Watcher of the Wayside
Artifact Creature — Golem
When this creature enters, target player mills two cards. You gain 2 life. (To mill two cards, a player puts the top two cards of their library into their graveyard.)
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Tarkir: Dragonstorm
- Price
- $0.06
- EDHREC rank
- #16159
Watcher of the Wayside is a vanilla 1/2 with upside that arrives too slowly and hits too softly to matter in any competitive context. The vigilance it accumulates is real, but a three-mana 1/2 that needs spells cast to grow is doing the work of a card slot that could just be a better threat.
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, Watcher of the Wayside is too fragile and too slow — a 1/2 body for three mana is below rate before it grows, and counting spells cast by all players helps it catch up, but it still dies to any stiff breeze before it becomes relevant. In Pauper, the common slot is brutally competitive and Watcher of the Wayside doesn't clear the bar that cards like Kor Skyfisher or Seeker of the Way set. Standard and Pioneer are the only contexts where a low-power spell-matters creature might see fringe play in a dedicated go-wide or heroic shell, but even there it lacks evasion to close games.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.06 bulk tier
At $0.06, Watcher of the Wayside is deep bulk — the kind of card that fills a binder page rather than a deck slot. There's no price pressure driving it up, so it stays at this floor indefinitely.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.