---
name: "Zirda, the Dawnwaker"
mana_cost: "{1}{R/W}{R/W}"
cmc: 3
type_line: "Legendary Creature — Elemental Fox"
colors: []
color_identity: ["R", "W"]
keywords: ["Companion"]
set: "PIKO"
set_name: "Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths Promos"
collector_number: "233p"
rarity: "rare"
artist: "Jesper Ejsing"
oracle_id: "7b515c56-7b1e-42a8-82b0-1b30201fb162"
canonical_url: "https://avascry.com/printing/zirda-the-dawnwaker-piko"
legalities:
  commander: "legal"
  standard: "not_legal"
  modern: "legal"
  pioneer: "legal"
  legacy: "banned"
  vintage: "legal"
  pauper: "not_legal"
  penny: "legal"
---

# Zirda, the Dawnwaker
- **Mana Cost:** `{1}{R/W}{R/W}` (CMC: 3)
- **Type:** Legendary Creature — Elemental Fox
- **Keywords:** Companion

## Oracle Text
Companion — Each permanent card in your starting deck has an activated ability. (If this card is your chosen companion, you may put it into your hand from outside the game for {3} as a sorcery.)
Abilities you activate that aren't mana abilities cost {2} less to activate. This effect can't reduce the mana in that cost to less than one mana.
{1}, {T}: Target creature can't block this turn.

## Top 4096-Dim Neural Synergies
1. [Jegantha, the Wellspring](/printing/jegantha-the-wellspring-ecc.md) — Legendary Creature — Elemental Elk
2. [Kaheera, the Orphanguard](/printing/kaheera-the-orphanguard-iko.md) — Legendary Creature — Cat Beast
3. [Umori, the Collector](/printing/umori-the-collector-iko.md) — Legendary Creature — Ooze
4. [The Companion of the Wilds](/printing/the-companion-of-the-wilds-unk.md) — Legendary Creature — Beast Noble
5. [Heartstone](/printing/heartstone-sth.md) — Artifact
6. [Lurrus of the Dream-Den](/printing/lurrus-of-the-dream-den-iko.md) — Legendary Creature — Cat Nightmare

## Printing Details
- **Set:** Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths Promos (PIKO) #233p
- **Rarity:** Rare
- **Artist:** Jesper Ejsing
- **Total Printings:** 9 across all historical editions

## Format Legalities
Commander: `legal` | Standard: `not_legal` | Modern: `legal` | Pioneer: `legal` | Legacy: `banned` | Vintage: `legal` | Pauper: `not_legal` | Penny: `legal`

## Official Rulings
- *(2020-04-17)* Activated abilities contain a colon. They're generally written "[Cost]: [Effect]." Some keyword abilities are activated abilities (such as cycling) and will have colons in their reminder text.
- *(2020-04-17)* If you reveal a companion outside the game, for as long as it remains there, you may pay {3} any time you could cast a sorcery (that is, you have priority during your main phase and the stack is empty). Once you do, you put it into your hand and behaves like any other card you've brought into the game. For example, if it's discard, countered, or destroyed, it's put into your graveyard, remaining in the game. This is a change from previous rules.
- *(2020-04-17)* Before shuffling your deck to become your library, you may reveal one card from outside the game to be your companion if your starting deck meets the requirements of the companion ability. You can't reveal more than one. It remains revealed outside the game as the game begins.
- *(2020-04-17)* The companion ability has no effect if the card is in your starting deck and creates no restriction on putting a card with a companion ability into your starting deck. For example, Zirda may be in your starting deck even if your other permanent cards don't all have activated abilities.
- *(2020-04-17)* Activating Zirda's last ability after a creature has blocked won't remove the blocking creature from combat or cause the creature it blocked to become unblocked.
- *(2020-04-17)* If more than one player wishes to reveal a companion, the starting player does so first, and players proceed in turn order. Once a player has chosen not to reveal a companion, that player can't change their mind.