First! yey plus its a heck of a good card that says, "When you cast this spell, Your opponent concedes/ You Win."
LeoKula
★★☆☆☆ (2.1/5.0)(4 votes)
h.u.g.e
theis999
★☆☆☆☆ (1.8/5.0)(2 votes)
Pro coloured spells... spells! that means deathtouch creatures can still kill it. but the again, either you have a pinger with deathtouch and you should have won, or this thing will attack and you lose at least 6 (7)perms.
this card hates the wizard that returns spells from the stack^^
mordecai17
★★★☆☆ (3.4/5.0)(8 votes)
WTF
ridiculous
nathaze
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0)(3 votes)
wow. with good hand you can cast this guy on turn 5 :0
Pramxnim
★★☆☆☆ (2.7/5.0)(3 votes)
Very difficult to remove unless there's a creature ability that does it (Royal Assassin, for example). Spells are mostly useless against him, but Oblivion Ring and Journey to Nowhere still work, thankfully. Very much a game-ender once you cast him (not so much if you cheat him onto the battlefield, but still a very scary threat even then)
Edit: Silly censors...
AngelxLegna
★★☆☆☆ (2.3/5.0)(14 votes)
"The grounds cracked. The sky roared. Emrakul awoken, and Magic was no more." -Terrified Players Everywhere
Amsjex
★☆☆☆☆ (1.1/5.0)(4 votes)
lol has anyone else noticed the wording for its take another turn ability "When you CAST! Emrakul, take an extra turn after this one." he doesn't even need to resolve for you to have an extra turn.
so if he is countered...such as by exiling target spell or simply time stopping your turn. but personally i'd just steal him with a Gather Specimens. you'd still get your extra turn.
Though i'm not gonna enjoy arguing with some of the more rules challenged players i know that just because it says "Protection from Coloured Spells" means i can't block it with a deadly recluse and destroy it
He'd have to be the only creature in your deck, so just fill the rest of it with control.
Scar_Pa
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
He doesn't like my graveyard. It's a shame, wanted to cheat the Mytic Eldrazi into play. Overpowered anyway.
OutlawD1
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This card will be used if only for its high CMC and power/toughness Think cards such as Living Destiny and Explosive Revelation It supplants Darksteel colossus as the big man on campus
lukemol
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Just for those who can't quite figure it out: Protection from colored spells =/= Protection from all colors. Creatures are not spells when they're in play, they're permanents. Activated, triggered, and static abilities are not spells. Artifacts in play are not spells. However, I don't think he can be targeted by "comes into play" triggered abilities of creatures because you choose the target when the creature is still a spell. I could be wrong on that one though.
DonRoyale
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.6/5.0)(5 votes)
When "ridiculous" just won't cut it, what are you supposed to say about a card like this?
Oh, wait. I've got it. "Never going to happen."
Seriously, if you can hardcast this thing, you deserve like a birrion medals. :V
MAYBE in Limited. MAYBE in Casual. NEVER in Constructed...EVER.
Cheating it into play, sure...I guess.
WhiteyMcFly
★★★☆☆ (3.9/5.0)(4 votes)
Even if you don't plan on using it, at least add it in as a sideboard utility. It blows mill decks out of the water.
If you think that hard casting it is too difficult, then you don't know how to use the set. Spawns and Eldrazi lands make up most of the mana cost. that is what's supposed to happen.
SylarSengir
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
15/15 flying is CRAZY BABY!! im a fan of this series boy
HippyRei
★★★☆☆ (3.9/5.0)(5 votes)
Oh my God, this is just ridiculous... I mean, a plain 15/15 should cost around 13 or more, right? Add a Time Warp (5 CMC), flying (around 1 more), protection from colored spells (another 2 or so?), and Annihilator 6 (Another 4 or so, in my opinion) and you get 25 CMC. This is 10 less mana than that.
I wish I had protection from colored. Holy hell that sounds racist.
Johnald
★★★☆☆ (3.9/5.0)(15 votes)
No no no no no no. This is bad card design wizards. BAD. You do not print something like this that essentially hoses your opponent and gives them little to no hope of recovering. You make expensive cards to be strong but have some kind of drawback that makes it riskier to play them. The flavor is also quite off on a card like this. Why would some plane devouring monster bow to the wishes of some little fleshy being squeaking out orders from the surface it is currently destroying. The destruction it causes from tearing around shouldn't be one sided. It should harm everyone involved.
EvilCleavage
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
To the dude asking how much he would cost: on http://magiccards.info/roe/en/4.html it has what it's worth as of right now according to that site.
SleetFox
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Now here's the question: is Emrakul a female, or do Eldrazi even have genders?
qaq456
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
umm the only removal that works are cards that destroy everything (or affect everything) protection means you cant target it with anything colored no indival removal oh and just get it from a prerelase cos thats how i got mine
I'll be the first to say Pyromancy. Discard it, then tutor for it again.
Rhodestar1
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Emrakul is nowhere near as good as he looks. I pulled him and a nirkana revenant in the sealed. Played black-green which was at least have a deck full of mana ramp, and i still couldn't get him out. The best i got out was an artisan of koliziek and a hand of emrakul. Never actually got THIS guy out.
Andon_A
★★★☆☆ (3.9/5.0)(4 votes)
@Lampshade: Emrakul needs to be cast in order to get the extra turn. So, in short, no. Still, being able to get him in fifth turn with nothing but land drops and no accel is nothing to scoff at. Sixth turn and they aren't likely to have too much extras that they can sack, so you've pretty much wrecked their day.
statiefreez
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(6 votes)
@Johnald: You're right on all counts, except that you're forgetting that Wizards R&D spends too much time worrying about Limited and not enough about other formats. In their minds, Emrakul is the RoE equivilant of an Overrun in M10, only more important to the plot and to their profits, so it's a mythic instead of uncommon. In both cases, the moment the card drops, the game ends, almost always.
@SleetFox: I don't think it's possible for an immortal creature the size of a mountain, with a physical form that was forced on it by a trio of planeswalkers aeons after its creation/formation/whatever-happened, to ever have developed reproductive organs, so I'd say that Emrakul doesn't have a gender.
diabloknk
★★★☆☆ (3.9/5.0)(4 votes)
Does anybody remember when Darksteel Colossus and Phyrexian Dreadnought were considered to be some of the most powerful creatures ever printed (not efficient necessarily, just really big and powerful).
These make them look like nothing. Kozilek and Ulamog are most likely more powerful than Colossus, and they cost roughly the same. And there is no contest for Emrakul.
The worst thing is, as things stand in Standard, you'll be seeing Kozilek and Ulamog turn 5-6, and Emrakul only 2-3 turns later (if you survive that long).
You'll be seeing them turn 3 or sooner in Extended with Hypergenesis Cascade.
Styny
★★★★☆ (4.7/5.0)(39 votes)
A ha ha, The Flying Spaghetti Monster has come at last.
Cheza
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(2 votes)
Noone needs this card.. that's why it's a promo card. If you have 15 mana, any X-spell should be able finish your opponent.... and is more usable than this card. Of course you can use the hidaway lands to play him.
Szyx
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Ersatz Gnomes...is better than Emrakul, the Eons Torn.
datruuf
★★★☆☆ (3.3/5.0)(6 votes)
elvish piper just became the SCARIEST *** CARD IN THE GAME
OmnicromXR
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Why does everyone refer to Emrakul as a he? Cause Emrakul, the Aeons Torn is a she, they mention that in the flavor article about the 3 great Eldrazi.
nfitz322
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(4 votes)
This is possibly the most ridiculous thing I have ever seen. Looking at this makes me sick. It really makes me never want to play magic again.
Bozo_x
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(3 votes)
i think channel is getting banned from edh in the near future. A turn 2 or with elvish spirit guide turn 1 channel gets there lol. so broken with rofello's
True_Smog
★★★☆☆ (3.8/5.0)(4 votes)
It would be much simple if they put: "you win the game (because no one can possibly kill this MF) " And because of that we REALLY need Diabolic Edict back to defend ourselves (or rather to make it possible).
MrDoppleganger
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Bloodthorn Taunter, Jace, the Mind Sculptor , + this monster...will you need more than 3 of Jace's counters? 2?
They could've made this weaker by saying "Protection from colored spells and abilities", but WOTC didn't.
just say journey to nowhere or oblivion ring. and it won't kill mill off too easy with instant-speed graveyard removal. especially ravenous trap. any kind of mill in standard other than maybe memory erosion or a badly-timed halimar excavator will activate the trap, so the second they try to shuffle the GY, now it's gone, for the low low price of 0 mana. wewt.
ClockworkSwordfish
★★★☆☆ (3.8/5.0)(4 votes)
That's one heck of a mana cost, but you get what you pay for. This may well supplant Darksteel Colossus as the go-to fetch card when putting things from your library into play (with Tooth and Nail, for example). Even minus the extra turn, this guy is beefier, has evasion, and, unless they can come out with seven fliers a turn, impervious to chump blocking. Just attacking will do some real damage, whether he gets through or not. Fun fun fun. This is a true Rolls-Royce type creature, but it makes me a little sad that green no longer has the largest creature. Krosan Colossus just felt...right.
FinalAtonement
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Not a fan of this creature, seen it hard cast on turn 5. Sure you need all out mana accel or have to "cheat" it into play, but once it's cast it tends to end games quickly as it's really good as protecting itself and has game ending attributes (though for 15 mana I suppose it's appropriate, just seems like it isn't as hard to play in standard as it should be).
But yeah, that said it is not invincible. Discard, deathtouch, meddling mage, killing off the mana accelleration or elvish pipers used to power it out, etc.
Hands down the most epic creature to eat with a Consuming Vapors...ever.
boubou80
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(3 votes)
the ultimate weapon against Eldrazi: "pacifism". And they can't attack or block: bye bye!
thrallallmighty
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Heh you arent wery happy if you cast hunted wampus and your opponent trows out this =) its cool you have another turn when he comes into play so it is like it has haste. you can kill him only with artifatcs . So if this card isnt a game ender i dont know what is it 4,5/5
Demonic_Angel13
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(8 votes)
These legendary Eldrazi are wreaking my favourite deck style (which is mill/control). I like them though. An uncounterable Time Warp with a major wreaking ball body and multiple murderous abilities is always awesome. I have found that a well timed Telemin Performance can turn the tides of the game and maybe a Mindbreak Trap can be profitable. Also I have used Gather Specimens to get my opponents big guys. Sadistic Sacrement could work, especially if its kicked.
bijart_dauth
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
totaly awsome wiht the con***ion. and yes, the abillitys do stack, you have annahilator 6 amd 2, making them sack 8. but even if it didnt, this card would be awsome just with the + and the trample, a 15/15 can still be chummed by a storm crow. it dosent say pro colors, it says pro colored spells.
Yren
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This card makes me think of Nemesis of Reason as a fair card. This takes an entire deck-type and rips it a new one; Side-Decks everywhere will have this card as a mill-counter. The only way to ensure this card is destroyed is to exile it with an artifact or creature ability, OR (What I want to do, one day), use Jace the Mindsculptor, and make sure that this Feces-Spawning Machine is in my opponent's library.
HairlessThoctar
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Words cannot describe.
Huh, interesting. A savor the flavor article established that the correspoding kor and merfolk gods of the sky, Emeria and Kamsa, whom are both the distorted memory of Emrakul are both 'ostensibly female'. Trying to characterize the Eldrazi by such 'quaint' humanoid characteristics like gender seems genuinely tragic to me.
Great, but "dies" from journey to nowhere. you cast journey, it enters the battlefield. it becomes a permanent and it targets after becoming a permanent.
GruesomeGoo
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Because Extended Hypergenesis didn't have enough ridiculous creatures to play.
SorianSadaskan
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
My milling efforts are in vain when I failed to notice the 'shuffle you library' context. And the lesson is, read carefully before you decide to make a move. This dude won't die, even if milled from the library, doing so only resets the whole graveyard back into the owners library before you know it.
spectermonger
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I really wish Windbrisk Heights were still in Standard...nothing like launching 3 Eldrazi tokens into a 15/15 and an extra turn.
Mumba
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Overrated.
BobTheBuillder
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
this is cheap, if there was some artifact exile i would approve of it. a few dark rituals and eldrazzi spawn and you are good to go
Asinine-Ultimatum
★★★☆☆ (3.9/5.0)(4 votes)
Just for the record I'd like to state that I have cast Emrakul and lost! :D My opponent shifted a Prison Term onto it when it entered the battlefield and I failed to free it before I was swarmed by super-charged goats.
ajpinton
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I agree this card is sick, but I'm playing G/R Eldrazi and have yet to get the necessary Mana (lands and tokens) to drop this bad boy before my "win Condition" is met (i.e. let you get something big take it with my Red spells and pummel you with it and my big Green/Eldrazi creatures). I really think they should have reprinted Ghostfire, but they did not. You can kill this guy easily with a B/R combo, using Conquering Manticore and Bloodthrone Vampire or the M10 Vampire Aristocrat. Take it, swing with it, and sac it before the end of your turn.
That being aside of the one card solution Oblivion Ring and Journey to Nowhere, and you can still use Mindbreak Trap to exile it; this won't help if your playing a RoE draft or constructed play, you will need to use the B/R combo.
You could also use Mycosynth Lattice in a combo to target it with spells.
f_fivefiftyseven
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
For the people complaining about the flavour of a planeswalker being able to control one of the big 3 Eldrazi, instead of thinking about it like your telling them what to do, think of it like your more or less giving them a treat and asking them if they wouldn't mind eating the other guy first.
StreamHopper
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
You basically win. Can't be countered, milled, pathed, or even locked down before it nabbs it's controller an extra turn. I think the only thing that can really deal with this is a creature with death touch, and even then, it doesn't die. It just chills for a while before being summoned again. The only thing I can think to do with it is make sure you win by the time they can summon it. I mean, the first deck I would face an Eldrazi deck with would be my Burn//Haste deck. Just kill em before they can summon that thing. If that thing is cast, it's pretty much game over. If he doesn't destroy you, he'll destroy your field. Annihilator aint no joke.
AH_MaclimesZero
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(7 votes)
@Ezenthar How would you get that Tidehollow Strix to block him? He has Protection from all colored spells. Tidehollow Strix is a colored spell.
@Asinine-Ultimatum Same to you. Prison Term is a white spell. White is a color.
Add Trample to plow through things... ie: Horned Helm. Voula! The game is yours.
For Standard, use Diabolic Tutor instead of Demonic Tutor. Cost a bit more, but you'll still be exceptionally dominating in such a short time.
True_Mumin
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(10 votes)
Let me just say that this is the card that makes me want to quit playing Magic altogether. It's ridiculous. It shouldn't exist. If I ever find one, I will burn it down with extreme satisfaction. This card, this f*****g card is the reason we can't have nice things. And the way it just completely hoses mill decks by simply being in the library, in addition to every other disgusting thing it does is the last straw. Whoever designed this card, whoever approved of this bulls**t seeing print: go to hell.
@ugbootz: How does Stone Idol Trap help? Emrakul has flying
@Ah_MaclimesZero: "Spell" is the keyword you're looking for. Once a permanent is on the battlefield, it's not longer a spell, hence, he has no protection from Tidehollow Strix or any other creature. Same goes for O'ring and Journey to Nowhere, at the time their abilities resolve they're permanents, not spells, which is why they are some of the most effective ways of getting rid of Emrakul.
Before you start having a go at me go learn what a "spell" is.
@Revelation666: For crying out loud, LEARN WHAT A SPELL IS.
O'ring and Journey's abilities activate as they enter the battlefield, when they're PERMANENTS, not spells. A card is only a spell whilst it is on the stack. Once a permanent resolves, it isn't a spell anymore.
If you still don't believe me? Have a look at the article on the Magic Website called Defender Control. This is a quote rom it:
" Oblivion Ring targets when it enters the battlefield, so it can remove Emrakul, the Aeons Torn after they plop it down"
Learn what a spell is, then you can tell people what they can and can't do.
Clex_Sipsoxard
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Type your comment here.
Noble_Chair
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
People seem to be acting like the sky is freaking falling with this card, or indeed any of the other Eldrazi.
If you're hard casting this thing, you've pretty much won. But the thing about that is, if your opponent lets you get 15 mana in the first place, I'd be amazed if you didn't win through some means.
Cheating it into play works, but if your opponent lets, say, an elvish piper resolve, and lets it last long enough for it to lose summoning sickness, they deserve to lose.
One valid complaint about this card in particular is that it completely destroys mill decks by simply being in the library.
This card isn't the end of MtG, it isn't the worst thing that Wizards has ever done, a lot of you people need to unbunch your panties and realize that this is just another giant fatty that will never be hard-casted outside of casual play and RoE limited/constructed.
As for the card itself, I like it, my inner Timmy loves huge beasts like this, for 15 mana, you're pretty much guaranteed to kill your opponent no matter what, so why not go for overkill?
Micashbran
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
In Reply to Asinine-Ultimatum, Your opponent couldn't have moved their prison term onto your Emrakul, Emrakul has protection from colored spells, meaning: "702.14c A permanent or player with protection can't be enchanted by Auras that have the stated quality. Such Auras attached to the permanent or player with protection will be put into their owners' graveyards as a state-based action." They would have lost their Prison Term, and you could have won!!
Dragon_Whelp
★★★☆☆ (3.9/5.0)(5 votes)
"Alright, and Ponder with Polymorph for Emrakul. Good game."
"Not quite yet."
"What?"
"Mindbreak Trap."
"*CENSORED*"
bullgaria
★☆☆☆☆ (1.0/5.0)(1 vote)
@Asinine-Ultimatum
just yesterday i had TWO of them cast at me (consecutive turns)....but by then i had 14 creatures on the field and left the opponent at 1 life:
turns 1-3: me- nm happens, him-ramps mostly
turn 4: me- rhox pikemastar for me, him- more ramping
turn 5: me- conqueror's pledge, him- more ramping
turn 6: me- swing+flurry of wings, him- more ramping
turn 7: me- swing and leave him at 1, him- casts emarkul
turn 8 for him: casts emarkul + swings with first, i block with winged coats and sac lands
turn 9 for him: swings with second emarkul, i take it all and sac conq's soldiers
next turn: i swing ftw
majinara
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(2 votes)
Rather balanced dude imho. It got powerful abilities, but on the other hand - "on cast" triggers are worse than "on entering the battlefield" - can't be reanimated - can't be cheated into play (if you want the extra turn) - costs insane amounts of mana
For the same amount of mana, you could fireball someone for 14 damage. :)
And why do people say it will stop mill decks dead in their track? I mill your deck, you have only emrakul left, I play sign in blood on you and you lose, Emrakul won't change that.
ClowWizardEriol
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@Micashbran: Emrakul has protection from colored spells, not protection from white. Prison Term is already a permanent (not a spell) in that situation, so Emrakul can be stopped by it.
The_Somnambulist
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@Asenine-Ultimatum: Wow, amazing story, being overrun by supercharged goats with Emrakul present....I would be shocked myself.
I cast this using Maelstrom Archangel, it was fun :) and yes, I got the extra turn because it's text says I may "play" a card from my hand without paying it's mana cost, play=cast.
I just got a few Fist of Suns for my 5 color deck, now I will be unleashing all sorts of beasts for 5 mana (and yes the mana base gets 5 colors pretty quick in case you're wondering)
Wyldblayde
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This won't stop a mill deck, if that player uses Tormod's Crypt, Relic of Progenitus, or hell, even Walking Atlas a Bojuka Bog onto the battlefield in response to Emrakul's 'put into graveyard' triggered ability. I also love Extirpate, the split second guarantees that Emrakul will not be making an appearance. Any instant speed graveyard removal will stop the Eldrazi, though the triggered ability still resolves and they shuffle their graveyard into their library, but at least it won't happen indefinitely. And before anyone argues this, the Eldrazi will be in the graveyard when the ability triggers. The above cards remove the graveyard (or just the one card) before the player shuffles, but after the creature is in the graveyard.
MrQuizzles
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@majinara-
Wait, how are "on cast" triggers worse than "on enters the battlefield"? I find strictly the opposite to be true. Entering the battlefield only happens if the spell is allowed to resolve. On the other hand, there's nothing anyone can do to stop you from triggering Emrakul's second ability.
Kurhan
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@MrQuizzles
True that it cannot be countered by being "on cast" vs "on entering battlefield", but there are SO MANY ways to cause things to repeatedly enter the battlefield. With the "on cast" effect you get it one time and if you wish to get it again you must recast it.
If it were on entering battlefield, cards such as turn to mist would act like a time walk. Mistmeadow Witch's ability could keep you going indefinitely.
I prefer more options. You can prefer more a$surance. Both ways are undeniably good, but neither is strictly better than another.
getz19
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Wow. What a killer. Just use Ponder, Halimar Depths or Sage Owl with Djinn of Wishes and you're good to go. This combo works well with the other Eldrazi Legends and Eldrazi big broods.
reapersaurus
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Why does Wizards keep making the same mistake, when they already made the solution?
Why let horrendously-powerful creatures ever be cheated into play, when they already figured out the right way to stop the cheat with Phage the Untouchable?
Raeoran
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This card is tons of fun in my Jhoira of the Ghitu EDH deck. (When it comes un-suspended, you cast it!)
budlight_bandit
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
One card that will for sure stop Emrakul, the Aeons Torn dead on its tracks is " MEDDLING MAGE." and its standard legal also.. :)
Ikonn
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@micashbrain you are incorrect. If prison term is on one of their creatures and you use a simic guildmage or some other ability to transfer the term (or pacifism or whatever) onto Emrakul then there is no problem with that. Even if it's being cast because it comes into play after it is on the stack then targets Emrakul as a permanant. Copying and pasting the comprehensive rules doesn't mean that you are correct. Now that applies to if Emrakul had let's say Protection from White, or Protection from Auras or something along those lines.
BiOhyBr
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Deathtouch, nuf said.
ScissorsLizard
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I won this in a draft recently. I chose him with the first pick simply because he is the most powerful creature ever printed (Not the 'best' creature, of course, but P/T wise, and probably ability-wise too) I think Emrakul earns a little respect for that.
kittyspit
★★★☆☆ (3.9/5.0)(4 votes)
OMNOMNOMNOMNOM!!!
