Zara, Renegade Recruiter
Legendary Creature — Human Pirate
Flying
Whenever Zara attacks, look at defending player's hand. You may put a creature card from it onto the battlefield under your control tapped and attacking that player or a planeswalker they control. Return that creature to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next end step.
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- Set
- The List (PLST #LCC-297)
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana value
- 5
- Released
- 2026-11-09
- Artist
- Chris Rallis
- EDHREC rank
- #4,818
- Colour identity
- Finishes
- Nonfoil
- Served from
- Local database
Commander bracket
Derived from card traits, not a ruling — bracket rules turn on how a deck intends to use a card. Bracket rules
EDHREC
Combos
Not part of any combo on Commander Spellbook.
Commander recommendations
Top synergy 50
Played far more in this commander's decks than elsewhere.
- Telepathy
- Coercive Recruiter
- Captivating Crew
- Conjurer's Closet
- Sundial of the Infinite
- Ghostly Flicker
- Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator
- Fling
- Port Razer
- Protean Raider
- Glasses of Urza
- Breeches, Brazen Plunderer
- Breeches, Eager Pillager
- Thassa, Deep-Dwelling
- High Market
- Rogue's Passage
- Run Away Together
- Siren Stormtamer
- Dominus of Fealty
- Dire Fleet Daredevil
- Treasure Nabber
- Etali, Primal Storm
- Peek
- Cutthroat Negotiator
- Goblin Bombardment
- Unsummon
- Kazuul's Fury
- Kazuul's Fury
- Strionic Resonator
- Mob Rule
- Thieving Skydiver
- Spark Double
- Aqueous Form
- Agent of Treachery
- Aetherize
- Lightning Greaves
- Insurrection
- Thud
- Merchant Raiders
- Act of Treason
- Ashnod's Altar
- Swiftfoot Boots
- Whispersilk Cloak
- Seize the Spotlight
- Discontinuity
- Phantom Steed
- Mass Mutiny
- Clever Impersonator
- Emberwilde Captain
- Zealous Conscripts
Most included 50
Highest share of decks running them, distinctive or not.
- Island
- Mountain
- Command Tower
- Sol Ring
- Arcane Signet
- Sulfur Falls
- Izzet Signet
- Telepathy
- Talisman of Creativity
- Swiftfoot Boots
- Shivan Reef
- Coercive Recruiter
- Lightning Greaves
- Counterspell
- Captivating Crew
- Rogue's Passage
- Ghostly Flicker
- Stormcarved Coast
- Conjurer's Closet
- Frostboil Snarl
- Sundial of the Infinite
- Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator
- Training Center
- Fling
- Steam Vents
- Port Razer
- Cascade Bluffs
- Blasphemous Act
- Temple of Epiphany
- Protean Raider
- Snap
- Glasses of Urza
- Breeches, Brazen Plunderer
- Chaos Warp
- Izzet Boilerworks
- Breeches, Eager Pillager
- Aetherize
- Mind Stone
- Run Away Together
- Siren Stormtamer
- Thassa, Deep-Dwelling
- Exotic Orchard
- Thought Vessel
- Fellwar Stone
- High Market
- Etali, Primal Storm
- Gitaxian Probe
- Dominus of Fealty
- Dire Fleet Daredevil
- Reliquary Tower
Format legality
Rulings
- 2020-11-10
Although the creature is attacking, it was never declared as an attacking creature. This means that abilities that trigger whenever a creature attacks won't trigger when the creature enters the battlefield attacking.
- 2020-11-10
Any effects that say the creature can't attack affect only the declaration of attackers. They won't stop the creature from entering the battlefield attacking. For example, you could put a creature card with defender onto the battlefield tapped and attacking this way.
- 2020-11-10
If a creature is attacking a planeswalker, that planeswalker's controller is the defending player.
- 2020-11-10
If you lose the game before the creature put onto the battlefield under your control returns to its owner's hand, that creature is exiled. If that creature's owner loses the game while you control the creature, the creature leaves the game with them.
- 2020-11-10
The creature is returned to its owner's hand only if it's still on the battlefield as the delayed triggered ability resolves. If it's somewhere else at that time, it stays where it is.