Wandering Archaic // Explore the Vastlands

Wandering Archaic // Explore the Vastlands

Creature — Avatar // Sorcery

Mana cost: {5}

How we read this card

Whenever an opponent casts an instant or sorcery spell, they may pay {2}. If they don't, you may copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

triggered — taxes the table

triggered — copies a spell

Each player looks at the top five cards of their library and may reveal a land card and/or an instant or sorcery card from among them. Each player puts the cards they revealed this way into their hand and the rest on the bottom of their library in a random order. Each player gains 3 life.

on-cast — gains you 3 life

Causes: copy a spell, gain life.

Cares about: an instant is cast, a sorcery is cast.

Works well with

a spell is copied — 122 cards in the game can cause this (Wandering Archaic is one).

When Wandering Archaic // Explore the Vastlands is copied:

  1. Parnesse, the Subtle Brush — copies a spell
  2. The Twelfth Doctor — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  3. Curse of Shaken Faith — deals 2 damage

life is gained — 2,076 cards in the game can cause this (Wandering Archaic is one).

When Wandering Archaic // Explore the Vastlands gains life:

  1. Dina, Soul Steeper — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  2. Marina Vendrell's Grimoire — draws you that many cards
  3. South Wind Avatar — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  4. Rodolf Duskbringer — grants indestructible
  5. Fiendish Panda — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  6. Veinwitch Coven — brings a card back
  7. Cleric Class — puts a counter on a creature
  8. Lich's Mastery — draws you that many cards
  9. Wall of Limbs — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  10. Ratchet, Field Medic // Ratchet, Rescue Racer — triggers

84 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a sorcery it makes cheaper to cast — 3,585 cards in the game can cause this.

  1. Primal Amulet // Primal Wellspring — Primal Amulet // Primal Wellspring reduces what Wandering Archaic // Explore the Vastlands costs

3,584 other cards cause it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a sorcery is cast — 3,720 cards in the game can cause this.

  1. Spellweaver Volute — When Wandering Archaic // Explore the Vastlands is cast, Spellweaver Volute copies a spell
  2. Lilah, Undefeated Slickshot — When Wandering Archaic // Explore the Vastlands is cast, Lilah, Undefeated Slickshot gets +1/+1
  3. Niblis of Frost — When Wandering Archaic // Explore the Vastlands is cast, Niblis of Frost gets +1/+1
  4. Primeval Bounty — When Wandering Archaic // Explore the Vastlands is cast, Primeval Bounty puts 3 counters on a creature
  5. Tetsuko Umezawa, Pursuer — When Wandering Archaic // Explore the Vastlands is cast, Tetsuko Umezawa, Pursuer gets +1/+1
  6. Thor, God of Thunder — When Wandering Archaic // Explore the Vastlands is cast, Thor, God of Thunder deals that spell's mana value damage
  7. Krile Baldesion — When Wandering Archaic // Explore the Vastlands is cast, Krile Baldesion brings a card back
  8. Summon: Good King Mog XII — When Wandering Archaic // Explore the Vastlands is cast, Summon: Good King Mog XII makes a token
  9. Kykar, Wind's Fury — When Wandering Archaic // Explore the Vastlands is cast, Kykar, Wind's Fury makes a token
  10. Chaos Wand — When an instant is cast thanks to Chaos Wand, Wandering Archaic // Explore the Vastlands taxes the table
  11. Blood Funnel — When Wandering Archaic // Explore the Vastlands is cast, Blood Funnel sacrifices a creature

423 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

anything attacks — 17,934 cards in the game can cause this (Wandering Archaic is one).

When Wandering Archaic // Explore the Vastlands attacks:

  1. Far Fortune, End Boss — deals 1 damage
  2. Temmet, Naktamun's Will — draws you 1 card
  3. Grim Javelineer — gives +1/+0
  4. Invisible Woman — triggers
  5. Caesar, Legion's Emperor — sacrifices a creature
  6. Guide of Souls — triggers
  7. Campsite Cuisine — sacrifices a Food
  8. Gossip's Talent — triggers
  9. Banon, the Returners' Leader — draws and discards
  10. Toph, Earthbending Master — puts a counter on a permanent

121 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a creature attacks — 17,934 cards in the game can cause this (Wandering Archaic is one).

When Wandering Archaic // Explore the Vastlands attacks:

  1. Adaptive Omnitool — searches a library
  2. Anthem of Rakdos — gives +2/+0
  3. Kindred Discovery — draws you 1 card
  4. Invasion of New Capenna // Holy Frazzle-Cannon — puts counters on a permanent
  5. Chorale of the Void — brings a card back
  6. Saw — sacrifices a creature

188 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a creature blocks — 17,934 cards in the game can cause this (Wandering Archaic is one).

  1. Tide of War — When Wandering Archaic // Explore the Vastlands blocks, Tide of War sacrifices a creature

27 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a nontoken creature enters the battlefield — 18,448 cards in the game can cause this (Wandering Archaic is one).

  1. Riku of Two Reflections — When Wandering Archaic // Explore the Vastlands enters, Riku of Two Reflections makes a token

32 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a creature enters the battlefield — 19,800 cards in the game can cause this (Wandering Archaic is one).

When Wandering Archaic // Explore the Vastlands enters:

  1. Slash, Reptile Rampager — deals 2 damage
  2. The Neutrinos — gets +1/+0
  3. Wingnut, Bat on the Belfry — grants flying, haste and menace
  4. Aetherstorm Roc — puts a counter on a permanent you control
  5. Raphael, Most Attitude — exiles a card from your library

318 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

anything enters the battlefield — 26,499 cards in the game can cause this (Wandering Archaic is one).

  1. Prowl, Stoic Strategist // Prowl, Pursuit Vehicle — When Wandering Archaic // Explore the Vastlands enters, Prowl, Stoic Strategist // Prowl, Pursuit Vehicle puts a +1/+1 counter on itself

55 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.