Scatter to the Winds

Instant

Counter target spell.

Awaken 3—{4}{U}{U} (If you cast this spell for {4}{U}{U}, also put three +1/+1 counters on target land you control and it becomes a 0/0 Elemental creature with haste. It's still a land.)

Legality

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

Discussion (50)

TheoryCrafter on Land Tribal? (Experimental)

2 years ago

Have you considered spells with the Awaken ability? All you'd have to do is pay a little extra mana and they become land creatures with +1/+1 counters on them, Spells with Awaken include, but are not limited to, Earthen Arms, Rush of Ice and Scatter to the Winds.

One card you may want to consider is Emergent Sequence. It's essentially a more powerful Rampant Growth.

Also, May I also suggest adding in Nissa, Steward of Elements? Not only can you scry with it, but if you already know what card is on top you may be able to use the second ability to put it straight onto the battlefield.

For targeted Removal, I think a proactive approach is what you should work with. Spells to accomplish this with include, but are not limited to, Counterspell, Decisive Denial, Dissolve, and Voidslime.

As for lands, you may want to consider lands that allow you to search your library. These include, but are not limited to, Bant Panorama, Fabled Passage and Terramorphic Expanse. This, combined with Ramunap Excavator, will give you a basic land card search every turn. They will also feed the landfall abilities. Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth will give Nissa, Who Shakes the World some mana support. It is a tad expensive so make sure you add it to your to buy list for a later date.

For Metagame the only thing I can think of at this point you need is graveyard hate. Such cards you may want to consider for that include, but are not limited to, Scavenging Ooze and Tormod's Crypt.

Thank You for reading me out. I hope all this helps.

Happy Hunting!

GoblinElectromancer on Mad Delver

3 years ago

put in 4 Force of Will and 4 Daze and take out Deprive, Scatter to the Winds,Hinder, Darksteel Ingot, and Mana Geode.

elkion on

4 years ago

Also, Commit / Memory is a good one or two of to deal with problematic permanents, and it combos with Aertherize by shuffling back everything you've bounced to their hand. Scatter to the Winds is another reasonable counterspell, but not necessarily better than what you've already got.

Free_Iona on The Boundless Ur Dragon - Fire and Blood

4 years ago

I run a Mayael the Anima that is also about as Timmy as it gets, and I definitely feel the frustration you feel when your alpha strike is undone by instant speed removal. The solution I've found is to try and be a Timmy, whilst playing like a Spike, and wait for the perfect opportunity (Opponents tapped out) to seize the chance for an Alpha strike and kill the damn blue player.

I found that getting rid of my removal package was the first key. 1, I found it counter-intuitive to my deck - I want creatures on the field, so every time I was holding a board wipe, it was a dead card. Your dragons win the day with their size and flying anyway, You needn't fear any other board state. You have access to white - you could run a protection package? Stuff like rootborn defences etc, that will stop the killing, Aw hell, you have access to blue? If Cyclonic Rift keeps ruining your day, force your opponents to get creative against you, run Syncopate or Scatter to the Winds and counter their Rift! That'll teach them - and you'll win more games. Screw it all and run your own Cyclonic Rift - you can cast in an end step to ensure there are no blockers for your dragons, and guarantee and open door to the opponent!

Also, Bone Dragon AKA Viserion for flavour. Also Palladia-Mors, the Ruiner Gets Hexproof, until you decide to swing with her.

+1!!

Free_Iona on The Sickness Is Rising

5 years ago

I think with the obvious and imminent danger of an infect deck, you might find that your creatures or your attacks become susceptible to instant-speed removal. You could consider fine-tuning your own package of instant spells to run counter spells to combat this (having access to blue is good for something).

Disallow or Spell Swindle are good commander-power counter spells, but actually my first thought for you was Scatter to the Winds , as you can actually Awaken a Land, bolster it, and use it to poisondeath your opponent. Could be a play they dont see coming.

ItinerantFailure on Milling Away (Phenax EDH Deck)

5 years ago

• Hmm, I would drop Cancel for Scatter to the Winds for the extra functionality, if you eventually include Forbidden Orchard awakening it with Alarm out can produce infinite untaps and give a now milled opponent infinite 1/1 creatures.

• I would also include Lim-Dul's Vault as it's only about 3 dollars and is a strong tutor, could replace Diabolic Tutor.

• Pemmin's Aura should replace Turn Aside.

• Grip of Amnesia should be dropped in favor of Summary Dismissal or almost any other counter, it's too unreliable. If you replace it with Delay and counter a commander you can Disallow the final trigger that casts a suspend spell and leave it in Exile forever.

• Havengul Lich would be useful.

• Trickbind would work well with Sands of Time and is pretty cool as an unexpected, uncounterable trick. (Or for that interaction with Delay that it shares with Disallow)

• Propaganda is worth a look.

• and Cyclonic Rift as soon as you can afford it.

Jimmy_Chinchila on Don't you see my 2 untapped lands you noob?!?

5 years ago

Displacement Wave, Kefnet the Mindful, Learn from the Past, Snapcaster Mage, Sphinx of the Final Word, Pearl Lake Ancient, River's Rebuke, Scatter to the Winds, Myriad Landscape (thinning) are some options to consider. Buried Ruin and Field of Ruin are good utility, perhaps also Nephalia Academy, Geier Reach Sanitarium, Sea Gate Wreckage and Arcane Lighthouse.

Niblis of Frost good against creature decks.

Looks good, +1

LumpyMilk on In response... - Budget ($17) Mono-Blue Control

5 years ago

stetsonfirebrand - If Lightning Bolt isn't common in your meta, then that'll make Scatter to the Winds a lot better then, because your lands will be safe, and if they really want to destroy it, they'll probably waste better removal like Path to Exile or some other hard removal. Of course if they do this, they just wasted the card, but you'd be totally fine with that. As long as there's no creatures that will also be problematic for it, then the 3/3 will be a lot more powerful, and it will be a genuine threat as their health slowly ticks away, and it could be enough to bait out some hard removal so you can play your Frost Titan next turn in peace. That or at least lower their life a bit for a faster AEtherling kill.

Also, Disallow is 100% better than both of them, so if you have the money, use that instead :P The best feeling is countering a planeswalker ultimate... God I love that card... Stifle's big brother.