edhseer Commander synergy, explained

Zirda, the Dawnwaker

Zirda, the Dawnwaker

Legendary Creature — Elemental Fox

Mana cost: {1}{R/W}{R/W}

How we read this card

Each permanent card in your starting deck has an activated ability.

static — grants a keyword

Abilities you activate that aren't mana abilities cost {2} less to activate. This effect can't reduce the mana in that cost to less than one mana.

static — costs {2} less

Target creature can't block this turn.

activated {1}, {T} — restricts attacking or blocking

What we read on this card

Causes: nothing.

Cares about: nothing.

Works well with

an Elemental enters the battlefield — 303 cards in Zirda's colors can cause this (Zirda is one).

  1. Champion of the Path — When Zirda, the Dawnwaker enters, Champion of the Path deals its power damage

a creature attacks — 6,550 cards in Zirda's colors can cause this (Zirda is one).

When Zirda, the Dawnwaker attacks:

  1. Adaptive Omnitool — searches a library
  2. Anim Pakal, Thousandth Moon — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  3. Staff of Titania — makes a token
  4. Glory Bearers — gives +0/+1
  5. Saw — sacrifices a creature
  6. Ultima Weapon — kills a creature an opponent controls
  7. Total War — kills a creature
  8. The Spear of Leonidas — triggers
  9. Super-Soldier Serum — triggers
  10. Norin the Wary — flickers itself

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

anything attacks — 6,550 cards in Zirda's colors can cause this (Zirda is one).

When Zirda, the Dawnwaker attacks:

  1. ED-E, Lonesome Eyebot — puts a quest counter on itself
  2. Surgical Suite // Hospital Room — puts a counter on a creature
  3. Apothecary White — makes a token
  4. Guide of Souls — triggers
  5. Banon, the Returners' Leader — draws and discards
  6. Three Dog, Galaxy News DJ — sacrifices an Aura
  7. Inti, Seneschal of the Sun — triggers
  8. Gut, True Soul Zealot — sacrifices a creature or artifact
  9. Cool but Rude — draws and discards
  10. Swashbuckler Extraordinaire — sacrifices a Treasure

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

a creature blocks — 6,550 cards in Zirda's colors can cause this (Zirda is one).

When Zirda, the Dawnwaker blocks:

  1. Barrow-Blade — strips abilities
  2. Heat of Battle — deals 1 damage
  3. Battle Strain — deals 1 damage
  4. Noble Stand — gains you 2 life
  5. Battle Cry — gives +0/+1
  6. Tide of War — sacrifices a creature
  7. Dead-Iron Sledge — kills a creature

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

a nontoken creature attacks — 6,550 cards in Zirda's colors can cause this (Zirda is one).

When Zirda, the Dawnwaker attacks:

  1. Basri Ket — makes a token
  2. Militia's Pride — makes a token

a creature deals combat damage — 6,550 cards in Zirda's colors can cause this (Zirda is one).

  1. Antagonist Incorporator — When Zirda, the Dawnwaker deals combat damage, Antagonist Incorporator makes a token

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

a creature is cast — 6,572 cards in Zirda's colors can cause this (Zirda is one).

When Zirda, the Dawnwaker is cast:

  1. Summon: Brynhildr — grants haste
  2. God-Eternal Oketra — makes a token
  3. Oketra's Monument — makes a token
  4. Quest for the Holy Relic — puts a quest counter on itself
  5. Bontu's Monument — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  6. Oltec Matterweaver — triggers
  7. Pure Reflection — kills a Reflection
  8. Bygone Bishop — triggers
  9. Flickering Hound — flickers a creature you control
  10. Hazoret's Monument — draws and discards

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

a nontoken creature enters the battlefield — 6,715 cards in Zirda's colors can cause this (Zirda is one).

When Zirda, the Dawnwaker enters:

  1. Angelic Sell-Sword — makes a token
  2. Spirit Bonds — makes a token
  3. Metastatic Evangel — proliferates
  4. Minion Reflector — makes a token
  5. Molten Echoes — makes a token
  6. Flameshadow Conjuring — makes a token
  7. Blessed Sanctuary — makes a token
  8. Radiant Solar — triggers
  9. Anafenza, Kin-Tree Spirit — puts a counter on a permanent
  10. Mirror March — flips a coin

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

a creature enters the battlefield — 7,303 cards in Zirda's colors can cause this (Zirda is one).

When Zirda, the Dawnwaker enters:

  1. Slash, Reptile Rampager — deals 2 damage
  2. Gimli of the Glittering Caves — puts counters on a permanent
  3. The Neutrinos — gets +1/+0
  4. Wingnut, Bat on the Belfry — grants flying, haste and menace
  5. Lunarch Veteran // Luminous Phantom — gains you 1 life
  6. Daxos, Blessed by the Sun — gains you 1 life
  7. Aetherstorm Roc — puts a counter on a permanent you control
  8. Raphael, Most Attitude — exiles a card from your library

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

anything enters the battlefield — 10,759 cards in Zirda's colors can cause this (Zirda is one).

  1. Prowl, Stoic Strategist // Prowl, Pursuit Vehicle — When Zirda, the Dawnwaker enters, Prowl, Stoic Strategist // Prowl, Pursuit Vehicle puts a +1/+1 counter on itself

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