Watcher of the Wayside TDM 0249 · common
Watcher of the Wayside · {3} · Artifact Creature — Golem · When this creature enters, target player mills two cards. You gain 2 life. (To mill two cards, a player puts the top two cards of their library into their graveyard.) · Power / toughness: 3/2 · Against dragonlords, khans, and Ugin himself, the golem survived. Original purpose forgotten, it awaits orders that will never come, from a world that has moved on without it.
- Price
- from $0.191 printing
- Win rate
- 53.9% GIH 4,353 instances · Premier Draft
Apr 8–May 14, 2025 · 17Lands - Found in
- MTGO Redemption →
Game-in-hand win rate, all deck colors. 2,347 wins in 4,353 card-in-hand instances.
4,055 distinct games · 1,515 distinct drafts · games recorded Apr 8–May 14, 2025.
17Lands file dated May 19, 2025 · 100-instance minimum · 17Lands public data ↗
Draft data
−1.1 pp vs 55.0% average · 4,353 instances
Premier Draft · Apr 8–May 14, 2025 · average from 552,428 games
#177 of 252 nonland cards by win rate · last seen around pick 9.1 on average (230,835 packs).
7 of 13 colorless cards · 2 of 5 colorless common cards.
137,665.3 matches
Pick and maindeck observations: Apr 8–May 14, 2025. Played/benched cells use matches when available; the drawn cell uses game instances.
○ Opening hand 51.9% · 1,727 instances
● Drawn later 55.3% · 2,626 instances
In hand 53.9% · 4,353 instances
Unseen in deck 52.4% · 5,491 instances
+1.5 percentage points when drawn
Compared with colorless 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
Black–Red BR100.0%1 instances · under 100Red–Green RG100.0%1 instances · under 100Green–White GW75.0%4 instances · under 100Counters BG69.6%23 instances · under 100Sacrifice WB66.7%15 instances · under 100Two Spells UR66.7%12 instances · under 100Blue–Black UB66.7%3 instances · under 100Go Wide Tokens RW57.1%28 instances · under 100Leaves the Graveyard UG48.9%45 instances · under 100White–Blue WU25.0%8 instances · under 100Each tick is this card’s all-decks rate (53.9% · 4,353 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.
Ainok Wayfarer3,070 games with both in the deckDispelling Exhale2,825 games with both in the deckSibsig Appraiser2,816 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 30% of 252 nonland cards with 100+ instances, in win-rate order.
17Lands public datasets ↗ · CC BY 4.0 ↗ · Apr 8–May 14, 2025
Pick a printing for its prices and pull odds.
| Finish | Found in | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Nonfoil | Play Booster · MTGO Redemption | $0.19 |
| Foil | Play Booster | $0.23 |
How to get it
A fixed card in MTGO Redemption. It is not a booster pull, so no chance is claimed.
Wizards · Collecting Tarkir: Dragonstorm ↗ · Oct 29, 2026
Details & sources
- Legal in
- Standard · Historic · Timeless · Pioneer · Modern · Legacy · Pauper · Vintage · CommanderLimited eligibility depends on the event and its booster pool.
- Illustration
- Brian Valeza, TDM 249 · Scryfall ↗
- More like this
- Regular printing printings →
- Sources
- Wizards · Collecting Tarkir: Dragonstorm · Oct 29, 2026
Scryfall USD, snapshot Oct 25
Comprehensive Rules ↗