all happy to get a kill spell just for him to Timely Ward/Not Dead After All keeping her alive and adding more auras for more drain/gain. +1 happy brewing!

seshiro_of_the_orochi on Arachnophobia, Webs of Fear (Shelob)

2 months ago

I've had a deck around Shelob for a while. It has since made room for Ygra, Eater of All, but Shelob can definitely do some rather unique things.

First, there is neat tech when having a commander with Ward. Including a number of spells like Snakeskin Veil, Fake Your Own Death and Not Dead After All always make fir great "Gotcha"s when an opponent tries to remove your commander.

Cards like Viridian Longbow are powerful for deathtouchers in general, and for Shelob, it can be easy removal. For even more shenanigans, Thornbite Staff with Longbow can be a one-sided boardwipe.

Finally, Shelob goes infinite with Devoted Druid. Just kill the druid with a spider to get an artifact that untaps infinitely to get infinite {G}. I don't know if this works for your playgroup, but it's quite powerful. Protean Hulk can do similar things, the only problem lies within it being 7 mana to get out.

I wish you all the fun with the deck!

Snap157 on shelob spiders

3 months ago

you are very light on lands for having a 6 mana commander. I would say 38 minimum. I would cut your mana artifacts to make room. You will also want to prioritize jumping from 4 to 6 mana. Think about Explosive Vegetation, Market Festival, or Circuitous Route

With shelob being such a high cmc I would recommend some Undying Evil-style cards. Maybe Not Dead After All, or Undying Malice.

I'm a huge Nyx Weaver fan and it could be cool to have some graveyard synergies as well since you're in the perfect colors for it. Your card draw package is a bit weak and I'm worried about you running out of gas so I would add something like Moonlight Bargain or Harmonize with some Regrowth effects. I also love Arachnus Spinner and Arachnus Web as a removal pair, and Halana, Kessig Ranger is the creme de la creme of pissing off your opponents with everything having deathtouch.

tinhead on Monarch vs Not Dead After …

5 months ago

I am the Monarch and I control a Thorn of the Black Rose. My opponent attacks me with an Oliphaunt and I block with Thorn of the Black Rose. Before combat damage, I resolve Not Dead After All targeting my blocking Thorn of the Black Rose. What happens after combat damage goes through?

My hypothesis is: Since I control the triggered ability that would transfer the monarch and control the triggered ability granted to Thorn of the Black Rose by Not Dead After All, and they triggered during the same chunk of time where only state-based actions are being checked, I get to choose the order in which they go on the stack at the end of my combat damage step. Therefore, I can choose to arrange them such that I retain the monarchy.

Andramalech on Kuroikage

6 months ago

Cloudy I love the suggestions! Let's take that in stages:

1. Persist is a great recommendation and there's tons of options for that: Return to Action which is comically off-target, Supernatural Stamina, Undying Malice, Not Dead After All, Postmortem Lunge, the list literally goes on.

2. Spoils of the Vault is literally meant to lose me the game. What's winning without risking it all for a hail Mary card? ..and why not? We've played the balancing act up until the last moments of the game.. so why not live (and die) a little?

3. If you want to splash white, there's plenty of options to do so! I think most notably you buy back things like Swords to Plowshares so that you can forego dying up against using Spoils of the Vault , and between better life balancing, and (imo) better protection- you could easily play a much more restrained, conqueroring game with Orzhov ({W}{B}) colors.

Best of luck in the build, and make sure you tag me so I can upvote and see what you've decided on!

Bookrook on Mono Black Devotion Pioneer

8 months ago

Not Dead After All is a really bad card outside of scam. I would suggest replacing it with Go for the Throat.

Urzas_Driving_Goggles on How to Lose Friends and Alienate People

9 months ago

Update:

Sideboard- Removed Return to Action, replaced with Not Dead After All. The +1/+1 Wicked Role aura is a bit more punitive.