- last moments as Emrakul desperately struggled to free himself from the deadly recluse's deadly grasp.
tijame
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@bullgaria
next time you play with that opponent, please note, the legend rule to your fellow player!
and the reason why it stops mill decks, is that when he is put into your graveyard from anywhere, you get to shuffle your whole graveyard back into your library! good card!
fabujs
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
With this a mill deck is lost. Just that simple x.X I play a mill deck and now im having lots of problems against this card. Someone with a good idea to avoid loosing just because the other one has one of this guys in the deck?
Vectis-Squirrel
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Other possible options for halting emrakul and it's ridiculousness.
"Pinger" (as in, a creature that taps to deal X damage) with death touch. An example of this would be Prodigal Pyromancer with a Basilisk Collar attached.
Aura Finesse + Pacifism or Crystallize. Pacify one of your own creatures and then Aura Finesse the enchantment on over to Emrakul.
If you're not bent on playing Standard format, you could also try using Prison Term
Vedalken_Arbiter
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Should have been 17cmc just so it could be the most expensive card in magic. This still costs the same as Autochthon Wurm and one less than Draco. although at least those can have their costs reduced.
i_was_like_you
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Question: If I were to cast multiple copies of Emrakul, in one turn, say by using Spawsire of Ulamog's 20 mana ability to drop my entire sideboard (and any cards exiled by Journey to Nowhere, Oblivion Ring, etc.) It That Betrays so that all nontoken permanents that an opponent sacrifices is put onto the battlefield under my control, All is Dust to get rid of those pesky colored permanents on both sides of the table but putting their permanents into play on my side, Ulamog to destroy any permanent that survived All is Dust (most likely some other Eldrazi), Artizans of Kozilek to bring back your creatures from the graveyard, Pathrazers of Ulamog or Eldrazi con***ion to round out the rest of the sideboard, and four copies of Emrakul to take multiple turns for what had better be the win.
I certainly know I get to cast each of those cards in the order I choose to allow maximum carnage. But would multiple Emrakuls really equal multiple timewalks? Good news is even though they would each kill each other off due to the Legendary rule, they would each get shuffled back into my library, along with any other cards in my graveyard at the time.
After freaking out for a little while about how unfair this card looks, I began to realize three things.
1) Hardly anyone will ever be able to hard cast this, so time walking doesn't matter.
2) Even with protection, several things will stop this card from a simple oblivion ring or journey to nowhere, to drana or kalitas bloodchief ability. It can still die to wrath's/day of judgement, and sac. affects like consuming vapors, so maybe not as hard to get rid of as it seems.
3) I can win the game before this ever sees play, in extended there's already several turn 3 wins (hyper gen really didn't need this card since it worked already), and in standard aggro creatures kill an opponent before they have 15 mana.
All in all, I am more impressed by ulamog, with his basic indestructibility, and enter play vindication/maelstrom pulse. Plus he is more cost efficient.
However, on the death touch note.. this creature has to be blocked and still takes 6 permanents, for a total of 7. If I tricked this out into play.. I'm going to attack you whether you have a deadly recluse or not, you can take my 1 emrakul and I'll take 7 of your permanents.
Gibbons
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
There are a lot of other creatures that can stop this one. Also, pull one of these out in a multiplayer game and probably everyone will focus their attention on you. I wouldn't use it as a creature, I would use it for the Beacon of Tomorrow/Reminisce ability it has. I think its more useful when cycled through a deck to create some sort of time loop
vardaris
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(3 votes)
I don't know if anyone has mentioned it but the funniest way to get rid of Emrakul is intrepid hero a tap is just enough, you don't even have to wait Emrakul's attack (like deathtouch) or... even... spend mana!!! just love to do that in casual...
shinhawk
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
When first seeing this, I thought it was an absolutely devastating card. However, now that I look more into it, its not as broken as I thought it was. I think it can do well in standard. In vintage and legacy (what I play) and even extended, this card can definitely come out even faster. However do to the sheer amount of cards available in vintage and legacy, most players would probably lose before this card can even get out. Even with my deck, I can defeat players by turn 4.
cthulhuz
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
The only answer I could think of for a mill deck would be to get a lucky Telemin Performance off and take the super huge eldrazi for yourself. The other thing that may help said mill deck is to use Bojuka Bog and exile that graveyard before Emrakul can recycle it. Another answer I have not seen mentioned is simply Clone him, but by that time he probably swung on you and took out a lot of your permanents.
iantewks
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
for some reason, Emrakul's the only Eldrazi that i've considered buying. interesting- i like it.
Ladnarud
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Annihilator 6... seriously? Not that annihilator isn't the most unfair and overpowered game mechanic in this block... but annihilator is the most unfair and overpowered game mechanic in this block.
The thing that really gets me is that you can just put this guy out with an Elvish Piper or Dramatic Entrance and the only ill effect to you is that you don't get an extra turn. A turn-five 15/15 flyer that can't be countered, and has annihilator 6 is just a little bit stupid.
achilleselbow
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
From what I understand this is replacing Progenitus as the win condition for Polymorph decks. My friend built one recently, with this as the only creature, token producers for the morph fodder, and a bunch of counters to protect the combo. Of course the problem with such a deck is that even my sloppily constructed red/green Allies deck rolls right over it if he doesn't manage to pull his combo off by the fifth turn. Conversely, on the occasions he does manage to get it out and attack with it, it's pretty much game over.
I've been thinking of other ways to deal with this guy other than the obvious one of killing the opponent before he gets it in play. In standard, there are several options, such as Day of Judgment or Planar Cleansing, which, ironically, his weaker brother Ulamog would be immune to. Sarkhan the Mad can turn him into a harmless 5/5 dragon, but Sarkhan Vol can give the opponent a taste of his own Emrakul before he's even had a chance to attack with it. As mentioned before, Oblivion Ring and Journey to Nowhere also work, as they're no longer spells by the time you choose the target.
allmighty_abacus
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
No! Bad WotC! Bad!
Aun
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Well, that bad effect on mill decks is not new. It just makes Hypergenesis and something else (oh yes) very strong. And Time Stop can counter ist btw (like everything if it does not have split second)
lXDarkSunXl
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This thing is amazingly broken!!!! You would think the cost outweighs it's power but thanks to its Eldrazi spawn buddies it can easily be pulled out. It's absolutely ridiculouse..... and yet, I have an amazing urge to buy this card....
TasPap
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
If u play this with Jhoira of the Ghitu do you get the extra turn???? play= cast right?
CharonSquared
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@Taspap - Yep, when a card comes out of suspension it's cast, so you can get an extra turn with Emrakul, draw cards with Kozilek, etc.
olliefu
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
I rather give this card a 1/2 star because it's straight up annoying when you see him popping out on the 3rd turn....however....its a powerful and nasty...When I see this card, I tell myself "run for the hills its the flying noodle king..."
PrimeSonic
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
About "Prison Term". If Prison Term is already on the battlefield it is not a spell, it is an enchantment. This has protection from colored spells, but permanents are no longer spells once they hit the board. Prison Term would be a completely valid option. You can't Path to Exile it, but you could Seal of Removal it since activated abilities are not spells.
magicrocks18
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@PrimeSonic
By your logic does that mean that Visara, The dreadful can target it since it's in play. Does that also mean you could kill it with Murderous Betrayal since it's an enchantment.
Duskdale_Wurm
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Big and bad.
Mprime818
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Mayael the Anima, Maelstrom Archangel, Elvish Piper... Just some ideas...
Maximillini86
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Overpowered garbage. Does this really make the game fun? No, it makes it boring and obnoxious, when you have people pop this out turn 3-5. Whee! You win in 3 turns! Wasn't that fun? Blah.
i think all of you are forgetting that it has protection from all colored spells. it cant be kill spelled or taken control of.
Reflect-O-Burn
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Alright, so Emrakul is cool and all, and he's the biggest creature ever to be printed, and i recently won a game with him... but i spelljacked him for it.
?
That's right, there is a card from the Kamigawa block that defeats this card. Meet Keiga, the Tide Star, a 5/5, 6 drop blue dragon that has the nasty side effect of gaining control of target creature when buried.
Hmm... Emrakul doesn't have protection from blue abilites.
Oh Snap!
@kieferb
yes, he is pro colored SPELLS. not abilities. that's a big difference.
Eldrazi Legends?
Tsabo Tavoc can block Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre all day long without taking a single point of damage; she can straight kill Kozilek here (although, Phthisis is much more fun); and not even Emrakul, the Aeons Torn can get past her as long as you have the 2 mana Phyrexian Splicer in play to strip away his flying (and its an artifact so his protection is worthless).
Annihilator mechanic got you down? Start up the Phyrexian Processor. Didn't get to it in time? Yawgmoth's Agenda means those lost permanents are never too far away.
Phyrexia laughs at your "aether born" abominations.
On a more serious note conerning the "over powered" nature of the Eldrazi. That's a true statement when you consider them in isolation. Annihilator may be an awesomely powerful mechanic, but you can stop it cold just by paying 1 G for a Tajuru Preserver. Path to Exile costs exactly W and can get rid of two of the titans relatively painlessly (which is why Emrakul has protection from colored spells). But with Tajuru Preserver on the field you could chump block Emrakul with the (almighty) Storm Crow.
Will the Eldrazi ever end up in a core set? Probably not; for exactly the reasons they seem so completely overpowering. But the fact of the matter is, they are supposed to be. Personally, I believe the claims that they take away from the strategy of M:TG are completely wrong. They add to it. But the strategy isn't in how to use them; a massive beat stick that eats your opponents board is pretty self explainitory. The challenge for us as players, as it is for the planeswalkers in the stories, is how to beat them.
(and a special note for Emrakul, who is by far the biggest and baddest; the problem with a power toughness of 15 is that it's only 5 away from 20. With all the manna ramp in RotE, by the time you play this I'm going to completely ignore it, sac all of my creatures to his Annihilator ability; and then burn you directly in the face with Heat Ray. 1st rule of fighting summons: if the creature is unstoppable, kill the player.)
griggsmaster
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
well nvm i guess bitter ordeal cant be used with milling ... kinda surpirzed tho cuz judges have let me use it that way ... guess they where just dumb
therealnick103
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Time Stop, Oblivion Ring (which I don't recommend since it's only a temporary solution), or...
Or there are ways to kill it before your opponent can get it out.
Meddling Mage - When Meddling Mage enters the battlefield, name a nonland card. That card can't be played. Choose Emrakul. It doesn't have protection BEFORE it's played.
Jace, The Mind Sculptor's ability ---- exiles all the cards in the library. And even if Emrakul was in the person's hand, they'd shuffle their hand into the library, which means they'd lose in seven or less turns.
Or find a way to get Emrakul into the graveyard. The owner would then shuffle the graveyard into the library. And then swing with Jace's ability to exile all the cards in the library.
Or even any creature with reach/flying and deathtouch. Emrakul doesn't have protection from coloured ABILITIES, so you can easily kill it. I own three Thornweald Archers, so this 15/15 can fall at the hands of a 2/1.
This makes Baneslayer Angel seem almost sane. Most of my friends who play Magic will not agree to play with or against this card, or any card in this set.
Josh83089
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Everybody complaining about him shutting down mill decks look into Ravenous Trap Not only does it take him but it keeps the rest of the graveyard from going back as well. Best part...its usually free.
SoulShatterer
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Banefire with an "X" of fifteen can kill him, like just about everything.
Arglypuff
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
No, sorry, Banefire for 1,000,000 cannot kill Emrakul, the Aeons Torn.
Emrakul cannot be targetted by Banefire for 1, or Banefire for 5, or Banefire for 15, and thus is immune.
Gwafa_Hazid
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Yeah, it shuts down mill. So what? Are you really prepared to have this be reanimated?
zoumi84
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Has anybody considered playing Emrakul (and/or Ulamog) through Sneak Attack???It is absolutely funny!!!!
Sidecutte
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
My emrakul got blinded by blinding mage :<
lockwolf
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Well, since were getting a reprint of Leyline Of The Void in M11, he'll be millable in Standard.
NicholasClay
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Would Aether Adept from M11 be able to target Emrakul seeing as it's when it enters the battlefield? If so, that would be a screw-over in a Polymorph deck...
Tokosan
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I have not yet brought someone's life total to 0 using this creature. I have now brought him out about 10 times.. they always forfeit. Its just no fun.
That last comment wouldn't work out. Emrakul's ability to return to the library would automatically happen first, since for Ravenous Trap to activate, it would have to already be in the graveyard. Besides, why not instead of thinking of a way to deal with Emrakul while he is cast, instead think of a way to prevent his casting at all.
TheMoustacheCame
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
noone thinks that this is wrong? a darksteel with +4/+4 fly, destroys almost all ur permaments each turn, extra turn ergo haste, protection from spells i mean if u wanna beat this u have to make a deck specialy to stop that card wizards its just making broken cards so if u wanna continue playing u HAVE TO buy new expansions, after invasion block, the game went straight down with a lil comeback in timespiral, this kind of card is a big fu you to the players who play extended, due standart mean change your deck all the time, and vintage means playing against decks that can win the game in turn 1 or even 0 wich i dont see interesting in a game. And now they put name to every freaking ability and make 1000 cards with it due their lack of creativity.... just go to the beloved dominaria card and art style and start doing things right again
Eved
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Just played a game on MTGO against a guy who used Polymorph to get him out. I used Journey to Nowhere on him and laughed.
Killgasm87
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(1 vote)
If you play tidehollow sculler it's ability is to look at opponents hand and remove that card from game...... just have multiples... wait to see their bad pokerface and take it from them before it hits the field.
Galgus
★☆☆☆☆ (1.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Such an overpowered card.
Sure, it costs a lot, but there are more than enough ways around it.
benegade
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Haze Frog! Then hopefully return swing for the win.
nammertime
★★★☆☆ (3.2/5.0)(3 votes)
@TheSwarm: You can't enchant Emrakul with Spider Umbra. Anyway, why would you worry about a Wrath of God when you get an extra turn?
castallan
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Emerakul's ability is a triggered affect that goes onto a stack. Since the ability triggers, then targets the graveyard of Emarkul's owner, you can still stack on it. Remove the graveyard before the triggered affect resolves, and poof.
Remember, Emrakul isn't like Darksteel or Progenitus. It HAS to go to the graveyard before it's affect activates. Hence the triggered, not passive ability.
Veider222
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
does Icy Manipulator affect Emrakul?
does it cause Emrakul to tap when its controller declares attack so the defender may not take damage and prevent the annihilator effect?
@Eved: how did you use Journey to Nowhere on Emrakul if he has 'protection from colored spells?' It makes him immune to most removal; the only noncolored (nonsacrifice) removal I can think of off the top of my head that works is Brittle Effigy.
Andilikepie
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Just use a few Explores, a Thran Dynamo and a Walking Atlas to quickly cast it
Wallnut
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@Cardcypher42 Journey to Nowhere is not a spell when it's triggered ability resolves!
Bizurk
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Just got rap**d in the face by this guy after he came out on turn 6 from a Summoning Trap. Its sick to think he could've gotten him out for 0 if I had countered something.
tuk_tuk
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Emrakul is good but the secret to making him tougher Ahem Shroud. I got lightning greaves on emrakul and promplty avoided a nasty incident ;)
Belz_
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@Johnald
I agree. The fact that it's colorless makes it a whole lot easier to play. Besides there are already tons of ways to put creatures into play without paying for them (although that won't trigger the extra turn ability). The real annoyance for me is Anihilator. Combined with the extra turn it basically turns this card into a "you win the game" condition. They should've either reduced the number, or made anihilator hurt you too which, as you said, would work much better, flavour-wise.
i find this card very easy to get out so i use it in my eldrazi deck which is very good because i can always get powerful creatures out with relative ease.
DespisedIcon
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Grotesque. It can be targeted by journey to nowere and O-rings because they are enchantments as their effect resolves; they are spells only when at the stack.
aymanyayman
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(3 votes)
Would a Leyline of the Void cancel it's going into the graveyard effect? Because if it does, then a mill deck would need Leyline of the Void to avoid being destroyed by this beast. It would at least give a mill deck a fighting chance.
death-an-mutalation
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0)(1 vote)
You guys are thinking all wrong this combind with fist of suns which lets you pay all 5 mana for the casting cost of your spells is a turn 5 azzzzzzzWOPIN
FouCapitan
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@ Veider222
Yes, on the Icy Manipulator strategy. It is not a colored spell, so its ability would work on Emrakul. However you would have to play its ability before the attack is declared, otherwise Emrakul is already tapped, and Icy Manipulator's ability does nothing, letting the annihilator ability take effect.
@ benegade
The Haze Frog strategy has the downside of not protecting you from sacrificing six permanents on the field. Unless you're running tokens on the field, there's a good chance you'll be crippled even if you prevent the damage.
Razbot
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I survived a Hard-Cast Emrakul tonight... I think my friend was just glad to get him out after countless games of me beating him, he didn't realize that turning Emrakul sideways in that free turn's main phase would let me swing in with a Celestial Colonnade for the win
KarmasPayment
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Ugh, It's like magic R&D was thinking, "Hey, how can we destroy EDH as a format?"
Eldrazi was their answer. Now half of the rands I play EDH with either use Braids, Conjurer Adept or Jhoira of the Ghitu to get this POS on the board as fast as they can, so much for a fun, casual format. When someone we reluctantly play with does this, my group of friends turn to each other and say, "We concede," then continue to play without the aforementioned person. :D
"On another note you can counter this and prevent the graveyard effect by using a Time Stop, as this causes Emrakul to be exiled. I think the other player still gets their extra turn though." -Concerned_Bystander
You can let them have the extra turn if you want, but when this is cast, that ability is put on the stack on top of this, much like cascade and you can time stop in response to the extra turn ability to remove that from the stack also.
ihatecardio
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This is a great card fourth turn- unless you are unlucky enough to draw it in your opening hand which happens a surprising amount of the time. And then its just too big- this is something ive found-the annihilator 6 is nice, but like i saw some people say- it just ends the game prematurely most of the time, which is near no fun :P. As fun as it is to get it out, take another turn, and see half my opponents battlefield gone, its less fun to play eldrazi green for three games before people refuse to play it, and are done in general for a few hours. Overall- brilliant concept, well conceived, but just too big. Thanks to WotC and Magic for a lovely game and the hours of fun I've had and will have in the future. Design and Development keep doing what you do- it keeps the game interesting.
zarakstan
★☆☆☆☆ (1.3/5.0)(3 votes)
I'm really disappointed with what Wizards did with this card. Before you can play all the characters from the story and ones that have a lot to do with the flavor of the set without totally wrecking the game you're playing. Wizards just made a gigantic card threw in as many keywords as they could think of and made it nearly invincible (short of some certain shenanigans with enchantments or Time Stop). After they finished making this card they figured if it ever resolved the other player was probably going to lose, so they gave it a mana cost so high that they figured it probably get much play. That's not how cards should be designed! You look back to the Onslaught block and you see Phage, Akroma, Karona and they are all playable! You can cast them, and sure, they're powerful (excepting Karona), but the game continues. They're fun cards to play with, not just some gigantic card that you'll probably never play.
This would have been a much cooler card if it was something like this: Emrakul, the Aeons Torn: As an additional cost of playing ~, sacrifice X permanents Flying, trample, shroud, annihilator 3 ~'s power and toughness are both equal to X
Of course the card above would absolutely broken, as everyone would play it the first turn to get some early game land destruction, but something more playable would be so much better than what we have here.
brothersbutler
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
With my green elf/mana accel deck, I can play this turn 4
Th3_Dark_On3
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
lol wing shards kills this so easy. I did that in multiplayer when one of my opponents attacked another opponent with this and kozilek. That felt good.
NIckza
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Meh...... Fold into aether will bring this out for 4 mana no.....
Gomorrah
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
In a deck running Time Warp, Lotus Cobra, Birds of Paradise, Primeval Titan, and the Eldrazi lands, you can pop him out turn 4 with Mana Leak mana to spare. And if you decide to play Jace 2 later, you can take roughly infinite turns.
NecroticNobody
★★★☆☆ (3.2/5.0)(5 votes)
"Hey Emrakul, how do you feel about my little 1/1 flyer?"
"EMRAKUL SMASH!"
"Oh, how about after it gets a Virulent Swipe?"
"EMRAKUL DIE!"
chrisxgordon
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@NecroticNobody
Someone correct me if i'm wrong, but casting Virulent Swipe to give your creature deathtouch would not kill Emrakul, the Aeons Torn as he has protection from ALL colored spells. This protection ultimately means that he can not be dealt damage by colored spells and in order for deathtouch to kill him, he must be dealt damage.
VoidedNote
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Sadly, the only colors that don't have a way of straight killing this without creatures (in standard) with a single card are red and green.
Blue: Clone (Doesn't target, you simply choose a creature) White: O-ring (Doesn't target when its a spell, only when it becomes a permanent) Black: Executioner's Capsule (Doesn't target until its a permanent)
GojanT
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Personally i like using something like Eternal Dominion to steal it right out of my opponents deck. It has a big downside...but hey, you get a free Emrakul, you probably don't NEED to play other cards. And the next turn i steal one of the other big eldrazi.
Robert_G
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Am I the only one that kills this guy with the Black Royal As$as$in??
A Prison Term already on the battlefield enchanting another creature can target Emrakul when he enters the battlefield, because in that case Prison Term would be a permanent and not a spell.
18scsc
★★☆☆☆ (2.3/5.0)(6 votes)
player1:BEHOLD MY EMRAKUL player2 and player 3:dang! player 2: my turn 1:no mine 3:whahahahah!!!! 1: muhaha your at 5 player 2 player 3 isint a threat a plains a moutin and 1 card. oh yah your turn 2: ya know what screw this i sacrifice all 79 of my creatures for thunder thrash vishino ! 3:whahahhahaha!!! 1:!!!! 3:my turn 2: no haste 1: ! 2: MUHAHAHA 3:Whahahhahaha! 2:i atack you player 1 like you said player 3 isint a threat. 1:nohohhohhoho!!!! *blocks with everything* 3:ha now i can go MUHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAHHAHAHAHHAHHHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAA i play fight to the death!!! 1 and 2:!!!!!!! WHAAHHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHA: 3:yah
Shiviro
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Don't forget about Ashnod's Altar that you can use to make the eldrazi spawn sac for 2 colorless instead. Makes it so i only need 7 spawns and 1 land =P And with all the eldrazi spawn cards, getting 7 out shouldn't be too hard.
soultoast
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
I'm just saying give anything eldrazi con***ion and infect, these guys become cupcakes. Throw tainted strike on after they block, this guy just got way less powerful.
