Wandering Stream
Sorcery
Domain — You gain 2 life for each basic land type among lands you control.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Invasion
- Price
- $0.18
- EDHREC rank
- #28659
Wandering Stream gives you 4 life spread across your choice of permanents — relevant in lifegain-matters builds, irrelevant everywhere else. At four mana for a sorcery with no board presence, it earns a slot only if your commander explicitly rewards gaining life multiple times in a turn.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Wandering Stream is a Commander card through and through — the format's longer games and lifegain commanders like Oloro, Ageless Ascetic or Willowdusk, Essence Seer give it a context where distributing life actually triggers something. In Pauper it's legal but competes with far more efficient lifegain options at common, and the sorcery speed plus four-mana cost price it out of any serious deck. Legacy and Vintage won't touch it — the effect is too small and too slow for formats defined by explosive turns. Stick to Commander, and even there, run it only if your gameplan counts each individual life-gain event.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.18 bulk tier
At $0.18, Wandering Stream is pure bulk — you're not paying for power, you're paying for cardboard. Bulk commons don't appreciate; grab a copy if the deck calls for it and don't think twice about the cost.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.