Ral Zarek, Guest Lecturer
Legendary Planeswalker — Ral
+1: Surveil 2.
−1: Any number of target players each discard a card.
−2: Return target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
−7: Flip five coins. Target opponent skips their next X turns, where X is the number of coins that came up heads.
Loyalty 3
- Set
- Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS #97)
- Rarity
- Mythic
- Mana value
- 3
- Released
- 2026-04-24
- Artist
- Billy Christian
- EDHREC rank
- #9,956
- Colour identity
- Finishes
- Nonfoil, 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.
Format legality
Rulings
- 2026-03-20
If a card in a graveyard has
in its mana cost, X is 0 for the purpose of determining its mana value. - 2026-03-20
When Ral Zarek's second ability resolves, the next target player in turn order (or, if it's a target player's turn, that player) chooses a card in hand without revealing it, then each other target player in turn order (if any) does the same. All chosen cards are then discarded at the same time.