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Esper Origins // Summon: Esper Maduin — back face
Back face (default printing artwork)
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SetFIN
Collector #185
Released2025-06-13
Rarityrare
ArtistSolan & Danciao
LanguageEN
Layouttransform
ScryfallOpen ↗

Esper Origins // Summon: Esper Maduin

RareColour IDMV 2
Two-faced — transforms during play
Esper Origins
Sorcery
Surveil 2. You gain 2 life. If this spell was cast from a graveyard, exile it, then put it onto the battlefield transformed under its owner's control with a finality counter on it. (If a creature with a finality counter on it would die, exile it instead.)
Flashback (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Summon: Esper Maduin
Enchantment Creature — Saga Elemental
(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — Reveal the top card of your library. If it's a permanent card, put it into your hand.
II — Add .
III — Other creatures you control get +2/+2 and gain trample until end of turn.
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Keywords
SurveilTransformFlashback
Card capabilities
Derived deterministically from card types, Oracle text and keywords. Not a strategic evaluation.
Format legality
Other printings
2 other English printingsEarliest 2025-06-13Newest 2025-06-13Cheapest priced $4.58 in FIN
Rulings (20)
wotc6 Jun 2025
Multiple finality counters on a single permanent are redundant.
wotc6 Jun 2025
In the Commander variant, a double-faced card's color identity is determined by the mana costs and mana symbols in the rules text of both faces combined. If either face has a color indicator or basic land type, those are also considered. For example, Cecil, Dark Knight's color identity is black and white, since its front face is black and its back face has a white color indicator.
wotc6 Jun 2025
A nonmodal double-faced card enters with its front face up by default, unless a spell or ability instructs you to put it onto the battlefield transformed or allows you to cast it transformed, in which case it enters with its back face up.
wotc6 Jun 2025
Finality counters aren't keyword counters, and a finality counter doesn't give any abilities to the permanent it's on. If that permanent loses its abilities and then would go to a graveyard, it will still be exiled instead.
wotc6 Jun 2025
A spell cast using flashback will always be exiled afterward, whether it resolves, is countered, or leaves the stack in some other way.
wotc6 Jun 2025
The mana value of a nonmodal double-faced card is the mana value of its front face, no matter which face is up.