Necron Dynasties Precon: Decklist, Value, and Verdict
Everything in the Necron Dynasties Commander deck: all 100 cards with current prices, what the deck is worth against the sealed price, the 42 new cards, and whether it is worth buying.
Szarekh, the Silent King
Flying My Will Be Done — Whenever Szarekh attacks, mill three cards. You may put an artifact creature card or Vehicle card from among the cards milled this way into your hand.
Is Necron Dynasties worth buying?
Mono-black is very dear to my heart. It’s a deck that made me fall in love with Pauper, and I’ve always enjoyed making it work in other formats, especially Legacy. This deck’s very enjoyable to play and is probably the most powerful for “competitive” play with such a succinct and well-supported theme.
How Necron Dynasties plays
The commanders for Necron Dynasties are Szarekh, the Silent King and Imotekh the Stormlord. The necrons are basically an army of robotic skeleton warriors, so putting them in black and making them artifact creatures makes a lot of sense. The themes are fairly transparent here too.
The deck is entirely based around both artifacts and doing what black does best, self-mill and graveyard recursion. Although Szarekh is the face commander, I actually like Imotekh a fair bit more. It really comes down to whether or not you think it’s best to have an enabler or a payoff as your commander, since Szarekh mills you while Imotekh rewards you for getting stuff out of your graveyard once it’s milled. The commanders work really well in tandem with each other. I almost wish they were partner commanders of some sort.
Most valuable cards in Necron Dynasties
The 42 new cards
Szarekh, the Silent King$0.57
Imotekh the Stormlord$7.20
Anrakyr the Traveller$3.07
Biotransference$7.25
Chronomancer$1.60
Cryptek$1.06
Illuminor Szeras$6.27
Lokhust Heavy Destroyer$0.45
Lychguard$0.36
Necron Deathmark$4.16
Necron Overlord$0.53
Out of the Tombs$10.08
Royal Warden$0.58
Shard of the Nightbringer$3.99
Shard of the Void Dragon$1.55
Skorpekh Lord$2.82
Technomancer$0.60
Their Name Is Death$9.47
Their Number Is Legion$0.93
Tomb Blade$0.35
Trazyn the Infinite$1.22
Triarch Stalker$0.39
The War in Heaven$0.62
Canoptek Scarab Swarm$11.45
Canoptek Spyder$11.47
Canoptek Tomb Sentinel$1.65
Canoptek Wraith$3.06
Convergence of Dominion$0.87
Cryptothrall$23.07
Ghost Ark$0.41
Necron Monolith$0.89
Resurrection Orb$13.75
Sceptre of Eternal Glory$14.70
Tomb Fortress$4.57
Flayed One$0.36
Hexmark Destroyer$0.39
Plasmancer$0.33
Psychomancer$1.13
Sautekh Immortal$0.34
Skorpekh Destroyer$0.33
Triarch Praetorian$1.55
Night Scythe$0.59Necron Dynasties decklist
Commander 1
- 1Szarekh, the Silent Kingfoil$0.57
Creatures 29
- 1Chronomancer$1.60
- 1Psychomancer$1.13
- 1Triarch Praetorian$1.55
- 1Canoptek Wraith$3.06
- 1Flayed One$0.36
- 1Illuminor Szeras$6.27
- 1Lychguard$0.36
- 1Sautekh Immortal$0.34
- 1Skorpekh Lord$2.82
- 1Canoptek Scarab Swarm$11.45
- 1Canoptek Tomb Sentinel$1.65
- 1Cryptek$1.06
- 1Cryptothrall$23.07
- 1Imotekh the Stormlordfoil$7.20
- 1Lokhust Heavy Destroyer$0.45
- 1Necron Overlord$0.53
- 1Plasmancer$0.33
- 1Skorpekh Destroyer$0.33
- 1Anrakyr the Traveller$3.07
- 1Canoptek Spyder$11.47
- 1Necron Deathmark$4.16
- 1Royal Warden$0.58
- 1Triarch Stalker$0.39
- 1Hexmark Destroyer$0.39
- 1Tomb Blade$0.35
- 1Trazyn the Infinite$1.22
- 1Shard of the Void Dragon$1.55
- 1Technomancer$0.60
- 1Shard of the Nightbringer$3.99
Instants 3
- 1Darkness$13.43
- 1Defile$2.23
- 1Go for the Throat$0.69
Sorceries 6
- 1Dread Return$0.90
- 1Mutilate$2.77
- 1Their Number Is Legion$0.93
- 1Beacon of Unrest$1.00
- 1Living Death$5.44
- 1Their Name Is Death$9.47
Artifacts 21
- 1Sol Ring$3.50
- 1Wayfarer's Bauble$0.66
- 1Arcane Signet$2.10
- 1Cranial Plating$0.97
- 1Endless Atlas$2.45
- 1Mask of Memory$1.42
- 1Mind Stone$0.46
- 1Resurrection Orb$13.75
- 1Thought Vessel$3.56
- 1Commander's Sphere$0.35
- 1Convergence of Dominion$0.87
- 1Night Scythe$0.59
- 1Sculpting Steel$3.23
- 1Unstable Obelisk$0.37
- 1Ghost Ark$0.41
- 1Hedron Archive$0.53
- 1Mystic Forge$4.21
- 1Sceptre of Eternal Glory$14.70
- 1Gilded Lotus$2.21
- 1Caged Sun$4.31
- 1Necron Monolith$0.89
Enchantments 3
- 1Out of the Tombs$10.08
- 1Biotransference$7.25
- 1The War in Heaven$0.62
Lands 37
- 1Barren Moor$0.39
- 1Desert of the Glorified$0.34
- 1Myriad Landscape$1.01
- 1Polluted Mire$0.31
- 1Reliquary Tower$5.85
- 30Swamp$0.00
- 1Tomb Fortress$4.57
- 1Vault of Whispers$5.12
Upgrading Necron Dynasties
The first and most important thing I intend to address in this deck is the command zone. Szarekh’s a fine card, but you can do more with your commander. I recommend putting Anrakyr the Traveller in charge; it’s a powerful spell that cheats big artifacts into play from the graveyard or your hand. It does so much more for deck, and several of the cards I’m adding were chosen with it in mind.
Draftsim's upgrade guide makes 17 changes to this deck. The first picks (hover for the card):
More on Necron Dynasties and the Warhammer 40,000 precons
- Official Warhammer 40,000 Commander decklists (Wizards of the Coast)
- All 12 Mono-Colored Commander Precons in Magic Ranked by A.L. Walser (October 29, 2026)
- The Best and Easy Way to Upgrade Your Preconstructed Commander Magic Deck by A.L. Walser (July 28, 2026)