Kodanshi
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(6 votes)
Emrakul is a SHE, people!
Amnatto
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I could get him out for three mana... and get the extra turn. Intet, the Dreamer is my EDH general, and I would love to have one of these to put in my deck, though I might go with Ulamog or Kozilek Just because they'd pull less agro.
Name recalls Emrikol the Chaotic from the old 1st ed. AD&D PBH.
murdershot21
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(45 votes)
ALL HAIL FLYING SPAGHETTI MONSTER.
Free-Look
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
WHOA! It's Emrakool & The Gang!
Bandswithother
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Why do so many insist that Emrakul is female? The only thing supporting this is the Zendikon religion of Ula, Cosi, and Emeria, and we saw just how accurate that was.
I don't like Emrakul having protection from colored spells from a flavor standpoint.
Black Mage: "I cast Doom Blade and rend the fabric of reality you occupy!" *squash*
Clumsy Esper Courier: "Oh no! I dropped my capsule of the cliff! OH GOD WHAT IS THAT IT FELL ON?!
Hey what's that purple smoke coming off the capsule?" There's a thundering crash as Emrakul hits the floor.
Bursama
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
... I started hating this card when my opponent played this on turn 3. PLAYED! ... This is also reason to hate Eldrazi Spawns...
RegalFantom
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I personally think that this card is proof that R&D does a very good job of testing absolutely everything they produce. Going through the comments, you'll see so many people complaining about how broken and over-powered this is, but in reality it is, while a very good card, isn't even format defining in Standard.
Snchz
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
My nice polymorph monster
AmericanVigor
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
You: I'm about to serve some major win.
Opponent: What could you possibly do to me with five mana?
You: I tap four lands for green mana, play Elvish Piper, equip Lightning Greaves, tap my remaining forest to use Piper's special ability, put Emrakul onto the battlefield, equip Emrakul with Lightning Greaves, attack you for 15 in the air with annihilator 6.
Opponent: !!!!!!!!!!
kiger
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
i say try using wispersilk cloak with Emrakul, the Aeons Torn good strat in my opinion short and simple
Tommy9898
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I hard cast it.. In a mono white control deck.. With only the help of Kor cartographer.
emmori
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(18 votes)
Emrakul: FEAR ME, LESSER BEINGS! I AM THE EATER OF MANA AND DESTROYER OF WORLDS! Mangara of Corondor: 'Sup. *tap* Emrakul: NOOOOO
Madscorpion
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Moonlace. Saved my ass sooo many times and it would work just dandy on this. Just use a clone on it or any kind of counterspells. Make those colorless and you get to rape a big spaghetti flying monster. Doesnt look like it but moonlace is a great backup card to keep at least ionce in any blue or part blue deck
shanebodimer
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
text box reads: Once Emurakul, the Aeons Torn enters the battle feild, you win the game.
Snafinturtle
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Far as i remember, the best way to stop her when cast is Time Stop, since it will remove both her and her ability from the game, next best thing would be mindbreak trap even thought they'd still get the extra turn.
@Madscorpion: Note the "Can't be countered" in the textbox, and you don't need moonlace to clone her...
For anyone else who might not have thought about it, you can still cheat her into play from the grave if you have good timing... or a stifle...
that's usually what i do, Turn 1 Island, Turn 2 Swamp, Entomb Emrakul, Stifle her shuffling ability Turn 3 Land, Animate Dead, OR dark rit into Dody Double (so you can keep a copy dead)
you could also cast the dark rit on turn 2 to get her out since animate dead costs 2. (AKA 4 mana emrakul)
it's funny though... no one seemed to mention that Ulamog can blow her up if she did happen to hit play :D
Either that or you could replicate Ghostfire 4 times after casting it :P (we'll assume you also have 15 mana and the Djinn Illuminatus in play)
EDIT: Also, FEAR THE TENTACLE ICEBERG!!!
tcollins
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(8 votes)
ALL HAIL FLYING SPAGHETTI MONSTER
Enemy_Tricolor
★★★☆☆ (3.8/5.0)(5 votes)
When a Screaming Mantis and an oyster love each other very much...
Annihilator 6... for when you want less friends to play magic against.
And the design, these Eldrazi look like something from a bad science fiction movie, come on!
Summoning trap just got even more annoying.
I hate you Emrakul.... but only as much as I hate the other cards that I hate. You have recently been the victim of a great unjustice. I will probably never see you in play ever again. I will *almost miss you. Dealing with your other two siblings will not be nearly as special as dealing with you. Rest in peace within everyone's binder.
P.S. Hey Emrakul, remember that time you were cast and then afterward, for some reason, your controller felt the need to play a Douchebag Marauder when you were his only other creature? And then I Shocked the Marauder before his trigger resolved? Yeah, I will never forget that. Good times.
Sliver_Master5829
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
ways that a sliver deck can handle this beastly beast:
1) Ghostflame sliver+Necrotic sliver=
all slivers are colorless, and this then breaks the "protection from colored spells" and thus with this helping you, you are then able to destroy the unk for a mere sacrifice and three grey mana. you may also use Ghostflame and Psionic sliver for this. you would be using more slivers, and quite possibly losing more slivers, but the effect is the same.
2) Mesmeric sliver+Screeching sliver+Heart sliver=
as a sliver comes into play, mesmeric's effect takes place, so you fateseal 1. knowing what your opponent has now, you may either send ity to to bottom of their library with the second effect of Fateseal 1, or you may use the haste given by heart sliver to tap the incomin sliver, and therefor using screeching siver's effect that mills one card, therefore a)limiting your opponent's mana/ eldrazi spawn count, b) limiting the kind of cards in your opponent's hand, c) knowing exactly what your opponent might be planning, and d) if when using the fateseal 1 effect from Mesmeric you come across this card, you may then send it strait to their library's bottom, thus putting it as physically far away as possible from the field other than putting out of play.
3) Ghostflame+Frenetic sliver+Crypt sliver=
after all of this, you opponent manages to somehow get this hulk out, and even dare attack, you simply choose the six that are sacrificed, and then, using Frenetic's help, remove them from play before they hit the grave. even if frenetic fails, there is still crypt sliver to fall back on to bring them before they hit the grave. you could also just use crypt. that way you could also regenerate all slivers you send to block this, and with ghostflame out, you could even kill it. if you have Toxin sliver out as well seeing as it has deathtouch and preventing regeneration, you just need one blocker. now, if you had Toxin, and then Talon sliver out as well, deathtouch and first strike. BOOM goes the hulky, and back into the deck he goes to start the process all over again.
Needless to say, WotC made slivers just too dang powerful if even this has THREE simple ways to get around it with multiple ways to get the same effect.
chinkeeyong
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(4 votes)
The annihilator 6 is sick.
@Sliver_Master: Cards are only spells while they're on the stack. A Necrotic Sliver on the battlefield can be used to blow up Emrakul without any help from a Ghostflame Sliver.
ROBRAM89
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
YOU DO NOT GET. AN EXTRA TURN. IF YOU CHEAT THIS. INTO PLAY.
Having read a vast array of really stupid comments lately I felt the need to point this out.
EldrazixDeciple
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
i love this card it works well is a fast paste deck
dark_hero
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(59 votes)
The capital letters in it's name spell EAT!
Guest1381794618
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(9 votes)
Timmy just had an orgasm.
Kamidii
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Intrepid Hero says hi.
dragonking987
★★☆☆☆ (2.7/5.0)(7 votes)
Emrakul awakes come on Chimney Imp we have work to do. -Storm crow.
@Lollercoaster. Why does it matter that Journey can get rid of it? Journey is a sorcery, by the time you're able to cast it you're already down 6 permanents, a turn, and 15 life.
Ideatog
★★☆☆☆ (2.4/5.0)(7 votes)
Boring.
There's no design to this card. It is just big and stompy without having any real reason for being so. Without a color restriction, every deck that can muster 15 colorless or cheat a creature into play automatically plays Emmy instead of any number of other, more interesting and flavorful creatures. And for what? A wanna-be Darksteel Colossus that doesn't even have the flavor of being an artifact. It just is, and it is just boring.
Why does Emrakul tear the aons? Does it produce some time-warping wave out of its slightly disturbing crevice? No. That would be a blue thing.
Why does Emrakul have annihilator? Obviously it crushes you ruthlessly, but that's a red thing.
Why does Emrakul have a mish-mosh of random abilities which make no sense together with no common reference points? That's a poor design thing.
kolomeha
★★☆☆☆ (2.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Just once I'd like to equip Grafted Exoskeleton to this guy simply because I can.
The Timmy Within can do no less than consider this to be the Greatest Creature Of All Time. Sorry, Progenitus.
@MechaKraken: Sorry to burst YOUR bubble, but as it has already been explained, Journey To Nowhere triggers when it enters the battlefield. It may be white, but it's not a spell anymore, so it removes Emrakul. Just as Avatar Of Woe or Visara The Dreadful can just kill/reshuffle it with a tap.
I know they are already overkill, but I think Kozilek, Butcher Of Truth and Emrakul should also have gotten indestructible, just for flavor reasons.
ultratog1028
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(2 votes)
Why is this banned in EDH now? If you get the 15 mana and noone else at the table has an answer, you deserve to win.
At my shop, this is the only "officially" banned card that isn't on our shops banned list, though we have Jhoira banned Instead.
@psuedonaut: how does the Shield Dancer block it? It doesn't fly.
DacenOctavio
★★★★☆ (4.3/5.0)(9 votes)
Jellyfish vs Blightsteel: The Ultimate Fatty Showdown!(I did not realize this text looks like it was written by MasterOfEtherium. I apologize for any congruity.)
green_yawgmoth
★★★★☆ (4.3/5.0)(3 votes)
@MechaKraken: Here is how journey to nowhere works.
You play JTN. It goes on the stack. It is a white spell with no target, as it is a global enchantment. JTN enters the battlefield. Its ETB effect triggers, going on the stack. It is a white triggered effect, not a spell, thus it can target Emrakul.
You do not have to announce what JTN is going to exile until it resolves and its ETB effect goes on the stack. If it were an aura like Arrest, then you would have to target it when it goes on the stack and Emrakul would be protected from it.
The rules text is pretty wordy. It could easily be simplified to "Man, your opponents are screwed."
Exclaimer999
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(2 votes)
You know what would really suck?
Gather specimens as you cast this spell.
I just cast Emrakul! Owned!
Well, ill just take it. Owned.
BlueRock
★☆☆☆☆ (1.2/5.0)(2 votes)
@ultratog1028 - this deserves its ban. personally whenever i meet someone who is playing mill, i feel a lot of respect for them, trying a weird and wonderful way to win the game. one of these cards on the sideboard and their chances of winning have been all but destroyed... and it never has to be laid. so yeah, i hate ermakals younger brothers as well :p
if you get 15 mana, and no one else stops you + you have this guy in your hand, you DO deserve to win, and (without restateing just how devastating he is once hes in play) you'd struggle not to.
land_comment
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
DacenOctavio:
He bugs me too. Read my comment on the 8th edition swarm of rats.
Kryptnyt:
I think that was a joke... you normally write funny comments.
jc27141
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(3 votes)
Under "sets and legality" this card is still legal for commander. That should be fixed.
Horos_god_of_magic
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(1 vote)
@ultratog1028: It is banned because it is hard to remove (most removal is Swords/Pongify/Bant Charm and the like, that is, they are spells that target) and can kill a whole board. Oblivion Ring and Journey to Nowhere are the only cards that see play that can really deal with it. People do not play it AS THEIR GENERAL. People use tricks to get it on the board (Jhoria, Braids, Defense of the Heart, Oath of Druids, Tooth and Nail, et cetera). I personally feel the Pacts should be banned as well, but that is just me. Hive Mind could be banned, however, the card is fun anyway, so long as people are not an ass and play a Pact or Final Fortune along with it.
Levit8
★★☆☆☆ (2.5/5.0)(1 vote)
This vs Kalitas bloodchief of Ghet :) 1 for vamps 0 for eldrazi.
themonster
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0)(1 vote)
@Horos_god_of_magic
globe effect do get rid of it btw
doomlord1
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Pro colered spells silly goose
Phantom_of_the_FNM
★★★☆☆ (3.8/5.0)(2 votes)
True story: It's a casual multiplayer game. It's just me and 1 other player, who is at 24 life thanks to a Martyr of Sands recursion trick, which got shut down a few turns ago. He wraths. It's in the late game, and I have several lands down, along with Maelstrom Nexus and Fist of Suns. I topdeck Draco, and play it. No sweat, however, for my opponent: he as 2 more Wrath Effects in hand. But what do I cascade into? That's right, Emrakul. I think I've since been converted to timmy.
Annoyilator
★☆☆☆☆ (1.8/5.0)(2 votes)
This guy from my casual play group dropped Emrakul, the Aeons Torntwice in a single 3 person game we were playing, and he did it very early each time by playing this green spell (I don't recall the name offhand) that basically had him pull the top 7 cards from his library and put a creature card from among them into play without paying its mana cost and putting the remaining 6 cards at the bottom of his library. Because it wasn't cast, he didn't get the extra turn, and that was the key to making him much easier to defeat. I ended up killing him with a Clone, which while being a colored spell didn't target Emrakul, it did put an identical Legendary Creature into play, causing them both to be destroyed. But if he'd actually cast that bad boy, I would have been crying.
I have Keiga, the Tide Star in one of my decks. I just found a strategy to defeat Emrakul without even trying.
SickFella
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
one time i had sex with emrakul.
divine_exodus
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Let me get this straight, me and my friend had an argument over this. Can she or can she not be blocked by a creature, let's say serra angel?
Danloresh
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
emrakul can be blocked by creature bcuz the creature is only a spell wen u play them.
my question: could Nihil Spellbomb work against emrakul's, When Emrakul is put into a graveyard from anywhere, its owner shuffles his or her graveyard into his or her library, effect. nihil spellbomb's effect is; Tap, Sacrifice nihil spellbomb: Exile all cards from target players graveyard.
Randomi
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@Danloresh: Yeah, it works, cause if you respond to emrakul going in grave, it will be exiled before it's ability will trigger, and after that your opponent shuffles his/hers empty grave to his library.
@Roflmager: Almost good, but razor boomerang says: "Razor Boomerang deals 1 damage to target creature or player." So deathtouch doesn't matter, but if you have heavy arbalest instead, in which case the creature deals that damage, it will work.
EDIT: Sorry I forgot to read the text on Razor Boomerang. However, Randomi dared mention that other overpowered artifact, Heavy Arbalest.
bassok
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
I have hard cast him...twice...in one game...smiley faces :)
Just1Micky
★☆☆☆☆ (1.3/5.0)(5 votes)
@Annoyilator, having a second of any legendary creature come into play destroys the second one, not the original. Facepalm at you.
BattleFish
★★★★☆ (4.4/5.0)(6 votes)
@Just1Micky the legend rule has been changed since the Kimigawa block. Both Legends die when a second come into play. At the same type, "Legendary" is now a super-type instead of a sub-type so you can't trigger the Legend rule by changing creature types.
Delixu
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Absolutely broken. So ridiculously strong it's amazing it was ever printed, though it makes historical sense.
Got him out on turn three once, yeah, my friends don't talk to me anymore.
GoatKnapper
★☆☆☆☆ (1.5/5.0)(2 votes)
Its really funny to me that the most powerful single card in Magic only has a 4.1 rating (at the time of this comment). Sounds like a lot of angry losers downrating out of rage.
There is no denying that the annhilator 6 is the cherry on top the broken pie that is Emrakul and ensures 99% of the time you cast him you'll win too easily (and painfully for your oppnent(s)). but if you use the five turn death race model for most of your games than getting this guy out is kinda impressive. For me there is no lying, broken or not this is 5/5 any way you cut it
persecutor
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This guy's slap was harder than my ex-wife's.
jfre81
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This thing kicked my oldschool Magic-playing ass last night.
Macsen
★★☆☆☆ (2.0/5.0)(3 votes)
Please cast this mofo so I can use a control spell on him!
stop-whining
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
@GoatKnapper
He's really not anything near insta win. I easily beat him once he was out with Rith the Awakener (definitely not a high powered card) creating token chumps to take the annihilator.
Deepfried-Owls
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Zendikar is Japan and the Eldrazi are alien tentacle creatures.
COINCIDENCE?
WHERE IS GOD-O-ZIRRA when you need him?
Ninjazilla
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
hahaha, I love how such a big thing can be completely dominated by a simple Vampire Nighthawk
aatamix44
★★★★☆ (4.1/5.0)(7 votes)
Polymorph, anyone?
IntrnetHte
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.8/5.0)(2 votes)
@ninjazilla wtf you talking about??
necava01
★★☆☆☆ (2.0/5.0)(3 votes)
so, lets just say that someone plays Emrakul, & on their next turn plays phyrexian metamorph? nayone else find that so beyond ridiculous that it shouldnt even be allowed?
TheEtheriumMaster
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0)(2 votes)
i Really Love This Card. It kills Storm Crow.
That_Odd_guy
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Use Nicol bolas, planeswalker -2 loyalty counters abilitie, which is you control target creature, on emrakul, and then you own so much.also, it that betrays is a good card to play with this. or, you can play two silverskin armorand aindomidable archangel, attach the ailverskin armour to each, and emrakul will have shroud. also , urabrask the hidden is a good card to play before having emrakul out, giving him haste.
warpig527
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
... memoricide, deispise, or even any instant death spell with a painter's aprentice still awsome and love it in my Eldrazi ramp deck!
Calver
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Attention: If you have a Elvish Piper, Polymorph, Joihra of the Ghitu, or any similar deck:
There is no reason not to replace your huge creature in those decks with this one. Even without time walking, this card beats more face than any other creature in the game.
novasun
★★★☆☆ (3.9/5.0)(4 votes)
I want to see 2 players, one with big spaghetti up there and one with blightsteel colossus to see how it plays out if they both had untapped mana and hands full of instants to use...
EternalPhi
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@necava01
It ISNT allowed. First of all, Emrakul has protection from coloured spells, phyrexian metamorph is a coloured spell.
But lets say you make the spell colourless with something like Ersatz Gnomes, Moonlace, or Mycosynth Lattice. you still have to deal with the fact that Emrakul is Legendary, meaning as soon as you got that second one in they would both die as a state-based effect. You would still get your extra turn though.
Kidromeo
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
Ok peeps, I have a question. I'm trying to play, COMMANDER. I was wondering, Are there enough cards to make a deck with him? Is it possible?
benevolinsolence
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@ EternalPhi necava was wrong but you're actually more wrong. Metamorph doesn't target protection stops targeting, damaging enchanting and blocking, metamorph does no of those when you cast it, you can copy him just fine and they will both die. Also, there is no possible way to "copy" Emrakul's extra turn ability, it happens when he's cast, you can't copy that. Finally if metamorph did target, moonlace and Ersatz Gnomes would not be able to bypass the protection because the colored spell can't even target him. Don't correct people if you don't know what you're saying. @Kidromeo Emrakul is banned in commander, sorry man.
Atali
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@Kidromeo Though Emrakul is on the unofficial banned list (as a casual only format there is no official banned list), it is possible to build a completely colorless Commander deck. Karn, Silver Golem is a more popular choice for this, because you will have to invest HEAVILY in artifact mana, and Karn + lots of artifacts is a winning strategy itself.
You can try building a deck with Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre or Kozilek, Butcher of Truth instead, but be prepared to shill out a lot of money tracking down the expensive colorless mana sources you'll need to run such a deck. I wouldn't recommend it unless you already have most of the oldschool colorless lands.
GoofyAce
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Um...in standard, Spine of Ish Sah and Geth's Verdict, I can't think of any other slightly direct ways of getting rid of him short of another sac method. Out of standard here is a fun one, Painter's Servant then All is Dust followed by gloating. Also, I would love to chump Emrakul after sacrificing everything but maybe the blocker and one black mana and then play Innocent Blood, kill one of the biggest baddies with one mana on the field :P
mlanier131
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Is this legal in commander. The gatherer says it is, but I have people tell me he is banned.
Myrofkoth
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
great in a myr deck with lots of mana producers
TheGodOfWar91
★★★☆☆ (3.8/5.0)(4 votes)
Teacher: "Alright kids, today is Show and Tell day! Jimmy, what did you bring to show the class?"
Jimmy: "Today i brought my pet Tarmogoyf. Isn't he the cutest?"
Teacher: "He sure is Jimmy! Tom, what did you bring for show and tell today?"
Tom: "GIANT SPAGHETTI MONSTER OF DEATH!"
tazman321
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Emarakul, the Faces Raped
Superllama12
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(11 votes)
Dies to Doom Bl- Dies to Terro- Dies to Go For t- Dies to...five Ghostfire? I gues you could Reverberate one...
DeaTh-ShiNoBi
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
@Lollercoaster Indeed, Emrakul "dies" from Journey to Nowhere; however, not before giving you a second turn and taking 6 permanents down with him (likely 7, as something is probably going to have to chump block him; I don't know of all too many cards that have 16 toughness).
PcvsApple
★★★★☆ (4.4/5.0)(14 votes)
Hey Storm Crow, what's for dinner?
Spaghetti.
sonorhC
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Actually, there is an official banned list for EDH/Commander (though many groups will houserule the list): See http://mtgcommander.net/rules.php . Where the confusion comes from is that that site lists Emrakul as banned, but the Sets and Legality tab here lists him as legal for Commander (which is just another name for EDH). Personally, I'd assume that he's actually banned, and that the Wizards folks just forgot to update that in their database, since the Wizards folks recognize the folks at that other link as the arbiters of the format's rules; Wizards is just adding the information here and in the Comprehensive Rules as a convenience.
marwinshieldscale
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I personaly love low mana creature but I have grown close to the epic elrazi, I kept them in every deck for anti-jace.
TheChurchIsHere
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@ Palutena--1) Kumano's ability is a colored ability, so he is protected, and 2) "dies" and "goes to the graveyard" are the same thing.
