Baral and Kari Zev
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
What it does
First strike, menace
Whenever you cast your first instant or sorcery spell each turn, you may cast a spell with lesser mana value that shares a card type with it from your hand without paying its mana cost. If you don't, create First Mate Ragavan, a legendary 2/1 red Monkey Pirate creature token. It gains haste until end of turn.
Rulings
4 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 2023-04-14
The spell you cast from your hand without paying its mana cost is cast during the resolution of the triggered ability. Timing restrictions of that spell based on card type are ignored. It will resolve before the spell that caused the ability to trigger.
- 2023-04-14
If you cast a spell without paying its mana cost, you can’t choose to cast it for any alternative costs. You can, however, pay any additional costs. If the spell has any mandatory additional costs, you must pay those.
- 2023-04-14
If the spell has X in its mana cost, you must choose 0 as the value of X when casting it without paying its mana cost.
- 2023-04-14
Baral and Kari Zev will count any instant or sorcery spell you cast during a turn, even if it wasn’t on the battlefield at the time. This means if you cast an instant or sorcery spell, then Baral and Kari Zev comes under your control, its triggered ability won’t trigger that turn.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Baral and Kari Zev, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shiko and Narset, Unified | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Jeskai 1 deck
Baral and Kari Zev price history
The Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander #282 printing, as Scryfall reports the TCGplayer market. Updated nightly. Click any version below to chart its price.
Every recorded price change
| Date | Non-foil |
|---|---|
| Nov 11, 2026 | $0.23 |
| Nov 7, 2026 | $0.23 |
| Nov 6, 2026 | $0.24 |
| Nov 3, 2026 | $0.23 |
| Oct 31, 2026 | $0.24 |
| Oct 27, 2026 | $0.25 |
| Oct 26, 2026 | $0.24 |
| Oct 24, 2026 | $0.23 |
| Oct 22, 2026 | $0.25 |
| Oct 18, 2026 | $0.26 |
| Oct 16, 2026 | $0.28 |
| Oct 15, 2026 | $0.30 |
| Oct 14, 2026 | $0.28 |
| Oct 12, 2026 | $0.29 |
| Oct 11, 2026 | $0.30 |
| Oct 10, 2026 | $0.31 |
| Oct 8, 2026 | $0.29 |
| Oct 7, 2026 | $0.28 |
| Oct 6, 2026 | $0.29 |
| Oct 4, 2026 | $0.28 |
| Oct 2, 2026 | $0.27 |
| Oct 1, 2026 | $0.26 |
| Sep 29, 2026 | $0.27 |
| Sep 28, 2026 | $0.25 |
A row is recorded only on nights the price moved, so each price held until the row above it.
Every version of Baral and Kari Zev
5 printings, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly. A printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall publishes none for some of them. Click a card's art to chart that version's price above.
- Normal
- $0.23
- Normal
- $0.25
- Foil
- $0.36
Promo
March of the Machine Promos
- Normal
- $0.36
- Foil
- $0.45
Promo
March of the Machine Promos
- Foil
- $0.54
Showcase
- Normal
- $0.35
- Foil
- $0.36
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Baral and Kari Zev. It runs a name search across every version, which covers the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.
Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only. No individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.
