Elspeth, Sun's Nemesis

Mana Value

4

Rarity

mythic

Elspeth, Sun's Nemesis

Legendary Planeswalker — Elspeth

{2}{W}{W}
Color Identity: W

Card Text

−1: Up to two target creatures you control each get +2/+1 until end of turn. −2: Create two 1/1 white Human Soldier creature tokens. −3: You gain 5 life. Escape—{4}{W}{W}, Exile four other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its escape cost.)

Keywords

Escape

Set

Theros Beyond Death

(THB)

EDHREC Rank

#13,644

Commander Legal

✓ Can be your Commander

If you activate a loyalty ability of Elspeth, she's put into your graveyard, and she escapes all in the same turn, she'll be a new permanent. You can activate one of her loyalty abilities even though she's represented by the same card.

Wotc — January 24, 2020

Escape's permission doesn't change when you may cast the spell from your graveyard.

Wotc — January 24, 2020

To determine the total cost of a spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost you're paying (such as an escape cost), add any cost increases, then apply any cost reductions. The mana value of the spell remains unchanged, no matter what the total cost to cast it was and no matter whether an alternative cost was paid.

Wotc — January 24, 2020

After an escaped spell resolves, it returns to its owner's graveyard if it's not a permanent spell. If it is a permanent spell, it enters the battlefield and will return to its owner's graveyard if it dies later. Perhaps it will escape again—good underworld security is so hard to come by these days.

Wotc — January 24, 2020

If a card has multiple abilities giving you permission to cast it, such as two escape abilities or an escape ability and a flashback ability, you choose which one to apply. The others have no effect.

Wotc — January 24, 2020

If you cast a spell with its escape permission, you can't choose to apply any other alternative costs or to cast it without paying its mana cost. If it has any additional costs, you must pay those.

Wotc — January 24, 2020

If a card with escape is put into your graveyard during your turn, you'll be able to cast it right away if it's legal to do so, before an opponent can take any actions.

Wotc — January 24, 2020

Once you begin casting a spell with escape, it immediately moves to the stack. Players can't take any other actions until you're done casting the spell.

Wotc — January 24, 2020