Emet-Selch, Unsundered
Legendary Creature — Elder Wizard
Vigilance
Whenever Emet-Selch enters or attacks, draw a card, then discard a card.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if there are fourteen or more cards in your graveyard, you may transform Emet-Selch.
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- Set
- Final Fantasy (FIN #483)
- Rarity
- Mythic
- Mana value
- 3
- Released
- 2025-06-13
- Artist
- Néstor Ossandón Leal
- EDHREC rank
- #6,355
- Colour identity
- Finishes
- Nonfoil, Foil
- Served from
- Local database
Commander bracket
Derived from card traits, not a ruling — bracket rules turn on how a deck intends to use a card. Bracket rules
EDHREC
Combos 72
Showing the 50 most played of 72.
Commander recommendations
Top synergy 50
Played far more in this commander's decks than elsewhere.
- Emet-Selch of the Third Seat
- Glimpse the Unthinkable
- Frantic Search
- Stitcher's Supplier
- Ripples of Undeath
- The Ancient One
- Fandaniel, Telophoroi Ascian
- Laboratory Maniac
- Millikin
- Windfall
- Ledger Shredder
- Reanimate
- Likeness Looter
- Syr Konrad, the Grim
- Gravebreaker Lamia
- Kiora, the Rising Tide
- Vohar, Vodalian Desecrator
- Deranged Assistant
- Entomb
- Breach the Multiverse
- Buried Alive
- Animate Dead
- Singularity Rupture
- Wonder
- Secrets of the Dead
- Hedron Crab
- The Warring Triad
- Ultimecia, Time Sorceress
- Rise of the Dark Realms
- Thought Scour
- Jace, Wielder of Mysteries
- Cabal Ritual
- Stitch Together
- The Final Days
- Zenos yae Galvus
- Matzalantli, the Great Door
- Victimize
- Traumatize
- Dark Ritual
- Essence Flux
- Cruel Somnophage
- Neerdiv, Devious Diver
- Ardyn, the Usurper
- Undercity Sewers
- Displacer Kitten
- Angel of Suffering
- Xande, Dark Mage
- Songs of the Damned
- Cephalid Coliseum
- Zodiark, Umbral God
Most included 50
Highest share of decks running them, distinctive or not.
- Swamp
- Island
- Sol Ring
- Command Tower
- Arcane Signet
- Frantic Search
- Drowned Catacomb
- Emet-Selch of the Third Seat
- Talisman of Dominance
- Reanimate
- Sunken Hollow
- Counterspell
- Dark Ritual
- Glimpse the Unthinkable
- Watery Grave
- Windfall
- Underground River
- Stitcher's Supplier
- Dimir Signet
- Ripples of Undeath
- An Offer You Can't Refuse
- The Ancient One
- Syr Konrad, the Grim
- Laboratory Maniac
- Fandaniel, Telophoroi Ascian
- Shipwreck Marsh
- Millikin
- Polluted Delta
- Likeness Looter
- Toxic Deluge
- Undercity Sewers
- Singularity Rupture
- Morphic Pool
- Animate Dead
- Ledger Shredder
- Choked Estuary
- Baleful Strix
- Tainted Isle
- Entomb
- Breach the Multiverse
- Gloomlake Verge
- Buried Alive
- Rise of the Dark Realms
- Victimize
- Bojuka Bog
- Vohar, Vodalian Desecrator
- Darkwater Catacombs
- Wonder
- Deranged Assistant
- Arcane Denial
Format legality
Rulings
- 2025-06-06
A nonmodal double-faced card enters with its front face up by default, unless a spell or ability instructs you to put it onto the battlefield transformed or allows you to cast it transformed, in which case it enters with its back face up.
- 2025-06-06
A token that is created as a copy of a double-faced permanent or a double-faced card in another zone is a double-faced token. It will have both the front face and back face of whatever object it's copying. If it's copying a double-faced permanent whose back face is up, the token will enter with its back face up. It can transform if instructed to do so.
- 2025-06-06
Each face of a nonmodal double-faced card has its own set of characteristics: name, types, subtypes, abilities, and so on. While a nonmodal double-faced permanent is on the battlefield, consider only the characteristics of the face that's currently up. The other set of characteristics is ignored.
- 2025-06-06
Each nonmodal double-faced card in this release is cast face up. In every zone other than the battlefield, consider only the characteristics of its front face. If it is on the battlefield, consider only the characteristics of the face that's up; the other face's characteristics are ignored.
- 2025-06-06
Emet-Selch's last ability checks your graveyard at the moment it would trigger to see if you have fourteen or more cards in your graveyard. If you don't, the ability won't trigger at all. If it does trigger, the ability will check again as it tries to resolve. If you don't have fourteen or more cards in your graveyard at that time, the ability won't resolve and none of its effects will happen.
- 2025-06-06
If a Hades, Sorcerer of Eld you control is destroyed by a spell you own, Hades will be exiled and then the spell will be put into your graveyard. Conversely, if a Hades you control is dealt lethal damage by a spell you own, the spell will be exiled, and then Hades will be exiled as well.
- 2025-06-06
If you are instructed to put a card that isn't a double-faced card onto the battlefield transformed, it will not enter at all. In that case, it stays in the zone it was previously in. For example, if a single-faced card is a copy of Crystal Fragments, it will be exiled during the resolution of its second ability and remain in exile.
- 2025-06-06
If you discard a card while you control Hades, Sorcerer of Eld, abilities that function when a card is discarded (such as madness) still work, even though that card never reaches your graveyard. In addition, spells or abilities that check the characteristics of a discarded card (such as connive) can find that card in exile.
- 2025-06-06
In the Commander variant, a double-faced card's color identity is determined by the mana costs and mana symbols in the rules text of both faces combined. If either face has a color indicator or basic land type, those are also considered. For example, Cecil, Dark Knight's color identity is black and white, since its front face is black and its back face has a white color indicator.
- 2025-06-06
The back face of a nonmodal double-faced card usually has a color indicator that defines its color.
- 2025-06-06
The mana value of a nonmodal double-faced card is the mana value of its front face, no matter which face is up.
- 2025-06-06
While you control Hades, Sorcerer of Eld, abilities that trigger whenever a permanent you own is put into your graveyard from the battlefield (for example, "When this creature dies . . .") won't trigger.
- 2025-06-06
You pay all costs and follow all timing rules for cards played with the permission granted by Hades, Sorcerer of Eld's second ability.