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Combo Name: Fastest Emrakul Ever Submitted By: Ephemerance
Card Name
Type
Cost
P/T
Editions (ordered by release)

Body Snatcher
 Summon Creature - Minion 2BB 2/2 Urza's Destiny, Rare

Flash
 Instant 1U 6th Edition, Rare

Emrakul, the Aeons Torn
 Legendary Creature - Eldrazi 15 15/15 Rise of the Eldrazi, Mythic
Estimated Combo Cost: $21.85
Date Posted: Thu Sep/09/10 at 7:55 am

Ephemerance
Posts: 913
Joined: 18-Jun-09

If you flash bodysnatcher into play, you can discard Emrakul. Emrakul's trigger will go on the stack. The rest of Flash's effect will immediately resolve, causing bodysnatcher to be sacrificed, and causing its trigger ability to go on the stack and resolve to bring Emrakul onto the battlefield.

Use an island and a lotus petal, and you have a 5 card combo for getting Emrakul (or any other creature) onto the battlefield with 2 mana on the first turn.
Date Posted: Thu Sep/09/10 at 7:56am

Turbine
Posts: 10194
Joined: 26-Oct-09

A Spirit Guide and Gemstone Caverns also would work.
Date Posted: Thu Sep/09/10 at 10:00am

cwn430
Posts: 5
Joined: 15-Jul-10

wouldnt this not work because of emrakul's last ability? the moment you discard him you have to shuffle him back into your library
Date Posted: Thu Sep/09/10 at 10:38am

Ephemerance
Posts: 913
Joined: 18-Jun-09

Because Emrakul hits the graveyard, the trigger activates and goes on the stack. However, because Flash is still resolving, no one gets priority until the remainder of Flash's text has finished. You are given the choice of paying two black, or sacrificing bodysnatcher before anyone gets priority again. Once you have chosen to sacrifice bodysnatcher, its trigger will go on the stack above Emrakul's. When you allow bodysnatcher's trigger ability to resolve, Emrakul will no longer be in the graveyard by the time the graveyard-shuffling trigger resolves.
Date Posted: Thu Sep/09/10 at 7:12pm

MegaDuce
Posts: 71
Joined: 30-Aug-10

Couldnt you just use channel to get him out??
Date Posted: Thu Sep/09/10 at 8:05pm

cwn430
Posts: 5
Joined: 15-Jul-10

thats freakin confusing
Date Posted: Thu Sep/09/10 at 11:41pm

Ephemerance
Posts: 913
Joined: 18-Jun-09

This method is significantly less risky than using channel. Besides, it can be used for any creature with any kind of mana cost, which can't be said for channel.
Date Posted: Fri Sep/10/10 at 4:32pm

Turbine
Posts: 10194
Joined: 26-Oct-09

Does Darksteel Colussus with Leyline of the Void shuffle itself back in?
Date Posted: Fri Sep/10/10 at 6:48pm

cwn430
Posts: 5
Joined: 15-Jul-10

I read somewhere that you can choose between the two
Date Posted: Fri Sep/10/10 at 7:09pm

W@W Podcaster
Posts: 445
Joined: 01-Jun-10

Yes, it depends on the way you stack it.
Date Posted: Sat Sep/11/10 at 2:01am

Ephemerance
Posts: 913
Joined: 18-Jun-09

Leyline of the Void only affects opponents.
Date Posted: Sat Sep/11/10 at 10:47pm

Tony_the_Brit
Posts: 36
Joined: 20-Mar-10

Stick a Splinter twin in there. Multiple Body Snatchers can bring out a lot more big uglies. Or you could stick it on Emrakul.
Date Posted: Sat Sep/11/10 at 10:55pm

Gregorius
Posts: 412
Joined: 01-Aug-10

No, you can't, Tony.
Emrakul's legendary. If you try and copy it, wouldn't you be breaking the 'legend rule'?

Great thing about this, though, is that it's not limited to one color - it may be a U/B combo, but you can use, say, a Plains and a Lotus Petal to get it to work too. Nice one, Ephemerance.
Date Posted: Sat Oct/09/10 at 11:20pm

Ephemerance
Posts: 913
Joined: 18-Jun-09

I was looking back at this combo and starting to wonder whether it would actually work.

If flash is resolving, does the caster get to choose the order that the trigger effects go on the stack? Or would the triggers be placed on the stack in the order they are mentioned? When I was thinking about this originally, I was thinking in terms of how interrupts used to work, where an interrupt would create a window that resolves itself before the other card resolves, but obviously the stack works a slight differently.

Does this combo work as is? If not, it's easy to fix, but I'm curious.
Date Posted: Sun Oct/10/10 at 8:30am

Turbine
Posts: 10194
Joined: 26-Oct-09

I'm pretty sure that it would work.
Date Posted: Sun Oct/10/10 at 11:30pm

gericault5
Posts: 2788
Joined: 13-Oct-09

No it does not work with the current card selections.  when you flash in bodysnatcher its etb triggers, as part of flashes resolution bodysnatchers is sacced, and the ltb triggers.  however the ltb and etb are not put on the stack until flash finishes resolving and you can choose how they go on the sack.  however while this means you can control how the etb/ltb resolve you have no control over emrukels ability if he's the target of the etb.  though you can always bring out something else.
Date Posted: Mon Oct/11/10 at 7:55am

Turbine
Posts: 10194
Joined: 26-Oct-09

Use Iona.
Date Posted: Tue Oct/12/10 at 4:42am

Ephemerance
Posts: 913
Joined: 18-Jun-09

Add Unmask to make this combo work.
Date Posted: Tue Oct/12/10 at 10:04am

gericault5
Posts: 2788
Joined: 13-Oct-09

so use unmask to discard emrukel and while hes resolving, flash in the bodysnatcher.  that would work
Date Posted: Tue Oct/12/10 at 12:35pm

Turbine
Posts: 10194
Joined: 26-Oct-09

That's a nice idea.



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