The Wandering Minstrel Price
5 printings · 2 sets · first printed 2025
The Wandering Minstrel has been printed 5 times across 2 sets, first in 2025. Right now the cheapest printing is Final Fantasy #249 at $0.31, while the most expensive is Final Fantasy #548 at $31.06 — about 100× more. The median across 5 priced printings is $1.88. Reprint risk: HIGH RISK — Reprinted 5x in the last 2 years.
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Every The Wandering Minstrel Printing, Compared
Cheapest first · unpriced last| Printing | Year | Price | Dealer Buys |
|---|---|---|---|
| Final Fantasy #249 (R) Cheapest | 2025 | $0.31 | $0.03 |
| Final Fantasy #515 (R) | 2025 | $1.23 | $0.72 |
| Final Fantasy #403 (R) | 2025 | $1.88 | $0.50 |
| Final Fantasy Promos #249s (R) Foil | 2025 | $6.28 | $2.80 foil |
| Final Fantasy #548 (R) Foil | 2025 | $31.06 | $16.50 foil |
Prices are the latest nightly market price; a printing with no tracked price shows a dash. Dealer buylist is Card Kingdom's current offer via MTGJSON, shown where one exists.
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.
: Other creatures you control get +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of Towns you control.Legality is a property of the card, not the printing, so it is identical for all 5 versions.
Official Judge Precedents
4 PrecedentsThe 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.
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.
The value of X is calculated only once, as The Wandering Minstrel's last ability resolves.
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.