Zealous Lorecaster

Creature — Giant Sorcerer

When this creature enters, return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.

CMC
6
Mana cost
{5}{R}
Color identity
R
Rarity
common
Set
Secrets of Strixhaven
Price
$0.06
EDHREC rank
#24395
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Zealous Lorecaster card art
Zealous Lorecaster puts an instant or sorcery from any graveyard into your hand the moment it connects — repeatable graveyard recursion stapled to an evasive body is a real rate. The cost is that it needs to deal combat damage to a player, which Storm-Kiln Artist and similar prowess payoffs sidestep entirely by triggering off casts alone.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander
legacy
modern
pioneer
standard
vintage
pauper
oathbreaker

In Commander, Zealous Lorecaster slots cleanly into spellslinger and Voltron builds that already want to connect with a commander — the recursion compounds over multiple combats and keeps your spell density high late in the game. Outside Commander, it competes in a crowded field of cheaper or more reliable spell-recursion options, and the combat-damage requirement is a genuine liability in faster formats like Modern and Pioneer where opponents have the tools to brick it on turn three. In Pauper, where card advantage is at a premium and the format moves slower, Zealous Lorecaster is worth a closer look, though evasion alone doesn't guarantee reliable triggers against the format's common creature staples.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

3 decks
DisplacePeregrine DrakeZealous Lorecaster

DisplacePeregrine DrakeZealous Lorecaster

Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite blinking; Infinite landfall triggers; Infinite magecraft triggers; Infinite mana lands you control can produce; Infinite storm count; Infinite untap of lands you control

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Price Context

Current price

$0.06 bulk tier

At $0.06, Zealous Lorecaster is deep bulk — buy a playset for the cost of a sleeve. Bulk rares with narrow combo applications rarely climb unless a new commander pushes them into widespread demand, so treat this as a low-risk pickup, not a spec.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.