Walker of the Wastes
Creature — Eldrazi
(
represents colorless mana.)
Trample
This creature gets +1/+1 for each land you control named Wastes.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Oath of the Gatewatch
- Price
- $0.29
- EDHREC rank
- #15663
Walker of the Wastes is a payoff card that scales directly with your Wastes count — every basic land with that subtype adds +1/+1 and pushes through damage as trample. The catch is total format dependency: outside a dedicated Wastes shell, it's a vanilla 3/3 for five with nothing to offer.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Walker of the Wastes is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but competitive constructed formats have no interest in it — five mana for a conditional beater doesn't clear the bar in any of them. Commander is where Walker of the Wastes actually functions, and specifically in colorless decks built around Wastes as a land base, where a commander like Kozilek, the Great Distortion or Emrakul's Evangel-adjacent strategies stack enough Wastes to make the bonus meaningful. Outside that narrow shell, it doesn't make the cut even in casual pods.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.29 bulk tier
At $0.29, Walker of the Wastes is pure bulk — appropriate for a card with a one-deck use case. There's no pressure to buy in now or later; it will stay at this floor as long as Wastes-tribal remains a fringe archetype.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.