Wanderlight Spirit
Creature — Spirit
Flying
This creature can block only creatures with flying.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Innistrad: Double Feature
- Price
- $0.07
- EDHREC rank
- #29079
Wanderlight Spirit is a budget-tier evasion piece that trades board presence for card selection — a 2/1 flyer that lets you scry whenever it deals combat damage to a player. The cost is real: a 2/1 for three mana is well below rate, and scry 1 is not card draw.
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 |
Wanderlight Spirit is a fringe Pauper consideration at best, where evasive commons that generate incremental value have a real home — but even there, the body is too small and the payoff too thin to compete. In Commander, it rarely earns a slot: scry 1 on damage requires combat to connect repeatedly, which is exactly when opponents start chumping or targeting the creature. Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, and Vintage have no interest in a three-mana 2/1 with conditional scry; those formats demand raw power Wanderlight Spirit cannot offer.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.07 bulk tier
At $0.07, Wanderlight Spirit is deep bulk — you're not buying it, you're finding it at the bottom of a collection box. There is no price floor to protect here, and demand is low enough that the value is unlikely to move in either direction.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.