---
name: "Esper Origins // Summon: Esper Maduin"
mana_cost: "N/A"
cmc: 2
type_line: "Sorcery // Enchantment Creature — Saga Elemental"
colors: []
color_identity: ["G"]
keywords: ["Surveil", "Transform", "Flashback"]
set: "PFIN"
set_name: "Final Fantasy Promos"
collector_number: "185s"
rarity: "rare"
artist: "Solan & Danciao"
oracle_id: "947b40a2-e272-4ef6-85fb-3d767a21bc7a"
canonical_url: "https://avascry.com/printing/esper-origins-summon-esper-maduin-pfin"
legalities:
  commander: "legal"
  standard: "legal"
  modern: "legal"
  pioneer: "legal"
  legacy: "legal"
  vintage: "legal"
  pauper: "not_legal"
  penny: "not_legal"
---

# Esper Origins // Summon: Esper Maduin
- **Mana Cost:** `N/A` (CMC: 2)
- **Type:** Sorcery // Enchantment Creature — Saga Elemental
- **Keywords:** Surveil, Transform, Flashback

## Oracle Text
(No Oracle text)

## Top 4096-Dim Neural Synergies
1. [Summon: Esper Valigarmanda](/printing/summon-esper-valigarmanda-fic.md) — Enchantment Creature — Saga Drake
2. [Retrieve the Esper](/printing/retrieve-the-esper-fin.md) — Sorcery
3. [Terra, Magical Adept // Esper Terra](/printing/terra-magical-adept-esper-terra-fin.md) — Legendary Creature — Human Wizard Warrior // Legendary Enchantment Creature — Saga Wizard
4. [Era of Enlightenment // Hand of Enlightenment](/printing/era-of-enlightenment-hand-of-enlightenment-neo.md) — Enchantment — Saga // Enchantment Creature — Human Monk
5. [Tales of Master Seshiro // Seshiro's Living Legacy](/printing/tales-of-master-seshiro-seshiros-living-legacy-neo.md) — Enchantment — Saga // Enchantment Creature — Snake Warrior
6. [Esper Sojourners](/printing/esper-sojourners-arb.md) — Artifact Creature — Vedalken Wizard

## Printing Details
- **Set:** Final Fantasy Promos (PFIN) #185s
- **Rarity:** Rare
- **Artist:** Solan & Danciao
- **Total Printings:** 3 across all historical editions

## Format Legalities
Commander: `legal` | Standard: `legal` | Modern: `legal` | Pioneer: `legal` | Legacy: `legal` | Vintage: `legal` | Pauper: `not_legal` | Penny: `not_legal`

## Official Rulings
- *(2025-06-06)* 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.
- *(2025-06-06)* 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.
- *(2025-06-06)* 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.
- *(2025-06-06)* Each nonmodal double-faced card in this release is cast face up. In every zone other than the battlefield, consider only the characteristics of its front face. If it is on the battlefield, consider only the characteristics of the face that's up; the other face's characteristics are ignored.
- *(2025-06-06)* 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.
- *(2025-06-06)* Summon: Esper Maduin's second chapter ability isn't a mana ability. It uses the stack and can be responded to.