Windgrace, Roar of the Land [Lands Primer]

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

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Land (38)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Boseiju, Who Endures
• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dark Depths
• 1x Deathcap Glade
• 1x Dryad Arbor
• 1x Fabled Passage
• 1x Field of the Dead
• 1x Forest
• 1x Forest
• 1x Forest
• 1x Glacial Chasm
• 1x Golgari Rot Farm
• 1x Haunted Ridge
• 1x Lotus Field
• 1x Mountain
• 1x Nurturing Peatland
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Prismatic Vista
• 1x Rockfall Vale
• 1x Snow-Covered Forest
• 2x Snow-Covered Mountain
• 1x Snow-Covered Swamp
• 1x Stomping Ground
• 2x Swamp
• 1x Thespian's Stage
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Wasteland
• 1x Wooded Foothills
• 1x Woodland Cemetery
• 1x Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth

Creature (25)

• 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 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 *f-pp*
• 1x Oracle of Mul Daya
• 1x Ramunap Excavator
• 1x Scute Swarm
• 1x Soul of Windgrace
• 1x Sylvan Safekeeper
• 1x The Gitrog Monster
• 1x Tireless Provisioner
• 1x Tireless Tracker
• 1x Titania, Protector of Argoth
• 1x Ulvenwald Hydra
• 1x World Shaper

Instant (9)

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

Artifact (3)

• 1x Amulet of Vigor
• 1x Crucible of Worlds
• 1x Zuran Orb

Commander (1)

Sorcery (15)

• 1x Culling Ritual
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 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 Worm Harvest

Enchantment (5)

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

Planeswalker (4)

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

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Maybeboard

Creature (12)

• 1x Army Ants
• 1x Geode Rager
• 1x Greensleeves, Maro-Sorcerer
• 1x Orcish Lumberjack
• 1x Shigeki, Jukai Visionary
• 1x Six
• 1x Skirge Familiar
• 1x Spitfire Lagac
• 1x Titania, Voice of Gaea  ^Meld
• 1x Tunneling Geopede
• 1x Underrealm Lich
• 1x Wayward Swordtooth

Land (5)

• 1x Argoth, Sanctum of Nature  ^Meld
• 1x Blast Zone
• 1x Deserted Temple
• 1x Glacial Chasm
• 1x Vesuva

Enchantment (3)

• 1x Destructive Flow
• 1x Need for Speed
• 1x Strands of Night

Sorcery (5)

• 1x Death Cloud
• 1x Obliterate
• 1x Reshape the Earth
• 1x Ruination
• 1x Wildfire

Instant (2)

• 1x Decaying Time Loop
• 1x Entish Restoration

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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.

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.

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.

• 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.

• 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.

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

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

• Scapeshift + Valakut Exploration - Exile a ton of cards from our library, then end the turn, dump them back into our graveyard, and deal damage to each opponent equal to the combined mana cost of all those cards.

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.

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

• 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

• 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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Top Ranked	Achieved #92 position overall 2 years ago Achieved #79 position in Commander / EDH 2 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Landfall 2 years ago
Date added	4 years
Last updated	6 months
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	27 - 0 Mythic Rares 47 - 0 Rares 12 - 0 Uncommons 4 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.15
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 Realmbreaker, 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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