| The Necronomicon | |
| Set | |
|---|---|
| The Yellow Sign | |
| Type | Subtype |
| Exploration | Tome |
| Card Text | |
| Action: Test Intellect −1. Pass: Take 2 horror, discard this card, and gain 1 card of a Spell type of your choice. Fail: Nothing happens. | |
 AE-55: The Necronomicon [R]The Book of the Mad Arab | |||
| File:The Necronomicon AE-55.png | |||
| Type | Subtype | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Support | Tome | ||
| Faction | Cost | ||
| Miskatonic University | 4 | ||
| Card Text | |||
| Action: exhaust and pay 3 to choose a character. Take control of that character until the end of the phase. | |||
| SoA-9: The Necronomicon [F] The Book of the Mad Arab | |||
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| Type | Subtype | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Support | Tome | ||
| Faction | Cost | ||
| Miskatonic University | 4 | ||
| Card Text | |||
| Action: Exhaust and pay 3 to choose a character. Take control of that character until the end of the phase. | |||
| R-85: The Necronomicon [F] Owlswick Translation | |||
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| Type | Subtype | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Support | Tome Relic Attachment | ||
| Faction | Cost | ||
| Cthulhu | 2 | ||
| Card Text | |||
| Attach to a character you control. Shuffle all other copies of The Necronomicon back into their owners' decks. Action: Sacrifice attached character and shuffle The Necronomicon into your deck to have each player sacrifice each character with a lower cost than attached character. | |||
| R-90: The Necronomicon [F] Al Azif | |||
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| Type | Subtype | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Support | Tome Relic Attachment | ||
| Faction | Cost | ||
| Miskatonic University | 3 | ||
| Card Text | |||
| Attach to a character you control. Shuffle all other copies of The Necronomicon back into their owners' decks. Response: After you place a success token on a story at which attached character is committed, sacrifice that character and shuffle The Necronomicon back into your deck. Then, place 1 success token on each story. | |||
| R-95: The Necronomicon [F] John Dee Translation | |||
| File:The Necronomicon R-95.png | |||
| Type | Subtype | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Support | Tome Relic Attachment | ||
| Faction | Cost | ||
| The Order of the Silver Twilight | 3 | ||
| Card Text | |||
| Attach to a character you control. Shuffle all other copies of The Necronomicon back into their owners' decks. Action: If you have fewer cards in your hand than each opponent, return attached character to your hand and shuffle The Necronomicon into your deck to have each opponent choose a character he controls and return it to his hand. | |||
| R-99: The Necronomicon [F] Theodorus Philetas Translation | |||
| File:The Necronomicon R-99.png | |||
| Type | Subtype | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Support | Tome Relic Attachment | ||
| Faction | Cost | ||
| Yog-Sothoth | 2 | ||
| Card Text | |||
| Attach to a character you control. Shuffle all other copies of The Necronomicon back into their owners' decks. Response: After you succeed at a story, sacrifice attached character and shuffle The Necronomicon back into your deck to have each opponent discard 5 cards from the top of his deck. | |||
| R-103: The Necronomicon [F] Simon Translation | |||
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| Type | Subtype | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Support | Tome Relic Attachment | ||
| Faction | Cost | ||
| The Agency | 3 | ||
| Card Text | |||
| Attach to a character you control. Shuffle all other copies of The Necronomicon back into their owners' decks. Response: After you win a  struggle at a story where attached character is committed, sacrifice attached character and shuffle The Necronomicon back into your deck to wound each character committed to each story with skill lower than attached character.
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| R-108: The Necronomicon [F] Petrus de Dacia Translation | |||
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| Type | Subtype | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Support | Tome Relic Attachment | ||
| Faction | Cost | ||
| Hastur | 2 | ||
| Card Text | |||
| Attach to a character you control. Shuffle all other copies of The Necronomicon back into their owners' decks. Disrupt: When attached character would become insane, shuffle The Necronomicon to make each character with lower skill than the attached character also go insane. | |||
| R-112: The Necronomicon [F] Olaus Wormius Translation | |||
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| Type | Subtype | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Support | Tome Relic Attachment | ||
| Faction | Cost | ||
| Shub-Niggurath | 3 | ||
| Card Text | |||
| Attach to a character you control. Shuffle all other copies of The Necronomicon back into their owners' decks. Action: Sacrifice attached character and shuffle The Necronomicon back into your deck to put into play all characters from your discard pile with less skill than the attached character. | |||
| R-117: The Necronomicon [F] George Hay Translation | |||
| File:The Necronomicon R-117.png | |||
| Type | Subtype | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Support | Tome Relic Attachment | ||
| Faction | Cost | ||
| The Syndicate | 3 | ||
| Card Text | |||
| Attach to a character you control. Shuffle all other copies of The Necronomicon back into their owners' decks. Action: Sacrifice attached character and shuffle The Necronomicon back into your deck to exhaust all characters with lower skill than attached character. | |||
| CS-9: The Necronomicon John Dee Translation | |||||||||
| File:The Necronomicon CS-9.png | |||||||||
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| Daisy Walker deck only. Revelation — Put The Necronomicon into play in your threat area, with 3 horror on it. It cannot leave play while it has 1 or more horror on it. Treat each  you reveal on a chaos token as a  . : Move 1 horror from The Necronomicon to Daisy Walker. Then, if The Necronomicon has no horror on it, discard it.
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The Necronomicon is an Exploration Card that appears in the Mansions of Madness First Edition The Yellow Sign, a Support Card that appears in the Call of Cthulhu: The Card Game Arkham Edition, Secrets of Arkham, and Revelations, and an Asset Card that appears in the Arkham Horror: The Card Game Core Set.
Availability[]
SoA-9 appears in the Necronomicon Draft Pack.
Artwork[]
AE-55, SoA-9, and the Mansions of Madness Exploration card for The Necronomicon use an illustration[?] by John Goodenough.
R-85 uses an illustration[?] by Dimitri Bielak.
R-90 uses an illustration[?] by Dimitri Bielak.
R-95 and CS-9 uses an illustration[?] by Shane M. Tyree/Jesse Mead.[citation needed]
R-99 uses an illustration[?] by Jesse Mead.
R-103 uses an illustration[?] by Jesse Mead.
R-108 uses an illustration[?] by Dimitri Bielak.
R-112 uses an illustration[?] by Jesse Mead.
R-117 uses an illustration[?] by Shane M. Tyree.