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The Wandering Minstrel
Card Information
Type: Legendary Creature — Human Bard
Mana Cost: 
CMC: 2
Part of the Reserved List: No
Color Identity: 
Set: Final Fantasy (FIN)
Rarity: Rare
Collector Number: 249
Oracle Text
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.
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Card Rulings
- June 6, 2025
The Wandering Minstrel's second ability checks at the moment it would trigger to see if you control five or more Towns. If you don't, the ability won't trigger at all. If it does trigger, the ability will check again as it tries to resolve. If you don't control five or more Towns at that time, the ability won't resolve and none of its effects will happen.
Source: wotc - June 6, 2025
If The Wandering Minstrel would enter the battlefield at the same time a land you control would enter the battlefield tapped, that land still enters the battlefield tapped.
Source: wotc - June 6, 2025
The value of X is calculated only once, as The Wandering Minstrel's last ability resolves.
Source: wotc - June 6, 2025
If a land has an ability that says it enters the battlefield tapped, you choose the order in which that ability's effect and The Wandering Minstrel's effect apply. This means you can choose to have the land enter tapped or untapped. If a land you control is simply put onto the battlefield tapped without a replacement effect being applied, it always enters untapped if you control The Wandering Minstrel.
Source: wotc
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