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◇ Catalog #97

Ral Zarek, Guest Lecturer

sos·#97·mythic·foil

Illus. Billy Christian

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Apr '26

4 mo ago

Value

$4.92+$0 (+4.2%)

30 days high $4.06 · low $3.70

NM$3.92

LP—

MP—

HP—

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$3.62–$4.14modeled

30 days ago
today

90-dayhigh $8.84low $1.94range 355.7%n 49

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Played in EDH

EDHrec rank #13,246 · Fringe play

Variants

Foil$3.92

Nonfoil$3.02

Gameplay

Legendary Planeswalker — Ral

+1: Surveil 2. −1: Any number of target players each discard a card. −2: Return target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. −7: Flip five coins. Target opponent skips their next X turns, where X is the number of coins that came up heads.

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Legalities

tlrlegal

duellegal

brawllegal

pennynot legal

PreDH

Rulings · 2

2026-03-20wotc

If a card in a graveyard has {X} in its mana cost, X is 0 for the purpose of determining its mana value.

2026-03-20wotc

When Ral Zarek's second ability resolves, the next target player in turn order (or, if it's a target player's turn, that player) chooses a card in hand without revealing it, then each other target player in turn order (if any) does the same. All chosen cards are then discarded at the same time.

Context

Last observed on Scryfall 2 months ago at $3.92. Over the trailing 90 days the price moved between $1.94 and $8.84 across 49 observations. Cross-checked across TCGplayer, eBay sold, Cardmarket EU, and Star City.

This printing is one of 3 catalogued treatments from SOS — the lineup includes Foil and Nonfoil alongside the standard finish. Across our catalog the Rarix library tracks every variant in the same family so collectors can compare price, scarcity and demand inside a single lineage.

Card #97 of *Secrets of Strixhaven*, the set that shipped alongside the April 2026 Secrets of Strixhaven release.

Card type: Legendary Planeswalker — Ral, color identity black, printed at mythic. Mythic rares historically land in roughly one out of every eight boosters at standard print densities. Mana cost: {1}{B}{B} (3 converted). Keyword abilities: Surveil.

Legal across the major constructed formats — Modern, Legacy, Vintage, and Commander — plus Standard rotation play.

EDHrec ranks this card #13,246 in Commander, putting it in the fringe-play tier of the format's playable pool.

Illustrated by Billy Christian. Rarix catalogs 255 other cards credited to this artist.