Wandering Mage
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
Masters Edition IIIME3 · #186
- Card type
- Creature — Human Cleric Wizard
- Rarity
- Rare
- Indicative price
- Price unavailable
- Mana value
- 3
- Power
- 0
- Toughness
- 3
- Colour
- White Blue Black
Card text
, Pay 1 life: Prevent the next 2 damage that would be dealt to target creature this turn. : Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to target Cleric or Wizard creature this turn. , Put a -1/-1 counter on a creature you control: Prevent the next 2 damage that would be dealt to target player or planeswalker this turn.
Format legality
- CommanderLegal
- DuelLegal
- LegacyLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PennyLegal
- PredhLegal
- PremodernLegal
- VintageLegal
Legalities follow the imported catalogue; check format rules before a tournament.
Data imported on 2026-10-06 (UTC).
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Printing information
- Illustrator
- Pete Venters
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2009-09-07
Rulings
If you activate Wandering Mage’s third ability, you put the -1/-1 counter on a creature you control as a cost. That means it happens when you activate the ability, not when it resolves. If paying the cost causes the only creature you control to have 0 toughness, it’s put into the graveyard before you can pay the cost again.
The second ability checks that the targeted creature is a Cleric or Wizard only at the time the ability is activated and at the time it resolves. It doesn’t check at the time the damage is actually prevented.
