Daring Waverider
Creature — Otter Wizard
When this creature enters, you may cast target instant or sorcery card with mana value 4 or less from your graveyard without paying its mana cost. If that spell would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead.
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Bloomburrow
- Price
- $0.21
- EDHREC rank
- #8542
Daring Waverider enters as a 4/4 or larger the moment you've cast an instant or sorcery this turn, which in any spell-heavy blue deck is the default state, not an edge case. Alania, Divergent Storm is the defining home — cast your first instant, drop a free 4/4, and keep the chain going.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Alania, Divergent Storm
Alania, Divergent Storm wants you casting instants and sorceries every single turn, so Daring Waverider arrives as a 4/4 on-curve almost automatically — it's a free body bolted onto the storm engine Alania is already running.
Bria, Riptide Rogue
Bria, Riptide Rogue leans on evasive creatures to connect and trigger her cipher-style effects, and Daring Waverider's above-rate stats make it a reliable threat to put in the air after the first spell resolves.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Daring Waverider slots cleanly into any Izzet or blue-heavy spell-slinger list — the condition is trivially easy to meet and a 4/4 for three mana outperforms most creatures at that slot. Outside Commander, the card is legal in Standard, Pioneer, Modern, and Legacy, but a vanilla-adjacent creature that requires a prerequisite cast has a low ceiling in competitive 60-card formats where tempo is punished hard. Pauper is the only format where it's off the table entirely. Stick to Commander; that's where the condition stops being a condition and starts being a given.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.21 bulk tier
At $0.21, Daring Waverider is clean bulk — you're buying a playset for less than a dollar. Bulk rares with narrow commander homes rarely appreciate, so grab copies for the decks that want it and don't expect the price to move.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.