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Emiel the Blessed

Legendary Creature — Unicorn

{3}: Exile another target creature you control, then return it to the battlefield under its owner's control.
Whenever another creature you control enters, you may pay {G/W}. If you do, put a +1/+1 counter on it. If it's a Unicorn, put two +1/+1 counters on it instead. ({G/W} can be paid with either {G} or {W}.)

CMC
4
Mana cost
{2}{W}{W}
Color identity
GW
Rarity
mythic
Set
Double Masters 2022
Price
$20.67
EDHREC rank
#2646
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Emiel the Blessed card art
Emiel the Blessed is a repeatable flicker engine on a 4/4 body — pay three mana, blink any creature you control, and trigger every enters-the-battlefield ability in your deck on demand. The cost is real (three mana per activation adds up fast), but in the right shell it goes infinite with a single mana-positive creature, which is why Derevi, Empyrial Tactician and Thrasios, Triton Hero // Yoshimaru, Ever Faithful both treat it as a combo piece rather than a support card.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Thrasios, Triton HeroYoshimaru, Ever Faithful

Thrasios, Triton Hero // Yoshimaru, Ever Faithful

71.5% of decks · synergy 0.66

Thrasios, Triton Hero // Yoshimaru, Ever Faithful is the highest-synergy home because Thrasios generates mana through activated abilities while Emiel the Blessed enables infinite loops with creatures like Selvala, Heart of the Wilds — Emiel converts that redundancy into a clean win line.

02
Sisay, Weatherlight Captain

Sisay, Weatherlight Captain

46.0% of decks · synergy 0.44

Sisay, Weatherlight Captain tutors Emiel the Blessed directly onto the battlefield, then Emiel flickers Sisay's legendary creatures to stack triggers and reset summoning sickness, turning the whole board into an ever-escalating engine.

03

Aang, at the Crossroads

42.3% of decks · synergy 0.36

Aang, at the Crossroads leans on creatures with layered abilities that compound on reentry, and Emiel the Blessed gives that deck an in-color repeatable flicker that doesn't require tapping Aang himself — it's free damage and value every turn cycle.

04
Derevi, Empyrial Tactician

Derevi, Empyrial Tactician

39.1% of decks · synergy 0.33

Derevi, Empyrial Tactician untaps permanents whenever a creature enters the battlefield, so flickering a creature with Emiel the Blessed untaps three permanents including Emiel itself — with the right mana creature in play that loop goes infinite for free.

05
Roon of the Hidden Realm

Roon of the Hidden Realm

31.7% of decks · synergy 0.26

Roon of the Hidden Realm is already built around blinking its own creatures, and Emiel the Blessed adds a second flicker outlet that doesn't tap, letting the deck double up on enters-the-battlefield triggers at instant speed.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern not legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Emiel the Blessed is a Commander card through and through — the three-mana activation is painless when games run 40+ turns, and the density of enters-the-battlefield value creatures in the format makes every flicker feel like a free spell. In Legacy and Vintage it's technically legal but never played; three mana for a flicker effect is glacially slow against Brainstorm and Force of Will, and the payoff creatures it wants don't compete with those formats' threats. Oathbreaker is the only other format where it occasionally shows up, slotting into Planeswalker shells that pair it with a low-cost signature spell to generate repeated value. Everywhere else it's either banned by card pool or too slow to matter.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Budget Alternatives

Cheaper options that do most of the same work

Conjurer's Closet hits the same blink-on-upkeep angle for under $1 and covers most value-generation roles, though it fires once per turn rather than on demand and can't combo off mid-combat. Temur Sabertooth is the closest functional replacement for the infinite-loop use case — it returns a creature to hand rather than flickering it, which means ETB triggers still fire, and it costs a fraction of what Emiel the Blessed does, though the lack of white means it won't fit every shell and the protection clause is narrower.

Price Context

Current price

$20.67 premium tier

At $20.67, Emiel the Blessed sits in the premium tier — justified for a card that functions as both a value engine and a combo enabler in the same slot. It holds that price because the demand is spread across multiple archetypes rather than spiked by a single deck, which makes it one of the more stable purchases at this range.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.