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Wayfarer's Bauble
Fifth Dawn Common
Reviewed June 4, 2004
Constructed: 2.5
Casual: 3.1
Limited: 3.6
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Chris
Gerhardt
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game store owner in CA,
ShuffleAndCut |
For splashing or
for acceleration, this is a great 2 drop.
I'm sure this will see play in block, and it might
find its way into some constructed deck also, as
it is very solid for its mana cost.
In casual, I bet it
will see some play as it is one of the best 2 drop
accelerators available. Casual players love
to muscle out their fatties early, and this also
gives them color options in the process. With a
Birds of Paradise
turn 1, Bauble gives you a 6 drop on turn 3,
easily with 5 colors. This means good times
for the 5 color mages and their 6 drop
imaginations.
In limited, Bauble
makes the excellent category for acceleration and
color smoothing. Get your
Skyreach Manta 5/5 flyer out on turn 3 -Yikes!
Again, being a 2 drop pushes up its rating in this
format. It's an artifact, which makes it
versatile enough to fit in any deck, making it
generally superior to green
smoothing/acceleration. You won't see these
floating around the draft table late, so if you
think it will be important to your deck, pick it
up when you can after your grab the pack bomb.
Constructed:
2.5
Casual: 3.5
Limited: 4
Current Price:
Wayfarer's
Bauble -
Fifth Dawn - $0.20
Combos
Well With:
Birds of
Paradise -
4th Edition - $12.66
Skyreach
Manta -
Fifth Dawn - $0.20
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Judge
Bill
*Level 2
MTG Judge
*game store employee
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A great way to
splash a color into your deck. If you run one of
the basic land, you can just go get it with
this. This will become active on turn 2, just
like Rampant Growth, but it costs a mana the
turn previous. If you run Auriok Salvagers, you
get to thin your library, Thawing Glaciers
style. A potent combo in limited or casual, but
less so in constructed. This may see some
constructed play, but the deck that would use
Rampant Growth needs it to be a spell for Storm
(Mind's Desire), so it would have to find a
previously uninhabited home first.
Constructed: 3
Casual: 4.5
Limited: 4
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Ray
"Monk"
Powers
* Level 3 DCI Judge
*DCI Tournament Organizer
*Game Store Owner (Gamer's Edge) |
Wayfarer’s Bauble
I must admit, I am a
fan of the new Barbed Sextant. Any thing that
provides mana fixing AND acceleration for any
color, not to mention deck thinning, can’t be all
bad. Admittedly 3 total seems a bit costly for
what this card does, but if you have very few
early drops, a turn one bauble, turn two activate
gives you a thinner deck and one extra mana come
turn three, which seems like a good idea to me.
This card is no first pick, but it’s a solid
choice and well worth playing to fill out a draft
slot.
Constructed: 2
Casual: 3
Limited: 4
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Jonathan
Pechon
2 Grand
Prix Top 8's
Multiple Pro Tour
appearances |
Wayfarer’s Bauble
I’m definitely in
favor of seeing this card in constructed; it seems
to fit into so many decks that can use colorless
methods of acceleration. I’m not looking for
absurd combos with the white creatures in Fifth
Dawn, I just want to see decks able to grab an
extra basic land for turns three or four, while
thinning the deck out. It’s going to take so
waiting to see if this makes the cut, but I think
that some decks will eventually snatch this up.
This is a pretty solid
card for group games and the like, providing your
deck with additional methods to sneak those
additional lands into play without having to worry
about overwhelming speed. I really think that
Prismatic is going to see this turn into a
near-guaranteed four-of in a lot of different
decks. Mental Magic can ignore this, simply due
to the lack of basic land.
Somehow, this is
another card that I have simply missed over and
over again in draft; this tells me that I must be
undervaluing it so far, which is probably the
case. I definitely believe that you can pick this
anywhere from fourth pick on down; it serviceably
acts as a Myr in any deck. Look reasonably high
for it.
Constructed: 2.5
Casual: 3.0
Limited: 3.5
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DeQuan
Watson
* game store owner (The Game Closet - Waco,TX)
* pro tour player
* Scrye writer since 2002 |
I'm not sure what
the appeal to this card is. Obviously it's
draft worthy. But as far as constructed and
casual play are concerned I might pass on this
card in a lot of cases. It's a slower version
of Rampant Growth. The only real benefit to
this card is that you can still get the Rampant
Growth effect without playing green.
Constructed: 2
Casual: 2
Limited: 3
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Jeff Zandi
5 Time Pro Tour
Veteran
Level 2 Judge |
Wayfarer’s Bauble
This card gets my Card
of the Week award as the best card of this week’s
reviewed color-enabler cards from Fifth Dawn. This
card is an easy to cast, easy to use Rampant
Growth that every deck can and should use. This
card is good in your deck if you want access to
all five colors or even if your deck is mono
colored. In limited decks, this card is a must
play. However, it is up to the limited player to
determine how high to draft this card. The overall
power of this card is fairly low, so there is no
reason to draft it high. Just be glad to draft it
and put it in your deck when you see one late in a
draft. This card has serious possibilities or some
kind of constructed, certainly in casual play, not
as good for Affinity decks as Chromatic Sphere,
however.
CONSTRUCTED: 2.0
CASUAL:
3.0
LIMITED:
3.5
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Wayfarer’s Bauble
Now we get to the real mana acceleration.
This is the stuff that actually takes lands out
of your deck, as opposed to temporary mana. Of
course, the other problem with this card is what
I stated on Monday with what the problem was
with Sunburst in limited: Singles of basic lands
are dangerous and you can’t rely on them to
optimize Sunburst. With this, you get a land for
the small price of 3 mana. This will work
perfectly in combination with any multi color
mana accelerator. Thins your deck, it’s a
common, you get it tapped but it’s in play, so
you might as well be able to use it right away,
it’s colorless, and you get any basic land you
want. Perfect for both constructed and limited.
I have nothing more to say about this card.
Constructed: 4
Casual: 3
Limited: 4
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Jason
Chapman |
Wayfarer's Bauble is
simply great. It can get you a turn up on your
mana drops and find any color of land you need.
Braidwood Sextant was good but this card is
probably better, especially in decks with slightly
higher land counts.
Constructed - There
are better ways to smooth you colors - 2.0
Casual - A good
card to fetch land if you aren't playing a Green
base - 2.5
Limited - Having
the right lands is so important to winning - 3.0
PEZ - Sometimes PEZ
decks need a little help getting the right lands
without duals - 2.5
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