Professor Zei, Anthropologist

Professor Zei, Anthropologist

Legendary Creature — Human Advisor Ally

Mana cost: {U/R}{U/R}

How we read this card

Draw a card.

activated {T}, Discard a card —

activated {T}, Discard a card — draws you 1 card

Return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand. Activate only during your turn.

activated {1}, {T}, Sacrifice Professor Zei —

activated {1}, {T}, Sacrifice Professor Zei — brings a card back

What we read on this card

Causes: discard a card, draw a card, sacrifice a permanent, a permanent is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, an instant leaves a graveyard, a sorcery leaves a graveyard.

Cares about: an instant in a graveyard, a sorcery in a graveyard.

Works well with

an instant leaves a graveyard — 146 cards in Professor Zei's colors can cause this (Professor Zei is one).

  1. Murktide Regent — When an instant leaves a graveyard thanks to Professor Zei, Anthropologist, Murktide Regent puts a +1/+1 counter on itself

an Ally enters the battlefield — 81 cards in Professor Zei's colors can cause this (Professor Zei is one).

When Professor Zei, Anthropologist enters:

  1. Halimar Excavator — mills a card
  2. Tuktuk Grunts — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  3. Murasa Pyromancer — deals damage
  4. Kazuul Warlord — puts a counter on an Ally
  5. Umara Raptor — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  6. Seascape Aerialist — grants flying
  7. Chasm Guide — grants haste
  8. Ondu Champion — grants trample
  9. Wartime Protestors — puts a counter on a permanent
  10. Tuktuk Scrapper — kills an artifact an opponent controls

3 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a card is discarded — 910 cards in Professor Zei's colors can cause this (Professor Zei is one).

When Professor Zei, Anthropologist makes a player discard a card:

  1. Ivora, Insatiable Heir — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  2. Cool but Rude — deals 2 damage
  3. Containment Construct — brings a card back
  4. Magmakin Artillerist — deals that much damage
  5. Glint-Horn Buccaneer — deals 1 damage
  6. Scrounging Skyray — puts that many +1/+1 counters on itself
  7. Marauding Mako — puts that many +1/+1 counters on itself
  8. Inti, Seneschal of the Sun — exiles a card from your library
  9. Pitchstone Wall — sacrifices itself
  10. Currency Converter — exiles it

19 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

anything leaves a graveyard — 540 cards in Professor Zei's colors can cause this (Professor Zei is one).

When an instant or sorcery leaves a graveyard thanks to Professor Zei, Anthropologist:

  1. Garrison Excavator — makes a token
  2. Spirit of Resilience — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  3. Fuming Effigy — deals 1 damage
  4. Advanced Reconstruction — deals 2 damage

a creature in a graveyard — 633 cards in Professor Zei's colors can cause this (Professor Zei is one).

  1. Sword of Light and Shadow — When Professor Zei, Anthropologist is in the graveyard, Sword of Light and Shadow can bring it back
  2. The Deck of Many Things — When Professor Zei, Anthropologist is in the graveyard, The Deck of Many Things can bring it back
  3. Lazotep Quarry — When Professor Zei, Anthropologist is in the graveyard, Lazotep Quarry can bring it back
  4. Scarecrone — Professor Zei, Anthropologist puts cards into the graveyard that Scarecrone can bring back
  5. Portal to Phyrexia — When Professor Zei, Anthropologist is in the graveyard, Portal to Phyrexia can bring it back
  6. Sudden Insight — When Professor Zei, Anthropologist is in the graveyard, Sudden Insight gets bigger
  7. Grimoire of the Dead — When Professor Zei, Anthropologist is in the graveyard, Grimoire of the Dead can bring it back
  8. Soul Separator — When Professor Zei, Anthropologist is in the graveyard, Soul Separator can bring it back
  9. Triassic Egg — When Professor Zei, Anthropologist is in the graveyard, Triassic Egg can bring it back
  10. Corpse Cur — Professor Zei, Anthropologist puts cards into the graveyard that Corpse Cur can bring back

15 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a nontoken creature dies — 633 cards in Professor Zei's colors can cause this (Professor Zei is one).

When Professor Zei, Anthropologist dies:

  1. Nim Deathmantle — brings a card back
  2. Gate to the Afterlife — gains you 1 life
  3. Anax, Hardened in the Forge — makes a token
  4. Lightning Coils — puts a charge counter on itself
  5. Gnawing Crescendo — makes a token
  6. Mimic Vat — exiles it

1 other card cares about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a creature dies — 665 cards in Professor Zei's colors can cause this (Professor Zei is one).

When Professor Zei, Anthropologist dies:

  1. Oathkeeper, Takeno's Daisho — brings a card back
  2. Resurrection Orb — brings a card back
  3. Abduction — brings a card back
  4. False Demise — brings a card back
  5. Fool's Demise — brings a card back
  6. Puppet Master — brings a card back
  7. Relic Vial — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  8. Galvanic Juggernaut — untaps itself
  9. Murder of Crows — draws you 1 card
  10. Selhoff Occultist — mills a card

64 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a creature goes to a graveyard — 718 cards in Professor Zei's colors can cause this (Professor Zei is one).

  1. Soulcipher Board // Cipherbound Spirit — When a card hits the graveyard thanks to Professor Zei, Anthropologist, Soulcipher Board // Cipherbound Spirit triggers

2 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a card is drawn — 1,924 cards in Professor Zei's colors can cause this (Professor Zei is one).

When Professor Zei, Anthropologist makes a player draw a card:

  1. Toothy, Imaginary Friend — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  2. Chasm Skulker — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  3. Niv-Mizzet, Parun — deals 1 damage
  4. Aether Syphon — mills a card
  5. The Locust God — makes a token
  6. Diviner's Wand — gets +1/+1
  7. Ominous Seas — puts a foreshadow counter on itself

32 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

anything attacks — 6,189 cards in Professor Zei's colors can cause this (Professor Zei is one).

  1. Shaun, Father of Synths — When Professor Zei, Anthropologist attacks, Shaun, Father of Synths makes a token

40 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.