Wandering Champion
Creature — Human Monk
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, if you control a blue or red permanent, you may discard a card. If you do, draw a card.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Ultimate Masters
- Price
- $0.04
- EDHREC rank
- #28181
Wandering Champion is a two-mana 2/1 that filters cards when it deals combat damage to a player — conditional draw stapled to an understatted body. The condition (requiring another multicolored permanent) and the fragility make it a fringe roleplayer at best, outclassed by nearly every other draw engine at the same cost.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Wandering Champion is a borderline inclusion — the multicolored-permanent requirement is easy to satisfy in most builds, but a 2/1 for two rarely survives long enough to draw more than one card in a multiplayer game with three opponents packing removal. In Pauper it competes directly with the format's deep pool of efficient commons and doesn't make the cut outside very specific multicolored aggro shells. Legacy, Vintage, and Modern have zero interest in a conditional cantrip body this slow. Pioneer is the closest thing to a home if a Boros or Naya aggro shell ever needed the effect, but it doesn't. Wandering Champion is a Commander card for multicolored-matters decks, and even there it's a role-player, not a staple.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.04 bulk tier
At $0.04, Wandering Champion is deep bulk — you're paying for the cardboard, not the card. That price is stable in the sense that there's nowhere lower to go, but don't expect demand to push it up; it sees too little competitive play to move off the bulk table.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.