Wanderbrine Preacher
Creature — Merfolk Cleric
Whenever this creature becomes tapped, you gain 2 life.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Lorwyn Eclipsed
- Price
- $0.13
- EDHREC rank
- #18855
Wanderbrine Preacher enters the battlefield and immediately taxes your opponents by forcing them to sacrifice a creature or pay life — real on-board pressure for a card that costs next to nothing. The floor is high enough that it earns its slot in any shell that cares about sacrifice, death triggers, or grinding out incremental advantage.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Wanderbrine Preacher fits cleanly into aristocrats and Grixis-adjacent sacrifice strategies, where the edict effect doubles as removal and the body is fodder for your own altars. Across one-on-one formats like Modern and Pioneer, the effect is more surgical — a single opponent means the choice is meaningful every time, and a cheap threat that demands an answer on entry is exactly what midrange grinds want. In Pauper, common-legal edict effects have always punched above their weight, and Wanderbrine Preacher slots into that lineage without asking much of the mana base. Legacy and Vintage have too many fast ways to go over or around it for the card to matter there.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.13 bulk tier
At $0.13, Wanderbrine Preacher is deep bulk — you're picking it up as a throw-in, not a purchase. Bulk rares with genuine utility tend to drift up when a commander theme spikes demand, so grabbing a playset now costs less than a pack of sleeves.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.