Wayfaring Temple
Creature — Elemental
Wayfaring Temple's power and toughness are each equal to the number of creatures you control.
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, populate. (Create a token that's a copy of a creature token you control.)
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- GW
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Modern Masters 2017
- Price
- $0.15
- EDHREC rank
- #11111
Wayfaring Temple scales to whatever creature count you've already built — in a wide-board deck it's threatening a one-card populate trigger every combat, and Ghired, Conclave Exile turns that into an exponential token engine. The cost is real: a three-mana 0/0 that dies to any board wipe before you've built a board is a liability, and Mayael's Aria comparisons aside, this card does nothing alone.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Ghired, Conclave Exile
Wayfaring Temple deals combat damage to a player, Ghired, Conclave Exile populates — those two abilities stack into a self-reinforcing loop where each token you copy makes the Temple bigger and the next populate more impactful.
Trostani, Selesnya's Voice
Trostani, Selesnya's Voice gains life on every token enter, so Wayfaring Temple's combat-damage populate trigger doubles as a life gain engine — the bigger the board, the bigger the Temple, the bigger the copied token, the more life you bank.
Ghalta and Mavren
Ghalta and Mavren rewards you for attacking with multiple creatures, and Wayfaring Temple naturally grows into a massive threat in that same wide-attack context, making it a clean fit for the deck's go-wide-and-swing gameplan.
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 |
Wayfaring Temple is a Commander card — it needs a board state to do anything, and Commander is the format that reliably provides one. In a 100-card singleton format full of token generators and populate payoffs, it's a reasonable threat in the right shell. In Modern or Legacy, a three-mana 0/0 that requires you to already be winning to be good doesn't survive the efficiency bar those formats impose — it's technically legal but not competitive. Pioneer is the same story. Oathbreaker could support it in a tokens-focused pairing, but Commander remains the obvious home.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Mayael's AriaStorm HerdWayfaring Temple
Win the game at the beginning of your next upkeep
View on Commander Spellbook ↗Price Context
Current price
$0.15 bulk tier
At $0.15, Wayfaring Temple is bulk — pure throw-it-in-a-deck territory with no barrier to entry. Bulk enchantments with narrow homes rarely appreciate, so don't expect it to move.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.