Ral Zarek, Guest Lecturer
- Mana cost
- {1}{B}{B}
- Type
- Legendary Planeswalker — Ral
- Loyalty
- 3
- Set
- Secrets of Strixhaven #282 (mythic)
- Price
- $3.49 USD
+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.
Ral Zarek, Guest Lecturer has 3 printings, first in Secrets of Strixhaven (2026). EDHREC ranks it #8,588 among Commander cards. It appears most in Mirko, Obsessive Theorist decks (876 on EDHREC). It has 2 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run Ral Zarek, Guest Lecturer most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Mirko, Obsessive Theorist: 876 decks
- Tinybones, Bauble Burglar: 659 decks
- Squall, SeeD Mercenary: 441 decks
- Carth the Lion: 431 decks
- Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern: 390 decks
- Disa the Restless: 311 decks
- Baron Helmut Zemo: 266 decks
- Winter, Misanthropic Guide: 260 decks
Often played with Ral Zarek, Guest Lecturer
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : If a card in a graveyard has {X} in its mana cost, X is 0 for the purpose of determining its mana value.
- : 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.