Emrakul, the Promised End

📖 How to build Emrakul, the Promised End

Emrakul, the Promised End is a colorless flying, trampling threat with protection from instants. Its cast trigger drives the game plan: when you cast it, you gain control of a target opponent during that player's next turn, and after that turn, that player takes an extra turn. Its cost is {13}, but it costs {1} less for each card type among cards in your graveyard, so the deck aims to fill the graveyard with a variety of card types and cast this threat much earlier than its printed cost suggests.

Build around ways to put a wide range of card types into your graveyard, since each distinct type reduces the cost by one. Aim for a mix of artifacts, creatures, instants, sorceries, lands, and enchantments rather than many copies of one type. Include ways to keep your graveyard stocked over the course of a game, and make sure you still have enough mana sources to finish the cost reduction and cast the commander when it counts.

Watch the mana in the early game, because the commander is expensive until your graveyard has several types in it. Protection from instants only stops instant spells, so sorceries, creature removal, and other effects can still answer it. The extra turn also benefits the opponent after your control turn, so plan what happens next. Gaining control during the targeted player's next turn is only one turn, so the board must be ready to press the advantage.

Deck guide written with AI assistance based on the card's rules text.