Soul of Windgrace
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Soul of Windgrace

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The Commander

Whenever Soul of Windgrace enters or attacks, you may put a land card from a graveyard onto the battlefield tapped under your control.

{G}, Discard a land card: You gain 3 life.

{1}{R}, Discard a land card: Draw a card.

{2}{B}, Discard a land card: Soul of Windgrace gains indestructible until end of turn. Tap it.

Guide

Gameplan

Soul of Windgrace is a Jund lands-matters commander that recurs lands from any graveyard on ETB and attack, while turning excess lands in hand into life, cards, and protection. You ramp aggressively, abuse landfall and land-sacrifice payoffs, and grind value until you assemble a combo or just bury the table in board advantage. Turn to turn you're fetching, cracking, and replaying lands to trigger payoffs repeatedly.

Strengths

  • Steals lands from any graveyard, including opponents' fetched/sacrificed lands
  • Built-in card advantage and lifegain mitigate Jund's resource attrition
  • Indestructible activation keeps it sticky and protects against board wipes
  • Excellent landfall and land-sacrifice synergy across Jund's deep land toolbox

Weaknesses

  • Land recursion is slow and grindy without strong landfall payoffs
  • Activated abilities are mana-hungry and require land cards in hand
  • Vulnerable to graveyard hate that empties the land fuel
  • No evasion or innate way to close the game without dedicated wincons

Key Cards

  • Crucible of WorldsLets you replay fetchlands and sacrificed lands every turn, supercharging landfall and the commander's recursion engine.
  • Ramunap ExcavatorA creature Crucible that recurs lands from your yard, fueling endless land drops and fetch loops.
  • Lotus CobraTurns every landfall trigger into a burst of mana to power the commander's hungry activated abilities.
  • Splendid ReclamationMass-returns lands from graveyard to battlefield, exploding your board state and landfall triggers at once.
  • ScapeshiftSacrifices your lands to fetch a payoff package—pairs with the commander's ability to rebuy them later.
  • Avenger of ZendikarConverts your land-heavy board into a game-ending army of Plant tokens.

Upgrade Path

Add fast mana and ramp (Sol Ring, fetchlands, Dryad of the Ilysian Grove) to hit land drops faster, then layer in dedicated landfall payoffs and recursion (Crucible, Excavator, Splendid Reclamation). Tighten your wincon package around Avenger, Field of the Dead, or a Scapeshift-Valakut line so the grind actually closes games, and include graveyard protection or discard outlets like Dakmor Salvage to enable looping combos.

Core Cards

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Win Conditions

Archetypes

  • LandsThe commander recurs lands from graveyards and rewards repeated land drops, making it a natural lands-matters general.
  • Landfall AggroCheap recursion plus fetch loops enable explosive landfall payoffs like Avenger and Lord of Extinction.
  • Value MidrangeCard draw, lifegain, and land recursion let it grind opponents out of resources over a long game.
  • ComboLand-bounce and recursion engines support loops with cards like Retreat to Coralhelm or Dakmor Salvage discard outlets.

Combos

No combos found for this commander on Commander Spellbook.

Related Commanders

Same color identity (BGR), by popularity.

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