Windrider Eel

Creature — Fish

Flying

Landfall — Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, Windrider Eel gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pauper	Legal
Pauper Duel Commander	Legal
Pauper EDH	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (7)

Shaffe_House on This Land is my Land

2 years ago

Part 2

Other Cards that you could consider cutting

1. Ondu Giant => Seedguide Ash this card is one more mana expsive and has to die inorder to get the lands, but could be such a good upside. This dieing with your commander reads ramp 3 draw 3 cards and gain 3 life
2. Soratami Mirror-Guard I get what you are doing here, but I feel like there are better payoffs for this
3. Timbermaw Larva => Rampaging Brontodon trample is 1,000% better on this card
4. Wakeroot Elemental 5 greens for a 5/5? way overcosted
5. Wave-Wing Elemental again similar argument to Windrider Eel not that big of an impact
6. Wild Wanderer good but could have better options
7. Aetherflux Reservoir I know this is good in commander but why? No synergy at all, there has to be a better card slot here
8. Elixir of Immortality I used to put this in all of my decks too, but it is counter productive to your stragay with cards like Splendid Reclamation and The Mending of Dominaria
9. Wayfarer's Bauble There is better ramp than this in green
10. I see why you have Jiang Yanggu but I feel like there is stronger cards than that. I cut the card to tutor Journey for the Elixir for him sorry :(
11. There are a bunch of other better than Ranger's Path you could add, I'll show them in the recommendations
12. Future Sight and Ominous Seas both seem strange here. I get future sight can draw cards, BUT I feel you should use mana sinks rather than off the top of your library draw
13. Ghostly Flicker is on thin ice, like yes you have all the etb creatures but sometimes it is a dead card. meh at best?

Other Cards that you could consider adding

This is where the fun begins and your wallet cries

1. You want Nissa, Who Shakes the World great card, it is a mana doubler ramp, and also you just win with the ultimate
2. I heard you like ramp try Tireless Provisioner and pick up one for me while you are at it please
3. Here is a gaint list of green ramp Harrow , Growth Spiral , Explore , Khalni Heart Expedition , Roiling Regrowth , Grow from the Ashes , Urban Evolution , Migration Path , Natural Connection , Nissa's Renewal , Nylea's Intervention , Spring / Mind , Animist's Awakening , Omen of the Hunt
4. Keeping your life total at a high level Kazandu Nectarpot , Grazing Gladehart , Retreat to Kazandu , Jaddi Offshoot
5. Mana Sinks, you are going to have a lot of mana, might as well do something with it Kamahl's Druidic Vow ummm.... yes? Kefnet the Mindful one of my favorite Gods, that doesn't have a place. I look forward to getting attacked by him Sprout Swarm it is really easy for this card to be "free"

6. Win Cons Blackblade Reforged yes, all the yes Kamahl’s Will All the lands become creatures lol Crash of Rhino Beetles oh crap a 15/15 oh no Oran-Rief Hydra meh, but it could be good?

7. Other just good cards Frilled Mystic , Trygon Predator , Plasm Capture Gush , Tragic Lesson , Simic Charm , Rampage of the Clans

That is all I can think of at the moment. I'm sure I'll have more la

Shaffe_House on This Land is my Land

2 years ago

cards like Windrider Eel fit the land fall deck architype, but I feel have too low impact on a game of commander. Like lets play best case scenario you get like 3 or 4 land fall triggers, cool now this thing is a big old 10/10. Either Ouch, or it gets blocked by like a 1/1 flyer. I feel like there could be cards that better impact the board state.

Other Cards that you could consider cutting

1. Borderland Ranger , Jungle Wayfinder => Farhaven Elf , Wood Elves (just strictly better)
2. Burnished Hart , Dryad Greenseeker , Solemn Simulacrum are not bad, but I think you can do better in green
3. Embodiment of Insight I like where you headspace is at here but they only create them for a turn. If they were permanently 3/3 I'd be 100% for it.
4. Hungering Hydra => Hydroid Krasis
5. Silkwing Scout => Embodiment of Spring (One mana cheaper overall), and I don't think the body is relevant

Other Cards that you could consider adding

1. Lore Weaver , if you have a Ley Weaver that draws a card on etb that is pretty cool. Also Lore Weaver is a mana sink which with all the lands you are producing is a good thing.

zniwalla on ☔ Lands Keep Tumbling Down ☔

5 years ago

Ya, Soratami Savant is cool.

I'm still very much in doubt of what to cut. Maybe Seed the Land, Windrider Eel and Sporemound.. but that's not enough.

Lame_Duck on Twin Fins

7 years ago

Thanks, FrantaFire. Yeah, Windrider Eel is something I considered when designing the deck but I think it's just too expensive for its effect; it's really bad at defence and not even reliably good at offence either.

The 62 cards is intentional - it's a fairly common strategy in Tribal Wars - since the amount of tribal creatures required in the deck is rounded down, having 62 cards allows me to have a slightly higher ratio of non-tribal cards.

@acefalo Sure, and if I could afford a proper fetch-/dual-land manabase I would definitely give Dandan a shot, but my manabase is only barely functional as it is and trying to run a double-blue card off it would be a bad idea.

FrantaFire on Twin Fins

7 years ago

Love the deck idea.

It may be expensive at 4 CMC but Windrider Eel can be a good beater. Helps evolve the Elusive Krasis to an extent.

Also, you currently have 62 cards listed. If purposeful, power to ya. Otherwise, might wanna slim down to 60.

libraryjoy on

7 years ago

It's more like the difference between a $0.20 card and a $20 card. One of them costs nearly as much as my entire deck. Not gonna happen for casual play in my world. ;) And you'd still need Walking Atlas for multiple land drops per turn. I don't think I really want the control, but if I did, I'd probably replace the Windrider Eel's in my build, as they're not all that great. I have a playset of Rune Snag that may eventually find their way in there - right now living in an Izzet control deck. Or I might rather have some more Jace's Erasure & card draw. My deck mills, but just as often it kills with a bunch of little fliers while people are distracted by me milling them.

Here's the deck in discussion: Fly Me to the Moon ($35 Budget Mill)

enderwiggin314159 on

8 years ago

Also, you should put some landfall cards other than Explore, like Animist's Awakening, Rampant Growth, or Nissa's Pilgrimage. Maybe also some draw spells like Mysteries of the Deep or Treasure Hunt. Also, Baloth Woodcrasher, Living Tsunami, Windrider Eel, or Dreamscape Artist might be considered.