Ral, Izzet Viceroy
Legendary Planeswalker — Ral
+1: Look at the top two cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the other into your graveyard.
−3: Ral deals damage to target creature equal to the total number of instant and sorcery cards you own in exile and in your graveyard.
−8: You get an emblem with "Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, this emblem deals 4 damage to any target and you draw two cards."
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- RU
- Rarity
- mythic
- Set
- Guilds of Ravnica
- Price
- $0.63
- EDHREC rank
- #16222
Ral, Izzet Viceroy lands as a five-mana planeswalker that draws two cards immediately and threatens a repeatable kill condition — that's a lot of on-board value before opponents can answer him. The cost is the mana: five is the threshold where you need a reason to include a card, and Ral asks you to build around instants and sorceries to justify the slot.
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 |
In Commander, Ral, Izzet Viceroy is a solid value engine in spellslinger builds — the -3 that counts instants and sorceries in your graveyard can end games in a deck that's been firing spells all game, and the +1 looting effect keeps the engine fed. Outside Commander, he sees almost no competitive play: five mana is too slow for Pioneer and Modern, where the format demands planeswalkers that stabilize a board immediately or close the game, and Ral does neither reliably enough at that cost. Oathbreaker is his other natural home, where he can serve as the planeswalker commander himself in an instant/sorcery-matters shell.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.63 bulk tier
At $0.63, Ral, Izzet Viceroy is firmly bulk — the price reflects his absence from competitive formats rather than any flaw in his design for casual Commander. He's a low-risk pickup for a spellslinger list, and bulk rares at this price point don't tend to move unless something breaks them into a competitive format.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.