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Emet-Selch of the Third Seat

Legendary Creature — Elder Wizard · {2}{U}{B} · Black/Blue commander

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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What Emet-Selch of the Third Seat actually does

Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.

• Triggered ability · otherWhenever 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
• Static ability · cost_reductionSpells you cast from your graveyard cost {2} less to cast.

What an Emet-Selch of the Third Seat deck needs

Plays as cost reducer. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.

• instants and sorceries worth recasting (it recasts one from the graveyard each turn the opponents lose life)
• drain and damage every turn (any life loss turns it on)
• self-mill and spells cast from the graveyard (they cost {2} less)

The Emet-Selch of the Third Seat deck plan

The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.

• 16× A spell you cast from outside your hand — flashback, foretell, escape, adventure, cascade, plot and their kin
• 14× Life loss that is not combat damage — each opponent loses life, repeatably
• 9× Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource
• 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
• 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
• 2× Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
• 1× Answer a whole board at once
• 7× Refill your hand
• 2× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

Best cards for Emet-Selch of the Third Seat

Ranked by an engine that reads what each card does — its real cost, its delay and how reliably it works — rather than counting how often other people play it.

Combos with Emet-Selch of the Third Seat

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Emet-Selch of the Third Seat is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

• Emet-Selch of the Third Seat + Ebondeath, Dracolich + Pitiless Plunderer + Phyrexian Altar4 decks

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