Pale Wayfarer
Creature — Spirit Giant
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: Target creature gains protection from the color of its controller's choice until end of turn. ( is the untap symbol.)
- CMC
- 7
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Shadowmoor
- Price
- $0.12
- EDHREC rank
- #29790
Pale Wayfarer is a 4/4 with vigilance and the ability to grant another creature protection from a chosen color until end of turn — useful in combat math, less useful on a five-mana body in a format where that rate barely registers. It's a fringe include at best, and most decks have cleaner ways to protect key pieces.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Pale Wayfarer occupies the low end of playability — the protection ability has genuine situational value in combat or as a counterspell shield, but five mana for a 4/4 with no enters-the-battlefield effect is a hard sell in a 100-card format full of competition. Legacy and Vintage are non-starters; the rate is unplayable at any level of those formats. Modern similarly has no interest in a five-mana vanilla-adjacent creature. Pale Wayfarer is a Commander-only conversation, and even there it earns its slot only in decks that specifically care about granting protection repeatedly or triggering on that effect.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.12 bulk tier
At $0.12, Pale Wayfarer sits firmly in bulk territory — you'll find it in a commons box before you'd pay to ship it. Bulk rares rarely appreciate unless a new commander gives them a specific home, and nothing about Pale Wayfarer's text suggests that breakout moment is coming.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.