For the Emperor!
Sorcery
Creatures you control get +2/+2 and gain vigilance and lifelink until end of turn.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Warhammer 40,000 Commander
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #9816
For the Emperor! taps your whole team and gives them +2/+0 and vigilance until end of turn — a combat swing that can close games or punch through a stalled board. Commissar Severina Raine is the natural home, but any go-wide white deck that wants a pseudo-Overrun on a spell should have it in consideration.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Commissar Severina Raine
Commissar Severina Raine's token-and-Human tribal engine floods the board exactly how For the Emperor! wants — she makes the wide attack that untaps afterward thanks to vigilance, and her damage triggers still fire while your creatures stay up to block.
Marneus Calgar
Marneus Calgar draws cards when tokens enter, so For the Emperor! pairs with any token creation that preceded it, then swings those tokens in with +2/+0 and vigilance for a surprise lethal hit your opponents can't easily read.
Inquisitor Greyfax
Inquisitor Greyfax already incentivizes tapping creatures via her untap and vigilance synergies, and For the Emperor! layers a power boost on top of that gameplan — the vigilance clause means the tap-down is effectively free if you're attacking into an open board.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
For the Emperor! is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, and Commander is the only format where it consistently earns a slot. In Legacy and Vintage the card does nothing broken — Craterhoof Behemoth exists at roughly the same mana investment and ends games more decisively, so For the Emperor! never competes there. In Commander, go-wide white strategies get real mileage: tapping an army of ten tokens, boosting them to relevant power, and keeping them back as blockers is a meaningful three-for-one in a single spell.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Pricing data for For the Emperor! isn't available in current market feeds, so check Scryfall or your preferred vendor for a live number. Given its narrow appeal to Warhammer 40K Commander precon players and its absence from eternal formats, it tends to sit at bulk-rare territory — worth picking up for cheap if you're building the archetype.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.