Esper Origins // Summon: Esper Maduin - Rare Sorcery card from Final Fantasy
Back face of Esper Origins // Summon: Esper Maduin - Sorcery card

Esper Origins // Summon: Esper Maduin

Type: Sorcery
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Number: 185
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Reprint: No
Card Text:
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 {3}{G} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
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Rulings
Jun 6, 2025

A sorcery can't be put onto the battlefield and a permanent can't transform into a sorcery. If an effect exiles Summon: Esper Maduin and then instructs you to return it to the battlefield, it remains face up in exile (unless that effect instructs you to put it onto the battlefield transformed, in which case it returns as Summon: Esper Maduin). If an effect instructs you to transform Summon: Esper Maduin, the instruction is ignored.

Jun 6, 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.

Jun 6, 2025

Finality counters don't stop permanents from going to zones other than the graveyard from the battlefield. For example, if a permanent with a finality counter on it would be put into its owner's hand from the battlefield, it does so normally.

Jun 6, 2025

Finality counters work on any permanent, not only creatures. If a permanent with a finality counter on it would be put into a graveyard from the battlefield, exile it instead.

Jun 6, 2025

Multiple finality counters on a single permanent are redundant.

Jun 6, 2025

Summon: Esper Maduin's second chapter ability isn't a mana ability. It uses the stack and can be responded to.