Card
Emet-Selch of the Third Seat
Mana cost {2}{U}{B}
Legendary Creature — Elder Wizard 3/4
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.
No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. Part of 1 known combo. 3 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Rare · FIC · #81
- Cheapest printing
- €0.42
- EDHREC salt
- 0.30
- Color identity
- Black, Blue
Bracket
- B1 Exhibition — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B2 Core — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B3 Upgraded — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B4 Optimized — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
- B5 cEDH — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
Why
- No Game Changer, mass land denial, extra turn, tutor or two-card combo
How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket
Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags
Combos
1 known combo.
- Emet-Selch of the Third Seat + Ebondeath, Dracolich + Pitiless Plunderer + Phyrexian Altar
Produces: Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
View on Commander Spellbook
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2025-06-06 · Wizards of the Coast
To determine the total cost of a spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost you're paying (such as a flashback cost), add any cost increases (such as kicker costs), then apply any cost reductions (such as that of Emet-Selch of the Third Seat's first ability). The mana value of the spell is determined by only its mana cost, no matter what the total cost to cast that spell was. - 2025-06-06 · Wizards of the Coast
You choose whether to cast the target card while Emet-Selch of the Third Seat's second ability is still on the stack. You can't wait to cast it later in the turn. Timing restrictions based on the card's type are ignored. - 2025-06-06 · Wizards of the Coast
The cost reduction applies only to generic mana in the total cost of spells you cast from your graveyard.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast