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Emet-Selch of the Third Seat
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Emet-Selch of the Third Seat

{2}{U}{B}

Legendary Creature — Elder Wizard

Spells you cast from your graveyard cost {2} less to cast.

Whenever one or more opponents lose life, you may cast target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard. If that spell would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead. Do this only once each turn.

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Set
Final Fantasy Commander (FIC #473)
Rarity
Rare
Mana value
4
Released
2025-12-05
Artist
Kuregure
EDHREC rank
#3,061
Colour identity
{B}{U}
Finishes
Foil
Served from
Local database

Commander bracket

1 +
Fits any bracket
No Game Changer, land denial, extra turns or two-card combos.

Derived from card traits, not a ruling — bracket rules turn on how a deck intends to use a card. Bracket rules

EDHREC

Salt Score 0.30
How much players resent seeing this card. The scale tops out around 3.1.
Can be your commander

Combos 1

Emet-Selch of the Third Seat+Ebondeath, Dracolich+Pitiless Plunderer+Phyrexian Altar
{U}{B}
Infinite creature ETBInfinite creature LTBInfinite creature sacrifice triggersInfinite death triggersInfinite storm count

Commander recommendations

Top synergy 50

Played far more in this commander's decks than elsewhere.

  1. Vohar, Vodalian Desecrator 73 %+69.3 %
  2. Frantic Search 77 %+57.7 %
  3. Fandaniel, Telophoroi Ascian 57 %+55.7 %
  4. Secrets of the Dead 53 %+51.0 %
  5. Circle of Power 49 %+47.9 %
  6. Neerdiv, Devious Diver 48 %+46.6 %
  7. Cryptolith Fragment 45 %+45.1 %
  8. Exsanguinate 46 %+43.5 %
  9. Rona, Sheoldred's Faithful 44 %+43.4 %
  10. Teval's Judgment 44 %+42.8 %
  11. Scrawling Crawler 41 %+39.9 %
  12. Transpose 40 %+39.8 %
  13. Forbidden Alchemy 41 %+39.4 %
  14. Windfall 53 %+39.4 %
  15. Fact or Fiction 48 %+39.1 %
  16. Emet-Selch, Unsundered 40 %+39.0 %
  17. Leechridden Swamp 39 %+38.5 %
  18. Breach the Multiverse 47 %+37.6 %
  19. Archmage Emeritus 41 %+36.9 %
  20. Unwind 39 %+35.8 %
  21. Rewind 38 %+34.6 %
  22. Black Mage's Rod 35 %+34.4 %
  23. Bender's Waterskin 40 %+33.8 %
  24. Ledger Shredder 35 %+30.9 %
  25. Lier, Disciple of the Drowned 31 %+29.8 %
  26. Talrand, Sky Summoner 32 %+29.8 %
  27. Cornered by Black Mages 30 %+29.2 %
  28. Lórien Revealed 33 %+29.0 %
  29. Withering Torment 45 %+28.7 %
  30. Waterlogged Teachings 40 %+28.7 %
  31. Waterlogged Teachings 40 %+28.7 %
  32. Baral, Chief of Compliance 31 %+28.7 %
  33. Ripples of Undeath 30 %+26.6 %
  34. Blood Seeker 26 %+26.1 %
  35. Diresight 28 %+26.0 %
  36. Fate Unraveler 26 %+25.9 %
  37. Underworld Dreams 26 %+25.1 %
  38. Singularity Rupture 37 %+24.3 %
  39. Reanimate 50 %+24.2 %
  40. Fell the Profane 40 %+24.0 %
  41. Fell the Profane 40 %+24.0 %
  42. Thunderclap Drake 25 %+24.0 %
  43. Hermes, Overseer of Elpis 24 %+23.3 %
  44. Will of the Abzan 25 %+23.1 %
  45. Exhibition Tidecaller 25 %+23.0 %
  46. Talion, the Kindly Lord 29 %+22.7 %
  47. Aetherize 34 %+22.7 %
  48. Rug of Smothering 23 %+22.7 %
  49. Sheoldred, the Apocalypse 26 %+22.0 %
  50. Gravebreaker Lamia 23 %+21.9 %

Most included 50

Highest share of decks running them, distinctive or not.

  1. Island 98 %+1.3 %
  2. Swamp 97 %+0.4 %
  3. Command Tower 89 %+2.1 %
  4. Arcane Signet 84 %+0.4 %
  5. Sol Ring 81 %-6.2 %
  6. Frantic Search 77 %+57.7 %
  7. Vohar, Vodalian Desecrator 73 %+69.3 %
  8. Drowned Catacomb 71 %+15.5 %
  9. Sunken Hollow 66 %+0.9 %
  10. Talisman of Dominance 66 %+7.8 %
  11. Underground River 59 %+18.0 %
  12. Watery Grave 58 %+9.2 %
  13. Fandaniel, Telophoroi Ascian 57 %+55.7 %
  14. Dimir Signet 57 %-1.6 %
  15. Secrets of the Dead 53 %+51.0 %
  16. Windfall 53 %+39.4 %
  17. Reanimate 50 %+24.2 %
  18. Circle of Power 49 %+47.9 %
  19. Fact or Fiction 48 %+39.1 %
  20. Neerdiv, Devious Diver 48 %+46.6 %
  21. Dark Ritual 47 %+10.3 %
  22. Shipwreck Marsh 47 %+6.7 %
  23. Breach the Multiverse 47 %+37.6 %
  24. Morphic Pool 46 %+9.8 %
  25. Exsanguinate 46 %+43.5 %
  26. Tainted Isle 46 %+1.3 %
  27. Cryptolith Fragment 45 %+45.1 %
  28. Withering Torment 45 %+28.7 %
  29. Toxic Deluge 45 %+19.3 %
  30. Teval's Judgment 44 %+42.8 %
  31. Rona, Sheoldred's Faithful 44 %+43.4 %
  32. Counterspell 44 %-11.8 %
  33. Choked Estuary 44 %-3.4 %
  34. Bojuka Bog 44 %+5.0 %
  35. Polluted Delta 43 %+10.2 %
  36. Undercity Sewers 42 %+21.3 %
  37. Darkwater Catacombs 42 %+3.3 %
  38. Archmage Emeritus 41 %+36.9 %
  39. Gloomlake Verge 41 %+16.6 %
  40. Forbidden Alchemy 41 %+39.4 %
  41. Scrawling Crawler 41 %+39.9 %
  42. Transpose 40 %+39.8 %
  43. Waterlogged Teachings 40 %+28.7 %
  44. Waterlogged Teachings 40 %+28.7 %
  45. Emet-Selch, Unsundered 40 %+39.0 %
  46. Fell the Profane 40 %+24.0 %
  47. Fell the Profane 40 %+24.0 %
  48. Bender's Waterskin 40 %+33.8 %
  49. Unwind 39 %+35.8 %
  50. Leechridden Swamp 39 %+38.5 %

Format legality

Rulings

  • 2025-06-06

    The cost reduction applies only to generic mana in the total cost of spells you cast from your graveyard.

  • 2025-06-06

    To determine the total cost of a spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost you're paying (such as a flashback cost), add any cost increases (such as kicker costs), then apply any cost reductions (such as that of Emet-Selch of the Third Seat's first ability). The mana value of the spell is determined by only its mana cost, no matter what the total cost to cast that spell was.

  • 2025-06-06

    You choose whether to cast the target card while Emet-Selch of the Third Seat's second ability is still on the stack. You can't wait to cast it later in the turn. Timing restrictions based on the card's type are ignored.

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