Krosan Wayfarer is one of those cards players keep asking about. Here is, in plain words, what its official text says, the rulings published by Wizards of the Coast, and the combos players actually run.
Official card text
Sacrifice this creature: You may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.
Complete guide
Krosan Wayfarer is a humble one-drop creature that provides unexpected utility for ramp and land-based strategies. By trading its life for immediate board presence, it allows you to accelerate your mana curve at instant speed.
What It Does
Krosan Wayfarer has a single activated ability that allows you to sacrifice it as a cost. Once you pay this cost, you gain the opportunity to place a land card directly from your hand onto the battlefield without paying its mana cost or using your once-per-turn land play.
Step-by-Step Resolution
First, you activate the ability by moving Krosan Wayfarer from the battlefield to the graveyard as a sacrifice cost. The ability then goes on the stack. When the ability resolves, you check your hand; you may then choose to put a land card onto the battlefield. Because the ability says 'may,' you are not forced to place a land if you no longer have one when it resolves.
Common Mistakes
Players often forget that the sacrifice is a cost, meaning your opponent cannot kill the Wayfarer in response to stop the ability once you have declared you are activating it. Additionally, putting a land into play this way is not a 'land play,' so it does not count against your limit of one land per turn.
When to Play It
This card is most effective in decks that need to reach high mana totals quickly or want to trigger 'Landfall' abilities during an opponent's turn. It serves as a temporary blocker that can be converted into mana production before damage is dealt.
Interaction examples
Llanowar ElvesOn turn one, you play Krosan Wayfarer. On turn two, you can tap a Forest to play Llanowar Elves, then sacrifice Krosan Wayfarer to put a second Forest from your hand onto the battlefield. You now have two lands and a mana creature ready for turn three.
Birds of ParadiseIf you have Birds of Paradise in hand but lack the green mana to cast it, you can sacrifice a Krosan Wayfarer already on the board during your opponent's end step to put a Forest into play. On your next turn, that Forest will be untapped and ready to cast your Birds of Paradise.
Guide written with AI from the official text and rulings. Official English text prevails.
How it works : Krosan Wayfarer
Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall
- #1· Wizards of the Coast
Putting the card onto the battlefield is optional. When the ability resolves, you can choose not to.
No other card is named in this ruling.
Popular combos
Real combos played by the community, sorted by popularity.
Yedora, Grave Gardener + Cloudstone Curio + Krosan Wayfarer
- 1Activate Krosan Wayfarer by sacrificing it.
- 2When Krosan Wayfarer dies, Yedora triggers, returning Krosan Wayfarer from your graveyard to the battlefield face-down as a Forest land.
- 3When Krosan Wayfarer enters the battlefield, Cloudstone Curio triggers, returning another nontoken nonartifact land from the battlefield to your hand.
- 4Activate Krosan Wayfarer by tapping it, adding
. - 5Resolve the Krosan Wayfarer ability from step 1, putting a nonartifact land card from your hand onto the battlefield.
- 6When the land enters the battlefield, Cloudstone Curio triggers, returning Krosan Wayfarer from the battlefield to your hand.
- 7If the land entered the battlefield untapped, you may activate it by tapping it, adding at least
. - 8Cast Krosan Wayfarer by paying .
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