Historian of Zhalfir
Creature — Human Wizard
Whenever this creature attacks, if you control a Teferi planeswalker, draw a card.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Core Set 2021
- Price
- $0.12
- EDHREC rank
- #30084
Historian of Zhalfir turns every instant and sorcery in your graveyard into a scry trigger, generating incremental card selection simply by doing what spell-heavy decks already want to do. The effect compounds fast in high-volume spellslinger builds, and a three-mana 2/3 is an acceptable body for the payoff.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Historian of Zhalfir is a Commander card through and through — the format's long games give the scry triggers time to stack into a genuine advantage engine, and the 100-card singleton variance makes that library manipulation matter. In Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer it's too slow and too low-impact against the pace of those formats; no competitive shell is looking for a three-mana creature that accrues value over several turns of casting spells. Oathbreaker mirrors Commander closely enough that the same spellslinger builds where Historian shines there will perform similarly, especially with a planeswalker commander that wants to keep firing off instants and sorceries.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.12 bulk tier
At $0.12, Historian of Zhalfir is deep bulk — you're picking it out of a dollar box, not tracking it on a buy list. Bulk rares with narrow tribal or theme-specific appeal rarely appreciate unless a new commander pushes the archetype into the spotlight, so treat this as a cheap include rather than a hold.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.