Not quite Land Tax, but Weathered Wayfarer can
still get the job done in white control decks,
gaining for you some card advantage while
pulling lands out of your deck so that you can
draw more “business cards”. Frankly, this card
hasn’t really seen much use lately in
constructed decks, pushed out in a current
constructed climate that favors either faster
decks or more highly tuned combo decks. In
limited, Weathered Wayfarer is pretty much for
experts only, making itself useful only in
certain situations.
Usually, repeatable effects are pretty good,
depending on what they do. This one is a solid
way to search up Plains on command....if you
have the fewest lands. You may have the fewest
lands for a turn or two, but how consistently
will you pull this off? Not very, I'd wager. You
could just never play a land and rely completely
on one of these, thinning your deck to ensure
better draws, but then are you really playing
all the spells you could otherwise? And what
about the lands in your hand? You could pitch
them to an Icatian Crier, I suppose. So, in
essence, it's a good card, since it can keep you
on par for land and it thins your deck, a rare
skill for white. It won't really ramp up your
mana too fast, but it's a solid card.
Constructed- 3.5
Casual- 3
Limited- 2.8
KC MetroGnome
Weathered
Wayfarer
I am a huge fan of the older formats, and I am
not one to lightly say that a card is
overpowered (Lightning Bolt is reasonably costed,
I swear it!). However, Land Tax is one of the
most absurd cards ever printed. The Wayfarer did
a great job of really capturing the flavor and
intent of Land Tax without repeating the gross
stupidity of its forebear (and letting you get
non-basics, to boot). It's certainly worth
consideration in any control deck in any format
where it's legal. It's less exciting in limited,
but the ability to thin some lands out of the
deck and to get just the right color of mana is
handy.
