Vestige of Emrakul is one of those cards players keep asking about. Here is, in plain words, what its official text says, the rulings published by Wizards of the Coast, and the combos players actually run.
Official card text
Devoid (This card has no color.) Trample
Complete guide
Vestige of Emrakul is a specialized Eldrazi Drone that demonstrates the unique Devoid mechanic from the Battle for Zendikar block. While it requires red mana to cast, its identity is purely colorless, allowing it to bypass specific color-based defenses while crushing opponents with trample.
Understanding Devoid
The Devoid ability means that Vestige of Emrakul has no color, regardless of the red mana in its casting cost. This isn't just a battlefield effect; it is colorless in your hand, your library, and your graveyard. Even if an effect causes Vestige of Emrakul to lose its abilities, it remains colorless because color-defining abilities are applied in a layer before ability removal takes effect.
Trampling Through Blockers
With the Trample keyword, Vestige of Emrakul can deal excess combat damage to the defending player or planeswalker after assigning lethal damage to all its blockers. This makes it an efficient threat against small utility creatures or tokens that seek to chump block your attackers.
Colorless Synergies
Because it is colorless, Vestige of Emrakul interacts uniquely with the game. It can be targeted by spells that specifically affect colorless creatures and it ignores effects that target or restrict 'red' creatures. However, remember that you still need red mana to pay its mana cost, even though the resulting permanent isn't red.
Interaction examples
Roaming ThroneWhen Roaming Throne enters the battlefield, you can choose 'Eldrazi' as the creature type. Because Vestige of Emrakul is an Eldrazi Drone, it benefits from being the chosen type. While Vestige of Emrakul itself has static and keyword abilities rather than triggered ones, the Throne itself becomes an Eldrazi and will double any other Eldrazi triggers you control on the board.
Solemn SimulacrumIn a deck featuring both these cards, you can use Solemn Simulacrum to search for a Mountain to ensure you have the red mana required for Vestige of Emrakul. Despite the Simulacrum being an artifact and the Vestige being a creature with Devoid, both are colorless permanents on the battlefield, which can be relevant for cards that count the number of colorless permanents you control.
Guide written with AI from the official text and rulings. Official English text prevails.
How it works : Vestige of Emrakul
Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall
- #1· Wizards of the Coast
Cards with devoid use frames that are variations of the transparent frame traditionally used for Eldrazi. The top part of the card features some color over a background based on the texture of the hedrons that once imprisoned the Eldrazi. This coloration is intended to aid deckbuilding and game play.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #2· Wizards of the Coast
A card with devoid is just colorless. It’s not colorless and the colors of mana in its mana cost.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #3· Wizards of the Coast
Other cards and abilities can give a card with devoid color. If that happens, it’s just the new color, not that color and colorless.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #4· Wizards of the Coast
Devoid works in all zones, not just on the battlefield.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #5· Wizards of the Coast
If a card loses devoid, it will still be colorless. This is because effects that change an object’s color (like the one created by devoid) are considered before the object loses devoid.
No other card is named in this ruling.
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