Ouroborobelisk
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Emrakul, the *** Torn. She now comes with Japanese school girl uniform ... for your opponent, cuz ... "you gone get raped'
quiteanass
★★★★☆ (4.6/5.0)(11 votes)
Why kill it if you could just take it? Memnarch
kelayth
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
easiest 2 ways i can think of getting rid of this flying Speghetti ball is legacy weapon, or brittle effigy.... or well any colorless artiface spell or ability
This is just a list of cards off the top of my head that can and WILL deal with this Eldrazi.
Funniest thing to do is: Cast Journey to Nowhere or Oblivion Ring, once it resolves and enters the battlefield the first ability hits the stack, simply stack a Naturalize or some other card that destroys an enchantment at instant speed. Naturalize will destroy the enchantment, the second ability triggers doing nothing, then the enchantments first ability resolves and the creature is exiled FOREVER! Well until the next game.
Palutena
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Kumano, Master Yamabushi + anything that can do 14 damage = win and remember Kumano says if it would die, not if it would be sent to the graveyard.
Edit:@TheChurchIsHere Wrong, it says colored spells, not abilities and even though your second point is correct emrakul's ability says "when" he is put into the graveyard, and kumano's says "if it would be"
Don't hate on Kumano
JFM2796
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(2 votes)
I once hardcasted an Emrakul out of my opponent's hand. (Sen Triplets) Needless to say, I won that game.
If this was cast with sneak attack, because I did not cast it from my hand, would the ability that tells me to take an extra turn after this one still trigger?
Bulhakas
★★☆☆☆ (2.5/5.0)(1 vote)
@Misnerdastud
No.
Also, cards like this one make the game stupid.
calibir
★★★☆☆ (3.8/5.0)(2 votes)
emrakul sees engulfing slagwurm around the corner "OH SHIT ULAMOG HELP!"
DarthParallax
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(27 votes)
ACH, PROGENITUS RUN, IT'S C'THULHU!!!!!!!!!!!!!
gtamaster503
★★☆☆☆ (2.5/5.0)(1 vote)
You are too big, too insane and the fact you can be brought out turn five with a quick silver amulet is nuts.
Something that's a bit disconcerting that I see is a lot of people are showing counters for it...but they're mosly all colored. It's rules say it has protection from color. That's okay, though, there is an artifact that can insta-kill Emrakul. Thought Prison. You are welcome.
Zoltantf
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(3 votes)
Sweet karakas combo. He is too powerful for edh. A floating time warp in your exile zone is nuts. In addition, 15 colorless mana is not much in edh multiplayer. There are many ways to get infinite colorless mana combos. Here is one off the top of my head, power artifact, and basalt monolith.
OmegaSerris
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@Arachibutyrophobia (Really? The fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth? X-D)
EDH was becoming less of a Magic game but more of a race to and win. If you ran him, you only needed to get something like Channel (which is now, also banned) going or some other similar insane mana combo and you would wreck your opponent's field with the Annil 6 so even if it was a mirror match, there was no hope of recovering. If you were playing against it, all you could do it hope to disrupt them enough so your win condition could step in.
In other words, it was format warping. This is why most cards are banned.
Funny enough, this is still legal in "Commander" as Wizards hasn't updated it under the "Sets & Legality" tab as of this post. The generally accepted source for EDH rules is here for those interested: http://mtgcommander.net/rules.php
Arachibutyrophobia
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
why can't I have this guy in edh? like, not even my maindeck!
GFrogbottom
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@Teakon
Many of those are colored so they have no effect on Emrakul.
001010011100101110
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Progenitus can't block Emrakul and Emrakul can't block Progenitus. Everybody is happy.
tabqwerty
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
"Polymorph, anyone?" Polymorph is a colored spell.
ICEFANG13
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(3 votes)
wow that is depressing I got first comment and it was deleted along with every other comment I did for Eldrazi cards. But the important thing is has anyone noticed its name can be shortened to EAT? cause it eats games I guess
@tabqwerty
You know that protection from colored spells, doesn't actually do anything when its a creature card in a deck? You also know that Polymorph doesn't:
Deal damage to EAT Enchant EAT Block EAT Target EAT
It doesn't do any of that when it flips cards and puts Emrakul into play, you can't cast Polymorph on Emrakul, but the effect can put him into play.
Lastly, you know a bunch of people play a deck like this right? I dunno how many people could get break the rules...
Progle
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
woah
IUHoosier
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0)(2 votes)
"It can't be outfought, it can't be outdone / It can't be outmatched, it can't be outrun." --Linkin Park, "The Catalyst"
I suspect that this song was written about Emrakul.
Geishur
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(4 votes)
Use this with Storm Crow for ultimate combo.
Dr_Fletchers
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(1 vote)
I was Using my Gideon Deck Against a deck which is focused on bringing this guy out....he brings out Lawkeeper taps him down :-)
am802g
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
How to get Emrakul by turn 3: Turn 1: Reveal 4 chancellors of the tangle, play 2 overgrown battlements (you have one more overgrown battlement in your opening hand) Turn 2: Draw overgrown battlement. Tap two overgrown battlements to play the other two that you have.
Turn 3: Draw Emrakul, the Aeons Torn. Tap 4 overgrown battlements to play Emrakul, the Aeons Torn. Turn 4: Play 2 chancellor of the tangles and attack with emrakul Turn 5: play two more chancellors of the tangles and attack again with emrakul YOU WIN!!!
helluin
★★★★☆ (4.9/5.0)(13 votes)
Emrakul has protection from colored spells, not colors, so there are any number of ways to neutralize this, or steal it from your opponent, or kill it.
All that said, I love the flavor of the Eldrazi cards, and really want to make an Eldrazi deck at some point.
rillaan
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I still think Emrakul should have been a plainswalker
TheSwarm
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
So, emrakul turn one IN STANDARD!!! First, you are on the draw. second, you got hit by a goblin guide with put a scalding tarn into your hand. So, draw.
Reveal all your chancellors, and play your lotus cobras. play and crack scalding tarn, floating two green and getting an island. (4g 1u) Go to (2g 1u) and cast explore, drawing into Time reversal. Play and fetch the other scalding tarn, getting an island, floating (6g 2u) go to (3g) and cast time reversal. draw:
Go to (1g) and cast explore. Draw Emrakul. play, crack the tar. Float (5g 1u). (3g, 1u) Play your cobra. go to (1u), cast harrow. Float (6g 1u) Go to (4), cast harrow, (10) go to (7) cast harrow, (13) go to (10), cast harrow, go to (16), cast emrakul, the aeons torn.
Tsuichoi
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Why magic why...
phoenixcobra27
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Broken card, just like any annihilator card. For those talking about multple methods to deal with this, it requires your turn unless you can cast as though your spells had flash or somethong of the sort since not only can he not be countered and prot. from colored spells, he gives an extra turn. By that time that he attacks next turn, the 6 sac. hurts along with his 15 power. Annihilator, one of those mehcnaics that leaves you wondering, what was wizards on that day
Singe
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(2 votes)
The 21st Century Yawgmoth.
Concerned_Bystander
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
You can counter this and prevent the graveyard effect by using a Time Stop, as this causes Emrakul to be exiled instead of going to the graveyard.
__Silence__
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(3 votes)
so we were 3 turns into the game I had 3 creatures and 3 lands and had an Emrakul in my hand, my opponent had a dark ritual and a Treacherous Urge + a few lands... I lost that game =)
(and if I were playing Standard, I would be packing Memoricide for the same reason)
doitpow
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Ben's question of the day.
Is Emrakul torn by the Eons? Is it Eons-Torn, as one might be wind-swept? Or is Emrakul-a personification of the Eons-which have themselves been torn? Is it Eons Torn, as in Dosan, The Falling leaf?
Overlorddonut
★★★★☆ (4.6/5.0)(18 votes)
"Mrs. the Aeons Torn?"
"Yes, officers, how may I help you?"
"We are extremely sorry you had to hear it like this, but your husband, Emerakul, was killed in a barfight."
"Oh!... Oh my god!... (wipes eye with tentacle). How did this happen?"
"It appears he provoked another patron of the bar, one Mossbridge Troll, and was killed due to blunt-force trauma on the, um, head... body... thing."
"But... I don't understand. Emerakul always had the highest power and toughness of anybody in town!"
"Yes, but see here? The second part of Mr. Troll's card text? It clearly shows that he was on drugs at the time, and was obviously the only one capable of murdering your husband."
"What? What the hell?! How could that happen? You mean to tell me some stupid troll just got up and beat my husband, a thousand ton, gravity defying, five hundred foot tall eldrazi god with the ability to cause the death of any six cards in the game in an eyeblink, to death with his fists? What, am I on Candid Camera?"
Shadoflaam
★★★☆☆ (3.9/5.0)(8 votes)
@Overlorddonut "No, this is Camarid Camera. And yes your husband was killed, and upon his reanimation...
"B-b-but, he... he didn't have a throat, and... GNOMES? GNOMES killed a GOD by attacking its THROAT?"
"Our condolences. Mr. Infinite Gyre sends his regards."
Figgin_of_Dragons
★★★★☆ (4.6/5.0)(6 votes)
Wish it wasn't banned in EDH; I want to kill it.
Paolino
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(12 votes)
Turn 1 - Swamp -> -> Dark Ritual -> ; - with Entomb Emrakul; Emrakul's triggered ability which forces you to shuffle your graveyard into your library triggers and goes on the stack; - with cast Shallow Grave; It goes on top of the stack, above the triggered ability; - Shallow Grave resolves, and Emrakul enters the battlefield with haste; - Emrakul's triggered ability resolves, and you shuffle your (empty) graveyard into your library; - ATTACK!!!
AvatarofBro
★★★★☆ (4.4/5.0)(8 votes)
Broken. I don't care what people say. Someone tried to argue with me today about this. They said the CMC was a big enough drawback... Has anyone ever actually hardcasted Emrakul? No. They get him out turn three with their Elvish Pipers, Defense of the Heart, etc. So. Broken.
Splizer
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(1 vote)
What can I say, really? He's just the biggest, burliest, brutiest badass ever to hit the game. And he defines what mythic should be (Legendary awesomeness, huge mana cost, unique abilities, not for every deck) and shouldn't be (abilities a bit much proportionate for mana cost, but then again he does cost 15)
No matter how many people dislikes its OTTness, Emrakul will always be a classic, as the most powerful Magic The Gathering Jellyfish that ever lived. My heart is filled with warmth. :)
One of my friends is running a UB Everflowing Chalice/Proliferation deck that can reliably hardcast Emrakul turn four or five. Not that he ever plays with it, it's just not very fun for anyone.
getchyaroksov
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This is why Channel is still banned, right?
dingophone
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
I hate Emrakul. Not cause he's big, or broken, or scary in anyway. Not even because he hoses mill. I hate Emrakul because he's bigger than Progenitus ;~;
phyrexiantrygon
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
I started playing magic just before RotE came out, but I've had amazing luck with booster packs. The first two I ever opened had Emrakul and Kozilek, Butcher of Truth. My first Shards pack had Elspeth, Knight-Errant, my first Scars pack had Lux Cannon, my first Innistrad pack had Reaper from the Abyss, and my first M12 pack had Jace V3.0... :D
@AvatarofBro
According to you, CMC is no longer a drawback? So everything should just be to play because you can cheat it out? There is really only one card that will never be cheated out. But it still CAN be...
knight3607
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
So I'm just wondering if I were playing against my friend's Eldrazi deck and I played a Phyrexian Ingester could I use the Imprint ability on Emrakul? Also I'm new to commenting on this site so I don't know how to link a card through its name but here is the link to Phyrexian Ingester: http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=214384
swords_to_exile
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
@phyrexiantrygon No, cmc matters. Decks that cheat Emrakul out are built to do it. (Show and Tell, the aforementioned Elvish Piper or Defense of the Heart) That's why it's cmc doesn't matter.
Demonic_Math_Tutor
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(1 vote)
And that is all she wRoTE. Pardon the pun. This card is utterly insane, the artwork amazing, the stats unbelievable... and the faceplams when someone manages to cheat him out with Elvish Piper... All out of this world
Geraume
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(5 votes)
Eldrazis in general are to me the worst decision of MTG's R&D team.
Annihilition is anti fair play.
Now this one is simply disgusting.
I am really happy my playing group decided to not play any Eldrazi ever.
JimD
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(3 votes)
I have turn four hardcast Emrakul. That is what elf decks are for, though admittedly the odds of me ever getting that hand again are really slim.
Clicka
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Protection against colored permanents- how racist!
Stinga
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I love this guy. The Three shall return, and the Eye of Ugin shall produce its sheer fire, and the Eldrazi shall Rize, and this Time no Soul shall escape.
pcballistix
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
liquidmetal coating and hoard smelter dragon hello emrakul, bye emrakul, 20 DAMAGE! with a flyer no doubt and add swiftfoot boots for further frustration, stir, and toast till golden brown
TherealphatMatt
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Y'know, I wonder what a colorless, uncounterable (doubly so, because the effect is on-cast, and the card itself is uncounterable) extra turn spell would cost as a sorcery?
Paleopaladin
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(2 votes)
ChrisxGordon -- you are incorrect because it is the creature that is dealing the damage and triggering the destruction--not the spell. So blocking with an Ornithopter and playing Virulent Swipe on it would indeed send Emrakul packing.
BTW, facing Emrakul is what every Intrepid Hero dreams of.
Areps
★★★☆☆ (3.8/5.0)(2 votes)
i run this thing with tooth and nail and progenitus ^_^
Sharzademar
★★★☆☆ (3.8/5.0)(2 votes)
I hard cast Emrakul using a solid green Elf deck composed primarily of Rampant Growths, Cultivates, Greenweaver Druids, Elvish Archdruids, and Fauna Shamans. Also have some nasty high power wurms and one Gaea's Revenge. Few other good spells as well.
KnexWiz
★☆☆☆☆ (1.5/5.0)(2 votes)
who is realy going to hardcast this with out starting with a miracle starting hand? might as well have gleemax's CMC of all though the power 5 or greater/mana ramp deck i run could hard cast it if it realy wanted to, it does so with other eldrazi
EGarrett01
★★★☆☆ (3.8/5.0)(2 votes)
You have to roll the "R" when you say his name out loud. You know you do.
BlackAlbino
★☆☆☆☆ (1.5/5.0)(2 votes)
My problem with emrakuel isn't that he wins the game. Once you've reached 15 mana you ought to be winning the game. But not if somebody else already did. That's my problem, no matter what your opponents position, dropping emrakuel will win you the game. Maybe not 'no matter what' but damn near (at least in modern where there's all of 2 preventative answers). It's not just that he can bring a game back from the brink, that's usually really cool to see happen and generally has alot of interaction, but There's nothing even that clever in dropping this. Just, "hey it's Cthulhu! GG!". Maybe this is a rant, but so what if it is, I'm mad bro >=( Still gets 5/5 though, not gonna hate-rate
Negated
★★☆☆☆ (2.5/5.0)(1 vote)
@avatarofbro: Yes. I have hardcasted him. Twice in one game, actually. I still managed to lose that game (Damn you, stranglehold and day of judgement!).
CuChulain01
★★★★☆ (4.6/5.0)(4 votes)
I can't take this guy seriously...terrifying homage to Lovecraftian horror? Yes...but I imagine it talking in the voice of the puppeteer from Calls For Cthulhu...."Y'know what human souls are like? You're like sugar you taste delicious but you're incredibly unhealthy...no scratch that you're like caffeine you're good for a little but then nothing. Oh! Wait you're like marshmallow peeps! Delicious but I just want more! This broadcast brought to you by the taste of marshmallow peeps just like satisfaction you get when you break a man's will and mind and devour his soul!" but seriously, 15 mana is not hard...granted it may take a bit but run him in a colorless artifact deck with blinkmoth urns and urzatron, done like turn 4-5 hardcasted if you aren't running cloudposts and vesuvas. Yeah it ain't flashy but it works...granted it's far easier to just run the sneak and tell legacy deck lol...that thing's just funny...
worldslayer414
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
The promo version of this absolutely sucks. Looks like it was drawn by a five-year-old. However, the all-out ruler of the Eldrazi is still an excellent addition to any mana-ramp deck, and combined with Spawnsire Of Ulamog, It That Betrays, and the other two Eldrazi kings, you can make an awesome deck with this (one might also include an All Is Dust in there, too).
I would agree with some people here, CMC doesn't necessarily draw back a card. There are so many ways to play him for free.. He could cost 1,000,000 mana.. he'd still be broken, OP, retardedly powerful, however you want to say it because ultimately he's going to probably be played for free, or at the very least, very little mana. Why is this not a 5/5?
I despise this card with a blind passion of a thousand stars.. but I can still afford the respect of giving this rediculously overpowered card a 5/5. ^ - ^'
and i thought i was the shit with a life-gaining deck, haha
kameenook
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Anyone seeing Fold Into Aether on your own spell? Our if your opponent plays a wumpus? I love all the Eldrazi.
Enelysios
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
This is the most Timmy of all cards. I don't find much interest in playing him, but I have a lot of friends who love to do so. Its a bit of a pain for my mill deck for obvious reasons, but thats about it. If he is snuck out I can usually get him dead, and if you ramped up the 15 mana to hard cast him then I was probably dead anyway.
That said, yes, he is a mighty finisher. Pro points if you use Lightning Mauler with him or Sneak him out with suspend or Fist of Suns and still get the 'cast' bonuses.
Also it is bad when your foil prerelease art is so bad it is noticably cheaper than your normal printing.
TheWalkingMan
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
He can suck my engulfing slagwurm with canopy cover and maybe lure
ocmedd
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I opened with this card and my Channel. There were no survivors.
Jimbolini
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
*an enemy Karn Liberated appeared*
Traumerei112
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
The real way to play with Emrakul is with Show and Tell and Sneak Attack.
Geez. Kids these days.
Axelle
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
What do you do when a mana-hungry mindless eldritch abomination comes at you? You bribe it.
Yozuk
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This is one of those cards I have in my rare folder that just sits there.... Alone.. Its too big and doesn't fit the theme of any of my decks. And its banned in EDH. So, The Alien Spaghetti monster sits.. And waits for a time when I can poly morph him into existence.
Nevermoore
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
Lightning greaves makes him great after a channel.
This card is almost unstoppable with the Annihilator 6, but my Angel deck has something that can stop it. Sigarda, Host of Herons is enough to stop it.
asandberge
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Say you consistently have 15 mana. Could you potentially Soul Foundry this and have infinite turns? I mean, it's already overkill. And it makes you a more open target as well. And you'd be able to attack with it only every other turn (but they're still all your turns). But it could still kill someone who has 100 life, right?
Subtle_Kay
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I want one.
Chazwald1
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@asandberge No, because it's not hard cast.
talcumpowder0046
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Fun method of turn 1 Emrakul without power nine: 1.Forest 2.Exile Elvish Spirit Guide from your hand 3.Channel for 15 colorless 4. Emrakul Unless they can block/deal 5 damage on turn 1, they are toast.
ilovealara
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
You'd think he'd be a bit better at not being intimidated. Seriously, if any creature, no matter what it is gets intimidate, this can't block it.
Kaleidostorm
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Ah, Emrakul brings back good memories. Was once playing a casual game where I killed Emrakul with a ninjutsu'd throat slitter. Another where Gideon's Lawkeeper kept tapping the jerk. I lost both games, but not because of Emrakul, darnit.
Also another card with Mark Tedin. Seriously I could go through each card in any deck I've ever made and he would have drawn a least two cards in them
ignatius2722
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
Here's a weird thought.
When Emrakul is put into a graveyard from anywhere, its owner shuffles his or her graveyard into his or her library.
It does not specifically state that Emrakul goes with it.
SO apparently, other than exiling it, one way to make sure this damn thing stays dead is to stick it in the graveyard of someone other than its owner.
Anybody else just start thinking of some convoluted plot to kill him? Humility and a Lightning Bolt.
high_tide_niv
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
just play a lattice against it. or ensnaring bridge
Okuu-chan
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(10 votes)
I have a beautiful image in my mind of a Royal Assassin standing on top of a high peak, leaping onto Emrakul as it passes by, and going all Kratos on it.
kazenpaus
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
It may be a mighty devourer of worlds... But a schoolclass of Little Girls can kill it together.
Since it's exiled, It won't ever see play in the game. =)
Trep.the.Treehugger
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Emrakull + Venser, the Sojourner's +2 ability. Infinite turns. Pretty overkill since you're probably already winning simply by having a big 15\15 flying annihilator creature, but fun for the whole family. Except maybe for those who are losing...
Lord_Seth_02
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@ Trep.the.Treehugger
Emrakull + Venser, the Sojourner's +2 ability. Infinite turns. Pretty overkill since you're probably already winning simply by having a big 15\15 flying annihilator creature, but fun for the whole family. Except maybe for those who are losing...
No. Venser's ability exiles him, then brings him back. Emrakul's "take an extra turn" occurs when you CAST him, not when he comes into the battlefield. As you did not cast him when he returns, you do not get an extra turn.
The original art is a bit... confusing. There's no obvious indicator of size, and it's difficult to tell what exactly your looking at. For that reason, I'm glad I have the alt art for my Elf Ramp deck. That way my opponents understand what's coming at them on turn 3-4 much better.
On functionality though, this card is good fun. It's durable, evasive, and feels very mythic. Though between this and Kozilek, Butcher of Truth, I'm not sure which has proven more useful to me. Emrakul wipes my opponent's field, and if I have Concordant Crossroads lying out, he gets to swing twice. But with Kozilek, the uncounterable draw power has one me more games than I can count. So their both awesome in their own right. And both win the game fairly easily. Though in the end, I might have more fun with Emrakul, simply because that extra turn never gets old.
In conclusion, this card is epic, and even more so when it can come out alarmingly early. An obvious 5/5.
Turn 1: Forest, Noble Hierarch Turn 2:Forest, 3xNoble Hierarch Turn 3: Nothing Opponents Turn: They play a creature, Counter with Counterlash and play Emrakul. Turn 4: Win
And For the luckies among us with black lotus Turn 1: Black Lotus, 3xNoble Hierarch Turn 2:Nothing Counter Opponent Turn 3: Win.
