Ral Zarek, Guest Lecturer
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+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.
What it does
Tagged as Recursion — the jobs the deck report counts it toward.
Official rulings
- If a card in a graveyard has {X} 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. (2026-03-20)
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