Zacama, Primal Calamity
Legendary Creature — Elder Dinosaur
Vigilance, reach, trample
When Zacama enters, if you cast it, untap all lands you control.
: Zacama deals 3 damage to target creature.
: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.
: You gain 3 life.
- CMC
- 9
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- GRW
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Commander Masters
- Price
- $1.18
- EDHREC rank
- #1770
Zacama, Primal Calamity hits the table and immediately untaps all your lands, turning a nine-mana investment into a board-controlling engine that can fire removal, gain life, or deal damage as many times as you have mana to spend. The ceiling is a Temur Sabertooth loop that generates infinite mana and wins on the spot; the floor is a 9/9 vigilance, reach, trample that demands an answer anyway. Pantlaza, Sun-Favored can discover into it for free, but in dedicated Zacama shells you're building toward that untap trigger from turn one.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Pantlaza, Sun-Favored
Pantlaza, Sun-Favored's discover triggers scale with the discovered creature's mana value, and Zacama, Primal Calamity — at nine mana — generates one of the largest discover payoffs in the game, often landing for free and immediately untapping your lands to pour into its activated abilities.
Gishath, Sun's Avatar
Gishath, Sun's Avatar cheats creatures onto the battlefield from the library, and Zacama, Primal Calamity is exactly the kind of Dinosaur you want waiting in the deck — a nine-drop that pays back its mana cost the moment it enters and takes over the board from there.
Atla Palani, Nest Tender
Atla Palani, Nest Tender cracks eggs into any creature in the library, and Zacama, Primal Calamity is the highest-impact hit in a Naya shell — free entry, immediate land untap, and three relevant activated abilities that keep the pressure on.
Mayael the Anima
Mayael the Anima fishes for power-5-or-greater creatures at the end of each turn, and Zacama, Primal Calamity's 9/9 body clears that bar easily, making it a reliable target that converts a lucky Mayael activation into land untaps and a board presence opponents have to answer.
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 |
Commander is where Zacama, Primal Calamity belongs — the format's singleton structure, higher life totals, and tolerance for nine-mana spells create exactly the conditions where its land-untap trigger converts a fair cost into a near-infinite resource engine. Outside Commander, Zacama is legal in Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, and Vintage, but those formats are too fast and too removal-dense for a nine-mana do-nothing-until-it-resolves creature to function; you're not casting this on turn three in Modern. Oathbreaker is a plausible home in a dedicated Naya big-mana shell, though the format's 20-life clock cuts the time available to build up to nine lands. The honest read is that Zacama, Primal Calamity is a Commander card through and through.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Zacama, Primal CalamityTemur Sabertooth
Infinite damage to creatures; Infinite enchantment destruction; Infinite ETB; Infinite lifegain; Infinite lifegain triggers; Infinite LTB; Infinite mana lands you control can produce; Infinite storm count
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Zacama, Primal CalamitySanctum of Eternity
Infinite damage to creatures; Infinite enchantment destruction; Infinite ETB; Infinite lifegain; Infinite lifegain triggers; Infinite LTB; Infinite mana lands you control can produce; Infinite storm count
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Monk GyatsoZacama, Primal Calamity
Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite blinking; Infinite lifegain; Infinite lifegain triggers; Infinite mana lands you control can produce; Infinite storm count; Infinite untap of lands you control
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Zacama, Primal CalamityStormfront Riders
Infinite creature tokens; Infinite ETB; Infinite lifegain; Infinite lifegain triggers; Infinite LTB; Infinite mana lands you control can produce; Infinite storm count
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Zacama, Primal CalamityPanharmoniconWhitemane Lion
Infinite damage to creatures; Infinite ETB; Infinite lifegain; Infinite lifegain triggers; Infinite LTB; Infinite mana lands you control can produce; Infinite storm count
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Current price
$1.18 cheap tier
At $1.18, Zacama, Primal Calamity sits in the sweet spot where a card delivers genuine combo and commander potential at essentially no financial barrier. Supply from multiple printings has kept the price flat and there's no reason to expect scarcity to change that, so buy copies freely without worrying about timing.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.