Hey there big guy :) Worldspine Worm's coming.. Say what now? Yeah, yeah I know, believe me, I KNOW.. We told him the same thing.. YOU'RE the Bad@ss. We all GOT the memo. I'm sure deep down inside that stone cold killers heart theres a trembling little lavre somewhere, I'm just the messenger. And he "SAYS".. He just REEEEEALLY hopes you'll block him but you're probably too chicken poop to do it! Yeah, the whole forest nearly died from a roar of uncontrollable laughter. It was priceless Em! You should've been there! He must have one heck of a deathwish, HUH MAN! We know.. We know.. One last thing, when you were just a little Em, not quite an Aeons Torn, more like a hardcore Aeons FOLD if I may, did Momma Torn happen to have you de-wormed at the local Eldrazi Vet's office by chance? No? Eh, i'm sure it's nothing.. Forget I even mentioned it buddy. Any whoo.. Good talk! I'm off to get my popcorn ready. Get some rest, not that you'll need I'm sure, but tom's gonna be a big day ;)
EKraj
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Solid piece, solid piece.
SteamyRayvon6969
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
5th turn, Quicksilver Amulet, Hello Emrakul :D extra turn, play a mana, crystal shard, replay emrakul. Whats that? Its your turn? No, i don't think it is yet. How about now? Nope, emrakul says otherwise. you dont believe me? here, read this. I'm sorry, i've had 50 turns in a row and i have 5 cards left in my library, all my creatures out... you can go now, I didn't meen to take so long. Oh thts cute, you've been waiting all this time to play your Serra Angel? Im sure she will change the outcome...
Villainous1
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
He seems scary, until you realise he can be killed by a strike force of eight Grizzly Bears. Or should that be four Grizzlies and their cubs?
LordRandomness
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(3 votes)
The way the Eldrazi block was done flavor-wise was exceptionally clever: multiple cards printed in the earlier two sets have potent effects that are rendered powerless against the Eldrazi. Examples:
1) Iona, Shield of Emeria lets you bar a colour. That's just dandy. 2) Terra Eternal won't save your lands from being sacrificed 3) Agadeem Occultist is a minor example, but the CMC of most Eldrazi is prohibitively high. 4) Anowon, the Ruin Sage will be making a full-on Eldrazi deck sacrifice an Eldrazi Spawn token every turn rather than doing anything useful. 5) Brave the Elements, although that was probably unintentional since it's a pretty standard utility. 6) Deathless Angel's indestructibility fails to protect creatures from annihilator. (This is a common theme among the set's angels, the reason being that most of them were supporters of the "gods" which turned out to be world-devouring monstrosities) 7) Emerge Unscathed, while in the same set, fails hilariously against Eldrazi. 8) Eternity Vessel. This one's a fair bit of a stretch, but either you sacrifice it to annihilator or sacrifice useful things and end up falling further behind.
There's a bunch of other cool things too.
Amusing side note - Archon of Redemption gives you 15 life when Emeria is freed!
Greenman284
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
What people don't seem to realize is that he has "Protection from all colour spells", meaning you basically can't target him with ANYTHING that would exile, sacrifice, destroy, the works. Unless you of course used an artifact.
Gcrudaplaneswalker
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
All you need to do is make an army of 30 Little Girls and put out Levitation!! The battle is yours.
psychichobo
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
And then he followed False Prophet over a cliff and it all went a bit pear-shaped from there.
MMT
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@Concerned_Bystander Read the first sentence on Emrakul's text box. Thank you.
kolition
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
I'm so tired of people thinking that others cards have effect on this creature, it is pro colour, which means you cant mind control it, destroy, bounce, or exile it with anything that isn't stated as colourless, or an artifact. such things as Dominating Licid can not take control of it, you can't O ring it. in short to deal with him you'll need to Voidstone Gargoyle him to stop him from entering the battlefield, but once there, you need to mass wipe him. Please correct me if I am wrong. Thank you. Also, is annihilator an activated ability? (activated by attacking?) if so does that mean i could pithing needle him?
Turn 1: Forest Turn 2: Forest, Channel. Enjoy your Emrakul.
JaxsonBateman
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Emrakul... how thou art loathed. It seems like if you're playing in casual environments (ie. kitchen table Magic), having Emrakul as a win condition is a very risky move. It's probably due to the sheer card advantage it provides, tacked onto an enormous evasive, tough to remove creature. With pseudo-haste if you hard cast it, it asks for an instant speed answer, but also limits what you can answer it with due to its protection. So I can certainly understand people's frustration with the big guy in casual decks...
... but on the other hand, in any format, if you allow your opponent to ramp to 15 mana and haven't won by that point, you probably deserve to lose. Heck, these days for 7 mana you can use a Diabolic Revelation to pick up any 2 cards in your deck - which means you can easily pick up 2 cards that form an infinite combo.
nelsonngyn0
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
I just love the despair in my friends' faces when I play this. In multi-player though... everyone would be just "Screw it all, everyone kill Emrakul Boy". I would rate this a 4.5/5 because everyone hates you when you play it, but a solid 5/5 because I know everyone hates it because they know I could have a chance of winning.
@kolition: Protection from colored SPELLS. A card is a SPELL once you cast it. Once the SPELL resolves it becomes a PERMANENT. When the card is on the board it is a PERMANENT. Emrakul has no protection from permanents. Oblivion Ring's triggered ability affects Emrakul because Oblivion Ring is a permanent (since its ability is triggered by its entering the battlefield, which means Oblivion Ring has resolved and is no longer a spell). Dominating Licid affects Emrakul because it is an activated ability from a permanent. although in general, when you play an Aura card it is a spell that targets and as such Emrakul can't be hit by Mind Control or Pacifism or whatever.
Also, Annihilator is not an activated ability, it's a triggered ability. Pithing Needle won't touch that.
Pigfish99
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Remember, it takes 30 little girls to take down Emrakul!
Best comeback ever. Opponent 4 life Me 20 life Turn 7 He sacs Eldrazi Spawn for Emrakul. Takes Extra turn and swings. I sac all six of my lands keeping my Anowon, the Ruin Sage and going to 5 life. I swing with Anowon for the win. Being oblivious can kill you.
Anzu-chan
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(3 votes)
Funny that a giant flying spaghetti monster dies to a little tiny spider (Deadly Recluse).
But yeah, the spider dies too.
themarine
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This card can easily be killed by Karn-Liberated which exiles him and then continues to kill you. or you could exile him from there hand, easily done with telepathy and Karn working together. Then we restart the game and emurakul + others are on my side. awesome beat down.
DimirSnail
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(9 votes)
Some of these posts suggest that a colored spell could go on the stack targeting Emrakul by becoming colorless (e.g. via Ersatz Gnomes). This is wrong. Emrakul is not a legal target for a colored spell, and a spell cannot be put onto the stack with an illegal target. Pulling this off would require something like a Redirect so a colored spell already on the stack could change its target to Emrakul after becoming colorless.
As much as I hate to admit it, Emrakul has to be one of the best cards ever printed, in terms of Legacy play. I am not sure that I have ever seen any other card impact the game like this one. Yes, you can list 100 different ways to kill it, but that doesn't change the fact that 99% of the methods you would usually use to kill things don't work on it, and that its very presence forces you to engage in one of those other methods. And half of the suggestions I've seen posted require sorceries or enchantments... Journey to Nowhere? Innocent Blood? Wrath of God? I don't think so. Hardcasting an Emrakul nets an extra turn and then annihilation. Good luck surviving until your next main phase.
And to the extent that you're capable of killing it, it's just as easily defended... Lightning Greaves (or a counterspell or Stifle if it requires instant protection), which now threatens you with annihilator 12 before you see your next turn.
And being able to kill it doesn't really help if you're unprepared and suddenly find yourself facing the loss of all your permanents before you can do anything. It's the game-ender of game-enders with almost no response. Its existence in your deck prevents you from being milled, and there are more ways to combo with it or into it than there are to kill it. Yes, a Karakas will send it away... it will also combo for infinite turn-taking/annihilation.
Anyone who believes this card is overrated because weaknesses exist is simply mistaken. If you can cast it in the first 4 turns with a counterspell in your hand, then with rare exception, you win. I have a combo deck that does precisely this with remarkable consistency, and it just can't be beaten by anything but the best of decks. There are few weapons against Emrakuls and counterspells. They do exist; they're things like Mindbreak Traps and Extirpates, or Stifles to shut down that extra turn. A Quicken can also go a long way to make other defenses available. Intrepid Hero, Royal Assassin, or Soul Snare can be a nice obstacle, but putting your faith in permanents is dangerous. And it's not like I'm going to play my Emrakul with an Intrepid Hero on the table. I'll drop a Snap or something first. But yes, there are pretty direct instant-speed attacks on an Emrakul that has already hit the table: Wing Shards, Diabolic Edict. But you've got to have the mana spare.
One way or another, in order to stop it, you've got to know that it's on its way. It could cost 500 mana, and it would be just about as good. A card like Emrakul should never have been printed. Legal in every format except Commander (understandably): 5/5
(If you want to get one into play, remember that the "Shuffle your graveyard" ability uses the stack and can be beaten out by an instant. Since it has protection from colored spells, something like Makeshift Mannequin is actually pretty safe, but there are tons of options along graveyard lines. Defense of the Heart is pretty epic. And there's the ever-classic Elvish Piper. If you're looking for ways to cast it, there's always elves and/or Gaea's Cradle, Fist of Suns. And check around for "cast without paying its mana cost" abilities. Don't overlook the hideaway lands from Lorwyn. I'm pretty fond of the Shelldock Isle + Doomsday combo.)
masterpierround
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Essence backlash...
x2FAR2CRYx
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Dang, my english teacher has ppl stay after every thursday to play magic and ill tell ya, he got this card and i be jealous, I mean cmon annihilator 6?! can't be countered?!?! EXTRA TURN?!?!?! i thought Final Fortune was good, but this is great. only bad thing about it is the 15 mana cost but at least it's colorless.
pedrodyl
★★★★☆ (4.4/5.0)(7 votes)
I like how the card just rattles off 6 abilities so nonchalantly. Just you know, flying, annihilator 6. Hey are you getting all this? Plus "The Aeons Torn," along with "The Infinite Gyre," and "Butcher of Truth," are probably among the most badass titles anything could have.
This card gets two pages of Gatherer comments in a month. Three years after it was released, mind you. If that's not impressive, I don't know what is.
wpken
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I enjoy this card, I just wanted to point out though how it popped up in the gatherer when i did a search for creatures in the commander format. I might be doing it wrong, but I just thought I'd point this out. I don't want to see cool cards that i can't use in the format i'm looking for :/
OTHERWISE AWESOME CARD.
Thingummy
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
My preferred method of casting him is to get out a Pili Pala and a Grand Architect. Using this infinite mana, cast Spawnsire of Ulamog. Next, activate Spawnsire's ability to cast Emrakul, the Aeons Torn, It That Betrays, and a whole bunch of other Eldrazi minions. Emrakul's extra turn keeps one's opponent from responding--unless he flashes in a day of judgement. That isn't exactly an easy solution on one's third turn. (Note that having extra Spawnsires and Sphinx of Magosis available is probably a good idea).
BigPimpin
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I mean, it's good... but for the same price, I could summon 7 and a half Storm Crows...
FaceClaimer
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
i like it when my friend says i'll never beat his eldrazi deck and then i mill Emrakul while i have Lazav, Dimir Mastermind in play. (✌ﾟ∀ﾟ)☞
Hunter06
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
this+omniscience+show and tell, a feasable deck in legacy, time will tell. 5/5 Stars
hagire
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
question on this card:
P1> cast Show and Tell P1> choose Emrakul P2> choose Treachery ?> will P2 be able to control Emrakul via Treachery?
Will this be the same interaction as Sun Titan to Dead Weight = Dead GoST
Loudshadowross
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Play a black lotus, sac it for 3 green, play a channel, give up 15 life for 15 colourless mana, and drop this guy. Then laugh at the face of your opponent.
Conservator
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I have one of these. most powerful creature period, in my opinion. The only problem is that the deck I have built around him is slow enough that I can't defend myself when the other players get scared. Other than that great card.
By the way, my favorite combo with him is Argentum Armour. If you don't mind losing the extra turn, cheat him out with quicksilver amulet.
Chuck Norris once spat on a Yu Gi Oh card... Once it dried it turned into this.
drake3498
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
btw oblivion ring wont work haha lulz...only mass exile or Aether cards can temp stop him
Nacht1331
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
@hagire:
Not that I know of, unless SaT makes the enchantment not a spell for some reason.
You also must target something that is in play when you declare the trigger. If I'm not mistaken, both go on the stack at the same time. SaT is a sorcery, meaning you must play it on your turn, making you active player. This means that the person who played SaT for emrakul will put emrakul on the stack first, then comes the treachery. Since emrakul is not in play, treachery cannot target it.
So, no, that would not work as far as I know.
As a note on this card, this card is just awesome. It requires the opponent to deal with it immediately, and usually on extremely early turns. If you can give it haste as well, like with Tin Fins, it's just an instant win card. So what if you have some way to kill it? It doesn't matter if I swing you for 30 annihilator 12 since you'll almost always be just outright dead.
This card is certainly something you have to combo around, but it's always going to be one hell of a combo.
HeraldOfRazia
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
It isn't the hardest card to kill but the major issue is that it gives it's controller that extra turn. That pretty much means you can't play creatures, enchantments, sorceries, etc. until after you have either taken 15 damage and/or sacrificed 6 pernaments. Obviously you have to keep Emrakul busy for that extra turn that he gets so Rathi Trapper and Royal Assassin work nicely together. Of course you'd have to have both of those creatures on the board before Emrakul hits but if you are playing an Elrazi deck it should be pretty obvious that some monstrous creatures are coming your way.
Hashbeth
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Elves & Emrakul = Best friends.
Zoah
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(11 votes)
Freaking R&D was high that day.
Dragonshoredreamz
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Ya, he's alright. I usually get him out on turn one. No biggie.
RetroGamer3
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This is basically the King of Creatures.
enjoy
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
If only empty city ruse and False peace were instants:/ Sweeps, extract type cards and a lot of ghost flames are needed to kill him I killed emrakul with a stinkweek imp :)
EbonRat
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Some people don't seem to understand "Protection From Colored Spells".
Protection from Colored spells means he cannot be the assigned target for a spell, not apermanent. One can Oblivion Ring him because it's already a permanent when ti chooses its target, while one can NOT Doom Blade him because it never becomes a permanent.
Severea
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
My friend and I were playing a game when he pulled out this card, I had out reaper from the abyss. We are wondering, because of annihilator 6 I had to sacrifice creatures, which as far as I know, still counts as dying. Reaper from the abyss morbid ability is that at the end step when a creature dies you can destroy target non demon creature. Does the classify as a noncoloured spell? Or will it not work because of Emrakuls protection? Things are getting so complicated my word
EdgarPoeAllen
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(3 votes)
Hey there Cthulu, how ya doin'.
hellomynameisnoah
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
How to summon him on your turn 3 with haste. You go second. Have 4 mana and 1 Exploration and Elvish Piper and Emrakul, the Aeons Torn. Draw into Concordant Crossroads at the beginning of your turn. Play 1 mana then drop Exploration and a second mana. Use the untapped mana to play Concordant Crossroads. Your turn 2. Drop the other 2 mana and play Elvish Piper. Your turn 3. tap Elvish Piper and 1 mana and put him down and swing away for 6 annihilator when they have less than 6 permanents anyway. also you can put down the 2 cards you drew. Also Quicksilver Amulet works just as well.
BlackFlameAshura
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@DimirSnail
Mycosynth Lattice should work though, since it states that all cards, be they presently on the battlefield or otherwise, are now colorless. Almost sure to never happen but it can be done.
Continue
★★★☆☆ (3.9/5.0)(4 votes)
Timmy sees the biggest actual creature in the game, and in any color. Johnny sees a great use for his massive amounts of mana. Spike sees a viable deck with Show and Tell, or perhaps Hypergenesis. Vorthos sees an epic deity and its sheer power coming to life on a card. Melvin sees the very useful set of abilities and possible interactions.
A card that appeals to literally every kind of player. A card that has seen play everywhere from kitchen tables to Pro Tours. A card that is, at least to me, perfect.
ax_morph
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
It's taken a while, but I think I've figured out why I never liked the Eldrazi. Eldritch abominations are awesome, I've always had a soft spot for massive creatures, and heck, if you can assemble this much mana, go ahead and summon Cthulhu. While the cheating into play is a pain, you don't get the turn or Vindicate or Tidings. However, I don't really like how Annihilator works. Just by existing, everything explodes. I would have preferred if the Eldrazi had to actually hit to annihilate, and could've had their annihilator numbers increased.
Also, they probably could've used a Phage-like 'If it came into play but you didn't cast it trigger' rather than the shuffle, but then I guess we wouldn't have a colorless answer to mill. Which in itself is a problem...
@tohrmal amulet of vigor just work when the permanent enter the battlefield
PasosOlvidados
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I know this guy is completely insane... but doesn't Nevermore basically stop him from being cast? I know that it is a sideboard option spell most of the time until you know what threats a player has, but once it gets revealed, if you play white, there should be no reason why you shouldn't have 4 of those bad boys to bring in.
DoctorGii
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
dies to oblivion ring
MechaKraken
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Bribery lets me steal the opponents Emrakul before they can play it!
Btw, a question - is Emrakul a guy or a girl? Because lots of people at my local card shop seem to refer to her as a female.
DeXtrovert
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(4 votes)
I want to name my child after this. Nobody would make fun of them. NOBODY.
"Dad, the kids at school are making fun of me again" "You have an extra turn and Annihilator 6, sort it out yourself!"
TruthElemental
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
we have to steal it (gain control) as an instant, but it must be colorless... how?
sweetgab
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@Continue: I do think you have a point - but I feel the need to bring up a counterpoint. Here's why Emrakul does wrong for all three types of players:
For Timmies, Emrakul represents the ultimate fattie, one that's so over-the-top that nothing can top it. One Timmy might loved his Akroma while the other enjoyed his Avenger of Zendikar. Once they know about Emrakul and perhaps played with it, everything else is instantly dwarfed and instantly seems less cool than before. Those Timmies who never have an Emrakul may remark bitterly, "well that card is stupid anyways." But in any case, a part of their Timmy-ness has died. When a card gets close to saying you win the game, it tends not to feel like something 2.5 times more awesome than Akroma, say -- it tends to remind you that it's all just a game. Like an item that you get late in an rpg that defeats the final boss in one hit. It takes away a lot of epicness from the story, and Emrakul comes very close to "I win."
For Johnnies, I wouldn't put a lot of value on Emrakul as a finisher, since infinite combos have no lack for finishers. There are many combos involving Emrakul, but most are about ways to cheat it into play (Summoning Trap, Windbrisk Heights) or utilizing its high mana cost (like Erratic Explosion). These are all far too obvious combos for a real Johnny. A Johnny wants to show what he can do, differently, in his unique way. If a Johnny has an Elvish Piper, he wants to set up something no one has seen before (I tried to come up with an example, but being the Spike I am, my best attempt is an Angel of Serenity in response to something). If he summons the Piper and the opponent who's never seen his deck goes like, "I guess Emrakul is coming", that's just so predictable and unsatisfying.
For Spikes, the power level of Emrakul creates problems, specifically in decks like Show and Tell. Like dredge, Show and Tell is a kind of degenerate deck that doesn't leave your opponent with a lot of ways to interact with it. This results in games being decided by whether you can draw one or more of the 3 (or 8 or whatever number) of solutions in your deck. Granted this is Legacy, and degenerate combos are all over the place. But if the recent surge of dredge hosers is any indicator, non-interactive decks (that require very specific solutions) can pose a problem if they're strong enough.
With all these said, I have a more neutral view of Emrakul - it's a good thing that it exists, but it's also a good thing we don't see more like it. It's just a little bit too much.
Degeh
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
SUch a troll card when i put on the battlefield on turn four with quicksilver amulet. Some guy broke the table in half. lel kid.
I was playing a Mill deck, and someone had this in there... I bet they were thinking "hey, I'm not going to get milled out, I've got Emrakul!"
And then I played Lazav, Dimir Mastermind. And he became Lazav, the Aeons Torn.
Which... Adding Hexproof to Emrakul just makes him that much harder to get rid of. Sure, I didn't get the extra turn, but since Lazav had been around for a bit, I DID get to attack the moment he transformed.
Hellurin listed some of the cards that can neutralize Emrakul, the Aeons Torn. Here is that list edited for Lazav, the Aeons Torn:
...
Yeah, that's right. None of those listed.
And the Hexproof is inherent, unlike equipment and what have you that can be destroyed.
Hey, I'm not saying he's unbeatable. But it was incredibly fun using him. A moment in the game I'll remember.
jlbyellin
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I like to play Blue Oyster Cult's Godzilla when I cast Emrakul.
Phelplan
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
See Dreamcatcher. (Same artist too.) I guess he ate too many nightmares?
Strictly better than having all 5 pieces of Exodia in your hand.
I like to think that RotE's other development name was Rise of the Timmy.
SevesDariku
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This card is everything I could ever expect out of a creature based on all-devouring ancient alien evil gods.
It's hard to justify ANY card costing 15 mana, but again... This card is just absolutely worth it. (Not to mention all the other shenanigans you can pull to get it out without paying that)
Despite the fact that the new god cards in Theros are much more realistic in scope and playability, I kinda wish they were a bit more 'game-changing' like the Eldrazi were. A threat that needs to be dealt with NOW OR ELSE, as it were.
Kronos_B
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
So many troll ways to get him out. What is use possibility storm and summon Varolz, get Emrakul, Aeon Thorns out. Or, you could use Garruck, Caller of Beasts -7 ability and just summon an elf. Then BOOM! Emrakul. Sadly with both it takes some time and luck, but if you can pull it off, then you can have some major fun.
TheWrathofShane
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Why does this have to shuffle your entire graveyard? Now everyone wants one of the three as a sideboard card.
Myr_MasterMind
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Overall He is scary, just having a 15/15 coming out is bad enough. But what makes this monster the worst of them all is, that extra freaking turn. "Oh boom, I got this ULTRA BIG FLYING BEAST OUT, which has summoning sick...Oh wait I get an extra turn." I mean seriously, the cards that can hurt him could be out easily, but knowing a player, who would know how to get rid of cards, wouldn't be afraid, or just dumb for bringing him out. SO, on that extra turn, 15/15 coming at you, sac 6, even if you don't get through. Six permanents, that itself can ruin a game. I give him 4/5, I have an Eldrazi deck, and it works just beautifully with him sitting at the throne of it.
