Card
Zhao, the Moon Slayer
Mana cost {1}{R}
Legendary Creature — Human Soldier 2/2
Menace Nonbasic lands enter tapped. {7}: Put a conqueror counter on Zhao. As long as Zhao has a conqueror counter on him, nonbasic lands are Mountains. (They lose all other land types and abilities and have "{T}: Add {R}.")
Mass land denial: only allowed from bracket 4. 2 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Rare · TLA · #162
- Cheapest printing
- €0.30
- EDHREC salt
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- Color identity
- Red
- Keywords
- Menace
Bracket
- B1 Exhibition — not allowed: Mass land denial is not allowed
- B2 Core — not allowed: Mass land denial is not allowed
- B3 Upgraded — not allowed: Mass land denial is not allowed
- B4 Optimized — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
- B5 cEDH — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
Why
- Mass land denial
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
- 2025-10-02 · Wizards of the Coast
If an effect states that a land enters tapped unless a condition is met, Zhao, the Moon Slayer's second ability has it enter tapped even if that condition is true. For example, you may control a basic land while playing Abandoned Air Temple, but Abandoned Air Temple will still enter tapped. - 2025-10-02 · Wizards of the Coast
While Zhao has a conqueror counter on him, if a nonbasic land has an ability that triggers "when" it enters, it will lose that ability before it can trigger. Nonbasic lands will lose any other land types and abilities they had. They will have the land type Mountain and the intrinsic ability "{T}: Add {R}." This effect doesn't affect names or supertypes. It won't turn any land into a basic land or remove the legendary supertype from a legendary land, and the lands won't be named "Mountain."
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast