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Emrakul, the Promised End

Legendary Creature — Eldrazi · {13} · Colorless commander

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each card type among cards in your graveyard. When you cast this spell, you gain control of target opponent during that player's next turn. After that turn, that player takes an extra turn. Flying, trample, protection from instants

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What Emrakul, the Promised End 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 · cast_spellWhen you cast this spell, you gain control of target opponent during that player's next turn. After that turn, that player takes an extra turn.
• Keyword · flyingflying
• Keyword · trampletrample
• AbilityFlying, trample, protection from instants

What an Emrakul, the Promised End deck needs

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

• many card types in your graveyard (self-mill, discard and dying permanents — each type is a mana off her cost)
• ramp to a 13-drop that usually costs six to eight
• the Mindslaver turn: their own removal and combat aimed at them

The Emrakul, the Promised End deck plan

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

• 8× Evasion that does NOT target or attach — for a commander your own auras and equipment cannot legally touch
• 12× Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource
• 9× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
• 10× Find the exact card the plan needs
• 3× Answer a whole board at once
• 12× Refill your hand
• 5× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
• 11× Get ahead on mana

Best cards for Emrakul, the Promised End

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 Emrakul, the Promised End

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Emrakul, the Promised End is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

• Emrakul, the Promised End + Erratic Portal + Unwinding Clock + Vedalken Orrery47 decks
• Emrakul, the Promised End + Triskaidekaphile + Rishkar's Expertise7 decks
• Emrakul, the Promised End + Triskaidekaphile + Return Of The Wildspeaker7 decks

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