Card text
+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.
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Mana cost
{1}{B}{B}
Loyalty
3
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Card text
+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.
Format legality
- StandardLegal
- PioneerLegal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- HistoricLegal
- TimelessLegal
- AlchemyLegal
About Ral Zarek, Guest Lecturer
Ral Zarek, Guest Lecturer (97) is a Black Legendary Planeswalker — Ral from Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS). It costs {1}{B}{B}, has mana value 3 and starts with 3 loyalty. It is printed at Mythic Rare rarity. The one keyword in its text is Surveil. It is legal in Standard, Pioneer, Modern and Legacy and 7 more formats.
Secrets of Strixhaven is a main expansion, released April 2026. Ral Zarek, Guest Lecturer has 1 other card in the database, listed further down the page.
+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.
Card details
- Card number
- 97
- Set
- Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS)
- Set type
- Expansion
- Released
- 24 April 2026
- Rarity
- Mythic Rare (M)
- Printing
- Standard
- Type line
- Legendary Planeswalker — Ral
- Colour
- Black
- Colour identity
- Black
- Mana cost
- {1}{B}{B}
- Loyalty
- 3
- Finish
- Non-foil
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Other printings of Ral Zarek, Guest Lecturer in Secrets of Strixhaven
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Ral Zarek, Guest Lecturer in other sets
Every other printing with this name, one per set.
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