Daring Waverider BLB 0044 · uncommon
Daring Waverider · {4}{U}{U} · Creature — Otter Wizard · When this creature enters, you may cast target instant or sorcery card with mana value 4 or less from your graveyard without paying its mana cost. If that spell would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead. · Power / toughness: 4/4 · "Look what I found!"
- Price
- from $0.171 printing
- Win rate
- 57.2% GIH 27,063 instances · Premier Draft
Jul 30–Sep 3, 2024 · 17Lands - Draft
- ◆ Key pickRecasts a small instant or sorcery from the graveyard on entry. Give it useful targets before paying six mana.
- Job
- Payoffs
Game-in-hand win rate, all deck colors. 15,480 wins in 27,063 card-in-hand instances.
25,426 distinct games · 8,772 distinct drafts · games recorded Jul 30–Sep 3, 2024.
17Lands file dated Sep 6, 2024 · 100-instance minimum · 17Lands public data ↗
Recasts a small instant or sorcery from the graveyard on entry. Give it useful targets before paying six mana.
How this changes your picks
Rules-derived- Take it when
- Keep a small number of useful creatures on the board and use spells to both interact and increase their damage. Look for support such as Harnesser of Storms and Take Out the Trash.
- What to take next
- Waverider reuses a small instant or sorcery; casting that spell can trigger Mentor’s prowess even though no mana was paid.
- Wrong pick
- Too many creatures starve your spell payoffs, but too few leave you unable to attack. Harnesser’s permission expires at end of turn.
- Mana & splash
- Count the colored sources needed to cast this card on time; a synergy payoff is not a reason to weaken an otherwise consistent mana base.
Support cards
3Interactions from the card text, not a ranking.
More
- One-pick Draft
- Recasts a small instant or sorcery from the graveyard on entry. Give it useful targets before paying six mana.
Draft data
+2.6 pp vs 54.6% average · 27,063 instances
Premier Draft · Jul 30–Sep 3, 2024 · average from 931,230 games
#78 of 258 nonland cards by win rate · last seen around pick 5.3 on average (111,731 packs).
8 of 42 blue cards · 2 of 16 blue uncommon cards.
45,748.5 matches
Pick and maindeck observations: Jul 30–Sep 3, 2024. Played/benched cells use matches when available; the drawn cell uses game instances.
○ Opening hand 52.0% · 9,108 instances
● Drawn later 59.8% · 17,955 instances
In hand 57.2% · 27,063 instances
Unseen in deck 51.4% · 33,720 instances
+5.8 percentage points when drawn
Compared with blue cards
Ranks require 100 observations for that metric; comparisons are descriptive, not a pick order. Pick ranks put earlier picks first.
Best decks for it
no-splash decks only · card-level in-hand rates · 100 minimum
Frogfolk UG59.3%4,926 instancesRatfolk UB59.2%5,729 instancesOtterfolk UR55.9%5,800 instancesBirdfolk WU54.4%1,057 instancesEach tick is this card’s all-decks rate (57.2% · 27,063 instances). A high card rate does not prove that splashing it will improve your deck.
Usually played with
Deck co-occurrence; not evidence of synergy.
Dire Downdraft29,916 games with both in the deckShore Up21,243 games with both in the deckPearl of Wisdom20,618 games with both in the deckHow to read this
Observational, not a causal bonus. Both cards must be in the deck. Drawn means opening hand or normally drawn; each card counts once per game. Game-level approximate intervals do not account for repeated games by the same drafter.
At least 100 games in each of four drawn/not-drawn groups; adjusted for game length and screened by the lower confidence bound. Do not add these points to a card’s win rate.
Where it sits in the set
Above 70% of 258 nonland cards with 100+ instances, in win-rate order.
17Lands public datasets ↗ · CC BY 4.0 ↗ · Jul 30–Sep 3, 2024
Pick a printing for its prices and pull odds.
| Finish | Found in | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Nonfoil | Play Booster · Value Booster | $0.17 |
| Foil | Collector Booster · collector-sample · Play Booster · Value Booster | $0.31 |
Foil in a Collector Booster · Modeled · About 1 in 25 packs (4.00%) · 38.7% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →
Foil in a collector-sample · Modeled · About 1 in 100 packs (1.00%) · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →
Foil in a Play Booster · Modeled · About 1 in 313 packs (0.32%) · 10.9% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →
Nonfoil in a Play Booster · Modeled · About 1 in 28 packs (3.63%) · 73.5% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →
Foil in a value · Modeled · About 1 in 1,039 packs (0.10%) · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →
Nonfoil in a value · Modeled · About 1 in 46 packs (2.17%) · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →
How to pull it
Official rates for the whole category, not this card.
| Booster | Slot | Per pack | Category |
|---|---|---|---|
| Play Booster | Uncommons | 100% per position | Uncommons |
| Play Booster | Wildcard of any rarity | 100% | Wildcard of any rarity |
| Play Booster | Traditional foil of any rarity | 100% | Traditional foil of any rarity |
| Collector Booster | Traditional foil uncommons | 100% per position | Traditional foil uncommons |
Wizards · Collecting Bloomburrow ↗ · Oct 29, 2026
Details & sources
- Legal in
- Standard · Historic · Timeless · Pioneer · Modern · Legacy · Vintage · CommanderLimited eligibility depends on the event and its booster pool.
- Illustration
- Wisnu Tan, BLB 44 · Scryfall ↗
- More like this
- Otterfolk cards → · Regular printing printings →
- Sources
- Wizards · Collecting Bloomburrow · Oct 29, 2026
Scryfall USD, snapshot Oct 25
Comprehensive Rules ↗