Dread Summons — Feed the Grave, Raise the Horde
Dread Summons is a compact engine for graveyard strategies and a solid turn finisher in black midrange decks. Casting Dread Summons for a high X turns simultaneous milling into board presence, because each creature card sent to the graveyard creates a tapped 2/2 black Zombie token. The card reads cleanly as Each player mills X cards. For each creature card put into a graveyard this way, you create a tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature token. That interaction makes it effective both as disruption and as token generation against decks that rely on creature topdecks or shallow libraries.
Use Dread Summons to refill a stalled board, trigger sacrifice outlets, or fuel graveyard recursion. It pairs naturally with delve, flashback, and self mill because you can turn what would be a drawback into board development. The flavor nod from Liliana Vess ties the effect into the Foundations set tone and hints at the card slotting smoothly into black commander shells that value incremental advantage. Add it to a sideboard or main deck when you want predictable token output and predictable graveyard depth. Pick it up and lean into the graveyard plan.
Card Details:
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Mana Cost – {X}{B}{B}
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Card Type – Sorcery
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Card Text / Rules Text (Printed) – Each player mills X cards. For each creature card put into a graveyard this way, you create a tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature token. (To mill a card, a player puts the top card of their library into their graveyard.)
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Power / Toughness – N A
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Loyalty – N A
