I think there can be some use for this card. It searches for any land, provided you are down a land. This may seem like it would only be good in some situations but actually I think you can manipulate your land count to use it whenever you want. Namely, you can crack a fetchland, to drop one land below your opponent, and then tap the Wayfarer in response to that. Or you can run lands such as Horizon Canopy.
I want to use this card somewhere, but I'm not sure where.
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There might be plenty of them to use, but it is often correct to just play Knight of the Reliquary to get those lands into play instead of having them take up land drops. Plus, Wayfarer has the stipulation that you are behind on lands, which makes it noticeably worse. If Wayfarer is your main engine, what do you do if you flood out or your opponent is mana screwed?
Well, it comes down much earlier than Knight. Plus, it's not trying to compete with the Knight. I realize they do similar things, but the Wayfarer doesn't function as a beater or utility. It's solely an engine that comes down very early and finds lands. There may be the occasional game where it doesn't work, maybe because of flood or screw, or if your opponent is playing a very tight curve, but if you get screwed you get screwed and if your opponent is playing Affinity just side the darn thing out.
I guess I'm still the only person who sees potential outside of broken format staples.
Even if that potential doesn't live up to the hype, I see no reason why not to try.
I used to use it in a UW shell, using it with Azorius Chancery and in response to fetches to hit Baneslayer on curve in a deck with 22 lands. Its a good card, but the deck played 4 MD jittes so I don't think its viable anymore
I used to use it in a UW shell, using it with Azorius Chancery and in response to fetches to hit Baneslayer on curve in a deck with 22 lands. Its a good card, but the deck played 4 MD jittes so I don't think its viable anymore
That's definitely the kind of thing I'm talking about. It can be very good in this way.
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1/1's with situational abilities are not something I can get behind myself. Unless the happen to be flying insects out of the blue.
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I tried him in an Emeria Control variant to (attempt to) find Emeria, the Sky Ruin as well as other utility lands. In a deck that aims for the long game and to have more lands that some low-curve deck, he wasn't much good beyond Turns 1-2. Even then, the body sucked big-time.
I'm sure he can find a home in a lower-curve deck that likes specific lands. But I sure didn't find one in the deck I was building.
The only application I can see this in is some sort of aggressive boros deck that abuses landfall triggers with steppe lynx or plated geopede. However I dont think you will even want wayfarer in a deck like that.
I really like WW, so I have tried to make use of it in several builds. It always comes down to space for me, and often it gets cut for something that helps the deck more. My suspicion is that it could have a place in a deck that has a little space and is not doing anything turn one, but so far the both have no been the case for me at the same time.
The 1/1 body has almost no relevance in modern and we have 100 better ways to find lands that can't be bolted.
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he used to be good at searching up tron pieces. but thats too slow for modern
he'd be good if they reprinted wasteland. otherwise, no. his too low impact for aggro decks, and control decks need to hit land drops so his restriction will quickly apply.
and honestly, there arent that good search targets. horizon canopy is cute, but why arent you just playing kotr?
i just like the fact that you can be on tempo, crack one of your fetch lands, and before it resolves you use this guys ability and get an extra land into your hand and then your fetch land gives you your land onto the field. Although wayfarer hasnt done so well in my landfall decks since he turns out to be a bit more of a long term plan in a deck that wants to win asap.
I don't know. Maybe drawing an extra card every turn is good enough to cost one white.
This card is fantastic on the draw and stellar with Aether Vial. It's always going to cost, at the most, the same amount of mana that your opponent pays to remove it. It has synergy with Ponder and Fathom Seer. It's also stellar with Path to Exile--you feed your opponent mana and then capitalize by drawing cards.
People aren't playing this card for 2 reasons:
1. Nobody is playing Modern in tournaments.
2. Most people are generally unable to understand that this is a white Dark Confidant because they have never seen the card in action.
I think there can be some use for this card. It searches for any land, provided you are down a land. This may seem like it would only be good in some situations but actually I think you can manipulate your land count to use it whenever you want. Namely, you can crack a fetchland, to drop one land below your opponent, and then tap the Wayfarer in response to that. Or you can run lands such as Horizon Canopy.
I want to use this card somewhere, but I'm not sure where.
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I guess I'm still the only person who sees potential outside of broken format staples.
Even if that potential doesn't live up to the hype, I see no reason why not to try.
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That's definitely the kind of thing I'm talking about. It can be very good in this way.
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I'm sure he can find a home in a lower-curve deck that likes specific lands. But I sure didn't find one in the deck I was building.
The other option is fetching utility lands in a white weenie based aggro deck such as Blinkmoth nexus, Forbidding watchtower, moorland haunt, pendelhaven.
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he'd be good if they reprinted wasteland. otherwise, no. his too low impact for aggro decks, and control decks need to hit land drops so his restriction will quickly apply.
and honestly, there arent that good search targets. horizon canopy is cute, but why arent you just playing kotr?
He wasn't in Proclamation.
Good enough for Legacy. 4-of in a lot of Wx decks like Maverick or Death and Taxes.
I don't know. Maybe drawing an extra card every turn is good enough to cost one white.
This card is fantastic on the draw and stellar with Aether Vial. It's always going to cost, at the most, the same amount of mana that your opponent pays to remove it. It has synergy with Ponder and Fathom Seer. It's also stellar with Path to Exile--you feed your opponent mana and then capitalize by drawing cards.
People aren't playing this card for 2 reasons:
1. Nobody is playing Modern in tournaments.
2. Most people are generally unable to understand that this is a white Dark Confidant because they have never seen the card in action.