Card
Zaffai and the Tempests
Mana cost {5}{U}{R}
Legendary Creature — Human Bard Sorcerer 5/7
Once during each of your turns, you may cast an instant or sorcery spell from your hand without paying its mana cost.
No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. 2 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Rare · SOS · #246
- Cheapest printing
- €0.10
- EDHREC salt
- —
- Color identity
- Red, Blue
Bracket
- B1 Exhibition — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B2 Core — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B3 Upgraded — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B4 Optimized — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
- B5 cEDH — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
Why
- No Game Changer, mass land denial, extra turn, tutor or two-card combo
How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket
Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags
Combos
No known combos for this card.
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2026-03-20 · Wizards of the Coast
If you cast a spell with {X} in its mana cost this way, you must choose 0 as the value of X. - 2026-03-20 · Wizards of the Coast
If you cast a spell "without paying its mana cost," you can't choose to cast it for any alternative costs. You can, however, pay additional costs. If the card has any mandatory additional costs, you must pay those to cast the spell.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast