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Zimone, Mystery Unraveler

Legendary Creature — Human Wizard

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, manifest dread if this is the first time this ability has resolved this turn. Otherwise, you may turn a permanent you control face up. (To manifest dread, look at the top two cards of your library. Put one onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature and the other into your graveyard. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.)

CMC
4
Mana cost
{2}{G}{U}
Color identity
GU
Rarity
mythic
Set
Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander
Price
$0.53
EDHREC rank
#5802
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Zimone, Mystery Unraveler card art
Zimone, Mystery Unraveler draws cards and puts lands into play every time you cast a spell with four or more cards in hand — a repeatable engine that punishes anyone who lets you untap with a full grip. The cost is real: you need to maintain hand size to trigger her, which means leaning hard on draw effects before she comes down. Shells built around morphs and face-down creatures, like Kadena, Slinking Sorcerer, or landfall loops with Yedora, Grave Gardener, exploit her better than most because they naturally keep card count high.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Kadena, Slinking Sorcerer

Kadena, Slinking Sorcerer

44.1% of decks · synergy 0.43

Kadena, Slinking Sorcerer draws a card the first time you cast a face-down spell each turn, which keeps your hand stocked to trigger Zimone, Mystery Unraveler consistently — the two form a self-sustaining draw-and-develop loop that's hard to outpace.

02
Vannifar, Evolved Enigma

Vannifar, Evolved Enigma

42.4% of decks · synergy 0.42

Vannifar, Evolved Enigma already rewards you for playing with hidden information and morphs, and Zimone, Mystery Unraveler slots in as the deck's gas engine — every spell cast with a full hand advances the board and the land count simultaneously.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern not legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Zimone, Mystery Unraveler does her best work: the long game gives you time to build hand size, and 100-card singleton means more redundant draw effects to keep the trigger firing. She's legal in Legacy and Vintage but has no competitive foothold there — four mana for a creature that requires setup is too slow against those formats' threat density and interaction. Oathbreaker is worth a mention since a cheap cantrip planeswalker as the signature spell can keep her trigger live, but the 20-life total compresses the game before she takes over.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

12,091 decks
Zimone, Mystery UnravelerYedora, Grave GardenerWhisperwood Elemental

Zimone, Mystery UnravelerYedora, Grave GardenerWhisperwood Elemental

Infinite LTB; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite death triggers; Infinite green mana; Infinite landfall triggers; Near-infinite ETB; Manifest your entire library

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Price Context

Current price

$0.53 bulk tier

At $0.53, Zimone, Mystery Unraveler sits squarely in bulk territory — easy to pick up and easy to cut without regret. Bulk rares with active combo roles can tick up if a breakout deck emerges, but there's no pressure to buy in at any particular moment.

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