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Professor Zei, Anthropologist TLA 0238 · uncommon

Professor Zei, Anthropologist · {U/R}{U/R} · 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. · Power / toughness: 0/3 · "I'm not leaving. I can't. I've spent too long trying to find this place. There's not another collection of knowledge like this on earth."

Professor Zei, Anthropologist · {U/R}{U/R} · 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. · Power / toughness: 0/3 · "I'm not leaving. I can't. I've spent too long trying to find this place. There's not another collection of knowledge like this on earth."

Price
from $0.131 printing
Win rate
56.2% GIH 22,706 instances · Premier Draft
Nov 18–Dec 31, 2025 · 17Lands

Game-in-hand win rate, all deck colors. 12,754 wins in 22,706 card-in-hand instances.

21,700 distinct games · 7,769 distinct drafts · games recorded Nov 18–Dec 31, 2025.

17Lands file dated Jan 10, 2026 · 100-instance minimum · 17Lands public data ↗

Draft data

56.2%when drawn (GIH)

+0.2 pp vs 56.0% average · 22,706 instances

Premier Draft · Nov 18–Dec 31, 2025 · average from 562,924 games

#137 of 289 nonland cards by win rate · last seen around pick 4.8 on average (59,675 packs).

26 of 55 multicolor cards · 10 of 20 multicolor uncommon cards.

Taken at pick6.212,321 picks
Makes the deck70.0%12,321 picks with known usage
When played54.9%46,079.9 matchesBenched 55.8%
16,850.1 matches
When drawn56.2%22,706 instances

Pick and maindeck observations: Nov 18–Dec 31, 2025. Played/benched cells use matches when available; the drawn cell uses game instances.

○ Opening hand 56.1% · 8,832 instances
● Drawn later 56.2% · 13,874 instances

In hand 56.2% · 22,706 instances
Unseen in deck 54.5% · 26,487 instances
+1.6 percentage points when drawn

Compared with multicolor cards

Win rate when drawn56.2%22,706 instances26 of 55
Opening hand56.1%8,832 instances24 of 53
Drawn later56.2%13,874 instances28 of 54
In the deck55.3%49,258 instances29 of 57
Without seeing it54.5%26,487 instances23 of 55
Improvement when drawn+1.6 pp22,706 instances / 26,487 instances29 of 55
When benched55.8%16,850.1 matches25 of 57
Makes the deck70.0%12,321 picks with known usage24 of 57
Pick (last seen)4.859,675 packs36 of 57
Taken at6.212,321 picks35 of 57

Ranks require 100 observations for that metric; comparisons are descriptive, not a pick order. Pick ranks put earlier picks first.

Best decks for it

no-splash decks only · card-level in-hand rates · 100 minimum

Draw Two UB58.1%1,253 instancesCombat Lessons UR57.1%4,113 instancesEarth Rumble Ramp RG55.0% ◌109 instancesFlying WU54.9%1,159 instancesGo-Wide Aggro RW52.7% ◌182 instancesFire Nation Aggro BR42.3% ◌163 instancesRamp and Lessons UG45.8%48 instances · under 100

Each tick is this card’s all-decks rate (56.2% · 22,706 instances). A high card rate does not prove that splashing it will improve your deck.

Best with

Adjusted associations, ranked by confidence.

Airbending Lesson+7.5 pp4,555 games with both in the deck · 1,094 both drawnAccumulate Wisdom+4.1 pp9,993 games with both in the deck · 2,631 both drawn
How to read this

Observational, not a causal bonus. Both cards must be in the deck. Drawn means opening hand or normally drawn; each card counts once per game. Game-level approximate intervals do not account for repeated games by the same drafter.

At least 100 games in each of four drawn/not-drawn groups; adjusted for game length and screened by the lower confidence bound. Do not add these points to a card’s win rate.

Where it sits in the set

Above 53% of 289 nonland cards with 100+ instances, in win-rate order.

30% or lowerWin rate94% or higher

17Lands public datasets ↗ · CC BY 4.0 ↗ · Nov 18–Dec 31, 2025

Collect

1 printingScryfall USD, snapshot Oct 25Pack odds →

Pick a printing for its prices and pull odds.

Prices

TLA 0238 · Regular printingListings ↗
FinishFound inPrice
NonfoilPlay Booster · Collector Booster · jumpstart$0.13
FoilPlay Booster · Collector Booster$0.28

Foil in a Play Booster · Modeled · About 1 in 299 packs (0.33%) · 9.6% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

Nonfoil in a Play Booster · Modeled · About 1 in 30 packs (3.29%) · 63.3% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

Foil in a Collector Booster · Modeled · About 1 in 37 packs (2.73%) · 28.2% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

Nonfoil in a jumpstart · Modeled · About 1 in 22 packs (4.55%) · 67.3% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

How to pull it

Official rates for the whole category, not this card.

BoosterSlotPer packCategory
Play BoosterUncommons96.4% per positionMain set uncommon
Play BoosterWildcard74.1%Main set uncommon
Play BoosterFoil card36.7%Main set uncommon
Collector BoosterFoil uncommons100% per positionMain set uncommon

Wizards · Collecting Avatar: The Last Airbender ↗ · Oct 28, 2025

Details & sources

Legal in
Standard · Historic · Timeless · Pioneer · Modern · Legacy · Vintage · CommanderLimited eligibility depends on the event and its booster pool.
Illustration
Pauline Voss, TLA 238 · Scryfall ↗
More like this
Combat Lessons cards → · Regular printing printings →
Sources
Wizards · Collecting Avatar: The Last Airbender · Oct 28, 2025
Scryfall USD, snapshot Oct 25
Comprehensive Rules ↗