First printed in Modern Horizons 3 (2024)
Legendary Creature — Eldrazi Dragon
Emerge 
(You may cast this spell by sacrificing a creature and paying the emerge cost reduced by that creature's mana value.)
When you cast this spell, you may exile your hand. If you do, draw three cards.
Flying
Each creature spell you cast has emerge. The emerge cost is equal to its mana cost.
6/6
- Illustrated by
- Lucas Graciano
Legality
- Legal in
- Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Historic, Timeless, Penny Dreadful, Gladiator, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, Brawl, Competitive Brawl
- Not legal in
- Standard, Pioneer, Pauper, Future Standard, Alchemy, Premodern, Old School 93/94, Pauper Commander, PreDH, Tiny Leaders, Standard Brawl
Rulings (15)
- You may choose to exile your hand even if you have no cards in hand. If you do, you'll still draw three cards.
- If a spell has more than one emerge cost, you may choose to pay it for any one of those emerge costs.
- Once you begin to cast a spell using an emerge ability granted by Herigast, losing control of Herigast won't affect it. You can finish casting it as normal. For example, you can choose to sacrifice Herigast as you choose to pay a creature spell's emerge cost from an emerge ability granted by Herigast itself.
- Herigast's triggered ability will resolve before Herigast does. If Herigast is countered or otherwise leaves the stack in response to its triggered ability, the triggered ability will still resolve as normal.
- You may sacrifice a creature with a mana value of 0, such as a token creature that’s not a copy of another permanent, to cast a spell for its emerge cost. You’ll just pay the full emerge cost with no reduction.
- The creature chosen to be sacrificed is still on the battlefield as the cost of the emerge spell is determined and as you activate mana abilities to cast the emerge spell. Its abilities may affect the spell’s cost, be activated to generate mana, and so on. However, if it has an ability that triggers when a spell is cast, it will have been sacrificed before that ability can trigger.
- You may sacrifice a creature with mana value greater than or equal to the emerge cost. If you do, you’ll pay only the colored mana component of the emerge cost.
- The mana value of the back face of a double-faced card is the mana value of its front face. The mana value of a melded permanent is the sum of the mana values of its front faces. A creature that’s a copy of either has a mana value of 0.
- A creature’s mana value is determined solely by the mana symbols printed in its upper right corner (unless that creature is the back face of a double-faced card, is a melded permanent, or is copying something else; see below). If the mana cost includes
, X is 0. If it’s a single-faced card with no mana symbols in its upper right corner (because it’s an animated land, for example), its mana value is 0. Ignore any alternative costs or additional costs (such as kicker) that were paid as the creature was cast. - Once you begin to cast a spell with emerge, no player may take actions until you’re done. Notably, opponents can’t try to remove the creature you wish to sacrifice.
- If you sacrifice a creature with in its mana cost, that X is 0.
- The mana value of a creature spell with emerge isn’t affected by whether its emerge cost is paid. For example, if you cast Decimator of the Provinces for its emerge cost and sacrifice a creature whose mana value is 3, Decimator of the Provinces’s mana value remains 10.
- Colored mana components of emerge costs can’t be reduced with emerge.
- Emerge represents two static abilities that function while the spell with emerge is on the stack. “Emerge [cost]” means “You may cast this spell by paying [cost] and sacrificing a creature rather than paying its mana cost” and “If you chose to pay this spell’s emerge cost, its total cost is reduced by an amount of generic mana equal to the sacrificed creature’s mana value.”
- If you cast a spell for another cost “rather than paying its mana cost,” such as an emerge cost, you can’t choose to cast it for any other alternative costs. You can, however, pay additional costs, such as kicker costs. If the spell has any mandatory additional costs, those must be paid to cast it.
Prices
MTGO price: 0.006 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 1 Nov 2026).
In Limited on MTG Arena
Win rates in Arena drafts and sealed, retrieved from 17Lands (CC BY 4.0).
| Set | GIH WR | vs set | IWD | Games |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Modern Horizons 3 (MH3), Premier Draft | 53.2% | -1.9 | +1.1 | 5196 |
| Modern Horizons 3 (MH3), Sealed | 49.7% | -6.3 | -3.6 | 517 |
- GIH WR
- win rate of the games in which the card was in the opening hand or drawn
- vs set
- points above or below the average win rate of all decks in the set
- IWD
- improvement when drawn: GIH WR minus the win rate when the card stayed in the library
- Games
- games in which the card was seen
Combos
4 combos, the most popular first:
- Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB…: Glaring Fleshraker + Herigast, Erupting Nullkite + Junk Diver + Myr Retriever + Workshop Assistant
- Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB…: Cloudstone Curio + Herigast, Erupting Nullkite + Molten Echoes (+ 1 other requirement)
- Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB…: Birgi, God of Storytelling // Harnfel, Horn of Bounty + Cloudstone Curio + Flameshadow Conjuring + Herigast, Erupting Nullkite (+ 1 other requirement)
- Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB…: Brinelin, the Moon Kraken + Herigast, Erupting Nullkite + Skitterbeam Battalion (+ 1 other requirement)