Jitteryowl
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
And Garfield extended his hand from the heavens, and graced upon the Timmies Emrakul. And the amongst the timmies there was great joy, and R&D was content.
EDIT FOR SERIOUS STUFF: @DimirSnail Emrakul is far from being the best card ever printed. Emrakul is not broken. He costs 15 mana. He can be countered. The trick is not to kill Emrakul, if that happens you are dead. What you need to do is disrupt whatever means your opponent is using to bring him up, whether that means killing their Urzatron, or just racing them, Emrakul requires significant dedication in order to bring out, and it will quickly be clear if that is your opponents win condition.
GrimjawxRULES
★★★★☆ (4.9/5.0)(6 votes)
I'm a Timmy at heart, but the annihilator ability is anything but fun, it's soulcrushing. I'd trade annihilator ability for trample any day of the week.
magic_ian
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(5 votes)
Timmy sees an enormous creature attacking on turn three destroying all his cards. Johnny sees the least creative use of all the mana he is 'generating' with Omnath, Locus of Mana. Spike sees a card that he thought was over-costed trash at first until a Johnny paired it with Show and Tell. Vorthos sees a card that makes all of his plots to inflict mental agony on his opponent feel tame. Melvin takes Wizards to court because Emrakul is too powerful, being a nearly unstoppable game-ender that's barely even a real creature.
rockywm
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Yo Eldrazi so fat it won't fit no graveyard
Mr.Freshness-Timmy
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I wanna see a reprint like the slivers where spaghetti monsters become more humanoid. And since he's an eldrazi titan, and the largest at that, I wanna see the art done like the colossal titan from attack on titan :D
Ulamog could be the armoured titan since he's indestructible. And kozilek could be the ape titan or female titan since it's crafty.
Until these cards drop to 10 dollars or under, I know what i'm using as my proxy art :)
bertuccia32
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(3 votes)
I run an Ulvenwald Tracker in my mono green deck, almost exclusively to take care of threats like this.
Opponent drops Emrakul, everyone groans and throws their hands onto the table.
End of his turn, tap two to flash in ambush viper, another two to make him fight Emrakul.
Not only am I the new hero of the game, but I got to enjoy the flavor and imagery of a bitchy little viper biting his little fangs into Emrakul's gigantic, quasi-biological, eon-tearing ass.
I don't like to see it cheated it into play though, it takes away some of the mythic feeling when it shows up way sooner than it should. Should have at least "you must actually generate 15 mana to cast Emraul, the Aeons torn. This cost cannot be reduced"
TheZigs
★☆☆☆☆ (1.8/5.0)(4 votes)
@Xienombe Emrakul, the Aeons Torn wouldn't hit the graveyard because of his last ability. When Emrakul, the Aeons Torn is put into a graveyard from anywhere, its owner shuffles it into his or her library That's added just to prevent exactly what you plan to do.
Voseph
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@TheZigs You can do that though! Emrakul does hit the graveyard, he just has a shuffle trigger when he does. Just respond to the shuffle trigger with some sort of instant speed recursion and bam, turn 1 Emrakul!
Mottonen
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@TheZigs It works, because the ability goes in to the stack. Instant speed animation and its done.
SkyknightXi
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Once we figure out how to get them on the same stratum (q.v. Emrakul at least normally has flying), a well-timed (as in probably flickered at the right moment) Veiled Sentry will be up to the task of striking this horror down...So at least that's one (somewhat) easy way to get Emrakul out of your hair.
car2n
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(3 votes)
Flying Spaghetti Monster.
zeniongames
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@MattLynn
Doesnt Ashen Rider still target? I could be wrong, since I'm just recently coming back to the game after a hiatus. Since Emrakul has protection from colored spells, you wouldn't be able to target him with the Rider's ability, I don't think.
j_mindfingerpainter
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
As if we couldn't figure it out for ourselves, one of the syllables in his name is widely pronounced "cool."
OnyxSturm
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
When I first got into Magic I thought the Eldrazi were a pretty interesting concept. Anything based off of Lovecraft's stories must be damn cool. Not much of a win condition, but something that's a nice game finisher once you scrape up 10-15 mana.
But then people started to actually blow 40-50 bucks on these and stick them in decks that cheated them out - Quicksilver Amulet being a fan favorite. A turn 4 Emrakul is not a fun thing to deal with, even without the extra turn. Odds are you'll only have 4 lands and maybe 2-3 creatures, if that, to annihilate. He and the rest of the Eldrazi are just stupidly powerful with no drawbacks besides their high mana cost.
That being said there are still plenty of methods to get rid of him - naturally any sort of artifacts (Executioner's Capsule being my favorite) or world spells (Merciless Eviction, Worldfire, Apocalypse, Damnation, etc.) 3/5 for flavor, but the missing 2 stars are for no drawbacks.
Pongdok
★★☆☆☆ (2.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Hmmm... To troll, or not to troll. Can't say I like it, can't say I hate it. Kind of interesting that someone had the impression that the prospect of an additional turn would make people less likely to cheat him/her(?) into play. Haven't faced it and wouldn't want to. You should probably already have won by the time you get to 15 mana, so apart from using some manner of shortcut, Emrakul feels utterly pointless. "Ha! Look how much I'm winning now!" If you're some kind of tentacle aficionado, or maybe a Pastafarian, and this card gets you off, go for it, I guess. There is way more interesting stuff you can do with that much mana, and if you just wanted to win at that point, a big fireball does the trick without frightening any Japanese school girls. "Well, couldn't my X burn spell be countered?", you might ask. Yes. Don't be so ana l-retentive. It's a multi-player game. You're supposed to interact with other 'walkers. Cards that effectively win right then by themselves are dull. 3/5 My typical trolling effort usually comes with a 0.5/5, but I have a soft spot for poor, neglected creatures, and big, beefy ones in particular. Emrakul doesn't raise my ire the way that Obliterator does, but it also doesn't turn my creature crank like a Spiritmonger or an Argothian Wurm. Glad the eldrazi are gone.
SteelLotus
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Pitspawn+Viridian Longbow= really big middle finger. Or does an ability count as a spell?
JoeNitrate
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I don't really think it's THAT game changing for competitive play. With 15 mana, you can slam someone with an Urza's Rage or other huge burn spell to get near victory, and as for cheating him in, there's always going to be some ridiculous monster you can do that with, such as Progenitus or Blightsteel Colossus. All Emrakul is to me is just another way of doing things that have existed for a long time.
Pick15
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Emrakul should never have been printed, and not for why you think.
The problem with Emrakul is that it is so impossibly good, difficult to remove, and essentially ends the game after her first attack EVEN IF the opponent doesn't actually lose, that it supplants every other fatty creature a deck would ever want to cheat into play. Or hardcast, for what that's worth. (Side note: The Flavor Guide says Emrakul has a female personality/character to her. Look it up, apparently the Eldrazi have gender identity)
Just think, even Worldspine Wurm isn't as good with Sneak Attack or Through the Breach even though it hits for just as much and then makes THREE 5/5s with trample when it dies (which Sneak Attack and Through the Breach can make use of). Griselbrand sees some play in decks with Show and Tell along with Sneak Attack, but that's more because he can draw SEVEN cards even if he never gets to swing.
Whenever a Johnny sees a mana combo or a creature cheat, he/she doesn't think about a number of things to play, he/she only thinks about Emrakul. And that's unfortunate, because there are a hundred epic cards that have never seen the spotlight and deserve to.
Beisman01
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-_-
SirLibraryEater
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
CAN PEOPLE PLEASE REMEMBER THAT HE'S GOT PROTECTION FROM COLORED SPELLS? It makes me want to vomit whenever I see someone talking about targeting Emrakul with something that can't target him because it's colored.
Bacon_Businessman
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Since creatures' abilities don't count as spells, you can use Dark Imposter's ability, with possible mana ramp to get your mana by the time they get their Emrakul, (given that you kept the mana open), to exile Emrakul and gain his activated abilities. Or you can use Olivia Voldaren and kill your opponent with their own creature. Either are really fun to do.
j-person
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
one thing I hope to accomplish while playing magic is kill this guy or Progenitus with Malignus
OlvynChuru
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@Pongdok
"You should probably already have won by the time you get to 15 mana"
Not necessarily. If you have 15 mana, yes, you will be able to play probably any card in your deck, but that doesn't mean that you have enough cards to cast with all that mana. Emrakul is not win-more. Just because you have 15 mana doesn't mean that you are winning. After all, what if your opponent has 15 mana as well? Also, about the Fireball thing, Fireball can only be used in red decks, while Emrakul can be used in any color deck.
Oh, and I'm not sure if people are still complaining about why this eldritch godly monster ever obeys you, but I'll give my answer. Keep in mind that in this game you are a planeswalker, and that means that you basically have godly powers yourself. Yes, Emrakul can beat you in two hits, but you can just as easily defeat her by breaking a Brittle Effigy (keep in mind that I'm talking about flavor here; I'm not trying to make one of those "Emrakul sucks because she dies to removal" arguments).
MyNaMeIsJoHnNy
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I think we should replace all the Chuck Norris jokes out there with Emrakul jokes.
Vdelte7
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Hey a question. If I have a card that has an ability that returns from graveyard to hand as an instant, could I use that to get him back? Also to kill use a deadly recluse with I think a shearpoint oriad bestowed(or really any instance of first strike) to install kill emcrapul, the undies torn
Mono-colorMonster
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The most fun removal of this card I can think of is Dark Imposter, as you get the same abilities while disposing of him.
Potrezebie
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
My son runs a green ramp deck with all kinds of trouble in it. My simple solution is Clone.
It doesn’t target the creature, so it deals with all the protected, hexproof creatures. Then I slap on Unflinching Courage, so every time I defend myself I’m bigger than him and he dies, and I get the 20 Lifegain or whatever.
Witness Emrakul, the Aeons Torn, wielder of god-like power and destruction, scourge of the multiverse, with the strength of approximately 30 Little Girls!
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plus its a heck of a good card that says, "When you cast this spell, Your opponent concedes/ You Win."
this card hates the wizard that returns spells from the stack^^
ridiculous
Edit: Silly censors...
-Terrified Players Everywhere
"When you CAST! Emrakul, take an extra turn after this one."
he doesn't even need to resolve for you to have an extra turn.
so if he is countered...such as by exiling target spell or simply time stopping your turn. but personally i'd just steal him with a Gather Specimens. you'd still get your extra turn.
Though i'm not gonna enjoy arguing with some of the more rules challenged players i know that just because it says "Protection from Coloured Spells" means i can't block it with a deadly recluse and destroy it
He'd have to be the only creature in your deck, so just fill the rest of it with control.
Think cards such as Living Destiny and Explosive Revelation
It supplants Darksteel colossus as the big man on campus
Oh, wait. I've got it. "Never going to happen."
Seriously, if you can hardcast this thing, you deserve like a birrion medals. :V
MAYBE in Limited. MAYBE in Casual. NEVER in Constructed...EVER.
Cheating it into play, sure...I guess.
If you think that hard casting it is too difficult, then you don't know how to use the set. Spawns and Eldrazi lands make up most of the mana cost. that is what's supposed to happen.
5/5
Holy hell that sounds racist.
on http://magiccards.info/roe/en/4.html it has what it's worth as of right now according to that site.
@SleetFox: I don't think it's possible for an immortal creature the size of a mountain, with a physical form that was forced on it by a trio of planeswalkers aeons after its creation/formation/whatever-happened, to ever have developed reproductive organs, so I'd say that Emrakul doesn't have a gender.
These make them look like nothing.
Kozilek and Ulamog are most likely more powerful than Colossus, and they cost roughly the same.
And there is no contest for Emrakul.
The worst thing is, as things stand in Standard, you'll be seeing Kozilek and Ulamog turn 5-6, and Emrakul only 2-3 turns later (if you survive that long).
You'll be seeing them turn 3 or sooner in Extended with Hypergenesis Cascade.
If you have 15 mana, any X-spell should be able finish your opponent.... and is more usable than this card.
Of course you can use the hidaway lands to play him.
And because of that we REALLY need Diabolic Edict back to defend ourselves (or rather to make it possible).
They could've made this weaker by saying "Protection from colored spells and abilities", but WOTC didn't.
Elspeth, Knight-Errant hangs out at the Eldrazi Monument
This is a true Rolls-Royce type creature, but it makes me a little sad that green no longer has the largest creature. Krosan Colossus just felt...right.
But yeah, that said it is not invincible. Discard, deathtouch, meddling mage, killing off the mana accelleration or elvish pipers used to power it out, etc.
its cool you have another turn when he comes into play
so it is like it has haste.
you can kill him only with artifatcs .
So if this card isnt a game ender i dont know what is it
4,5/5
Huh, interesting.
A savor the flavor article established that the correspoding kor and merfolk gods of the sky, Emeria and Kamsa, whom are both the distorted memory of Emrakul are both 'ostensibly female'.
Trying to characterize the Eldrazi by such 'quaint' humanoid characteristics like gender seems genuinely tragic to me.
you cast journey, it enters the battlefield. it becomes a permanent and it targets after becoming a permanent.
That being aside of the one card solution Oblivion Ring and Journey to Nowhere, and you can still use Mindbreak Trap to exile it; this won't help if your playing a RoE draft or constructed play, you will need to use the B/R combo.
You could also use Mycosynth Lattice in a combo to target it with spells.
How would you get that Tidehollow Strix to block him? He has Protection from all colored spells. Tidehollow Strix is a colored spell.
@Asinine-Ultimatum
Same to you. Prison Term is a white spell. White is a color.
Demonic Tutor and Elvish Piper...
Add Trample to plow through things... ie: Horned Helm.
Voula! The game is yours.
For Standard, use Diabolic Tutor instead of Demonic Tutor.
Cost a bit more, but you'll still be exceptionally dominating in such a short time.
I tell you a funny way to deal with it, though.
Block with Tidehollow Strix
Big bad Emrakul dies to a 2/1..... lol!
@ugbootz: How does Stone Idol Trap help? Emrakul has flying
@Ah_MaclimesZero: "Spell" is the keyword you're looking for. Once a permanent is on the battlefield, it's not longer a spell, hence, he has no protection from Tidehollow Strix or any other creature. Same goes for O'ring and Journey to Nowhere, at the time their abilities resolve they're permanents, not spells, which is why they are some of the most effective ways of getting rid of Emrakul.
Before you start having a go at me go learn what a "spell" is.
@Revelation666: For crying out loud, LEARN WHAT A SPELL IS.
O'ring and Journey's abilities activate as they enter the battlefield, when they're PERMANENTS, not spells. A card is only a spell whilst it is on the stack. Once a permanent resolves, it isn't a spell anymore.
If you still don't believe me? Have a look at the article on the Magic Website called Defender Control. This is a quote rom it:
" Oblivion Ring targets when it enters the battlefield, so it can remove Emrakul, the Aeons Torn after they plop it down"
Learn what a spell is, then you can tell people what they can and can't do.
If you're hard casting this thing, you've pretty much won. But the thing about that is, if your opponent lets you get 15 mana in the first place, I'd be amazed if you didn't win through some means.
Cheating it into play works, but if your opponent lets, say, an elvish piper resolve, and lets it last long enough for it to lose summoning sickness, they deserve to lose.
One valid complaint about this card in particular is that it completely destroys mill decks by simply being in the library.
This card isn't the end of MtG, it isn't the worst thing that Wizards has ever done, a lot of you people need to unbunch your panties and realize that this is just another giant fatty that will never be hard-casted outside of casual play and RoE limited/constructed.
As for the card itself, I like it, my inner Timmy loves huge beasts like this, for 15 mana, you're pretty much guaranteed to kill your opponent no matter what, so why not go for overkill?
"Not quite yet."
"What?"
"Mindbreak Trap."
"*CENSORED*"
just yesterday i had TWO of them cast at me (consecutive turns)....but by then i had 14 creatures on the field and left the opponent at 1 life:
turns 1-3: me- nm happens, him-ramps mostly
turn 4: me- rhox pikemastar for me, him- more ramping
turn 5: me- conqueror's pledge, him- more ramping
turn 6: me- swing+flurry of wings, him- more ramping
turn 7: me- swing and leave him at 1, him- casts emarkul
turn 8 for him: casts emarkul + swings with first, i block with winged coats and sac lands
turn 9 for him: swings with second emarkul, i take it all and sac conq's soldiers
next turn: i swing ftw
- "on cast" triggers are worse than "on entering the battlefield"
- can't be reanimated
- can't be cheated into play (if you want the extra turn)
- costs insane amounts of mana
For the same amount of mana, you could fireball someone for 14 damage. :)
And why do people say it will stop mill decks dead in their track? I mill your deck, you have only emrakul left, I play sign in blood on you and you lose, Emrakul won't change that.
I cast this using Maelstrom Archangel, it was fun :) and yes, I got the extra turn because it's text says I may "play" a card from my hand without paying it's mana cost, play=cast.
I just got a few Fist of Suns for my 5 color deck, now I will be unleashing all sorts of beasts for 5 mana (and yes the mana base gets 5 colors pretty quick in case you're wondering)
And before anyone argues this, the Eldrazi will be in the graveyard when the ability triggers. The above cards remove the graveyard (or just the one card) before the player shuffles, but after the creature is in the graveyard.
Wait, how are "on cast" triggers worse than "on enters the battlefield"? I find strictly the opposite to be true. Entering the battlefield only happens if the spell is allowed to resolve. On the other hand, there's nothing anyone can do to stop you from triggering Emrakul's second ability.
True that it cannot be countered by being "on cast" vs "on entering battlefield", but there are SO MANY ways to cause things to repeatedly enter the battlefield. With the "on cast" effect you get it one time and if you wish to get it again you must recast it.
If it were on entering battlefield, cards such as turn to mist would act like a time walk. Mistmeadow Witch's ability could keep you going indefinitely.
I prefer more options. You can prefer more a$surance.
Both ways are undeniably good, but neither is strictly better than another.
Why let horrendously-powerful creatures ever be cheated into play, when they already figured out the right way to stop the cheat with Phage the Untouchable?
- last moments as Emrakul desperately struggled to free himself from the deadly recluse's deadly grasp.
next time you play with that opponent, please note, the legend rule to your fellow player!
and the reason why it stops mill decks, is that when he is put into your graveyard from anywhere, you get to shuffle your whole graveyard back into your library! good card!
"Pinger" (as in, a creature that taps to deal X damage) with death touch. An example of this would be Prodigal Pyromancer with a Basilisk Collar attached.
Aura Finesse + Pacifism or Crystallize. Pacify one of your own creatures and then Aura Finesse the enchantment on over to Emrakul.
If you're not bent on playing Standard format, you could also try using Prison Term
I certainly know I get to cast each of those cards in the order I choose to allow maximum carnage. But would multiple Emrakuls really equal multiple timewalks? Good news is even though they would each kill each other off due to the Legendary rule, they would each get shuffled back into my library, along with any other cards in my graveyard at the time.
EDIT: Or you can just make time stop.
1) Hardly anyone will ever be able to hard cast this, so time walking doesn't matter.
2) Even with protection, several things will stop this card from a simple oblivion ring or journey to nowhere, to drana or kalitas bloodchief ability. It can still die to wrath's/day of judgement, and sac. affects like consuming vapors, so maybe not as hard to get rid of as it seems.
3) I can win the game before this ever sees play, in extended there's already several turn 3 wins (hyper gen really didn't need this card since it worked already), and in standard aggro creatures kill an opponent before they have 15 mana.
All in all, I am more impressed by ulamog, with his basic indestructibility, and enter play vindication/maelstrom pulse. Plus he is more cost efficient.
However, on the death touch note.. this creature has to be blocked and still takes 6 permanents, for a total of 7. If I tricked this out into play.. I'm going to attack you whether you have a deadly recluse or not, you can take my 1 emrakul and I'll take 7 of your permanents.
interesting- i like it.
The thing that really gets me is that you can just put this guy out with an Elvish Piper or Dramatic Entrance and the only ill effect to you is that you don't get an extra turn. A turn-five 15/15 flyer that can't be countered, and has annihilator 6 is just a little bit stupid.
I've been thinking of other ways to deal with this guy other than the obvious one of killing the opponent before he gets it in play. In standard, there are several options, such as Day of Judgment or Planar Cleansing, which, ironically, his weaker brother Ulamog would be immune to. Sarkhan the Mad can turn him into a harmless 5/5 dragon, but Sarkhan Vol can give the opponent a taste of his own Emrakul before he's even had a chance to attack with it. As mentioned before, Oblivion Ring and Journey to Nowhere also work, as they're no longer spells by the time you choose the target.
By your logic does that mean that Visara, The dreadful can target it since it's in play. Does that also mean you could kill it with Murderous Betrayal since it's an enchantment.
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That's right, there is a card from the Kamigawa block that defeats this card. Meet Keiga, the Tide Star, a 5/5, 6 drop blue dragon that has the nasty side effect of gaining control of target creature when buried.
Hmm... Emrakul doesn't have protection from blue abilites.
Oh Snap!
@kieferb
yes, he is pro colored SPELLS. not abilities. that's a big difference.
Eldrazi Legends?
Tsabo Tavoc can block Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre all day long without taking a single point of damage; she can straight kill Kozilek here (although, Phthisis is much more fun); and not even Emrakul, the Aeons Torn can get past her as long as you have the 2 mana Phyrexian Splicer in play to strip away his flying (and its an artifact so his protection is worthless).
Annihilator mechanic got you down? Start up the Phyrexian Processor. Didn't get to it in time? Yawgmoth's Agenda means those lost permanents are never too far away.
Phyrexia laughs at your "aether born" abominations.
On a more serious note conerning the "over powered" nature of the Eldrazi. That's a true statement when you consider them in isolation. Annihilator may be an awesomely powerful mechanic, but you can stop it cold just by paying 1 G for a Tajuru Preserver. Path to Exile costs exactly W and can get rid of two of the titans relatively painlessly (which is why Emrakul has protection from colored spells). But with Tajuru Preserver on the field you could chump block Emrakul with the (almighty) Storm Crow.
