Emrakul, the Promised End

Card text

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

An enigma as vexing as life itself.

Market price

Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $30.04 (as of 2026-11-03).

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Format legality

Legality of Emrakul, the Promised End by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.

Other printings of Emrakul, the Promised End

Emrakul, the Promised End has been printed in 5 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.

Official rulings

The 8 most recent official rulings for Emrakul, the Promised End, newest first.

• 2025-01-24 If the targeted player skips their next turn, you’ll control the next turn the affected player actually takes, and the extra turn the player takes will be after that turn.
• 2025-01-24 While controlling another player, you can see all cards in the game that player can see. This includes cards in that player’s hand, face-down cards that player controls, and any cards in that player’s library the player may look at.
• 2025-01-24 You can use only the affected player’s resources (cards, mana, and so on) to pay costs for that player; you can’t use your own. Similarly, you can use the affected player’s resources only to pay that player’s costs; you can’t spend them on your costs.
• 2025-01-24 An ability that triggers when a player casts a spell resolves before the spell that caused it to trigger. It resolves even if that spell is countered or otherwise leaves the stack without resolving.
• 2025-01-24 You can’t make any illegal decisions or illegal choices-you can’t do anything that player couldn’t do. You can’t make choices or decisions for that player that aren’t called for by the game rules or by any cards, permanents, spells, abilities, and so on. If an effect causes another player to make decisions that the affected player would normally make (such as Master Warcraft does), that effect takes precedence. In other words, if the affected player wouldn’t make a decision, you wouldn’t make that decision on that player’s behalf.
• 2025-01-24 In a Two-Headed Giant game, gaining control of a player causes you to gain control of each player on that team.
• 2025-01-24 You also can’t make any choices or decisions for the player that would be called for by the tournament rules (such as whether to take an intentional draw or whether to call a judge).
• 2025-01-24 Protection from instants means that Emrakul can’t be the target of instant spells or activated or triggered abilities from instant cards, and damage that would be dealt to it by instant spells or cards is prevented. Instant spells may still affect it in other ways; for example, it would still receive the bonus from Rally the Peasants.

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