The Wandering Minstrel FIN 0249 · rare
The Wandering Minstrel · {G}{U} · Legendary Creature — Human Bard · Lands you control enter untapped. The Minstrel's Ballad — At the beginning of combat on your turn, if you control five or more Towns, create a 2/2 Elemental creature token that's all colors. {3}{W}{U}{B}{R}{G}: Other creatures you control get +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of Towns you control. · Power / toughness: 1/3
- Price
- from $0.315 printings
- Win rate
- 56.0% GIH 8,446 instances · Premier Draft
Jun 10–Jul 14, 2025 · 17Lands
Game-in-hand win rate, all deck colors. 4,728 wins in 8,446 card-in-hand instances.
8,119 distinct games · 2,990 distinct drafts · games recorded Jun 10–Jul 14, 2025.
17Lands file dated Jul 18, 2025 · 100-instance minimum · 17Lands public data ↗
Draft data
+0.2 pp vs 55.7% average · 8,446 instances
Premier Draft · Jun 10–Jul 14, 2025 · average from 769,659 games
#162 of 330 nonland cards by win rate · last seen around pick 4.5 on average (29,723 packs).
35 of 56 multicolor cards · 13 of 24 multicolor rare cards.
15,462.3 matches
Pick and maindeck observations: Jun 10–Jul 14, 2025. Played/benched cells use matches when available; the drawn cell uses game instances.
○ Opening hand 51.6% · 3,242 instances
● Drawn later 58.7% · 5,204 instances
In hand 56.0% · 8,446 instances
Unseen in deck 49.1% · 9,836 instances
+6.9 percentage points when drawn
Compared with multicolor 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
Town Ramp UG23.1%13 instances · under 100Each tick is this card’s all-decks rate (56.0% · 8,446 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.
Town Greeter9,187 games with both in the deckIgnis Scientia7,669 games with both in the deckOmega, Heartless Evolution7,342 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 51% of 330 nonland cards with 100+ instances, in win-rate order.
17Lands public datasets ↗ · CC BY 4.0 ↗ · Jun 10–Jul 14, 2025
Pick a printing for its prices and pull odds.
| Finish | Found in | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Nonfoil | Play Booster | $0.31 |
| Foil | Collector Booster · Play Booster | $0.49 |
Foil in a Collector Booster · Modeled · About 1 in 84 packs (1.19%) · 13.3% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →
Foil in a Play Booster · Modeled · About 1 in 1,345 packs (0.07%) · 2.2% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →
Nonfoil in a Play Booster · Modeled · About 1 in 79 packs (1.26%) · 31.6% per display · 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 | Wildcard | 100% | Wildcard |
| Play Booster | Rare or mythic rare | 100% | Rare or mythic rare |
| Play Booster | Traditional foil | 100% | Traditional foil |
| Collector Booster | Traditional foil rare or mythic | 100% | Traditional foil rare or mythic |
Wizards · Collecting FINAL FANTASY ↗ · 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
- Thanh Tuấn, FIN 249 · Scryfall ↗
- More like this
- Town Ramp cards → · Regular printing printings →
- Sources
- Wizards · Collecting FINAL FANTASY · Oct 29, 2026
Scryfall USD, snapshot Oct 25
Comprehensive Rules ↗