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Moxonomy

Emrakul, the Promised End

Legendary Creature — Eldrazi13 generic mana

The first Eldrazi titan that ends the game not by landing, but by reaching across the table and taking the wheel. The mind-control clause is the design's real teeth: when you cast it, you seize control of an opponent during their next turn and pilot their deck into the ground (tap their lands into nothing, throw their attackers into losing blocks, fire their own burn at their own face, walk their board into a bad combat) before handing back a wreck and gifting them an extra turn that no longer means anything. That single ability transforms it from a top-end finisher into an active hostile takeover, the rare effect significant enough to warp a Constructed format around it purely on the non-game experience of watching an opponent pilot your seat. The cost reduction frames the whole thing as a graveyard-fueled payoff rather than a pure ramp target: each distinct card type in your yard shaves a mana, so a deck stocked with instants, sorceries, creatures, artifacts, enchantments, and lands turns thirteen into a number you can actually reach. Protection from instants is the quiet structural piece: it blanks damage-based and targeted answers coming from instants (the burn and point removal that would otherwise catch the body in the window between the steal and the swing), even if a well-timed board wipe or a non-targeting instant can still get there. The titan's earlier siblings closed games on impact. This one rummages through your board first.

Emrakul, the Promised End (emn)
EMN · #6mythic
Pricing
Normal: $18.17
Foil: $39.21
Oracle Text

Rules text

This spell costs 1 generic mana less to cast for each card type among cards in your graveyard. When you cast this spell, you gain control of target opponent during that player's next turn. After that turn, that player takes an extra turn. Flying, trample, protection from instants
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
Printings elsewhere

Other printings

6 sets
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