The Wandering Minstrel

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The Wandering Minstrel: Legendary Creature - Human Bard, Final Fantasy. Lands you control enter untapped. Printings, prices, and format legality on Mana Grove.

Mana cost
{G}{U}
Mana value
2
Type
Legendary Creature - Human Bard
Colour identity
White, blue, black, red and green (WUBRG)
Power / toughness
1/3
Rarity
Rare
Set
Final Fantasy (FIN)
Released
2025-06-13
Collector number
249
Artist
Thanh Tuấn
Commander rank
6,113 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
Commander
Can be your commander

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About The Wandering Minstrel

The Wandering Minstrel is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare white, blue, black, red and green legendary creature from Final Fantasy (FIN), an expansion set released in June 2025. It is collector number 249 in that set, with art by Thanh Tuấn. It costs {G}{U} (one blue and one green mana) to cast, for a mana value of 2. It is a 1/3 creature. Its colour identity is white, blue, black, red and green. It is legal in Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, Brawl, Standard Brawl, Historic, Timeless, Alchemy, Gladiator and Penny Dreadful. It has been printed in 2 sets. It can be your commander. The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.31 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-02).

Card text

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.

{3}{W}{U}{B}{R}{G}: Other creatures you control get +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of Towns you control.

Market price

Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.31 (as of 2026-11-02).

The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.

Format legality

Legality of The Wandering Minstrel by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.

StandardLegal
PioneerLegal
ModernLegal
LegacyLegal
VintageLegal
CommanderLegal
Duel CommanderLegal
OathbreakerLegal
BrawlLegal
Standard BrawlLegal
HistoricLegal
TimelessLegal
AlchemyLegal
GladiatorLegal
Penny DreadfulLegal

Other printings of The Wandering Minstrel

The Wandering Minstrel has been printed in 2 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.

PrintingRarityYear
Final Fantasy (FIN) #403Rare2025
Final Fantasy (FIN) #515Rare2025
Final Fantasy (FIN) #548Rare2025
Final Fantasy Promos (PFIN) #249sRare2025

Official rulings

Four official rulings apply to The Wandering Minstrel, newest first.

  • 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.

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