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Zacama, Primal Calamity

Legendary Creature — Elder Dinosaur6 generic manaRed manaGreen manaWhite mana

The untap-all-lands clause is the whole engine, and it is built to fire exactly once: cast Zacama and every land you control comes back up, which on a nine-mana body means you are very likely standing on the mana to start activating the moment it resolves. The three abilities are not modal in the usual sense (you do not pick one), they are a self-contained toolbox priced at two-plus-a-pip apiece: repeatable burn that scales into a board sweep, repeatable artifact and enchantment removal, and a lifegain valve to outpace aggression. With the lands untapped you can chain those activations in the same turn until your mana runs out, which is why the cast trigger matters so much more than the static keywords printed above it. Reach, vigilance, and trample make the 9/9 a fine attacker and blocker, but they are insurance; the design intent is the moment of resolution, when a single resolved spell converts into a controller's worth of interaction. Reanimate it or cheat it onto the battlefield and the engine is dead on arrival, because the untap is gated on the "if you cast it" clause: the card is deliberately built to reward paying full price rather than circumventing it, whether that price is paid from hand, from exile, or out of the command zone. That gating is the discipline holding an otherwise open-ended value engine in check, and it explains why Zacama reads as a fair top-end finisher rather than a combo piece.

Zacama, Primal Calamity (cmm)
CMM · #691rare
Pricing
Normal: $5.79
Foil: $7.86
Oracle Text

Rules text

Vigilance, reach, trample When Zacama enters, if you cast it, untap all lands you control. 2 generic manaRed mana: Zacama deals 3 damage to target creature. 2 generic manaGreen mana: Destroy target artifact or enchantment. 2 generic manaWhite mana: You gain 3 life.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
Printings elsewhere

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