Erebos's Emissary
Enchantment Creature — Snake
Bestow 
(If you cast this card for its bestow cost, it's an Aura spell with enchant creature. It becomes a creature again if it's not attached.)
Discard a creature card: This creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn. If this permanent is an Aura, enchanted creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn instead.
Enchanted creature gets +3/+3.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Theros
- Price
- $0.13
- EDHREC rank
- #22918
Erebos's Emissary lands as a 3/3 snake with bestow that pumps a creature +3/+3 and strips a card from an opponent's hand — relevant disruption stapled to a body. The cost is steep at five mana to cast or eight to bestow, and that pricing keeps it out of competitive lists.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Erebos's Emissary is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but sees meaningful play in essentially none of them outside Commander. In competitive formats like Modern and Legacy, five mana for a 3/3 with a hand-strip trigger is far too slow when faster discard and threat packages exist at half the cost. Commander is where Erebos's Emissary finds its niche — specifically in snake tribal, black devotion, or Theros-flavored builds where the bestow mechanic doubles as insurance against removal and the hand disruption has time to matter. Even in Commander it's a role-player, not a staple.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.13 bulk tier
At $0.13, Erebos's Emissary is deep bulk — the kind of card you pull from a commons box rather than buy singles. That price is stable because demand is narrow and supply from reprints and draft chaff is plentiful, so there's no meaningful floor risk or upside to track.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.