Zenith Festival
Sorcery
Exile the top X cards of your library. You may play them until the end of your next turn.
Harmonize 
(You may cast this card from your graveyard for its harmonize cost. You may tap a creature you control to reduce that cost by an amount of generic mana equal to its power. Then exile this spell.)
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander
- Price
- $0.76
- EDHREC rank
- #7793
Zenith Festival drops multiple +1/+1 counters across your board and draws cards — both on the same card, both for one mana with enough support. Outside of Sami, Wildcat Captain decks where that ceiling is consistently reachable, the setup cost makes it a niche inclusion rather than a staple.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Sami, Wildcat Captain
Sami, Wildcat Captain turns Zenith Festival into a reliable engine — Sami's ability to load counters onto creatures cheapens Festival's cost fast, so you're routinely casting it for one or two mana while simultaneously fueling the draw trigger that keeps the engine running.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Zenith Festival is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but Legacy and Vintage have zero interest in a sorcery-speed payoff this dependent on board state — the formats move too fast and the ceiling isn't close to competitive. Oathbreaker is the one non-Commander 60-card format where it's worth considering, specifically in Planeswalker shells that generate counters as a byproduct of their gameplan. Commander is the correct home: the longer game gives you time to build the counter density Zenith Festival demands, and at its floor it still replaces itself.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.76 bulk tier
At $0.76, Zenith Festival sits in bulk territory — the price of a card that sees narrow, commander-specific play. It's unlikely to climb without a reprint-proof spike in Sami, Wildcat Captain's popularity, so there's no urgency to buy in, but at under a dollar it's an easy pickup if the deck calls for it.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.