Nullpriest of Oblivion is one of those cards players keep asking about. Here is, in plain words, what its official text says, the rulings published by Wizards of the Coast, and the combos players actually run.
Official card text
Kicker(You may pay an additional
Complete guide
Nullpriest of Oblivion is a versatile Vampire Cleric that serves as both an early-game threat and a powerful late-game recursion piece. With the ability to return a fallen ally to the battlefield, it provides significant utility for black-based decks looking to grind out value.
What It Does
Nullpriest of Oblivion is a 2/1 creature with Lifelink and Menace, making it difficult to block and excellent for swinging life totals in your favor. Its Kicker ability allows you to pay an additional {3}{B} when casting it; if you do, you trigger its enter-the-battlefield ability to revive a creature card from your graveyard.
Step-by-Step Resolution
First, you choose whether to cast the spell normally for {1}{B} or to kick it for a total of {5}{B}. Once it resolves and enters the battlefield, if the kicker cost was paid, the triggered ability goes on the stack and you choose a target creature card in your graveyard. When the ability resolves, that creature card is put directly onto the battlefield under your control.
Common Mistakes
Remember that the kicker ability only triggers if you cast the spell and pay the extra cost. If Nullpriest of Oblivion enters the battlefield via a reanimation spell or a 'blink' effect, you cannot pay the kicker cost, and its recursion ability will not trigger. Additionally, if the targeted creature card is removed from your graveyard in response to the trigger, the ability will fail to resolve.
When to Play It
In the early game, playing it on turn two provides an aggressive body that can safely chip away at your opponent's life total thanks to Menace. In the late game, hold onto it until you have six mana available to maximize its value by bringing back your most impactful dead creature while adding another evasive threat to your board.
Interaction examples
If you have six mana and a creature in your graveyard, you can cast Nullpriest of Oblivion and pay the kicker cost. Upon entering the battlefield, the priest targets the creature in your graveyard and returns it to play.
Blood ArtistYou cast a kicked Nullpriest of Oblivion, targeting a Blood Artist in your graveyard. The Blood Artist returns to the battlefield. Now, whenever a creature dies, Blood Artist triggers, and if Nullpriest of Oblivion attacks, its Lifelink provides even more life stability.
Ornithopter of ParadiseYou use the mana from Ornithopter of Paradise to help pay the {5}{B} total cost for a kicked Nullpriest of Oblivion earlier than turn six. This allows you to reanimate a high-value target while maintaining an aerial blocker and a menace threat simultaneously.
Guide written with AI from the official text and rulings. Official English text prevails.
How it works : Nullpriest of Oblivion
Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall
- #1· Wizards of the Coast
If a spell's kicker cost was paid, the spell is "kicked."
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #2· Wizards of the Coast
The kicker ability doesn't let you pay a kicker cost more than once.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #3· Wizards of the Coast
If you put a permanent with a kicker ability onto the battlefield without casting it, you can't kick it.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #4· Wizards of the Coast
If you copy a kicked spell on the stack, the copy is also kicked. If the copied spell is a permanent spell, the token the copy of that spell becomes when it enters is also kicked.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #5· Wizards of the Coast
If a card or token enters as a copy of a permanent, the new permanent isn't kicked, even if the original was.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #6· Wizards of the Coast
To determine a spell's total cost, start with the mana cost (or an alternative cost if another card's effect allows you to pay one instead), add any cost increases (such as kicker), then apply any cost reductions. The spell's mana value remains unchanged, no matter what the total cost to cast it was.
No other card is named in this ruling.
Popular combos
Real combos played by the community, sorted by popularity.
Lurrus of the Dream-Den + Mesmeric Orb + Aphetto Alchemist + Nullpriest of Oblivion
- 1Tap Alphetto Alchemist to untap itself.
- 2Mill 1 with Mesmeric Orb.
- 3Repeat until you mill Nullpriest of Oblivion and Syr Konrad shuffling when you do not mill them using the Titan.
- 4Cast and kick Nullpriest of Oblivion with Lurrus of the Dream-Den, bringing Syr Konrad to the battlefield.
- 5Repeat Milling until you mill the Titan, dealing damage with Syr Konrad.
Lurrus of the Dream-Den + Mesmeric Orb + Seeker of Skybreak + Nullpriest of Oblivion
- 1Tap Seeker of Skybreak to untap itself.
- 2Mill 1 with Mesmeric Orb.
- 3Repeat until you mill Nullpriest of Oblivion and Syr Konrad shuffling when you do not mill them using the Titan.
- 4Cast and kick Nullpriest of Oblivion with Lurrus of the Dream-Den, bringing Syr Konrad to the battlefield.
- 5Repeat Milling until you mill the Titan, dealing damage with Syr Konrad.
Lurrus of the Dream-Den + Mesmeric Orb + Aphetto Alchemist + Nullpriest of Oblivion
- 1Tap Alphetto Alchemist to untap itself.
- 2Mill 1 with Mesmeric Orb.
- 3Repeat until you mill Nullpriest of Oblivion and Syr Konrad shuffling when you do not mill them using the Titan.
- 4Cast and kick Nullpriest of Oblivion with Lurrus of the Dream-Den, bringing Syr Konrad to the battlefield.
- 5Repeat Milling until you mill the Titan, dealing damage with Syr Konrad.
Lurrus of the Dream-Den + Mesmeric Orb + Seeker of Skybreak + Nullpriest of Oblivion
- 1Tap Seeker of Skybreak to untap itself.
- 2Mill 1 with Mesmeric Orb.
- 3Repeat until you mill Nullpriest of Oblivion and Syr Konrad shuffling when you do not mill them using the Titan.
- 4Cast and kick Nullpriest of Oblivion with Lurrus of the Dream-Den, bringing Syr Konrad to the battlefield.
- 5Repeat Milling until you mill the Titan, dealing damage with Syr Konrad.
Lurrus of the Dream-Den + Mesmeric Orb + Aphetto Alchemist + Nullpriest of Oblivion
- 1Tap Alphetto Alchemist to untap itself.
- 2Mill 1 with Mesmeric Orb.
- 3Repeat until you mill Nullpriest of Oblivion and Syr Konrad shuffling when you do not mill them using the Titan.
- 4Cast and kick Nullpriest of Oblivion with Lurrus of the Dream-Den, bringing Syr Konrad to the battlefield.
- 5Repeat Milling until you mill the Titan, dealing damage with Syr Konrad.
Lurrus of the Dream-Den + Mesmeric Orb + Seeker of Skybreak + Nullpriest of Oblivion
- 1Tap Seeker of Skybreak to untap itself.
- 2Mill 1 with Mesmeric Orb.
- 3Repeat until you mill Nullpriest of Oblivion and Syr Konrad shuffling when you do not mill them using the Titan.
- 4Cast and kick Nullpriest of Oblivion with Lurrus of the Dream-Den, bringing Syr Konrad to the battlefield.
- 5Repeat Milling until you mill the Titan, dealing damage with Syr Konrad.
Lurrus of the Dream-Den + Mesmeric Orb + Basalt Monolith + Nullpriest of Oblivion
- 1Tap Basalt Monolith for
. - 2Pay to untap Basalt monolith.
- 3Mill 1 with Mesmeric Orb.
- 4Repeat until you mill Nullpriest of Oblivion and Syr Konrad shuffling when you do not mill them using the Titan.
- 5Cast and kick Nullpriest of Oblivion with Lurrus of the Dream-Den, bringing Syr Konrad to the battlefield.
- 6Repeat Milling until you mill the Titan, dealing damage with Syr Konrad.
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