Emerge Unscathed
Emerge Unscathed: Instant, Iconic Masters. Target creature you control gains protection from the color of your choice until end of turn. Rebound On Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {W}
- Mana value
- 1
- Type
- Instant
- Colour identity
- White (W)
- Rarity
- Common
- Set
- Iconic Masters (IMA)
- Released
- 2017-11-17
- Collector number
- 19
- Artist
- Steve Argyle
- Keywords
- Rebound
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About Emerge Unscathed
Emerge Unscathed is a Magic: The Gathering card, a common white instant from Iconic Masters (IMA), a Masters set released in November 2017. It is collector number 19 in that set, with art by Steve Argyle. It costs {W} (one white mana) to cast, for a mana value of 1. Its colour identity is white. It is legal in Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, Pauper Commander and PreDH. It has been printed in 3 sets, from Rise of the Eldrazi (2010) to The List (2020). The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.37 (normal finish, as of 2026-10-23).
Card text
Target creature you control gains protection from the color of your choice until end of turn.
Rebound (If you cast this spell from your hand, exile it as it resolves. At the beginning of your next upkeep, you may cast this card from exile without paying its mana cost.)
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.37 (as of 2026-10-23).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Emerge Unscathed by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Modern | Legal |
|---|---|
| Legacy | Legal |
| Vintage | Legal |
| Pauper | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| Pauper Commander | Legal |
| PreDH | Legal |
Other printings of Emerge Unscathed
Emerge Unscathed has been printed in 3 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| The List (PLST) #IMA-19 | Common | 2019 |
| Rise of the Eldrazi (ROE) #20 | Uncommon | 2010 |
Official rulings
The 8 most recent official rulings for Emerge Unscathed, newest first.
- You choose the color as Emerge Unscathed resolves. Once you choose a color, it’s too late for players to respond.
- If you are unable to cast a card from exile this way, or you choose not to, nothing happens when the delayed triggered ability resolves. The card remains exiled for the rest of the game, and you won’t get another chance to cast the card. The same is true if the ability is countered (due to Stifle, perhaps).
- If a replacement effect would cause a spell with rebound that you cast from your hand to be put somewhere else instead of your graveyard (such as Leyline of the Void might), you choose whether to apply the rebound effect or the other effect as the spell resolves.
- If you cast a spell with rebound from your hand and it resolves, it isn’t put into your graveyard. Rather, it’s exiled directly from the stack. Effects that care about cards being put into your graveyard won’t do anything.
- If you cast a card from exile this way, it will go to your graveyard when it resolves, fails to resolve, or is countered. It won’t go back to exile.
- If a spell with rebound that you cast from your hand doesn’t resolve for any reason (due being countered by a spell like Cancel, or because all of its targets are illegal), rebound has no effect. The spell is simply put into your graveyard. You won’t get to cast it again next turn.
- Rebound will have no effect on copies of spells because you don’t cast them from your hand.
- At the beginning of your upkeep, all delayed triggered abilities created by rebound effects trigger. You may handle them in any order. If you want to cast a card this way, you do so as part of the resolution of its delayed triggered ability. Timing restrictions based on the card’s type (if it’s a sorcery) are ignored. Other restrictions are not (such as the one from Rule of Law).
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