Will the Eldrazi ever end up in a core set? Probably not; for exactly the reasons they seem so completely overpowering. But the fact of the matter is, they are supposed to be. Personally, I believe the claims that they take away from the strategy of M:TG are completely wrong. They add to it. But the strategy isn't in how to use them; a massive beat stick that eats your opponents board is pretty self explainitory. The challenge for us as players, as it is for the planeswalkers in the stories, is how to beat them.
(and a special note for Emrakul, who is by far the biggest and baddest; the problem with a power toughness of 15 is that it's only 5 away from 20. With all the manna ramp in RotE, by the time you play this I'm going to completely ignore it, sac all of my creatures to his Annihilator ability; and then burn you directly in the face with Heat Ray. 1st rule of fighting summons: if the creature is unstoppable, kill the player.)
Or there are ways to kill it before your opponent can get it out.
Meddling Mage - When Meddling Mage enters the battlefield, name a nonland card. That card can't be played. Choose Emrakul. It doesn't have protection BEFORE it's played.
Jace, The Mind Sculptor's ability ---- exiles all the cards in the library. And even if Emrakul was in the person's hand, they'd shuffle their hand into the library, which means they'd lose in seven or less turns.
Or find a way to get Emrakul into the graveyard. The owner would then shuffle the graveyard into the library. And then swing with Jace's ability to exile all the cards in the library.
Or even any creature with reach/flying and deathtouch. Emrakul doesn't have protection from coloured ABILITIES, so you can easily kill it. I own three Thornweald Archers, so this 15/15 can fall at the hands of a 2/1.
Most of my friends who play Magic will not agree to play with or against this card, or any card in this set.
Emrakul cannot be targetted by Banefire for 1, or Banefire for 5, or Banefire for 15, and thus is immune.
wizards its just making broken cards so if u wanna continue playing u HAVE TO buy new expansions, after invasion block, the game went straight down with a lil comeback in timespiral, this kind of card is a big fu you to the players who play extended, due standart mean change your deck all the time, and vintage means playing against decks that can win the game in turn 1 or even 0 wich i dont see interesting in a game. And now they put name to every freaking ability and make 1000 cards with it due their lack of creativity.... just go to the beloved dominaria card and art style and start doing things right again
Sure, it costs a lot, but there are more than enough ways around it.
Remember, Emrakul isn't like Darksteel or Progenitus. It HAS to go to the graveyard before it's affect activates. Hence the triggered, not passive ability.
does it cause Emrakul to tap when its controller declares attack so the defender may not take damage and prevent the annihilator effect?
I agree. The fact that it's colorless makes it a whole lot easier to play. Besides there are already tons of ways to put creatures into play without paying for them (although that won't trigger the extra turn ability). The real annoyance for me is Anihilator. Combined with the extra turn it basically turns this card into a "you win the game" condition. They should've either reduced the number, or made anihilator hurt you too which, as you said, would work much better, flavour-wise.
Oh, and Fist of Suns might be interesting with this. Or Maelstrom Archangel.
It can be targeted by journey to nowere and O-rings because they are enchantments as their effect resolves; they are spells only when at the stack.
Yes, on the Icy Manipulator strategy. It is not a colored spell, so its ability would work on Emrakul. However you would have to play its ability before the attack is declared, otherwise Emrakul is already tapped, and Icy Manipulator's ability does nothing, letting the annihilator ability take effect.
@ benegade
The Haze Frog strategy has the downside of not protecting you from sacrificing six permanents on the field. Unless you're running tokens on the field, there's a good chance you'll be crippled even if you prevent the damage.
Eldrazi was their answer. Now half of the rands I play EDH with either use Braids, Conjurer Adept or Jhoira of the Ghitu to get this POS on the board as fast as they can, so much for a fun, casual format. When someone we reluctantly play with does this, my group of friends turn to each other and say, "We concede," then continue to play without the aforementioned person. :D
"On another note you can counter this and prevent the graveyard effect by using a Time Stop, as this causes Emrakul to be exiled. I think the other player still gets their extra turn though."
-Concerned_Bystander
You can let them have the extra turn if you want, but when this is cast, that ability is put on the stack on top of this, much like cascade and you can time stop in response to the extra turn ability to remove that from the stack also.
Thanks to WotC and Magic for a lovely game and the hours of fun I've had and will have in the future. Design and Development keep doing what you do- it keeps the game interesting.
Wizards just made a gigantic card threw in as many keywords as they could think of and made it nearly invincible (short of some certain shenanigans with enchantments or Time Stop). After they finished making this card they figured if it ever resolved the other player was probably going to lose, so they gave it a mana cost so high that they figured it probably get much play.
That's not how cards should be designed! You look back to the Onslaught block and you see Phage, Akroma, Karona and they are all playable! You can cast them, and sure, they're powerful (excepting Karona), but the game continues. They're fun cards to play with, not just some gigantic card that you'll probably never play.
This would have been a much cooler card if it was something like this:
Emrakul, the Aeons Torn:
As an additional cost of playing ~, sacrifice X permanents
Flying, trample, shroud, annihilator 3
~'s power and toughness are both equal to X
Of course the card above would absolutely broken, as everyone would play it the first turn to get some early game land destruction, but something more playable would be so much better than what we have here.
"EMRAKUL SMASH!"
"Oh, how about after it gets a Virulent Swipe?"
"EMRAKUL DIE!"
Someone correct me if i'm wrong, but casting Virulent Swipe to give your creature deathtouch would not kill Emrakul, the Aeons Torn as he has protection from ALL colored spells. This protection ultimately means that he can not be dealt damage by colored spells and in order for deathtouch to kill him, he must be dealt damage.
Blue: Clone (Doesn't target, you simply choose a creature)
White: O-ring (Doesn't target when its a spell, only when it becomes a permanent)
Black: Executioner's Capsule (Doesn't target until its a permanent)
A Prison Term already on the battlefield enchanting another creature can target Emrakul when he enters the battlefield, because in that case Prison Term would be a permanent and not a spell.
player2 and player 3:dang!
player 2: my turn
1:no mine
3:whahahahah!!!!
1: muhaha your at 5 player 2 player 3 isint a threat a plains a moutin and 1 card. oh yah your turn
2: ya know what screw this i sacrifice all 79 of my creatures for thunder thrash vishino !
3:whahahhahaha!!!
1:!!!!
3:my turn
2: no haste
1: !
2: MUHAHAHA
3:Whahahhahaha!
2:i atack you player 1 like you said player 3 isint a threat.
1:nohohhohhoho!!!! *blocks with everything*
3:ha now i can go MUHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAHHAHAHAHHAHHHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAA i play fight to the death!!!
1 and 2:!!!!!!! WHAAHHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHA:
3:yah
Intet, the Dreamer is my EDH general, and I would love to have one of these to put in my deck, though I might go with Ulamog or Kozilek Just because they'd pull less agro.
Also, to deal with others running it... Bribery.
I don't like Emrakul having protection from colored spells from a flavor standpoint.
Black Mage: "I cast Doom Blade and rend the fabric of reality you occupy!" *squash*
Clumsy Esper Courier: "Oh no! I dropped my capsule of the cliff! OH GOD WHAT IS THAT IT FELL ON?!
Hey what's that purple smoke coming off the capsule?" There's a thundering crash as Emrakul hits the floor.
PLAYED! ... This is also reason to hate Eldrazi Spawns...
Opponent: What could you possibly do to me with five mana?
You: I tap four lands for green mana, play Elvish Piper, equip Lightning Greaves, tap my remaining forest to use Piper's special ability, put Emrakul onto the battlefield, equip Emrakul with Lightning Greaves, attack you for 15 in the air with annihilator 6.
Opponent: !!!!!!!!!!
In a mono white control deck..
With only the help of Kor cartographer.
Mangara of Corondor: 'Sup. *tap*
Emrakul: NOOOOO
@Madscorpion:
Note the "Can't be countered" in the textbox, and you don't need moonlace to clone her...
For anyone else who might not have thought about it, you can still cheat her into play from the grave if you have good timing... or a stifle...
that's usually what i do,
Turn 1 Island,
Turn 2 Swamp, Entomb Emrakul, Stifle her shuffling ability
Turn 3 Land, Animate Dead, OR dark rit into Dody Double (so you can keep a copy dead)
you could also cast the dark rit on turn 2 to get her out since animate dead costs 2. (AKA 4 mana emrakul)
it's funny though... no one seemed to mention that Ulamog can blow her up if she did happen to hit play :D
Either that or you could replicate Ghostfire 4 times after casting it :P (we'll assume you also have 15 mana and the Djinn Illuminatus in play)
EDIT:
Also, FEAR THE TENTACLE ICEBERG!!!
And the design, these Eldrazi look like something from a bad science fiction movie, come on!
Summoning trap just got even more annoying.
P.S. Hey Emrakul, remember that time you were cast and then afterward, for some reason, your controller felt the need to play a Douchebag Marauder when you were his only other creature? And then I Shocked the Marauder before his trigger resolved? Yeah, I will never forget that. Good times.
1) Ghostflame sliver+Necrotic sliver=
all slivers are colorless, and this then breaks the "protection from colored spells" and thus with this helping you, you are then able to destroy the unk for a mere sacrifice and three grey mana. you may also use Ghostflame and Psionic sliver for this. you would be using more slivers, and quite possibly losing more slivers, but the effect is the same.
2) Mesmeric sliver+Screeching sliver+Heart sliver=
as a sliver comes into play, mesmeric's effect takes place, so you fateseal 1. knowing what your opponent has now, you may either send ity to to bottom of their library with the second effect of Fateseal 1, or you may use the haste given by heart sliver to tap the incomin sliver, and therefor using screeching siver's effect that mills one card, therefore a)limiting your opponent's mana/ eldrazi spawn count, b) limiting the kind of cards in your opponent's hand, c) knowing exactly what your opponent might be planning, and d) if when using the fateseal 1 effect from Mesmeric you come across this card, you may then send it strait to their library's bottom, thus putting it as physically far away as possible from the field other than putting out of play.
3) Ghostflame+Frenetic sliver+Crypt sliver=
after all of this, you opponent manages to somehow get this hulk out, and even dare attack, you simply choose the six that are sacrificed, and then, using Frenetic's help, remove them from play before they hit the grave. even if frenetic fails, there is still crypt sliver to fall back on to bring them before they hit the grave. you could also just use crypt. that way you could also regenerate all slivers you send to block this, and with ghostflame out, you could even kill it. if you have Toxin sliver out as well seeing as it has deathtouch and preventing regeneration, you just need one blocker. now, if you had Toxin, and then Talon sliver out as well, deathtouch and first strike. BOOM goes the hulky, and back into the deck he goes to start the process all over again.
Needless to say, WotC made slivers just too dang powerful if even this has THREE simple ways to get around it with multiple ways to get the same effect.
@Sliver_Master: Cards are only spells while they're on the stack. A Necrotic Sliver on the battlefield can be used to blow up Emrakul without any help from a Ghostflame Sliver.
Having read a vast array of really stupid comments lately I felt the need to point this out.
-Storm crow.
Journey is a sorcery, by the time you're able to cast it you're already down 6 permanents, a turn, and 15 life.
There's no design to this card. It is just big and stompy without having any real reason for being so. Without a color restriction, every deck that can muster 15 colorless or cheat a creature into play automatically plays Emmy instead of any number of other, more interesting and flavorful creatures. And for what? A wanna-be Darksteel Colossus that doesn't even have the flavor of being an artifact. It just is, and it is just boring.
Why does Emrakul tear the aons? Does it produce some time-warping wave out of its slightly disturbing crevice? No. That would be a blue thing.
Why does Emrakul have annihilator? Obviously it crushes you ruthlessly, but that's a red thing.
Why does Emrakul have a mish-mosh of random abilities which make no sense together with no common reference points? That's a poor design thing.
@MechaKraken: Sorry to burst YOUR bubble, but as it has already been explained, Journey To Nowhere triggers when it enters the battlefield. It may be white, but it's not a spell anymore, so it removes Emrakul. Just as Avatar Of Woe or Visara The Dreadful can just kill/reshuffle it with a tap.
I know they are already overkill, but I think Kozilek, Butcher Of Truth and Emrakul should also have gotten indestructible, just for flavor reasons.
At my shop, this is the only "officially" banned card that isn't on our shops banned list, though we have Jhoira banned Instead.
@psuedonaut: how does the Shield Dancer block it? It doesn't fly.
You play JTN. It goes on the stack. It is a white spell with no target, as it is a global enchantment.
JTN enters the battlefield. Its ETB effect triggers, going on the stack. It is a white triggered effect, not a spell, thus it can target Emrakul.
You do not have to announce what JTN is going to exile until it resolves and its ETB effect goes on the stack. If it were an aura like Arrest, then you would have to target it when it goes on the stack and Emrakul would be protected from it.
Gather specimens as you cast this spell.
I just cast Emrakul! Owned!
Well, ill just take it. Owned.
if you get 15 mana, and no one else stops you + you have this guy in your hand, you DO deserve to win, and (without restateing just how devastating he is once hes in play) you'd struggle not to.
He bugs me too. Read my comment on the 8th edition swarm of rats.
Kryptnyt:
I think that was a joke... you normally write funny comments.
globe effect do get rid of it btw
It's a casual multiplayer game. It's just me and 1 other player, who is at 24 life thanks to a Martyr of Sands recursion trick, which got shut down a few turns ago. He wraths. It's in the late game, and I have several lands down, along with Maelstrom Nexus and Fist of Suns. I topdeck Draco, and play it. No sweat, however, for my opponent: he as 2 more Wrath Effects in hand. But what do I cascade into? That's right, Emrakul. I think I've since been converted to timmy.
my question: could Nihil Spellbomb work against emrakul's, When Emrakul is put into a graveyard from anywhere, its owner shuffles his or her graveyard into his or her library, effect. nihil spellbomb's effect is; Tap, Sacrifice nihil spellbomb: Exile all cards from target players graveyard.
Yeah, it works, cause if you respond to emrakul going in grave, it will be exiled before it's ability will trigger, and after that your opponent shuffles his/hers empty grave to his library.
@Roflmager:
Almost good, but razor boomerang says: "Razor Boomerang deals 1 damage to target creature or player." So deathtouch doesn't matter, but if you have heavy arbalest instead, in which case the creature deals that damage, it will work.
EDIT: Sorry I forgot to read the text on Razor Boomerang. However, Randomi dared mention that other overpowered artifact, Heavy Arbalest.
There is no denying that the annhilator 6 is the cherry on top the broken pie that is Emrakul and ensures 99% of the time you cast him you'll win too easily (and painfully for your oppnent(s)). but if you use the five turn death race model for most of your games than getting this guy out is kinda impressive. For me there is no lying, broken or not this is 5/5 any way you cut it
He's really not anything near insta win. I easily beat him once he was out with Rith the Awakener (definitely not a high powered card) creating token chumps to take the annihilator.
COINCIDENCE?
WHERE IS GOD-O-ZIRRA when you need him?
There is no reason not to replace your huge creature in those decks with this one. Even without time walking, this card beats more face than any other creature in the game.
It ISNT allowed. First of all, Emrakul has protection from coloured spells, phyrexian metamorph is a coloured spell.
But lets say you make the spell colourless with something like Ersatz Gnomes, Moonlace, or Mycosynth Lattice. you still have to deal with the fact that Emrakul is Legendary, meaning as soon as you got that second one in they would both die as a state-based effect. You would still get your extra turn though.
necava was wrong but you're actually more wrong. Metamorph doesn't target protection stops targeting, damaging enchanting and blocking, metamorph does no of those when you cast it, you can copy him just fine and they will both die. Also, there is no possible way to "copy" Emrakul's extra turn ability, it happens when he's cast, you can't copy that. Finally if metamorph did target, moonlace and Ersatz Gnomes would not be able to bypass the protection because the colored spell can't even target him. Don't correct people if you don't know what you're saying.
@Kidromeo
Emrakul is banned in commander, sorry man.
Though Emrakul is on the unofficial banned list (as a casual only format there is no official banned list), it is possible to build a completely colorless Commander deck. Karn, Silver Golem is a more popular choice for this, because you will have to invest HEAVILY in artifact mana, and Karn + lots of artifacts is a winning strategy itself.
You can try building a deck with Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre or Kozilek, Butcher of Truth instead, but be prepared to shill out a lot of money tracking down the expensive colorless mana sources you'll need to run such a deck. I wouldn't recommend it unless you already have most of the oldschool colorless lands.
Jimmy: "Today i brought my pet Tarmogoyf. Isn't he the cutest?"
Teacher: "He sure is Jimmy! Tom, what did you bring for show and tell today?"
Tom: "GIANT SPAGHETTI MONSTER OF DEATH!"
Dies to Terro-
Dies to Go For t-
Dies to...five Ghostfire? I gues you could Reverberate one...
Indeed, Emrakul "dies" from Journey to Nowhere; however, not before giving you a second turn and taking 6 permanents down with him (likely 7, as something is probably going to have to chump block him; I don't know of all too many cards that have 16 toughness).
Spaghetti.
This is just a list of cards off the top of my head that can and WILL deal with this Eldrazi.
Funniest thing to do is: Cast Journey to Nowhere or Oblivion Ring, once it resolves and enters the battlefield the first ability hits the stack, simply stack a Naturalize or some other card that destroys an enchantment at instant speed. Naturalize will destroy the enchantment, the second ability triggers doing nothing, then the enchantments first ability resolves and the creature is exiled FOREVER! Well until the next game.
and remember Kumano says if it would die, not if it would be sent to the graveyard.
Edit:@TheChurchIsHere
Wrong, it says colored spells, not abilities and even though your second point is correct emrakul's ability says "when" he is put into the graveyard, and kumano's says "if it would be"
Don't hate on Kumano
No.
Also, cards like this one make the game stupid.
Dies to Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre.
(Really? The fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth? X-D)
EDH was becoming less of a Magic game but more of a race to
In other words, it was format warping. This is why most cards are banned.
Funny enough, this is still legal in "Commander" as Wizards hasn't updated it under the "Sets & Legality" tab as of this post. The generally accepted source for EDH rules is here for those interested:
http://mtgcommander.net/rules.php
Many of those are colored so they have no effect on Emrakul.
@tabqwerty
You know that protection from colored spells, doesn't actually do anything when its a creature card in a deck? You also know that Polymorph doesn't:
Deal damage to EAT
Enchant EAT
Block EAT
Target EAT
It doesn't do any of that when it flips cards and puts Emrakul into play, you can't cast Polymorph on Emrakul, but the effect can put him into play.
Lastly, you know a bunch of people play a deck like this right? I dunno how many people could get break the rules...
--Linkin Park, "The Catalyst"
I suspect that this song was written about Emrakul.
Turn 1: Reveal 4 chancellors of the tangle, play 2 overgrown battlements (you have one more overgrown battlement in your opening hand)
Turn 2: Draw overgrown battlement. Tap two overgrown battlements to play the other two that you have.
Turn 3: Draw Emrakul, the Aeons Torn. Tap 4 overgrown battlements to play Emrakul, the Aeons Torn.
Turn 4: Play 2 chancellor of the tangles and attack with emrakul
Turn 5: play two more chancellors of the tangles and attack again with emrakul
YOU WIN!!!
Seasinger, Captivating Vampire, Cytoplast Manipulator, Empress Galina, Helm of Possession, Infernal Denizen, Keiga, the Tide Star, Memnarch, Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker, Rubinia Soulsinger or her cousin Merieke Ri Berit, Willow Satyr, Crown of Empires, Trip Noose, Icy Manipulator, Royal Assassin, Amber Prison, Tsabo Tavoc, Aphetto Grifter, Attrition, Diversionary Tactics, Elder Druid, Altar of Shadows, Air Servant, Naya Battlemage, Necrotic Sliver, Opposition, Telekinetic Sliver, etc. etc. etc.
All that said, I love the flavor of the Eldrazi cards, and really want to make an Eldrazi deck at some point.
CTangle, Ctangle, CTangle, Ctangle, Lotus cobra, Lotus Cobra, Scalding Tarn, Scalding Tarn, Explore
Reveal all your chancellors, and play your lotus cobras. play and crack scalding tarn, floating two green and getting an island. (4g 1u) Go to (2g 1u) and cast explore, drawing into Time reversal. Play and fetch the other scalding tarn, getting an island, floating (6g 2u) go to (3g) and cast time reversal. draw:
Lotus cobra, explore, scalding tarn, harrow, harrow, harrow, harrow.
Go to (1g) and cast explore. Draw Emrakul. play, crack the tar. Float (5g 1u). (3g, 1u) Play your cobra. go to (1u), cast harrow. Float (6g 1u) Go to (4), cast harrow, (10) go to (7) cast harrow, (13) go to (10), cast harrow, go to (16), cast emrakul, the aeons torn.
"Split Second
You win the game"
Nice joke WotC. Try playtesting your cards sometime. I heard unbeatable (yes, unbeatable) 4th turn wins are good for the game.
My mill deck contains both Extract x2 and Sadistic Sacrament x4,
as well as Extirpate x4,
so good luck with that tactic.
(and if I were playing Standard, I would be packing Memoricide for the same reason)
Is Emrakul torn by the Eons? Is it Eons-Torn, as one might be wind-swept?
Or is Emrakul-a personification of the Eons-which have themselves been torn? Is it Eons Torn, as in Dosan, The Falling leaf?
"Yes, officers, how may I help you?"
"We are extremely sorry you had to hear it like this, but your husband, Emerakul, was killed in a barfight."
"Oh!... Oh my god!... (wipes eye with tentacle). How did this happen?"
"It appears he provoked another patron of the bar, one Mossbridge Troll, and was killed due to blunt-force trauma on the, um, head... body... thing."
"But... I don't understand. Emerakul always had the highest power and toughness of anybody in town!"
"Yes, but see here? The second part of Mr. Troll's card text? It clearly shows that he was on drugs at the time, and was obviously the only one capable of murdering your husband."
"What? What the hell?! How could that happen? You mean to tell me some stupid troll just got up and beat my husband, a thousand ton, gravity defying, five hundred foot tall eldrazi god with the ability to cause the death of any six cards in the game in an eyeblink, to death with his fists? What, am I on Candid Camera?"
"No, this is Camarid Camera. And yes your husband was killed, and upon his reanimation...
"WHAT? He's alive?"
