First printed in Scars of Mirrodin (2010)
Legendary Planeswalker — Venser
+2: Exile target permanent you own. Return it to the battlefield under your control at the beginning of the next end step.
−1: Creatures can't be blocked this turn.
−8: You get an emblem with "Whenever you cast a spell, exile target permanent."
Loyalty: 3
- Illustrated by
- Eric Deschamps
Legality
- Legal in
- Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Penny Dreadful, Commander, Duel Commander, PreDH, Oathbreaker
- Not legal in
- Standard, Pioneer, Pauper, Future Standard, Historic, Timeless, Alchemy, Premodern, Old School 93/94, Gladiator, Pauper Commander, Tiny Leaders, Brawl, Standard Brawl, Competitive Brawl
Rulings (8)
- Whenever you cast a spell, the emblem’s ability triggers and goes on the stack on top of it. It will resolve before the spell does.
- Venser’s last ability creates an emblem with a triggered ability. The emblem is the source of the triggered ability. Because emblems are colorless, you can target permanents with protection from white or from blue, for example, with the triggered ability.
- Emblems behave similarly to enchantments: They have an ability that, in a general sense, continually affects the game. The primary difference between them is that emblems aren’t permanents and don’t exist on the battlefield. Nothing in the game can remove an emblem, simply because no other spell or ability references them. Once you get an emblem, you keep it for the rest of the game. Emblems have no color, name, card type, or other characteristics beyond the listed ability.
- A permanent exiled by the first ability will return to the battlefield under your control at the beginning of the next end step even if you no longer control Venser at that time.
- If the first ability exiles a token, that token will cease to exist. It won’t return to the battlefield.
- If you control more than one such emblem, each one’s ability will trigger separately whenever you cast a spell.
- The first ability can target any permanent you own, including those another player controls.
- Venser’s second ability doesn’t lock in what it applies to. That’s because the effect states a true thing about creatures, but doesn’t actually change the characteristics of those creatures. As a result, all creatures can’t be blocked that turn, including creatures you don’t control, creatures that weren’t on the battlefield at the time the ability resolved, and creatures that have lost all abilities.
Prices
MTGO price: 0.007 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 1 Nov 2026).
Combos
24 combos, the most popular first:
- Infinite turns, Lock: Deepglow Skate + Teferi, Master of Time + Venser, the Sojourner
- Infinite turns, Lock…: Mystic Sanctuary + Time Warp + Venser, the Sojourner
- Infinite turns, Lock…: Mystic Sanctuary + Temporal Manipulation + Venser, the Sojourner
- Infinite turns, Lock…: Capture of Jingzhou + Mystic Sanctuary + Venser, the Sojourner
- Infinite turns, Lock…: Mystic Sanctuary + Time Stretch + Venser, the Sojourner
- Infinite turns, Lock…: Mystic Sanctuary + Venser, the Sojourner + Walk the Aeons
- Infinite turns, Lock: Liliana Vess + Nexus of Fate + Venser, the Sojourner + Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign
- Infinite turns, Lock: Mirror of Fate + Saheeli, Sublime Artificer + Temporal Mastery + Venser, the Sojourner
- Infinite turns, Lock: Recruiter of the Guard + Timestream Navigator + Venser, the Sojourner
- Infinite turns, Lock: Torpor Orb + Venser, the Sojourner + Wormfang Manta
