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Professor Zei, Anthropologist
Legendary Creature — Human Advisor Ally
{T}, Discard a card: Draw a card. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice Professor Zei: Return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand. Activate only during your turn.
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“Blue-red spellslinger that mills itself and recurs instants/sorceries.”
Aggro
Intermediate
Combat damage, Storm
Spellslinger, Graveyard
Strategy
Professor Zei is a cheap, resilient card-filtering engine that rewards you for filling your graveyard with instants and sorceries. Her tap ability fuels discard outlets while replacing themselves with new cards, letting you sculpt your hand and stock the yard simultaneously. The real payoff comes from her sacrifice ability—turning discarded spells back into hand ammunition for cheap.
You'll build this as a spellslinger deck that loves self-mill and graveyard synergies. Load up on cantrips, cheap removal, and card draw to keep the engine spinning. Every discard fuels future spell recursion, so you're essentially getting multiple uses out of your best instants and sorceries. Zei herself is perfect bait for removal, but you can also sacrifice her proactively to recur a key spell before your turn ends.
Strategy generated by Tapped Decks AI. Not affiliated with Wizards of the Coast.
Key Synergies
Budget Build
Skip pricey cantrips like Ledge Rider—use budget draw like Opt, Unholy Heat, and Risk Factor instead.
Most-Played Cards
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Monument to Endurance
Faithless Looting
Obsessive Search
It'll Quench Ya!
Containment Construct
Deep Analysis
Circular Logic
Waterbending Lesson
Irencrag Pyromancer
Consider
Prismari Command
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