Wayfarer's Bauble
Artifact
, 
, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Commander 2013
- Price
- $0.30
- EDHREC rank
- #114
Wayfarer's Bauble puts a basic land onto the battlefield tapped for two mana and a sacrifice — slow by green ramp standards, but it's the best option colorless and artifact-matters decks have for land-based ramp. Ashnod the Uncaring doubles its activated ability, which turns a one-land fetch into two lands for the same investment and makes the Bauble genuinely efficient rather than a consolation prize.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Ashnod the Uncaring
Ashnod the Uncaring's ability to copy activated abilities means Wayfarer's Bauble fetches two basics for two mana and a single sacrifice — that's Cultivate efficiency on an artifact, which is exactly what a colorless-adjacent artifact-matters build needs.
Glissa, the Traitor
Glissa, the Traitor returns artifacts from graveyards to hand whenever an opponent's creature dies, so Wayfarer's Bauble becomes a repeatable land-fetch engine — sacrifice it for a land, wait for a creature to die, pick it back up and do it again.
Gogo, Master of Mimicry
Gogo, Master of Mimicry cares about artifacts entering and leaving play, and Wayfarer's Bauble is a cheap, self-sacrificing artifact that generates value on both sides of that transaction — it fixes mana while also triggering whatever Gogo has set up.
Syr Ginger, the Meal Ender
Syr Ginger, the Meal Ender gets +1/+1 counters whenever a noncreature artifact is put into a graveyard, so Wayfarer's Bauble is a one-mana activation that both ramps and grows the commander.
Firkraag, Cunning Instigator
Firkraag, Cunning Instigator is a mono-red commander with no natural access to land ramp, making Wayfarer's Bauble one of the few tools available to smooth out mana and hit land drops without relying purely on rocks.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Wayfarer's Bauble earns its keep — artifact-matters commanders treat it as a functional ramp spell, and colorless or near-colorless decks have almost nothing better for putting lands into play. In Pauper it sees occasional play in slower artifact or sacrifice shells, though green has strictly better options at common and usually takes the ramp slots. Legacy and Vintage are non-starters; two mana for a tapped basic is laughably slow in formats where turn-one and turn-two are already decided. Wayfarer's Bauble is a Commander card through and through, and it's correct in a narrower slice of those decks than its ubiquity suggests.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.30 bulk tier
At $0.30, Wayfarer's Bauble is pure bulk — pick up a copy from any random common bin without thinking twice. It's been reprinted frequently enough that the price is unlikely to spike, and you should never pay more than a dollar for one under any circumstances.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.