Windgrace, Roar of the Land [Lands Primer]

Commander / EDH* BRG (Jund) Dark Depths Lands Primer Scapeshift Value Engine

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Land (40)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Blast Zone
• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Canyon Slough
• 1x Cinder Glade
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dark Depths
• 1x Dryad Arbor
• 1x Emergence Zone
• 1x Fabled Passage
• 1x Field of the Dead
• 1x Forest
• 1x Forest
• 1x Forest
• 1x Golgari Rot Farm
• 1x Gruul Turf
• 1x Lotus Field
• 1x Mountain
• 1x Nurturing Peatland
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Prismatic Vista
• 1x Sheltered Thicket
• 1x Smoldering Marsh
• 1x Snow-Covered Forest
• 2x Snow-Covered Mountain
• 1x Snow-Covered Swamp
• 1x Stomping Ground
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Thespian's Stage
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Wasteland
• 1x Wooded Foothills
• 1x Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth

Artifact (3)

• 1x Crucible of Worlds
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Zuran Orb

Creature (33)

• 1x Aftermath Analyst
• 1x Ancient Greenwarden
• 1x Anger
• 1x Avenger of Zendikar
• 1x Azusa, Lost but Seeking
• 1x Braids, Arisen Nightmare
• 1x Dread Presence
• 1x Dryad of the Ilysian Grove
• 1x Elvish Reclaimer
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Evolution Sage
• 1x Kodama of the East Tree
• 1x Lotus Cobra
• 1x Nesting Dragon
• 1x Nissa, Resurgent Animist
• 1x Ob Nixilis, the Fallen
• 1x Omnath, Locus of Rage
• 1x Oracle of Mul Daya
• 1x Orcish Lumberjack
• 1x Phylath, World Sculptor
• 1x Ramunap Excavator
• 1x Scute Swarm
• 1x Soul of Windgrace
• 1x Springbloom Druid
• 1x Sylvan Safekeeper
• 1x The Gitrog Monster
• 1x Tireless Provisioner
• 1x Tireless Tracker
• 1x Titania, Protector of Argoth
• 1x Tunneling Geopede
• 1x Ulvenwald Hydra
• 1x Underrealm Lich
• 1x World Shaper

Enchantment (7)

• 1x Exploration
• 1x Retreat to Hagra
• 1x Spelunking
• 1x Squandered Resources
• 1x Sylvan Library
• 1x Tectonic Reformation
• 1x Valakut Exploration

Planeswalker (3)

• 1x Nissa of Shadowed Boughs
• 1x Wrenn and Seven
• 1x Wrenn and Six

Commander (1)

Sorcery (18)

• 1x Culling Ritual
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Damnation
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Farseek
• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Life from the Loam
• 1x Nahiri's Lithoforming
• 1x Nature's Lore
• 1x Nylea's Intervention
• 1x Scapeshift
• 1x Splendid Reclamation
• 1x Three Visits
• 1x Torment of Hailfire
• 1x Toxic Deluge
• 1x Worldsoul's Rage
• 1x Worm Harvest

Instant (11)

• 1x Assassin's Trophy
• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Constant Mists
• 1x Crop Rotation
• 1x Deflecting Swat
• 1x Harrow
• 1x Heroic Intervention
• 1x Realms Uncharted
• 1x Tear Asunder
• 1x Vampiric Tutor

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Land (3)

• 1x Deserted Temple
• 1x Glacial Chasm
• 1x Vesuva

Creature (2)

• 1x Collector Ouphe
• 1x Oracle of Mul Daya

Instant (2)

• 1x Deadly Rollick
• 1x Force of Vigor

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Nissa of Shadowed Boughs

Sorcery (2)

• 1x Rakdos's Return
• 1x Reshape the Earth

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The panther warrior Lord Windgrace once helped Urza fight the Phyrexians on Dominaria.

Prior to Commander 2018, I had always wanted to build a lands matter deck style, so when Lord Windgrace was spoiled, I went through the roof. I ended up taking a break from him, but have decided to rebuild him, especially since we've gotten some good additions since I last worked on him.

Centuries after the Phyrexian Invasion, Windgrace gave up his Planeswalker spark to close a time rift above Urborg, his home. To this day, the Windgrace Acolytes purge Urborg of artifacts in his name.

Lord Windgrace deck that I've been messing around with for a while now.

