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Kwain, Itinerant Meddler

Legendary Creature — Rabbit Wizard

{T}: Each player may draw a card, then each player who drew a card this way gains 1 life.

CMC
2
Mana cost
{W}{U}
Color identity
UW
Rarity
rare
Set
Bloomburrow Commander
Price
$0.38
EDHREC rank
#2280
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Kwain, Itinerant Meddler card art
Kwain, Itinerant Meddler turns a two-mana body into a repeatable group-draw engine — every player draws a card and gains a life for one mana and a tap, which is powerful enough on its own but becomes a kill condition the moment you pair it with Mind Over Matter or any untap loop. The cost is real: giving opponents cards hands them resources too, so Kwain, Itinerant Meddler belongs in decks that convert the shared draw into a win faster than anyone else at the table, not in goodstuff piles that just want value.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Ms. Bumbleflower

Ms. Bumbleflower

52.4% of decks · synergy 0.45

Ms. Bumbleflower is built to give opponents cards and life and then punish them for it, making Kwain, Itinerant Meddler a natural fit — the two stack their triggered effects so every activation of Kwain pushes the table closer to the threshold Ms. Bumbleflower's payoffs demand.

02
Sokrates, Athenian Teacher

Sokrates, Athenian Teacher

46.8% of decks · synergy 0.41

Sokrates, Athenian Teacher rewards players for drawing cards, and Kwain, Itinerant Meddler supplies the table-wide draw triggers that Sokrates's symmetrical engine wants to maximize. The combination turns each activation into a classroom full of triggers rather than a single cantrip.

03
The Council of Four

The Council of Four

45.4% of decks · synergy 0.39

The Council of Four creates tokens when opponents draw their second card each turn, and Kwain, Itinerant Meddler can manufacture those second draws on demand, flooding the board with 2/2s on your own schedule.

04

Heliod, the Radiant Dawn

42.8% of decks · synergy 0.37

Heliod, the Radiant Dawn cares about lifegain triggers, and every Kwain, Itinerant Meddler activation hands a life to every player — including you — turning a draw engine into a constellation of Heliod payoffs with a single tap.

05
Phelddagrif

Phelddagrif

41.2% of decks · synergy 0.33

Phelddagrif is the original group-hug commander, and Kwain, Itinerant Meddler fits that shell because the life-and-draw gift it hands the table accelerates the political goodwill Phelddagrif decks trade in.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern not legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Kwain, Itinerant Meddler is a Commander card through and through — the symmetrical draw is a liability in one-on-one formats but a political tool and combo enabler in a four-player pod. In Legacy and Vintage, where it's technically legal, a two-mana 1/3 that requires a mana and a tap to cantrip for everyone is far too slow and too generous to see play. Oathbreaker is the only other format where Kwain, Itinerant Meddler might show up, and even there it needs an untap combo to justify the slot. Commander is where all the serious Kwain discussion happens, and specifically in shells that can close the game before the cards you gave away become a problem.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

1,323 decks
Mind Over MatterKwain, Itinerant Meddler

Mind Over MatterKwain, Itinerant Meddler

Infinite looting; Infinite self-discard triggers; Infinite draw triggers; Near-infinite card draw for each opponent; Near-infinite draw triggers for each opponent; Near-infinite lifegain; Near-infinite lifegain triggers; Near-infinite draw triggers for target opponent; Near-infinite lifegain triggers for opponents; Near-infinite lifegain for opponents

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The Locust GodIntruder AlarmKwain, Itinerant Meddler

The Locust GodIntruder AlarmKwain, Itinerant Meddler

Infinite card draw for all players; Infinite draw triggers for all players; Near-infinite creature tokens with haste; Near-infinite ETB; Near-infinite lifegain for all players; Near-infinite lifegain triggers for all players; Near-infinite untap of all creatures

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Price Context

Current price

$0.38 bulk tier

At $0.38, Kwain, Itinerant Meddler is firmly bulk — easy to pick up as a throw-in or cheap addition to any group-hug or combo order. The price reflects broad supply rather than low demand; it shows up in a large number of decks, so don't expect it to spike, but you're not paying a premium to play it either.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.