Lord Windgrace Sits Behind A Chasm

Commander / EDH BRG (Jund) Lands Ramp

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Type Subtype Rarity Name Converted cost Price

Land (43)

• 1x Barren Moor
• 1x Blast Zone
• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Boseiju, Who Shelters All
• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dakmor Salvage
• 1x Dark Depths
• 1x Fabled Passage
• 1x Field of the Dead
• 6x Forest
• 1x Ghost Quarter
• 1x Glacial Chasm
• 1x Golgari Rot Farm
• 1x Gruul Turf
• 1x Homeward Path
• 1x Maze of Ith
• 1x Mountain
• 1x Nurturing Peatland
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Petrified Field
• 1x Prismatic Vista
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Spire Garden
• 1x Stomping Ground
• 1x Strip Mine
• 2x Swamp
• 1x Thespian's Stage
• 1x Throne of the High City
• 1x Tranquil Thicket
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Vesuva
• 1x Wasteland
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Creature (20)

• 1x Acidic Slime
• 1x Avenger of Zendikar
• 1x Azusa, Lost but Seeking
• 1x Courser of Kruphix
• 1x Dread Presence
• 1x Elvish Reclaimer
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Korvold, Fae-Cursed King
• 1x Lotus Cobra
• 1x Nissa, Vastwood Seer  ^Flip
• 1x Oracle of Mul Daya
• 1x Ramunap Excavator
• 1x Sylvan Safekeeper
• 1x The Gitrog Monster
• 1x Tireless Tracker
• 1x Titania, Protector of Argoth
• 1x Ulvenwald Hydra
• 1x Underrealm Lich
• 1x World Breaker
• 1x World Shaper

Instant (11)

• 1x Assassin's Trophy
• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Bedevil
• 1x Constant Mists
• 1x Crop Rotation
• 1x Grapple with the Past
• 1x Harrow
• 1x Heroic Intervention
• 1x Realms Uncharted
• 1x Vampiric Tutor
• 1x Windgrace's Judgment

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Nissa, Vital Force
• 1x Wrenn and Six

Commander (1)

Sorcery (14)

• 1x Beseech the Queen
• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x Damnation
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Exsanguinate
• 1x Hour of Promise
• 1x Life from the Loam
• 1x Pir's Whim
• 1x Scapeshift
• 1x Splendid Reclamation
• 1x Tempt with Discovery
• 1x Torment of Hailfire
• 1x Toxic Deluge
• 1x Traverse the Ulvenwald

Enchantment (6)

• 1x Burgeoning
• 1x Exploration
• 1x Pernicious Deed
• 1x Prismatic Omen
• 1x Rites of Flourishing
• 1x Sylvan Library

Artifact (3)

• 1x Crucible of Worlds
• 1x Mirage Mirror
• 1x Sol Ring

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Creature (4)

• 1x Korvold, Fae-Cursed King
• 1x Multani, Yavimaya's Avatar
• 1x Ob Nixilis, the Fallen
• 1x Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger

Sorcery (2)

• 1x Reap and Sow
• 1x Sylvan Scrying

Artifact (1)

• 1x Cloudstone Curio

Instant (1)

• 1x Veil of Summer

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Ayula's Influence

Land (1)

• 1x Lotus Field

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The usual land-matters style Windgrace deck focused less around land destruction and subgames rather than simply outlasting your opponents behind a Glacial Chasm and then finishing them by either sacrificing the Glacial Chasm to its own upkeep trigger and swinging for the win or going for it without the need to go shields down with a variety of synergies like:

• Big 'ol Torment of Hailfire or Exsanguiate,
• With a World Shaper 's death trigger on the stack, sacrificing lands to a Zuran Orb for a mass of lifegain to recover from early hits or life lost to Glacial Chasm upkeep,
• Ramunap Excavator or Crucible of Worlds + Glacial Chasm to minimise life lost to Glacial Chasm upkeep,
• Dark Depths + Thespian's Stage (the classic),
• Glacial Chasm + Throne of the High City to remain the eternal monarch!
• Titania, Protector of Argoth + Zuran Orb + World Shaper or Splendid Reclamation

Generally speaking the deck is not fast, but ramps out fairly consistently and just sits behind the Glacial Chasm which makes this land the backbone of most strategies. Protect it at all costs and be wary of any time it would enter the graveyard so that you don't fall foul of any graveyard hate sitting on the battlefield or in your opponents' hand. The best time to go for it with cycling the Glacial Chasm through the graveyard to reset age counters is when you have any of the instant speed ways to retrieve the chasm, such as Petrified Field , Grapple with the Past or Turntimber Sower to prevent it being exiled. Over the course of most games, the damage prevention will often far exceed whatever upkeep costs you have to pay for Glacial Chasm . Most decks have very few ways to interact with land or only a few kill spells like Assassin's Trophy or maybe a Vindicate but it takes a conceited effort to take out a Glacial Chasm , so either try to fly under the radar for long enough that you simply get ignored while the other player infight or try to ally with another player by providing removal or ramp with political cards like Pir's Whim or board hugging with Rites of Flourishing .

Other ways are to use your own land to deal with permanents providing issues such as Alchemist's Refuge , Academy Ruins or Yavimaya Hollow in the land category or maybe proactively removing their own Wasteland s or Strip Mines with yours to clear the way for a Glacial Chasm . Searching out a Bojuka Bog at instant speed with a Crop Rotation is a great way of dealing with graveyard strategies and hopefully Homeward Path should come in handy in the case that your opponent steals creatures from your board or graveyard.

Most of the time Lord Windgrace will be the target of any ill-will your opponents have (even your allies) and often his ultimate it lacklustre at best and will only aggrovate the board further. It is best to only pull out Windgrace as a way to:

• Retrieve utility land (such Maze of Ith , Homeward Path , Reliquary Tower , Petrified Field or a bounce land) from the graveyard if you have no other ways to do so in hand or on the board,
• Ramp,
• Turn those lands into spells by discarding to the uptick.

The only effective way to protect Lord Windgrace I've found is to use Constant Mists to fog attacks as often your opponents will have larger and more effective board presence than you until the late game. Maze of Ith comes in handy with dealing with singular attackers, but don't expect this to be an effective defense for long as it cannot deal with multiple attackers or anything equipped with Lightning Greaves or Swiftfoot Boots .

One trick to watch out for are effects that stifle damage prevention like Skullcrack or a large enough Banefire . While these cards may not see common play in EDH/Commander there is very little the deck can do once these effects resolve.

More than happy to receive further suggestions, but for the sake of wanting to keep in the spirit of the usual circle of local players am refraining from the usual mass land destruction inclusions such as Jokulhaups or Decree of Annihilation .

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Date added	8 months
Last updated	1 hour
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.32
Tokens	3/3 Beast, 1/1 Elemental, 4/4 Elemental, 0/1 Plant, 2/2 Cat Warrior, 2/2 Zombie, Clue, 20/20 Avatar, Nissa, Monarch, Wrenn
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