Wandering Mind
Creature — Horror
Flying
When this creature enters, look at the top six cards of your library. You may reveal a noncreature, nonland card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- RU
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Innistrad: Double Feature
- Price
- $0.24
- EDHREC rank
- #19257
Wandering Mind trades card selection for card advantage — it looks at four and keeps two, which is a meaningful haul for two mana if you can trigger it more than once. The ceiling is high in spell-heavy decks; the floor is a mediocre looter if you never replay it.
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 |
In Commander, Wandering Mind earns its slot in spellslinger and prowess-style decks that can recur or copy it, where repeated triggers compound the card advantage fast. In Modern and Legacy, two mana for a conditional impulse draw is too slow against the format's threats unless you're in a dedicated spells-matter shell that can chain casts. Pioneer is the format most likely to find a home for it — the power ceiling is lower and the card selection more meaningful — but it still competes with cleaner draw spells at the same cost. Wandering Mind is a card for decks that build around it, not a generic slot-filler.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.24 bulk tier
At $0.24, Wandering Mind is pure bulk — low acquisition cost means zero barrier to testing it. Bulk rares with narrow applications tend to stay cheap unless a breakout deck pushes demand, so don't expect movement.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.