The Emperor of Palamecia
Legendary Creature — Human Noble Wizard
: Add or . Spend this mana only to cast a noncreature spell.
Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, if at least four mana was spent to cast it, put a +1/+1 counter on The Emperor of Palamecia. Then if it has three or more +1/+1 counters on it, transform it.
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- Set
- Final Fantasy (FIN #219)
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Mana value
- 2
- Released
- 2025-06-13
- Artist
- Heonhwa
- EDHREC rank
- #4,513
- 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
Not part of any combo on Commander Spellbook.
Commander recommendations
Top synergy 50
Played far more in this commander's decks than elsewhere.
- Traumatize
- Cut Your Losses
- Pirate's Pillage
- Unexpected Windfall
- Big Score
- Hedron Archive
- Ring of the Lucii
- Protective Bubble
- Firemind Vessel
- Channeled Force
- Fact or Fiction
- Drown in Dreams
- Full Throttle
- Rewind
- Thran Dynamo
- Stonespeaker Crystal
- Aetherize
- Clout of the Dominus
- Shantotto, Tactician Magician
- Zephid's Embrace
- Ill-Timed Explosion
- Fateful Showdown
- Careful Consideration
- Summons of Saruman
- Sisay's Ring
- Press the Enemy
- Everflowing Chalice
- Bond of Insight
- Gandalf's Sanction
- Rogue's Passage
- Resonating Lute
- Tellah, Great Sage
- Path of the Pyromancer
- Decaying Time Loop
- Experimental Overload
- Prompto Argentum
- Tunnel Vision
- Rapturous Moment
- Spellheart Chimera
- Rise from the Tides
- Jace, Memory Adept
- Epic Experiment
- Immolating Gyre
- Slip Out the Back
- Seize the Storm
- Drake Umbra
- Exhibition Tidecaller
- Tezzeret's Gambit
- Kinetic Augur
- Sorceress's Schemes
Most included 50
Highest share of decks running them, distinctive or not.
- Island
- Mountain
- Command Tower
- Big Score
- Sulfur Falls
- Sol Ring
- Unexpected Windfall
- Shivan Reef
- Pirate's Pillage
- Traumatize
- Hedron Archive
- Arcane Signet
- Frostboil Snarl
- Cut Your Losses
- Resonating Lute
- Stormcarved Coast
- Swiftfoot Boots
- Thran Dynamo
- Ring of the Lucii
- Aetherize
- Fact or Fiction
- Protective Bubble
- Rewind
- Firemind Vessel
- Counterspell
- Cascade Bluffs
- Full Throttle
- Drown in Dreams
- Channeled Force
- Rogue's Passage
- Faithless Looting
- Mystic Sanctuary
- Lightning Greaves
- Frantic Search
- Stonespeaker Crystal
- Mana Geyser
- Mizzix's Mastery
- Clout of the Dominus
- Steam Vents
- Shantotto, Tactician Magician
- Harmonic Prodigy
- Ill-Timed Explosion
- Everflowing Chalice
- Rapturous Moment
- Fateful Showdown
- Zephid's Embrace
- Archmage Emeritus
- Temple of Epiphany
- Sisay's Ring
- Careful Consideration
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
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
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 Emperor of Palamecia's last ability resolves before the spell that caused it to trigger. It resolves even if that spell is countered or otherwise leaves the stack.
- 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
The value of X is calculated only once, as The Lord Master of Hell's ability resolves.