Civic Wayfinder
Creature — Elf Druid Warrior
When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Duels of the Planeswalkers
- Price
- $0.08
- EDHREC rank
- #18072
Civic Wayfinder is a 2/2 body that fetches a basic Forest to hand — ramp and a blocker stapled together for three mana. Strictly worse than Elvish Visionary or Wood Elves in most shells, but it earns its slot anywhere that wants a creature subtype, ETB triggers, or just needs the cheapest possible land-fetch on legs.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Civic Wayfinder sees virtually no play in Legacy, Vintage, or Modern — those formats have faster, cleaner ramp that doesn't ask you to spend three mana on a 2/2. Pauper is its most competitive home, where the common restriction levels the field and bodies that replace themselves have genuine value. In Commander, Civic Wayfinder is a budget slot-filler in creature-heavy green decks that want redundant ETB ramp triggers — think Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait or Muldrotha, the Gravetide builds that chain bodies through the graveyard — but it's firmly the last card in before you start cutting.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.08 bulk tier
At $0.08, Civic Wayfinder is pure bulk — buy a playset for pocket change or pull it out of any common box. There's no financial case to think about here; just grab it if you need it and move on.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.