Of all 63 cards on the Enchanting Tales sheet, two stand above the rest when it comes to raw power and chase-card demand: Necropotence and Omniscience.
Both are widely regarded as among the most powerful enchantments Magic has ever printed, and both can single-handedly take over a game if left unanswered for even a turn or two.
Their inclusion on Enchanting Tales gave each card its most accessible printing in years, wrapped in the sheet's distinctive fairy-tale art style rather than either card's original frame.
This guide covers what makes these two cards so powerful and why collectors specifically target them out of every Wilds of Eldraine booster.
Necropotence lets you pay life instead of drawing your normal card for the turn, exiling the top card of your library face down for each point of life spent and letting you put them into hand at end of turn.
This effectively converts your life total into card advantage on a massive scale, letting a black deck draw far more cards per turn than the game's normal rules would otherwise allow.
Omniscience lets you cast spells from your hand without paying their mana costs at all, turning every card in hand into a free spell the moment it resolves.
In the right deck, Omniscience can immediately end a game by allowing a player to cast their entire remaining hand in a single turn, regardless of how much mana those spells would normally require.
Necropotence's most recent printing prior to Enchanting Tales was Iconic Masters in 2017, while Omniscience's was Core Set 2019, meaning both had gone several years without a fresh, easily accessible reprint.
Original printings and older reprints of both cards had climbed significantly in price over that gap, which made their inclusion on Enchanting Tales a meaningful accessibility improvement for players who wanted a playable copy.
Necropotence and Omniscience both see play beyond just Commander, showing up in multiple 60-card constructed formats where their respective card-advantage and free-spell effects can close out games quickly.
This broader format relevance, not just Commander appeal, is part of why demand for both cards has remained consistent even years after their most recent reprints.
Getting both cards into play at the same time creates one of Commander's more famous combo lines, since Necropotence's card advantage can fuel a hand full of spells that Omniscience then lets you cast entirely for free.
Decks built specifically around assembling this combo treat both cards as core pieces worth protecting and prioritizing over almost anything else in the deck.
Necropotence has a long, well-documented history in older constructed formats specifically, including a defined role in Premodern, where the card continues to shape deckbuilding decisions to this day.
Collectors focused specifically on Necropotence's competitive legacy, rather than just its Enchanting Tales printing, may find it worth reading further into how the card has performed across Magic's older eternal formats.
A deck does not need both Necropotence and Omniscience together to benefit from either one individually, and many successful builds run just one as a standalone engine rather than chasing the full combo.
Necropotence alone works well in any black deck that can stabilize its life total, while Omniscience alone still rewards any deck built to fill its hand with castable spells cheaply.
Because both Necropotence and Omniscience are so well-known, experienced opponents typically hold interaction specifically to answer them the moment either resolves, rather than waiting for a more convenient turn.
This means a deck built around either card benefits from additional protection spells or redundancy, since a lone copy is often the first target for removal at a competitive table.
It lets you pay life to draw extra cards instead of your normal draw for the turn.
It lets you cast spells from your hand without paying their mana costs.
Its most recent prior printing was Iconic Masters in 2017.
Yes, Necropotence's card advantage can fuel a hand of spells for Omniscience to cast for free.
Few enchantments in Magic's history carry the reputation Necropotence and Omniscience do, and Enchanting Tales made both meaningfully easier to find. A magnetic one-touch holder like the EVORETRO magnetic card holder keeps a chase pull like either of these rigid and display-ready.
For everything else coming out of your boosters, a stack of toploaders offers fast, affordable protection right out of the pack. The EVORETRO toploaders are a practical everyday option.
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