Platinum Emperion
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
Your life total can't change. (You can't gain or lose life. You can't pay any amount of life except 0.)
Combos with Platinum Emperion
The lines this card is part of, what it needs alongside it, and what the cards do together. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.
- Ad Nauseam Infinite
- Infinite card draw
- Darien, King of Kjeldor Terror of the Peaks Infinite
- Infinite creature tokens
- Infinite creature ETB
- Gratuitous Violence Heartless Hidetsugu Infinite
- Each opponent loses the game
- Near-infinite damage
- Darien, King of Kjeldor Pandemonium Infinite
- Infinite creature tokens
- Infinite creature ETB
- Darien, King of Kjeldor Warstorm Surge Infinite
- Infinite creature tokens
- Infinite creature ETB
- Darien, King of Kjeldor Volcano Hellion Infinite
- Infinite creature tokens
- Infinite creature ETB
- Darien, King of Kjeldor Goblin Bombardment Infinite
- Infinite creature tokens
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite damage
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite death triggers
- Volcano Hellion Brash Taunter Infinite
- Infinite damage to one opponent
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Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.
Rulings
10 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 2018-12-07
Effects that replace an event with having you gain life (like Words of Worship’s effect does) or having you lose life will end up replacing the event with nothing.
- 2018-12-07
If an effect says to set your life total to a certain number, that part of the effect won’t do anything.
- 2018-12-07
In a Commander game, the damage dealt to you by commanders will still be counted, even if that damage doesn’t cause you to lose life.
- 2018-12-07
Platinum Emperion’s ability doesn’t prevent damage. Rather, it changes the results of that damage. For example, if a creature with lifelink deals damage to you, you won’t lose any life, but its controller will still gain that much life. Similarly, if a creature you control with lifelink deals damage to another player, that player will lose life but you won’t gain any life.
- 2018-12-07
Abilities that trigger whenever damage is dealt to you will still trigger because that damage is still dealt, even though your life total doesn’t change as a result.
- 2018-12-07
If an effect would cause you to exchange life totals with another player, the exchange won’t happen. Neither player’s life total changes.
- 2018-12-07
You can’t pay a cost that includes the payment of any amount of life other than 0 life. However, you can choose to be dealt damage, even though that damage won’t result in your life total changing.
- 2018-12-07
Spells and abilities that would normally cause you to gain or lose life still resolve, but the life-gain or life-loss part simply has no effect.
- 2018-12-07
Effects that would replace having you gain life with some other event won’t be able to be applied because it’s impossible for you to gain life.
- 2018-12-07
If a cost would include causing you to gain life (like the alternative cost of an opponent’s Invigorate does), that cost can’t be paid.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Platinum Emperion, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zhulodok, Void Gorger | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Colorless 1 deck
Every version of Platinum Emperion
3 printings, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly. A printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall publishes none for some of them.

Ultimate Masters
- Normal
- $17.80
- Foil
- $24.49

Extended Art
Ultimate Box Topper
- Foil
- $37.77

Scars of Mirrodin
- Normal
- $18.98
- Foil
- $41.95
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Platinum Emperion. It runs a name search across every version, which covers the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.
Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only. No individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.