Zetalpa, Primal Dawn

Legendary Creature — Elder Dinosaur

Zetalpa wants a deck that piles armor and magic onto one creature and attacks with it. It also works in a deck built around Dinosaurs or Elders.

Mana cost
White ()
Power / toughness4 / 8
RarityRare

Flying, double strike, vigilance, trample, indestructible

Build a deck with Zetalpa Find it in the app

Archetypes: Voltron
Themes: Dinosaurs
Elders
Tags: Evasion
Protection

Cards That Fit Zetalpa, Primal Dawn

Picked for what they do in Zetalpa's deck. When two cards do the same job, the one with the lower comes first. All of them fit Zetalpa's color identity.Mana ValueThe total amount of mana a card costs, all added up. A card costing two generic and one green has a mana value of three. Wizards renamed this from "converted mana cost" in 2021, so older cards and articles may still use the old name. Sol Ring Open the full glossary

plan6

The 6 Cards

Peggy Carter, Secret Agent 2 mana · shares
Frodo, Determined Hero 2 mana · shares
Thran Power Suit 2 mana · shares
Codsworth, Handy Helper 3 mana · shares
Golem-Skin Gauntlets 1 mana
Silver Shroud Costume 2 mana · shares ,

Does what Zetalpa, Primal Dawn does6

The 6 Cards

Stonecoil Serpent 0 mana · shares ,
Venat, Heart of Hydaelyn // Hydaelyn, the Mothercrystal 3 mana · shares
Crystal Fragments // Summon: Alexander 1 mana · shares ,
Chaplain of Alms // Chapel Shieldgeist 1 mana · shares ,
Eater of Virtue 1 mana · shares ,
Enter the Avatar State 1 mana · shares ,

Rulings for Zetalpa, Primal Dawn

explain how Zetalpa works in tricky situations. They come from Wizards of the Coast, the company that makes Magic.RulingThe official answer to how a card works in a tricky situation. Most rulings are written by Wizards of the Coast, the company that makes Magic, and a few are notes from Scryfall, the card database Magic players use. A ruling explains a card. It does not change what the card says.Open the full glossary

Wizards of the Coast 8 Nov 2024

If an attacking creature with double strike and trample destroys all of its blocking creatures with first-strike combat damage, all of its normal combat damage is assigned to the player, planeswalker, or battle that creature's attacking.

1 ruling, all written by Wizards of the Coast. Read the originals on Gatherer ↗

Similar Commanders

Commanders that share the most with Zetalpa, and what they share.

Color identityEvery color of mana symbol on a card, in its cost and in its rules text. Your commander's color identity sets the limit for your whole deck: every other card has to fit inside it. A deck led by a green and white commander cannot play a card with any blue in its color identity.Open the full glossaryWPlayers write colors as letters: W for white.VoltronVoltron decks load one creature, usually the commander, with Equipment and Auras until it can win by attacking on its own. In Commander, a player dealt 21 or more combat damage by the same commander over the game loses, so one huge commander can knock a player out.Open the Voltron pageProtectionA creature with protection from something, like a color, is safe from anything with that quality. It cannot be damaged, enchanted or equipped, blocked, or targeted by it, and players remember the four with the word DEBT. It does not stop effects that neither target nor damage, like a board wipe that destroys every creature. ProgenitusOpen the Protection pageEvasionAn ability that makes a creature hard to block, so its attacks reach the player. Flying, menace, landwalk and plain 'can't be blocked' are the common kinds.Open the Evasion page