Zacama, Primal Calamity card art

Zacama, Primal Calamity

Legendary Creature — Elder Dinosaur MV 9

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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

Lines this card is part of — what it needs alongside it, and what the two of them do. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.

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 2
Games played 6
Win rate 16.7%
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 2 6 16.7%

Colors it shows up in

  • Naya 2 decks

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 genuinely publishes none for some of them.

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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.