Nezahal, Primal Tide
Legendary Creature — Elder Dinosaur
This spell can't be countered.
You have no maximum hand size.
Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell, draw a card.
Discard three cards: Exile Nezahal. Return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.
7 / 7
- Set
- Secret Lair Drop (SLD #1268)
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana value
- 7
- Released
- 2023-04-23
- Artist
- Yeong-Hao Han
- EDHREC rank
- #1,098
- Colour identity
- Finishes
- Foil
- 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.
- Dragon Wings
- Teferi's Ageless Insight
- Thran Dynamo
- Wonder
- Engulf the Shore
- Ominous Seas
- Rogue's Passage
- Candlekeep Sage
- Scourge of Fleets
- Chasm Skulker
- Psychosis Crawler
- Empyrial Plate
- Worn Powerstone
- Hedron Archive
- The Watcher in the Water
- Thassa, God of the Sea
- Everflowing Chalice
- Palladium Myr
- Nadir Kraken
- High Tide
- Silver Myr
- Fog Bank
- Hullbreaker Horror
- Whelming Wave
- Aetherize
- Fellwar Stone
- Terrain Generator
- Foil
- Fireshrieker
- Mind Stone
- Blackblade Reforged
- Evacuation
- Body of Knowledge
- Faerie Mastermind
- Consecrated Sphinx
- Cresting Mosasaurus
- Gilded Lotus
- Sky Diamond
- Wayfarer's Bauble
- Triskaidekaphile
- Burnished Hart
- Propaganda
- Mystic Remora
- Flow of Knowledge
- Stormtide Leviathan
- Pull from Tomorrow
- Myriad Landscape
- The Unagi of Kyoshi Island
- Throne of Eldraine
- Eluge, the Shoreless Sea
Most included 50
Highest share of decks running them, distinctive or not.
- Island
- Sol Ring
- Arcane Signet
- Counterspell
- High Tide
- Sapphire Medallion
- Reliquary Tower
- Mystic Sanctuary
- Teferi's Ageless Insight
- Thought Vessel
- Mind Stone
- Thran Dynamo
- Aetherize
- Rogue's Passage
- Negate
- Arcane Denial
- Ominous Seas
- Propaganda
- Psychosis Crawler
- Dragon Wings
- Hullbreaker Horror
- An Offer You Can't Refuse
- Chasm Skulker
- Pongify
- Engulf the Shore
- Wonder
- Scourge of Fleets
- Mystic Remora
- Brainstorm
- Rapid Hybridization
- Everflowing Chalice
- Fellwar Stone
- Myriad Landscape
- Sky Diamond
- Cyclonic Rift
- Rhystic Study
- Reality Shift
- Ponder
- Candlekeep Sage
- Mana Drain
- Frantic Search
- Laboratory Maniac
- Silver Myr
- Hedron Archive
- Faerie Mastermind
- Wayfarer's Bauble
- Worn Powerstone
- Swan Song
- Solemn Simulacrum
- Empyrial Plate
Format legality
Rulings
- 2018-01-19
After Nezahal returns to the battlefield, it will be a new object with no connection to the creature that was exiled. It won't be in combat or have any additional abilities it may have had when it was exiled. Any +1/+1 counters on it or Auras attached to it are removed, and any Equipment will no longer be attached.
- 2018-01-19
Nezahal's triggered ability resolves before the noncreature spell that caused it to trigger.
- 2018-01-19
Players can cast spells and activate abilities after Nezahal's triggered ability resolves but before the spell that caused it to trigger does. Notably, the card you draw may be able to counter that spell or may be discarded to activate Nezahal's last ability.
- 2018-01-19
Your maximum hand size is checked only during the cleanup step on your turn. If Nezahal's last ability is activated before your turn's end step, it will return before your next cleanup step and you'll have no maximum hand size.