Zacama, Primal Calamity card art

Zacama, Primal Calamity

Legendary Creature — Elder Dinosaur MV 9

Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.

What it does

Reach, vigilance, trample

When Zacama enters, if you cast it, untap all lands you control.

2: Zacama deals 3 damage to target creature.

2: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

2: You gain 3 life.

Combos with Zacama, Primal Calamity

The lines this card is part of, what it needs alongside it, and what the cards do together. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.

  • Temur Sabertooth Infinite
    • Destroy all artifacts and enchantments opponents control
    • Infinite damage to creatures
    • Infinite enchantment destruction
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite lifegain
    • Infinite lifegain triggers
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite mana lands you control can produce
    • Infinite storm count
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Stormfront Riders Infinite
    • Destroy all artifacts and enchantments opponents control
    • Infinite damage to creatures
    • Infinite creature tokens
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite lifegain
    • Infinite lifegain triggers
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite mana lands you control can produce
    • Infinite storm count
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Karakas Infinite
    • Infinite colored mana
    • Infinite colorless mana
    • Infinite damage to creatures
    • Infinite lifegain
    • Infinite lifegain triggers
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Monk Gyatso Infinite
    • Destroy all artifacts and enchantments opponents control
    • Infinite damage to creatures
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite blinking
    • Infinite lifegain
    • Infinite lifegain triggers
    • Infinite mana lands you control can produce
    • Infinite storm count
    • Infinite untap of lands you control
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Sanctum of Eternity Infinite
    • Destroy all artifacts and enchantments opponents control
    • Infinite damage to creatures
    • Infinite enchantment destruction
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite lifegain
    • Infinite lifegain triggers
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite mana lands you control can produce
    • Infinite storm count
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Prize Pig Biomancer's Familiar Infinite
    • Infinite lifegain
    • Infinite lifegain triggers
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Zirda, the Dawnwaker Prize Pig Infinite
    • Infinite lifegain
    • Infinite lifegain triggers
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Prize Pig Training Grounds Infinite
    • Infinite lifegain
    • Infinite lifegain triggers
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →

Showing the 8 shortest and most explosive. This card appears in more than these. Follow any of them through to Commander Spellbook to browse the rest.

Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.

Rulings

2 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 2018-01-19

    Zacama's triggered ability triggers if you cast it from any zone. It doesn't trigger if you put Zacama onto the battlefield without casting it.

  • 2023-07-28

    Zacama's damage-dealing ability can be activated during combat, perhaps targeting a creature blocking it. If all creatures blocking Zacama are destroyed, its combat damage is assigned to the player, planeswalker, or battle it's attacking because of trample. If the blocking creatures are dealt nonlethal damage, that damage is considered when assigning trample damage.

Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Zacama, Primal Calamity, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 8
Games played 19
Win rate 31.6%
Confirmed on board 0 Games where a board photo caught it actually in play.

Most played under

Commander Decks Games Win rate
Pantlaza, Sun-Favored 7 19 31.6%
Jodah, the Unifier 1 0 —

Colors it shows up in

  • Naya 7 decks
  • Five-Color 1 deck

Zacama, Primal Calamity price history

The The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander #296 printing, as Scryfall reports the TCGplayer market. Updated nightly.

Non-foil today$2.02▼ $0.17 (7.8%)
Low $1.55 · High $2.19Tracked since Sep 28, 2026
Every recorded price change
DateNon-foil
Nov 11, 2026$2.02
Nov 10, 2026$2.02
Nov 9, 2026$1.98
Nov 8, 2026$1.88
Nov 7, 2026$1.86
Nov 5, 2026$1.83
Nov 4, 2026$1.84
Nov 3, 2026$1.89
Nov 2, 2026$1.91
Oct 31, 2026$1.90
Oct 30, 2026$1.91
Oct 29, 2026$1.90
Oct 27, 2026$1.86
Oct 26, 2026$1.83
Oct 25, 2026$1.84
Oct 24, 2026$1.86
Oct 23, 2026$1.85
Oct 22, 2026$1.81
Oct 21, 2026$1.75
Oct 20, 2026$1.58
Oct 19, 2026$1.55
Oct 18, 2026$1.56
Oct 17, 2026$1.60
Oct 16, 2026$1.59
Oct 14, 2026$1.58
Oct 13, 2026$1.61
Oct 12, 2026$1.59
Oct 11, 2026$1.63
Oct 10, 2026$1.69
Oct 9, 2026$1.71
Oct 8, 2026$1.75
Oct 5, 2026$1.77
Oct 4, 2026$1.80
Oct 3, 2026$1.99
Oct 1, 2026$1.92
Sep 29, 2026$2.03
Sep 28, 2026$2.19

A row is recorded only on nights the price moved, so each price held until the row above it.

Every version of Zacama, Primal Calamity

9 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.

Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Zacama, Primal Calamity. 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.