This deck looks to ramp out plenty of mana, then play out the big token generators to protect Lord Windgrace and keep his value engine going until we find our key pieces to win the game.

Ramp Options

• Turn 1 Options: Green Sun's Zenith for {0} to find Dryad Arbor

• Turn 2 Options: Farseek, Nature's Lore, Three Visit (CMR) - These can go grab us a dual land to color fix. Good targets for Farseek are the Cycling Dual Lands from Amonkhet (Sheltered Thicket and Canyon Slough) or the Battle Lands from Battle for Zendikar (Smoldering Marsh and Cinder Glade as they enter the battlefield tapped anyways, but we are also running all the Shock Lands, so we can fetch anything depending on what color mana we need.

• Turn 3 Options: Cultivate, Realms Uncharted - We are currently running a few Basic Lands, but they are a mix of both Snow and regular variants, and to trigger Field of the Dead efficiently, it's important to hit seven differently named lands as soon as possible to start getting our 2/2 Zombie Tokens. And Realms Uncharted puts two lands in our hand and two in the graveyard, which we can then grab with Lord Windgrace

• Turn 4-5 Options: If you haven't ramped out enough by this point, you picked a poor hand. Hopefully, you have enough to cast Lord Windgrace and start doing stuff.

Hitting those Multiple Land Drops

• Azusa, Lost but Seeking - One of, if not the best of the multiple land drop enablers.

• Dryad of the Ilysian Grove - Gives us an additional land drop and also color fixes. Works great in conjunction with Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle and Dread Presence to trigger them with every land drop.

• Exploration - A great early play, can allow us to get really far ahead on mana compared to the rest of the table.

• Mina and Denn, Wildborn *f-pre* - Gives us an additional land drop and can bounce a land back to our hand. We don't care too much about giving a creature Trample, but we can abuse a Landfall trigger or return a tapped land like Cabal Coffers to tap it again for even more mana.

• The Gitrog Monster *f-pre* - Give us an additional land drop, and also turns each land that we put into the graveyard into card draw.

• Wrenn and Seven - Wrenn's 0 allows us to put all lands in our hand onto the battlefield tapped.

Token Generators

• Avenger of Zendikar - We can create a lot of 0/1 Plant tokens and easily turn them into an army with the Landfall triggers.

• Beledros Witherbloom - Creates a 1/1 Pest Token with "When this creature dies, you gain 1 life" at each players upkeep. Perfect chump blockers to keep Lord Windgrace alive.

• Dark Depths - Once the 10 ice counters are removed, you sac Dark Depths and create a 20/20 Flying Indestructible Marit Lage Token.

• Field of the Dead - When we have seven lands with different names, our Landfall Trigger gives us a 2/2 Zombie token.

• Lord Windgrace - While we primarily use Lord Windgrace for a value engine, if he's got enough Loyalty, we can -11 to destroy up to six target non-land permanents, then create six 2/2 Cat Warrior Tokens.

• Omnath, Locus of Rage - Each Landfall trigger makes a 3/3 Elemental Token. When an Elemental dies, Omnath, Locus of Rage deals 3 damage to ANY target.

• Rampaging Baloths - Simple and effective. Landfall triggers give us 4/4 Beast tokens that can be used as attackers or as chump blockers to keep Lord Windgrace around.

• Scute Swarm - On Landfall, we create a 1/1 Insect Token, but once we have 6 or more lands, we create a copy of Scute Swarm. Then, Prepare to Math! Each Scute Swarm makes another, so they grow at an exponential rate.

• Tireless Tracker - On Landfall, we create a Clue Token, which for {2} and sacing the Token, we can draw a card.

• Titania, Protector of Argoth - We run a lot of Fetchlands and Harrow/Crop Rotation like effects that can take advantage of Titania's ability to create 5/3 Elemental tokens. Good synergy with Omnath, Locus of Rage to make all the Elemental tokens.

• Worm Harvest - We create 1/1 Worm Tokens for each land in our graveyard, and can Retrace it from the graveyard over and over again.

• Wrenn and Seven - It's -3 ability creates a Treefolk Token with Reach and Power/Toughness equal to the number of lands we control.

Combos and Wincons

• The Classic Dark Depths and Thespian's Stage = We can release our 20/20 Flying Indestructible Marit Lage token to devastate our opponents. And this combo can be easily repeated with Lord Windgrace's -2 ability to bring back two lands from the graveyard.

• Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth + Cabal Coffers = We can create lots of {B} Mana. Then use said mana to cast a massive Exsanguinate or Torment of Hailfire to devastate and/or cripple our opponents.

Scapeshift Shenanigans

Scapeshift is one of the most powerful cards in this deck. We can go find any lands we need to complete combos, generate a ton of mana, and/or create a bunch of tokens.

• Scapeshift + Dryad of the Ilysian Grove + Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle = As long as we have 5 lands, they can all be counted as Mountains, so Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle will deal 3 damage to ANY target on Landfall.

• Scapeshift + Dryad of the Ilysian Grove/Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth + Dread Presence = We can deal lots of damage and/or draw cards depending on the situation

• Scapeshift + Retreat to Hagra = Drain the Table and gain a lot of life

• Scapeshift + Retreat to Hagra + Multani, Yavimaya's Avatar = Drain the Table and end up with a massive threat

• Scapeshift + Ob Nixilis, the Fallen = Drain the Table and end up with a massive threat

• Scapeshift + Rampaging Baloths/Omnath, Locus of Rage/Titania, Protector of Argoth/Field of the Dead = Lots of Tokens

Most of these combos could also add + Splendid Reclamation to drastically increase the potency when all the lands sacrificed to Scapeshift come back onto the battlefield.

Removal and Recursion

To make sure we don't have anyone or anything get in our way, we run plenty of removal options and board wipes to deal with a variety of threats and recursion to bring back cards or land.

Single Target Removal

• Assassin's Trophy/Beast Within/Chaos Warp - Permanent Removal

• Bedevil - Creature and Planeswalker Removal

• Krosan Grip - Artifact and Enchantment Removal

Wide-Spread Removal/Board Wipes

• Damnation - Destroys all creatures.

• Blasphemous Act - Deals 13 damage to each creature and costs less depending on the number of creatures in play.

• Blast Zone - Destroys Non-Land Permanent equal to the number of counters on the land. Recurrable with Lord Windgrace

• Nylea's Intervention - Deals {X} x 2 Damage to Creatures with Flying only

Recursion

• Crucible of Worlds/Ramunap Excavator/Ancient Greenwarden - We can play land cards from the graveyard, which is good because we will inevitably put a number of lands into the graveyard through Lord Windgrace

• Eternal Witness - Return any card from the graveyard to your hand

• Grapple with the Past - This can bring creature cards back from the graveyard to our hands after self-milling.

• Nissa, Vital Force - Her -3 can return any permanent from the graveyard to your hand

• Wrenn and Seven - Her -8 returns all permanent cards from our graveyard back to our hand and we get an emblem giving us no maximum hand size.

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Potential Directions and Future Inclusions

"I Feel The Need… The Need For Speed!"

• I've seen a few decks that utilize the Titania, Protector of Argoth + Need for Speed to create a bunch of hasty 5/3 Elementals to close out the game. This sounds both terribly effective and hilarious, so I might try to find a way to include that.

"But he despises artifacts and the trouble that magical artificers can cause–emphatically including Urza, whose long-ago detonation of a cataclysmic magical device devastated Windgrace's people."

• From a lore perspective, Lord Windgrace hated artifacts. I'm a big sucker for lore and Vorthos deck building, so I've made a personal decision to include as few artifacts as possible, with Crucible of Worlds as my big exception, as it is just too good not to use.

• I'd obviously like to get the ABR Dual lands, but those are a little pricy right now, and I don't like proxying cards I don't own at least one copy of.

Other Cards I'm considering:

• Oracle of Mul Daya

• Glacial Chasm

• Vesuva

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Date added	4 years
Last updated	a few seconds
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	24 - 0 Mythic Rares 54 - 0 Rares 20 - 0 Uncommons 8 - 0 Commons
Cards	116
Avg. CMC	3.09
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Cat Warrior 2/2 G, Clue, Copy Clone, Dragon 2/2 R, Dragon Egg 0/2 R, Elemental 5/3 G, Elemental 5/5 RG, Emblem Wrenn and Seven, Emblem Wrenn and Six, Food, Insect 1/1 G, Marit Lage, Plant 0/1 G, Treasure, Treefolk */* G w/ Reach, Worm 1/1 BG, Zombie 2/2 B
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