First printed in Final Fantasy (2025)
Legendary Creature — Human Bard
Lands you control enter untapped.
The Minstrel's Ballad — At the beginning of combat on your turn, if you control five or more Towns, create a 2/2 Elemental creature token that's all colors.
: Other creatures you control get +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of Towns you control.
1/3
- Illustrated by
- Thanh Tuấn
Legality
- Legal in
- Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Future Standard, Historic, Timeless, Alchemy, Penny Dreadful, Gladiator, Commander, Duel Commander, Tiny Leaders, Oathbreaker, Brawl, Standard Brawl, Competitive Brawl
- Not legal in
- Pauper, Premodern, Old School 93/94, Pauper Commander, PreDH
Rulings (4)
- The Wandering Minstrel's second ability checks at the moment it would trigger to see if you control five or more Towns. If you don't, the ability won't trigger at all. If it does trigger, the ability will check again as it tries to resolve. If you don't control five or more Towns at that time, the ability won't resolve and none of its effects will happen.
- If The Wandering Minstrel would enter the battlefield at the same time a land you control would enter the battlefield tapped, that land still enters the battlefield tapped.
- The value of X is calculated only once, as The Wandering Minstrel's last ability resolves.
- If a land has an ability that says it enters the battlefield tapped, you choose the order in which that ability's effect and The Wandering Minstrel's effect apply. This means you can choose to have the land enter tapped or untapped. If a land you control is simply put onto the battlefield tapped without a replacement effect being applied, it always enters untapped if you control The Wandering Minstrel.
Prices
MTGO price: 0.006 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 1 Nov 2026).
In Limited on MTG Arena
Win rates in Arena drafts and sealed, retrieved from 17Lands (CC BY 4.0).
| Set | GIH WR | vs set | IWD | Games |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Final Fantasy (FIN), Premier Draft | 56.1% | +0.4 | +6.7 | 8119 |
- GIH WR
- win rate of the games in which the card was in the opening hand or drawn
- vs set
- points above or below the average win rate of all decks in the set
- IWD
- improvement when drawn: GIH WR minus the win rate when the card stayed in the library
- Games
- games in which the card was seen
Combos
458 combos, the most popular first:
- Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature sacrifice triggers…: Aftermath Analyst + Shifting Woodland + Sylvan Safekeeper + The Wandering Minstrel
- Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature sacrifice triggers…: Aftermath Analyst + Shifting Woodland + The Wandering Minstrel + Zuran Orb
- Infinite colored mana, Infinite mana lands you control can produce…: Aftermath Analyst + Echoing Deeps + Lotus Field + Shifting Woodland + The Wandering Minstrel
- Infinite creature ETB, Infinite death triggers…: Lumra, Bellow of the Woods + Mirrorpool + Sylvan Safekeeper + The Wandering Minstrel
- Infinite creature tokens, Infinite landfall triggers…: Dryad of the Ilysian Grove + Simic Growth Chamber + Springheart Nantuko + The Wandering Minstrel
- Infinite creature ETB, Infinite death triggers…: Lumra, Bellow of the Woods + Mirrorpool + The Wandering Minstrel + Zuran Orb
- Infinite creature ETB, Infinite death triggers…: Lumra, Bellow of the Woods + Mirrorpool + Squandered Resources + The Wandering Minstrel
- Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature tokens…: Icetill Explorer + Simic Growth Chamber + Springheart Nantuko + The Wandering Minstrel
- Infinite lifegain triggers, Infinite lifegain…: Mirrorpool + Splendid Reclamation + The Wandering Minstrel + Zuran Orb
- Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature tokens…: Dryad of the Ilysian Grove + Golgari Rot Farm + Springheart Nantuko + The Wandering Minstrel