Zirda, the Dawnwaker

Legendary Creature — Elemental Fox

Companion — Each permanent card in your starting deck must have an activated ability. (You may reveal this card from outside the game before you start and declare it as your companion. If you do, your deck must follow the companion's restrictions. You may pay {3} to put this companion from your sideboard to your hand at any time you could cast a sorcery. This action can't be interacted with or countered. You may only choose one companion for your deck before the start of each round.)

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

{1}, {T}: Target creature can't block this turn.

Combos

• Ilysian Caryatid + Umbral Mantle + Zirda, the Dawnwaker

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Arena	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Historic Brawl	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Modern Beyond Horizons	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pioneer	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Pre-release	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (49)

freezerboy on Does card:General's Regalia and card:Jade …

1 month ago

This is a little complicated because I run Zirda, the Dawnwaker, but say I have a General's Regalia, Furnace of Rath and Jade Monolith in play with a bunch of mana free. Something I own deals damage to myself like tapping a Ancient Tomb, and I redirect it to one of my creatures like Boros Reckoner, can I then tap 1 each time the damage is redirected to keep exponentially increasing the damage till I shoot a player for lethal?

plakjekaas on Could Uro come back to …

1 month ago

Icbrgr the two pieces you named are banned because of their interaction with other cards, that aren't legal in Modern or Pioneer.

If Basalt Monolith was legal in Modern or Pioneer, Zirda, the Dawnwaker would be banned there too. Same goes for Brainstorm and Dreadhorde Arcanist.

Uro is banned because it doesn't actually need any other cards to be constant value, a late-game & recurring threat, and repeated lifegain to hose most aggro strategies. Because the presence of the card by itself distorts the metagame around it, you need to either be playing Uro, or have a plan to combat Uro, or your deck is not viable at all. That's what format warping means.

Icbrgr on Could Uro come back to …

1 month ago

Legacy is just built different lol using it as a measurement for how good something is just isn't reliable. can't even play Dreadhorde Arcanist or Zirda, the Dawnwaker there yet neither really are staples for pioneer or modern exactly.

Nevertheless no worries you did just fine articulating your opinion on if uro could return... I really would laugh though if uro joined in on boros energy, it would just feel really ironic... at least they would have to work for it with having to include {GU} instead of the glory of the one ring being colorless.

Brefin on Official missing/incorrect card/token thread

1 month ago

Gossip's Talent is noted as an illegal card for Zirda, the Dawnwaker as a companion. As far as I know the Level up abilities of the Class enchantments are activated abilities for Zirda.

Rhadamanthus on Does Zirda and Bladegraft Aspirant …

9 months ago

No, you can't get the effect you want here. The problem is that Bladegraft Aspirant only reduces the cost of your equipments' activated abilities that target the Aspirant. The +X/+0 ability of Bronze Cudgels doesn't target anything (it doesn't use the word "target"), so its cost will only be affected by Zirda, the Dawnwaker's ability and will just be reduced to {1}.

The actual Equip ability of the Cudgels will be reduced to {0} for equipping the Aspirant, because Equip abilities do target.

Taida on Does Zirda and Bladegraft Aspirant …

10 months ago

I have been looking at some cards and found this potential combo, but don't know if it works. It uses Zirda, the Dawnwaker, Bladegraft Aspirant and Bronze Cudgels. I made a quick deck to show it: Zirda-Bladegraph discount?, but the idea is that the discount fo Zirda should bring the cost down to 1, then making it 0 by equipping it to the Aspirant. Thus, you could resolve the ability of the Cudgels an infinite amount of times.

riddik695 on cEDH Zirda

1 year ago

I actually had Sunforger in the original build since Zirda, the Dawnwaker makes the equip 1 also but I sure didn't think about doing infinite turns lol. That's pretty awesome really. I think it may be a bit clunky like you said but I think I might try it anyway cause infinite turns in boros would be the best!

Infatuated_Amnesiac on Zirda doesn't like Nettlecyst?

1 year ago

I've been brewing a deck, recently added Zirda, the Dawnwaker as a companion and moved cards accordingly to meet the requirement of all permanents having an activated ability. But the deck marks Nettlecyst in red as not meeting that requirement.

Is it special? Does it's equip cost not count as an activated ability/am I missing something?

Thank you for your time and patience!