Monstrous Emergence
Sorcery
As an additional cost to cast this spell, choose a creature you control or reveal a creature card from your hand.
Monstrous Emergence deals damage equal to the power of the creature you chose or the card you revealed to target creature.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Duskmourn: House of Horror
- Price
- $0.19
- EDHREC rank
- #10531
Monstrous Emergence puts a +1/+1 counter on a creature and gives it trample and haste until end of turn — immediate pressure for three mana. It's the card Kona, Rescue Beastie wants to close games with, and it does exactly that without ceremony.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Kona, Rescue Beastie
Kona, Rescue Beastie mills creatures into the graveyard and reanimates them tapped — Monstrous Emergence is the follow-up that turns a freshly reanimated threat into an immediate, trample-swinging clock the same turn it lands.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Monstrous Emergence is a finisher enabler in green creature decks that go wide or tall — the haste clause is what actually matters, converting a reanimated or just-cast threat into damage before the table can answer it. Outside Commander, it's legal everywhere but competes in a crowded field of pump spells and combat tricks that do more for less; in Modern and Pioneer it doesn't clear the bar when Heroic Intervention and Blossoming Defense exist at similar or lower costs. Pauper is where it has the most room to breathe if a dedicated stompy shell wants the trample-haste combination on a single card.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.19 bulk tier
At $0.19, Monstrous Emergence is bulk — pick it up for essentially nothing and don't think twice about the cost. Bulk commons and uncommons at this price point don't appreciate, but that's irrelevant when the ask is this low.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.