"Erm, he was, lucky redraw, but as I was saying, a pack of Ersatz Gnomes used a Go for the Throat on him. I'm sorry."
"B-b-but, he... he didn't have a throat, and... GNOMES? GNOMES killed a GOD by attacking its THROAT?"
"Our condolences. Mr. Infinite Gyre sends his regards."
- Swamp ->
- with
- with
- Shallow Grave resolves, and Emrakul enters the battlefield with haste;
- Emrakul's triggered ability resolves, and you shuffle your (empty) graveyard into your library;
- ATTACK!!!
I don't care what people say.
Someone tried to argue with me today about this.
They said the CMC was a big enough drawback...
Has anyone ever actually hardcasted Emrakul?
No.
They get him out turn three with their Elvish Pipers, Defense of the Heart, etc.
So. Broken.
No matter how many people dislikes its OTTness, Emrakul will always be a classic, as the most powerful Magic The Gathering Jellyfish that ever lived. My heart is filled with warmth. :)
Not that he ever plays with it, it's just not very fun for anyone.
Not cause he's big, or broken, or scary in anyway. Not even because he hoses mill.
I hate Emrakul because he's bigger than Progenitus ;~;
@AvatarofBro
According to you, CMC is no longer a drawback? So everything should just be
http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=214384
No, cmc matters. Decks that cheat Emrakul out are built to do it. (Show and Tell, the aforementioned Elvish Piper or Defense of the Heart) That's why it's cmc doesn't matter.
Pardon the pun.
This card is utterly insane, the artwork amazing, the stats unbelievable...
and the faceplams when someone manages to cheat him out with Elvish Piper...
All out of this world
Annihilition is anti fair play.
Now this one is simply disgusting.
I am really happy my playing group decided to not play any Eldrazi ever.
The Three shall return, and the Eye of Ugin shall produce its sheer fire, and the Eldrazi shall Rize, and this Time no Soul shall escape.
hello emrakul, bye emrakul, 20 DAMAGE! with a flyer no doubt and add swiftfoot boots for further frustration, stir, and toast till golden brown
BTW, facing Emrakul is what every Intrepid Hero dreams of.
Maybe this is a rant, but so what if it is, I'm mad bro >=(
Still gets 5/5 though, not gonna hate-rate
I despise this card with a blind passion of a thousand stars.. but I can still afford the respect of giving this rediculously overpowered card a 5/5. ^ - ^'
and i thought i was the shit with a life-gaining deck, haha
I love all the Eldrazi.
That said, yes, he is a mighty finisher. Pro points if you use Lightning Mauler with him or Sneak him out with suspend or Fist of Suns and still get the 'cast' bonuses.
Also it is bad when your foil prerelease art is so bad it is noticably cheaper than your normal printing.
Geez. Kids these days.
It took 2x Cloudpost, 2x Vesuva, 1x Amulet of Vigor and 1x Walking Atlas..... But yes. In turn 3, with 1 mana to spare, no less. =)
1.Forest
2.Exile Elvish Spirit Guide from your hand
3.Channel for 15 colorless
4. Emrakul
Unless they can block/deal 5 damage on turn 1, they are toast.
Also another card with Mark Tedin. Seriously I could go through each card in any deck I've ever made and he would have drawn a least two cards in them
When Emrakul is put into a graveyard from anywhere, its owner shuffles his or her graveyard into his or her library.
It does not specifically state that Emrakul goes with it.
SO apparently, other than exiling it, one way to make sure this damn thing stays dead is to stick it in the graveyard of someone other than its owner.
T2: Mountain / swamp / badlands, dark ritual, rite of flame, sneak attack
step 3: profit!
Since it's exiled, It won't ever see play in the game. =)
Emrakull + Venser, the Sojourner's +2 ability. Infinite turns. Pretty overkill since you're probably already winning simply by having a big 15\15 flying annihilator creature, but fun for the whole family. Except maybe for those who are losing...
No. Venser's ability exiles him, then brings him back. Emrakul's "take an extra turn" occurs when you CAST him, not when he comes into the battlefield. As you did not cast him when he returns, you do not get an extra turn.
On functionality though, this card is good fun. It's durable, evasive, and feels very mythic. Though between this and Kozilek, Butcher of Truth, I'm not sure which has proven more useful to me. Emrakul wipes my opponent's field, and if I have Concordant Crossroads lying out, he gets to swing twice. But with Kozilek, the uncounterable draw power has one me more games than I can count. So their both awesome in their own right. And both win the game fairly easily. Though in the end, I might have more fun with Emrakul, simply because that extra turn never gets old.
In conclusion, this card is epic, and even more so when it can come out alarmingly early. An obvious 5/5.
Kinda makes Draco look bad though.
Turn 2:Forest, 3xNoble Hierarch
Turn 3: Nothing
Opponents Turn: They play a creature, Counter with Counterlash and play Emrakul.
Turn 4: Win
And For the luckies among us with black lotus
Turn 1: Black Lotus, 3xNoble Hierarch
Turn 2:Nothing
Counter Opponent
Turn 3: Win.
I would love to do this to someone!
1) Iona, Shield of Emeria lets you bar a colour. That's just dandy.
2) Terra Eternal won't save your lands from being sacrificed
3) Agadeem Occultist is a minor example, but the CMC of most Eldrazi is prohibitively high.
4) Anowon, the Ruin Sage will be making a full-on Eldrazi deck sacrifice an Eldrazi Spawn token every turn rather than doing anything useful.
5) Brave the Elements, although that was probably unintentional since it's a pretty standard utility.
6) Deathless Angel's indestructibility fails to protect creatures from annihilator. (This is a common theme among the set's angels, the reason being that most of them were supporters of the "gods" which turned out to be world-devouring monstrosities)
7) Emerge Unscathed, while in the same set, fails hilariously against Eldrazi.
8) Eternity Vessel. This one's a fair bit of a stretch, but either you sacrifice it to annihilator or sacrifice useful things and end up falling further behind.
There's a bunch of other cool things too.
Amusing side note - Archon of Redemption gives you 15 life when Emeria is freed!
Please correct me if I am wrong.
Thank you.
Also, is annihilator an activated ability? (activated by attacking?) if so does that mean i could pithing needle him?
Turn 2: Forest, Channel. Enjoy your Emrakul.
... but on the other hand, in any format, if you allow your opponent to ramp to 15 mana and haven't won by that point, you probably deserve to lose. Heck, these days for 7 mana you can use a Diabolic Revelation to pick up any 2 cards in your deck - which means you can easily pick up 2 cards that form an infinite combo.
I would rate this a 4.5/5 because everyone hates you when you play it, but a solid 5/5 because I know everyone hates it because they know I could have a chance of winning.
@SteamyRayvon6969: You don't get the extra turn with a quicksilver amulet (or with show and tell, elvish piper, aether vial etc). It specifically says when you CAST it. You CAST it with either of the following:
* 15 mana
* Omniscience
@kolition: Protection from colored SPELLS. A card is a SPELL once you cast it. Once the SPELL resolves it becomes a PERMANENT. When the card is on the board it is a PERMANENT. Emrakul has no protection from permanents. Oblivion Ring's triggered ability affects Emrakul because Oblivion Ring is a permanent (since its ability is triggered by its entering the battlefield, which means Oblivion Ring has resolved and is no longer a spell). Dominating Licid affects Emrakul because it is an activated ability from a permanent. although in general, when you play an Aura card it is a spell that targets and as such Emrakul can't be hit by Mind Control or Pacifism or whatever.
Also, Annihilator is not an activated ability, it's a triggered ability. Pithing Needle won't touch that.
Doom Blade.
Done for this turn.
- Forest
- Llanowar Elf
Turn 2
- Forest
- Fist of Suns
Turn 3
- Forest
- Recite the Green Lantern Oath
- Channel the Suns
- Recite the Captain Planet intro.
"By your powers combined...I am CTHULU!"
LET'S PLAY.
Opponent 4 life Me 20 life
Turn 7
He sacs Eldrazi Spawn for Emrakul.
Takes Extra turn and swings.
I sac all six of my lands keeping my Anowon, the Ruin Sage and going to 5 life.
I swing with Anowon for the win. Being oblivious can kill you.
But yeah, the spider dies too.
As much as I hate to admit it, Emrakul has to be one of the best cards ever printed, in terms of Legacy play. I am not sure that I have ever seen any other card impact the game like this one. Yes, you can list 100 different ways to kill it, but that doesn't change the fact that 99% of the methods you would usually use to kill things don't work on it, and that its very presence forces you to engage in one of those other methods. And half of the suggestions I've seen posted require sorceries or enchantments... Journey to Nowhere? Innocent Blood? Wrath of God? I don't think so. Hardcasting an Emrakul nets an extra turn and then annihilation. Good luck surviving until your next main phase.
And to the extent that you're capable of killing it, it's just as easily defended... Lightning Greaves (or a counterspell or Stifle if it requires instant protection), which now threatens you with annihilator 12 before you see your next turn.
And being able to kill it doesn't really help if you're unprepared and suddenly find yourself facing the loss of all your permanents before you can do anything. It's the game-ender of game-enders with almost no response. Its existence in your deck prevents you from being milled, and there are more ways to combo with it or into it than there are to kill it. Yes, a Karakas will send it away... it will also combo for infinite turn-taking/annihilation.
Anyone who believes this card is overrated because weaknesses exist is simply mistaken. If you can cast it in the first 4 turns with a counterspell in your hand, then with rare exception, you win. I have a combo deck that does precisely this with remarkable consistency, and it just can't be beaten by anything but the best of decks. There are few weapons against Emrakuls and counterspells. They do exist; they're things like Mindbreak Traps and Extirpates, or Stifles to shut down that extra turn. A Quicken can also go a long way to make other defenses available. Intrepid Hero, Royal Assassin, or Soul Snare can be a nice obstacle, but putting your faith in permanents is dangerous. And it's not like I'm going to play my Emrakul with an Intrepid Hero on the table. I'll drop a Snap or something first. But yes, there are pretty direct instant-speed attacks on an Emrakul that has already hit the table: Wing Shards, Diabolic Edict. But you've got to have the mana spare.
One way or another, in order to stop it, you've got to know that it's on its way. It could cost 500 mana, and it would be just about as good. A card like Emrakul should never have been printed.
Legal in every format except Commander (understandably): 5/5
(If you want to get one into play, remember that the "Shuffle your graveyard" ability uses the stack and can be beaten out by an instant. Since it has protection from colored spells, something like Makeshift Mannequin is actually pretty safe, but there are tons of options along graveyard lines. Defense of the Heart is pretty epic. And there's the ever-classic Elvish Piper. If you're looking for ways to cast it, there's always elves and/or Gaea's Cradle, Fist of Suns. And check around for "cast without paying its mana cost" abilities. Don't overlook the hideaway lands from Lorwyn. I'm pretty fond of the Shelldock Isle + Doomsday combo.)
Just you know, flying, annihilator 6. Hey are you getting all this?
Plus "The Aeons Torn," along with "The Infinite Gyre," and "Butcher of Truth," are probably among the most badass titles anything could have.
This card gets two pages of Gatherer comments in a month. Three years after it was released, mind you. If that's not impressive, I don't know what is.
OTHERWISE AWESOME CARD.
5/5 Stars
P1> cast Show and Tell
P1> choose Emrakul
P2> choose Treachery
?> will P2 be able to control Emrakul via Treachery?
Will this be the same interaction as Sun Titan to Dead Weight = Dead GoST
By the way, my favorite combo with him is Argentum Armour.
If you don't mind losing the extra turn, cheat him out with quicksilver amulet.
Not that I know of, unless SaT makes the enchantment not a spell for some reason.
You also must target something that is in play when you declare the trigger. If I'm not mistaken, both go on the stack at the same time. SaT is a sorcery, meaning you must play it on your turn, making you active player. This means that the person who played SaT for emrakul will put emrakul on the stack first, then comes the treachery. Since emrakul is not in play, treachery cannot target it.
So, no, that would not work as far as I know.
As a note on this card, this card is just awesome. It requires the opponent to deal with it immediately, and usually on extremely early turns. If you can give it haste as well, like with Tin Fins, it's just an instant win card. So what if you have some way to kill it? It doesn't matter if I swing you for 30 annihilator 12 since you'll almost always be just outright dead.
This card is certainly something you have to combo around, but it's always going to be one hell of a combo.
I usually get him out on turn one. No biggie.
Sweeps, extract type cards and a lot of ghost flames are needed to kill him
I killed emrakul with a stinkweek imp :)
Protection from Colored spells means he cannot be the assigned target for a spell, not apermanent. One can Oblivion Ring him because it's already a permanent when ti chooses its target, while one can NOT Doom Blade him because it never becomes a permanent.
Mycosynth Lattice should work though, since it states that all cards, be they presently on the battlefield or otherwise, are now colorless. Almost sure to never happen but it can be done.
Johnny sees a great use for his massive amounts of mana.
Spike sees a viable deck with Show and Tell, or perhaps Hypergenesis.
Vorthos sees an epic deity and its sheer power coming to life on a card.
Melvin sees the very useful set of abilities and possible interactions.
A card that appeals to literally every kind of player. A card that has seen play everywhere from kitchen tables to Pro Tours. A card that is, at least to me, perfect.
Also, they probably could've used a Phage-like 'If it came into play but you didn't cast it trigger' rather than the shuffle, but then I guess we wouldn't have a colorless answer to mill. Which in itself is a problem...
You can get there with High Tide...
Btw, a question - is Emrakul a guy or a girl? Because lots of people at my local card shop seem to refer to her as a female.
NOBODY.
"Dad, the kids at school are making fun of me again"
"You have an extra turn and Annihilator 6, sort it out yourself!"
For Timmies, Emrakul represents the ultimate fattie, one that's so over-the-top that nothing can top it. One Timmy might loved his Akroma while the other enjoyed his Avenger of Zendikar. Once they know about Emrakul and perhaps played with it, everything else is instantly dwarfed and instantly seems less cool than before. Those Timmies who never have an Emrakul may remark bitterly, "well that card is stupid anyways." But in any case, a part of their Timmy-ness has died. When a card gets close to saying you win the game, it tends not to feel like something 2.5 times more awesome than Akroma, say -- it tends to remind you that it's all just a game. Like an item that you get late in an rpg that defeats the final boss in one hit. It takes away a lot of epicness from the story, and Emrakul comes very close to "I win."
For Johnnies, I wouldn't put a lot of value on Emrakul as a finisher, since infinite combos have no lack for finishers. There are many combos involving Emrakul, but most are about ways to cheat it into play (Summoning Trap, Windbrisk Heights) or utilizing its high mana cost (like Erratic Explosion). These are all far too obvious combos for a real Johnny. A Johnny wants to show what he can do, differently, in his unique way. If a Johnny has an Elvish Piper, he wants to set up something no one has seen before (I tried to come up with an example, but being the Spike I am, my best attempt is an Angel of Serenity in response to something). If he summons the Piper and the opponent who's never seen his deck goes like, "I guess Emrakul is coming", that's just so predictable and unsatisfying.
For Spikes, the power level of Emrakul creates problems, specifically in decks like Show and Tell. Like dredge, Show and Tell is a kind of degenerate deck that doesn't leave your opponent with a lot of ways to interact with it. This results in games being decided by whether you can draw one or more of the 3 (or 8 or whatever number) of solutions in your deck. Granted this is Legacy, and degenerate combos are all over the place. But if the recent surge of dredge hosers is any indicator, non-interactive decks (that require very specific solutions) can pose a problem if they're strong enough.
With all these said, I have a more neutral view of Emrakul - it's a good thing that it exists, but it's also a good thing we don't see more like it. It's just a little bit too much.
And then I played Lazav, Dimir Mastermind. And he became Lazav, the Aeons Torn.
Which... Adding Hexproof to Emrakul just makes him that much harder to get rid of. Sure, I didn't get the extra turn, but since Lazav had been around for a bit, I DID get to attack the moment he transformed.
Hellurin listed some of the cards that can neutralize Emrakul, the Aeons Torn. Here is that list edited for Lazav, the Aeons Torn:
...
Yeah, that's right. None of those listed.
And the Hexproof is inherent, unlike equipment and what have you that can be destroyed.
Hey, I'm not saying he's unbeatable. But it was incredibly fun using him. A moment in the game I'll remember.
I like to think that RotE's other development name was Rise of the Timmy.
It's hard to justify ANY card costing 15 mana, but again... This card is just absolutely worth it. (Not to mention all the other shenanigans you can pull to get it out without paying that)
Despite the fact that the new god cards in Theros are much more realistic in scope and playability, I kinda wish they were a bit more 'game-changing' like the Eldrazi were. A threat that needs to be dealt with NOW OR ELSE, as it were.
"Oh boom, I got this ULTRA BIG FLYING BEAST OUT, which has summoning sick...Oh wait I get an extra turn." I mean seriously, the cards that can hurt him could be out easily, but knowing a player, who would know how to get rid of cards, wouldn't be afraid, or just dumb for bringing him out. SO, on that extra turn, 15/15 coming at you, sac 6, even if you don't get through. Six permanents, that itself can ruin a game. I give him 4/5, I have an Eldrazi deck, and it works just beautifully with him sitting at the throne of it.
EDIT FOR SERIOUS STUFF:
@DimirSnail
Emrakul is far from being the best card ever printed. Emrakul is not broken. He costs 15 mana. He can be countered. The trick is not to kill Emrakul, if that happens you are dead. What you need to do is disrupt whatever means your opponent is using to bring him up, whether that means killing their Urzatron, or just racing them, Emrakul requires significant dedication in order to bring out, and it will quickly be clear if that is your opponents win condition.
Johnny sees the least creative use of all the mana he is 'generating' with Omnath, Locus of Mana.
Spike sees a card that he thought was over-costed trash at first until a Johnny paired it with Show and Tell.
Vorthos sees a card that makes all of his plots to inflict mental agony on his opponent feel tame.
Melvin takes Wizards to court because Emrakul is too powerful, being a nearly unstoppable game-ender that's barely even a real creature.
Ulamog could be the armoured titan since he's indestructible.
And kozilek could be the ape titan or female titan since it's crafty.
Until these cards drop to 10 dollars or under, I know what i'm using as my proxy art :)
Opponent drops Emrakul, everyone groans and throws their hands onto the table.
End of his turn, tap two to flash in ambush viper, another two to make him fight Emrakul.
Not only am I the new hero of the game, but I got to enjoy the flavor and imagery of a bitchy little viper biting his little fangs into Emrakul's gigantic, quasi-biological, eon-tearing ass.
-Swag_Crow
If Emrakul is in play, go toe to toe with Pit Spawn or Kaldra (Helm of Kaldra, Shield of Kaldra, Sword of Kaldra). Activate Mangara of Corondor. If he's in hand, use Ghastlord of Fugue . If he just died, use Withered Wretch, Deathrite Shaman, or have Samurai of the Pale Curtain in play.
He does die. Plenty of other ways...and not UNUSUAL cards that nobody would play. Legacy Weapon, Ashen Rider...I mean COME ON.
You can even go old school and play Tormod's Crypt...I remember it was a race between it and Feldon's Cane.
I don't like to see it cheated it into play though, it takes away some of the mythic feeling when it shows up way sooner than it should. Should have at least "you must actually generate 15 mana to cast Emraul, the Aeons torn. This cost cannot be reduced"
Doesnt Ashen Rider still target? I could be wrong, since I'm just recently coming back to the game after a hiatus. Since Emrakul has protection from colored spells, you wouldn't be able to target him with the Rider's ability, I don't think.
But then people started to actually blow 40-50 bucks on these and stick them in decks that cheated them out - Quicksilver Amulet being a fan favorite. A turn 4 Emrakul is not a fun thing to deal with, even without the extra turn. Odds are you'll only have 4 lands and maybe 2-3 creatures, if that, to annihilate. He and the rest of the Eldrazi are just stupidly powerful with no drawbacks besides their high mana cost.
That being said there are still plenty of methods to get rid of him - naturally any sort of artifacts (Executioner's Capsule being my favorite) or world spells (Merciless Eviction, Worldfire, Apocalypse, Damnation, etc.) 3/5 for flavor, but the missing 2 stars are for no drawbacks.
Or does an ability count as a spell?
The problem with Emrakul is that it is so impossibly good, difficult to remove, and essentially ends the game after her first attack EVEN IF the opponent doesn't actually lose, that it supplants every other fatty creature a deck would ever want to cheat into play. Or hardcast, for what that's worth.
(Side note: The Flavor Guide says Emrakul has a female personality/character to her. Look it up, apparently the Eldrazi have gender identity)
Just think, even Worldspine Wurm isn't as good with Sneak Attack or Through the Breach even though it hits for just as much and then makes THREE 5/5s with trample when it dies (which Sneak Attack and Through the Breach can make use of). Griselbrand sees some play in decks with Show and Tell along with Sneak Attack, but that's more because he can draw SEVEN cards even if he never gets to swing.
Whenever a Johnny sees a mana combo or a creature cheat, he/she doesn't think about a number of things to play, he/she only thinks about Emrakul. And that's unfortunate, because there are a hundred epic cards that have never seen the spotlight and deserve to.
It makes me want to vomit whenever I see someone talking about targeting Emrakul with something that can't target him because it's colored.
Progenitus with Malignus
"You should probably already have won by the time you get to 15 mana"
Not necessarily. If you have 15 mana, yes, you will be able to play probably any card in your deck, but that doesn't mean that you have enough cards to cast with all that mana. Emrakul is not win-more. Just because you have 15 mana doesn't mean that you are winning. After all, what if your opponent has 15 mana as well? Also, about the Fireball thing, Fireball can only be used in red decks, while Emrakul can be used in any color deck.
Oh, and I'm not sure if people are still complaining about why this eldritch godly monster ever obeys you, but I'll give my answer. Keep in mind that in this game you are a planeswalker, and that means that you basically have godly powers yourself. Yes, Emrakul can beat you in two hits, but you can just as easily defeat her by breaking a Brittle Effigy (keep in mind that I'm talking about flavor here; I'm not trying to make one of those "Emrakul sucks because she dies to removal" arguments).
It doesn’t target the creature, so it deals with all the protected, hexproof creatures. Then I slap on Unflinching Courage, so every time I defend myself I’m bigger than him and he dies, and I get the 20 Lifegain or whatever.
Jujitsu Magic.