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Maelstrom Wanderer

Legendary Creature — Elemental MV 8

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What it does

Creatures you control have haste.

Cascade, cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order. Then do it again.)

Combos with Maelstrom Wanderer

Lines this card is part of — what it needs alongside it, and what the two of them do. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.

  • Breath of Fury Infinite
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite combat phases
    • Infinite creature tokens with haste
    • Infinite untap of creatures you control
    • Infinite mana creatures you control can produce
    • Infinite combat damage
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Temur Sabertooth Selvala, Heart of the Wilds Infinite
    • Cast a subset of spells in your library
    • Infinite colored mana
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite storm count
    • Infinite blinking
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Temur Sabertooth Fanatic of Rhonas Infinite
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite storm count
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Hullbreaker Horror Selvala, Heart of the Wilds Infinite
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite colored mana
    • Infinite storm count
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Tidespout Tyrant Selvala, Heart of the Wilds Infinite
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite colored mana
    • Infinite storm count
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Selvala, Heart of the Wilds Deadeye Navigator Infinite
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite colored mana
    • Infinite blinking
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Maralen of the Mornsong Timestream Navigator Infinite
    • Infinite turns
    • Lock
    • Players can't draw cards
    • Skip your draw steps
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Garth One-Eye Displacer Kitten Infinite
    • Infinite colored mana
    • Infinite storm count
    • Infinite magecraft triggers
    • Infinite card draw for any number of players
    • Infinite draw triggers for any number of players
    • Infinite copies of a specific artifact
    • Infinite casts of all spells created by Garth One-Eye except Shivan Dragon
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →

Showing the 8 shortest and most explosive. This card appears in more than these — follow any of them through to Commander Spellbook to browse the rest.

Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.

Rulings

3 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 2020-11-10

    Each instance of cascade triggers and resolves separately. The spell you cast due to the first cascade ability will go on the stack on top of the second cascade ability. That spell will resolve before you exile cards for the second cascade ability.

  • 2020-11-10

    Maelstrom Wanderer gives itself haste.

  • 2020-11-10

    No matter what spell you cast with the first cascade trigger (or with any cascade triggers that result from casting that spell), the second cascade trigger will look for a spell with mana value less than Maelstrom Wanderer's mana value of 8.

Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Maelstrom Wanderer, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 5
Games played 8
Win rate 25%
Confirmed on board 0 Games where a board photo caught it actually in play.

Most played under

Commander Decks Games Win rate
Ashling, the Limitless 4 8 25%
Mass of Mysteries 1 0 —

Colors it shows up in

  • Five-Color 5 decks

Every version of Maelstrom Wanderer

10 printings, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly — a printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall genuinely publishes none for some of them.

Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Maelstrom Wanderer — a name search across every version, for the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.

Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only — no individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.